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bloody Computerworld "article" doesn't even cite Goatse Security


And I know we're talking about AT&T here, but here's a protip for corperateAmerica : fix your problem, don't shoot the messenger.

You're wrong on all your points! My $0 LG Optimus S and $200 HTC Evo came running the most recent Android release at the time (2.2, which had been out for 5 months), because I was savvy enough to demand it. With so much competition, new phones running old Android suffer in the marketplace. And Google does NOT do things slowly, Android got four significant updates in 2009, two in 2010, and Gingerbread and Ice Cream are both coming in 2011.

I agree with your tangential comment that vendors like Samsung have terrible track records for Android updates. I hope comparative analysis like http://blogs.computerworld.com/17649/android_upgrades will affect their revenues and thus encourage them to do a better job.

Even if we ignore the fact that some if not a majority of VZ iPhone users will simply be former AT&T iPhone users

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9176349/Verizon_customers_lust_for_iPhone_says_survey

"Of those polled who are currently Verizon subscribers, 19% said they were "very likely" to buy an iPhone if it became available to the carrier, with another 34% answering that they were "somewhat likely" to buy. Both numbers were higher than those for either Sprint or T-Mobile subscribers."

Apple moved 10 million phones in Q4 2010 alone.

Calendar 4th quarter numbers haven't been announced. They sold 14 million during their fiscal 4th quarter (ending in September).

guess we are also supposed to forget about the even larger number of Android devices out there, and the even larger number of new Android devices being sold each quarter when we think about the mobile gaming market.. but still how exactly does 13 million new users double anything?

Study after study shows that Android users buy a lot fewer apps than iOS users. For example, from Rovio -- the maker of the most popular mobile game last year -- Angry Birds.

http://pulse2.com/2010/12/29/rovio-mobile-mighty-eagle-peter-vesterbacka-nobody-has-been-successful-selling-content-on-android/

"Paid content doesn't work on Android".

The reason Chrome has Flash integrated is because a significant number of security exploits today are of Adobe products, specifically Flash Player and Adobe Reader. By integrating Flash, Google has managed to integrate it with their silent update system and the Chrome sandbox (sandboxed Flash is in the beta channel). As for PDF viewing, Google wrote their own simple, sandboxed PDF viewer with none of Adobe's issues and shipped it in Chrome 8.
Honestly, this is a lot better than users getting both of these manually and having vulnerable versions lying around.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9203799/Intel_Sandy_Bridge_s_Insider_is_not_DRM

Claims that Sandy Bridge Insider isn't DRM.

See my subject-line above, & these host/domain names, blocked off (via the 0.0.0.0 blocking "IP Address"):

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0.0.0.0 xtremedefenceforce.com
0.0.0.0 elvis.com.au

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SOURCE: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/01/white-house-ecard-dupes-dot-gov-geeks/

Also, since this thing is allegedly suspected to be a ZEUS variant:

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PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"A 75GB cache of stolen data shows that the botnet, which is a variant of Zeus, has been used to steal a wide range of information, including tens of thousands of login credentials -- mainly for financial accounts

SOURCE: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9158778/Kneber_botnet_hit_374_U.S._firms_gov_t_agencies

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This MAY come in very "handy" as well:

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ZEUS TRACKER:

https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online

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Symantec uses it

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PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"Sites such as Abuse.ch Zeus tracker have for some time now been doing an excellent job in tracking Zeus command & control (C&C) servers and hosts of Zeus files.

SOURCE: http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/zeus-king-underground-crimeware-toolkits

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So do I... because it allows you to "keep up/keep current" vs. that botnet C&C servers this thing utilizes.

"Blacklists" (which HOSTS files can function as, but also as "whitelists" too), especially in THIS situation? Work!

APK

P.S.=> So - Simply add those host/domain names, blocked off as shown, to your OWN hosts file (typically located in %WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc, on modern Windows OS, & /root/etc on Linux variants), & what you can't touch, cannot touch (or harm) you - simplest idea for protection in the world! apk

See my subject-line above, & these host/domain names, blocked off (via the 0.0.0.0 blocking "IP Address"):

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0.0.0.0 xtremedefenceforce.com
0.0.0.0 elvis.com.au

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SOURCE: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/01/white-house-ecard-dupes-dot-gov-geeks/

Also, since this thing is allegedly suspected to be a ZEUS variant:

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PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"A 75GB cache of stolen data shows that the botnet, which is a variant of Zeus, has been used to steal a wide range of information, including tens of thousands of login credentials -- mainly for financial accounts

SOURCE: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9158778/Kneber_botnet_hit_374_U.S._firms_gov_t_agencies

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?

This MAY come in very "handy" as well:

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ZEUS TRACKER:

https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/monitor.php?filter=online

---

Symantec uses it

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http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/zeus-king-underground-crimeware-toolkits

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"Sites such as Abuse.ch Zeus tracker have for some time now been doing an excellent job in tracking Zeus command & control (C&C) servers and hosts of Zeus files."

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So do I... because it allows you to "keep up/keep current" vs. that botnet C&C servers this thing utilizes.

"Blacklists" (which HOSTS files can function as, but also as "whitelists" too), especially in THIS situation? Work!

APK

P.S.=> So - Simply add those host/domain names, blocked off as shown, to your OWN hosts file (typically located in %WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc, on modern Windows OS, & /root/etc on Linux variants), & what you can't touch, cannot touch (or harm) you - simplest idea for protection in the world! apk

And so did Yahoo!
Microsoft and Google aren't the only people playing this music.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/06/30/yahoos-fresh-air-computing-coop/

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9186618/Yahoo_opens_chicken_coop_green_data_center?source=rss_news

I wonder which that are... until earlier this year I was doing consulting in quite a few companies, and it was all Exchange, except two who were migrating off Lotus Notes to Exchange and trying very hard to forget that. Not seen a single instance of OpenOffice either, on the server side it varies but the desktops have inevitably been Windows/Office/Exchange. At least in the good news Firefox has been there instead of or as an alternative to IE, but that's about it.

Yes, Exchange is the only software group that is not seeing a decline in marketshare. But, it is dependent on their server market. You can't run an Exchange server on Linux. So, that marketshare maintenance or gain will slowly erode away unless they can prevent their marketshare losses in other areas.

Though I was modded troll above, I actually researched the stuff. Windows marketshare is slipping slowly, with gains by Apple (and on again/off again gains by Linux). Office marketshare has decline 20 percentage points in the last ten years. Browser marketshare has dropped significantly. Microsoft's server marketshare is also dropping to Linux.

There's my point. Exchange could be the be all, end all tool in it's market, but that does not matter so much when it's dependent on other areas that Microsoft is losing (server and browser, for instance). I've worked with companies that are being forced off Windows Server (various reasons, including security, uptime, performance, etc). Many are choosing hosted solutions. While others equate that to moving from local Exchange to hosted Exchange, fact is, replacements like Google Apps is not Exchange.

I didn't say it was the norm. I didn't say it was happening in droves. None of that matters. What does matter is this: the less Windows Server installations out there, the less Exchange Servers possible. And the Windows Server market is declining. I think the only thing slowing the Windows Server market decline IS Exchange.

Surely there must be a lesson learned from that.

In a paper published in the Dec. 24 issue of Science Magazine, the IBM researchers report that domain walls have mass and do indeed take a bit of time to speed up to peak velocity, and to slow down. Knowing this, they'll be able to move and retrieve data on a racetrack trip accurately. There's still a lot of work to be done before racetrack becomes a reality, but according to Parkin, the biggest questions -- whether an electric charge would move these domain walls, and whether or not they have mass -- have now been answered. Now the problems are more practical and less theoretical: how do you build a racetrack chip that works reliably with millions or even billions of these racetracks, for example. "Those are the questions that we can only address by building prototypes and testing them for a period of time," Parkin said.

And the official IBM press release:
https://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/press/us/en/pressrelease/33291.wss


I see more data center utilization for this technology rather than consumer devices. Be nice if I could get a home NAS on one of these in 5-10 years.

It is also important to take note that IE is the second most secure browser after chrome, as it is the only one to make full use of WIC(Windows Integrity Controls), although does not have the sandboxing that Chrome has.

That's not really true. Microsoft has always been strongly against piracy.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article2098235.ece "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not," the Microsoft co-founder and chairman told Fortune magazine.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/2803
WSJ: But those were stolen, correct?
Gates: Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.

Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox’s store before I did and took the TV doesn’t mean I can’t go in later and steal the stereo.”
–Bill Gates

“In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.” –Bill Gates

Bill Gates on Piracy: "They'll get addicted, and then we'll collect"

Personally I'll wait until some come out with the AMD Neo, as it pairs an actual AMD CPU, which means out of order dual cores with virtualization and x64 support as well as DEP, with a nice Radeon GPU so the videos will all be unskippy and smooth.

  Playing with Atom based netbooks here at the shop it always amazes me people buy these things

It hardly sounds like playing videos will be a problem - following a couple of links from TFA and you can find:

The system-on-chip will deliver four times better graphics compared to its predecessors, according to the document. Intel's Moorestown graphics core is capable of encoding video at 720p and decoding video at a 1080p resolution.

Anyone prepared to take a bet that the CW of CWMike stands for ComputerWorld

I'm guessing Michael R. Farnum -- http://blogs.computerworld.com/farnum -- is your man.

Save some time, 4 pages is silly given the content.

Printable Version.

I guess you haven't seen the latest security analysis on the attacks. The "opt-in" folks are outnumbered by
compromised notes in the botnets that are also being used.

Sure they are. The iPad has already had a notable impact on the sales of PCs.

Yeah? Link?

One, two. There are plenty more. Basically, iPads are negatively impacting netbook sales, which are PCs. Certainly they are the bottom end of that market, but that's where you're going to see the impact first.

I say informal because it's always possible that sales, in theory, should be rising *more*, but that seems a nitpick to me. In any case, if a significant proportion of iPad sales come at the expense of PC sales, it seems hard to explain how this market could have arisen out of nowhere without absolutely devastating the PC market.

You already did explain it: rates of change. First the netbook's rate of change was negative (i.e., they still sold more, but at a lower rate), and now they are actually selling less. Also, I never said most iPads were sold at the expense of a PC sale, just that it is having a notable effect. If I were being nitpicky, I would have included the iPhone and iPod touch, because there are certainly some PC sales that didn't happen due to them (simply down to the fact that some people may not have had the money for both a new PC and a new iPod, and chose an iPod). The iPad's effect, however, is more prominent.

Most people can't get by with just a bike, however most will not only be able to get by with something like an iPad, but will actually prefer it.

Comparing a bike and a car is a disingenuous analogy.

Most people will be able to get by with an iPad? Really? You think that?

Not today. That's why I used the word "will" and not "can now".

In the absence of a relevant study, I suppose I can't refute that point, but every experience I've had suggests otherwise. I don't know a single iPad owner or iPhone owner who does not also own a PC. In fact... of all the people I know, I can't think of one off the top of my head who does not own a PC. Some of these PCs are several years old, granted, but they use them and could not do without them.

As iPads gain storage, and features like printing, the consumer scenarios where a PC does something that an iPad can't start to vanish.

Likewise most people will continue using PCs even if they also buy smartphones and tablets.

Not likely. Most people fucking hate their PC and love their iPhone/iPad.

I'm not sure what makes you think that exactly. A study? Because if it's personal experience, mine conflicts. Most people I know love their computers.

It's a love-hate relationship. Most people hate them, but love the things they can do with them. Once you can replace them with something they hate less, they will jump at it.

And iPhone love isn't universal.

I never said it was.

I get disappointed with mine from time to time, my best friend is canceling his in favor of a Droid, and my girlfriend has been fuming angry over hers many many times. I'd say I feel net positive about the device, but no more so than about any PC I've ever owned.

I also said the PC will be around for some time. That implies there will be people, like you, who prefer PCs (or at the very least, still want to have one). Let's take it as given that a significant portion of Slashdotters will still have PCs long after the "end of the PC era".

Ant writes...

"The Linux Foundation's report (PDF) on who writes Linux — "... Linux isn't written by lonely nerds hiding out in their parents' basements. It's written by people working for major companies — many of them businesses that you probably don't associate with Linux. To be exact, while 18.2% of Linux is written by people who aren't working for a company, and 7.6% is created by programmers who don't give a company affiliation, everything else is written by someone who's getting paid to create Linux. From top to bottom, of the companies that have contributed more than 1% of the current Linux kernel, the list looks like this: ..."

Sorry CNET, you're just a tad late on Computer World on this one.

The responses in this thread blow me away. You all trust the antivirus option from Microsoft... the people that make the software which gets owned by the most exploits (IE, Outlook, Word, etc.)?

On the browser side actually FireFox and Opera has the most vulnarebilities.

Internet Explorer deemed least vulnerable browser

Report: Firefox is the world's most vulnerable browser

Firefox most vulnerable browser, Safari close second

All I have to say in response to this is ".NET Framework Assistant". http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139459/Sneaky_Microsoft_plug_in_puts_Firefox_users_at_risk

Cool. But I'm sure you're not the only one. E.g. consider this Slashdot comment from 2008, where some of the replies discuss combining touch-interfaces with screens that can deform dynamically to remap keys. The discussion also references articles about touchscreens and deformable keyboards, as well as clickable touchscreens.

I think the general idea of "a screen that can alter its texture" is pretty generic, and lots of people have had that idea. The further idea to use shape-memory and/or photo-responsive polymers as a means of doing that is more specific (and cool!) but still fairly broad.

I'm not trying to denigrate your idea. Lots of brilliant ideas were independently developed. All I'm saying is that the idea alone, while crucial, is actually the easy part. The implementation details are by far the more difficult part, and really the only part that might deserve patent protection and proceeds. (Whether or not this particular patent fits the bill, I'm not sure.)

For "Attachmate", read "Microsoft".

"It depends. If a "cyberwar" could do real damage to our infrastructure -- shutting down the power grid is the most commonly used example"

Look, anyone who connects the power grid to the Internet is criminally negligent and is the true 'cyber terrrorst'. Oh, wait you mean connecting Windows SCADA units to the Internet in the middle of a Windows virus infestation, no need to invoke terrorist their, just home grown idiots.

Blaster_worm_linked_to_severity_of_blackout

You missed the US Federal employer incentive to hire "visa'd" workers, over citizens. Does it really matter if the visa is H-1B, L-1, or student? 12.4% for Social Security, 2.9% for Medicare, split between employer and payroll deduction, on the first $106,800 [2009] == up to $16,340.40/employee.

Depending upon country of origin, such workers (and their employers) are NOT required to pay Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes, when the workers are from one of the 24 listed nations with administrative "Totalization Agreements".

Ref: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9187281/India_seeks_tax_deal_for_H_1B_workers
          http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/international/article/0,,id=105254,00.html
          http://www.socialsecurity.gov/international/totalization_agreements.html

I'd say 95% of the market is definitely stealing the market. They're even hurting netbook sales according to Microsoft.

How the Israelis do airport security
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/11/yeffet.air.security.israel/index.html

Former El Al security chief Isaac Yeffet on border, airport security
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/81428/Q_A_Former_El_Al_security_chief_Isaac_Yeffet_on_border_airport_security

Not good

Read your link. It's mostly anecdotes about how hard it is to buy one of these phones because of how quickly they sold out despite ugly store displays without working examples.

Not good

I think it's not fair to make the comparison just because AT&T didn't bother to supply their stores with anything.

Google says it's activating 200,000 androids a day and Apple sold 270,000 iphones on it's first day plus 600,000 pre-orders. At this rate, MS will NEVER CATCH UP. No, they won't. All the excuses you all are making for MS fail to make up for the basic math here and the reasons for why this happened are irrelevant. The bottom line is that the $100 million ad campaign MS just bought will not make the phone profitable, selling the product will. MS is not selling anywhere near enough of their product to make a dent in the market share, not even a divot.

When speech is appropriate, people will speak to interfaces, whispering if necessary.

I guess the fundamental disagreement here is to what extent speech will be appropriate. Even whispering invites more snooping as usual than it does on cheap laptop LCDs, whose shitty viewing angle has a privacy advantage. But I'd love to be proven wrong by a device that can pick up subvocalizations.

Most text is already unnecessary

Consider that hardware designers switched from schematic capture to Verilog, even though the schematic capture program that I used (LogicWorks when I was in college) allows components to be created, filed, and reused. Revision control systems work best on formats that are easy to diff and patch. As I understand it, textual source code is easier to diff and patch than diagrams, but I'd love to be proven wrong on this.

just a lazy or poorly designed UI that should already be selection from existing data already online.

Before I select the data, I first have to find it. This means either typing to search for the data or arranging the data in a folder structure and pointing to select it. Drilling down a folder structure with a keyboard and tab-completion is just as fast as doing so with a mouse or a stylus.

Remember that we're talking about 20 years from now.

Computers used keyboards and mice in 1990, and the desktop GUI hasn't changed fundamentally since Mac OS 6/7 and GS/OS 5/6 from that time period.

I used [East Asians] as an example of people who do not form communication symbols from letters, or whose communication is directly mapped to speech at all.

Korean uses an alphabet called Hangul. In each Chinese language, characters are mapped onto spoken syllables, modulo homophones. Now you're down to Japanese, which isn't exactly spoken by "billions".

The hardware to do this won't be expensive in the timeframe I'm talking about.

Twenty years is one patent term, enough for one major iteration of input devices. Again, I'd love to be proven wrong.

There is a great summary at ComputerWorld. How I read it: a company bought by SAP is accused of copyright infringement by Oracle. SAP does not deny this, and the trial is basically about the height of the damages. Oracle is making a media circus of it and sues for $ 2 billion, and SAP just wants to get it over with, and is willing to pay tens of millions.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9028723/D_oh_Homer_photo_exposes_Chinese_media_piracy?intsrc=news_ts_head

As this click-and-get-infected malware runs on Windows, what's the annual balance-sheet liability to businesses from Microsoft Malware.

"every Linux customer basically has an undisclosed balance-sheet liability", Steve Ballmer link

Microsoft claims Linux infringes some 200+ patents. Many are obvious patents that should not have been granted to them in the fist place. They threatened to sue manufacturers for deploying devices that use Linux. here Ballmer whines about Linux users have an "undisclosed balance sheet" Meaning if you use linux you need to pay the Microsoft Tax. They are going around behind the scenes threatening comanies to pay them royalties and patent license fees to sell devices with Linux. The sued Buffalo, TomTom,HTC,Motorola,IO-Data and several Korean companies and many more companies. Many have caved some tried to fight but caved like TomTom. and now they are ruffling feathers in Taiwan. They are in the middle of a spear and scare campaing to scare the timid manufacturers and system builders away form using Open Source and Linux in particular.

I'm assuming Apple has a lot of user-interface R&D, but MS has R&D for nearly every facet of computing, not to mention that Apple makes most of it's profits from price gouging on hardware.

So how much do you think it costs MS to sell a software license? The marginal cost of a software license is essentially 0.

Last I heard, Microsoft was playing around with a 128core CPUs and also got an experimental computer that had fiber interconnects instead of copper traces for high IO. Using all this research to create new ways to scale into the future and also giving useful feedback to hardware vendors on what does and doesn't work. Think Apple does this kind of R&D, or do they just use BSD and just worry about the UI?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL

MS is also working with CPU manufactures on new ways to sync multi-core CPUs as the current cache-coherency protocols are not scaling well.

"Real artists ship"
http://blogs.computerworld.com/apple_buys_p_a_semi

Typically, I can build a computer for 3/4-1/2 the cost and using all non-propitiatory, well supported, name-brand parts than buying Apple.

70%+ of computer users are buying laptops. You can build laptops?

Nobody ever found a way to circumvent it.

No, because single-camera face recognition systems have never been fooled with something as simple as a photograph.

All any company need do, when threatened by this typical deceitful bullshite from Microsoft, is site the case THEY ALREADY LOST in court, then slam the door in their face and ignore them to death.

The END of SCO (aka Microsoft) case:

SCO loses another round in Unix fight, must pay $2.55M to Novell
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9110258/SCO_loses_another_round_in_Unix_fight_must_pay_2.55M_to_Novell_

SCO loses again: jury says Novell owns UNIX SVRX copyrights
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/03/sco-loses-again-jury-says-novell-owns-unix-svrx-copyrights.ars

SCO/Novell suit is over, SCO loses
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/06/11/sconovell-suit-is-over-sco-loses/

And so forth...

When you can't compete: Litigate.

Actually, MS is huge in the server market. There are certainly more Windows servers in existence than ones running Linux, for example.

Share in terms of sales that's probably right: http://blogs.computerworld.com/16263/windows_widens_lead_over_linux_in_the_server_market

But that's probably wrong in terms of units in existence. There are lots of Linux servers out there because it's free. When you need an extra one, you install one and that's it. No need for licenses.

The fact that people are actually buying Linux servers and they make up 20% of the sales (as per the IDC numbers) indicates to me that there could be more Linux servers installed than Windows servers, because the ratio of nonpurchased Linux servers to purchased Linux servers is very likely to be higher than 4:1. Many places do buy and use Redhat, but guess how many Centos servers they would also have installed and used. Many companies have installed many free Linux servers without _ever_ buying any at all. A previous workplace had lots of such free Linux servers scattered around the world. And they weren't "desktops", Windows was the standard for desktops there.

I'm not including stuff like linux based APs, DSL routers etc. I'm talking about those towers and rack stuff.

Google alone has quite a number of Linux servers. http://gizmodo.com/5517041/googles-insane-number-of-servers-visualized
I doubt they'd do so well if they had to resort to paying for say Win2K8 R2 :).

Microsoft doesn't have a dominating presence in the server market. They do have stuff like AD, Exchange and Sharepoint. But the way I see it, if the OSS bunch start moving up the ladder it's going to get ugly there for MS.

The desktop market will probably remain Microsoft's for years to come, unless someone finishes something like ReactOS soon (and even so they'd probably get tied up in court).

They got hardware which is what they've wanted for a long time. Sun has a wide range of great hardware and a very solid OS.

While Oracle got an OS, Solaris, Solaris like many other unices is losing marketshare to Linux, which may be why Oracle used Red Hat Linux as a basis for it's own distro.

Falcon

Inside deals?

I think it is likely that a number of developers were upset that Oracle kicked LibreOffice supporters out of OpenOffice.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/17197/oracle_kicks_libreoffice_supporters_out_of_openoffice

Why yes, $1,000,000,000 is what it will cost over 9 years cost actually. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9133961/Apple_picks_N.C._for_1B_data_center

NC crafted a law specifically saying that the tax incentives vanish if a company coming in failed to invest $1 billion within 9 years. http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/HTML/S575v4.html

Funny, I just saw this article:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9192331/Mac_App_Store_disruptive_say_experts
It's very related to what I said and I'm glad others are also thinking about it.

We all know how reliable the Business Software Alliance and IDC's piracy figures are... in fact, according to The Economist they're totally BS. So why would China even believe its an issue to the point where they'll agree to IP agreements that are nothing more than protectionists movements by companies to make more money? Or is it lawyers trying to prove their worth in a company making an issue out of something they really have absolutely no control over? Can you really stop companies from underlicensing products by scaring them into going legit through government laws?

When I see this, I roll my eyes and keep on thinking what total BS all these laws really are. I mean, if I make a copy Windows 2008 SP2, I could go to jail for 5 years with a $250,000 fine. If I kill my neighbour with a crowbar in a fight, I could get a year or two sentence in jail. Is it me, or is something not quite right about this?

* Cleverly forget to mention Microsoft disasters such as Bob, the Zune, Windows Mobile, or Vista

My favorite in this category is still the disaster that TradeElect was. Remember all the marketing / ads that were run with this saying LSE decided to use SQLServer? Wonder why they did not do the same when the whole thing went down the crapper and the whole platform got dumped.

Southwest Securities, Inc. has been on MS SQL for over 10 years... When I worked for them (1998-2001) they were processing more transactions per second than Oracle could at the time. Things might be different now. Just saying "they used SQL Server" doesn't mean shit to me really. There had to have been something more than just the database server sucking, as you implied.

Fucking FOSS shill. That's the most hilarious thing to me. You don't even get paid to be a shill. Kinda leads me to believe you're retarded.

* Cleverly forget to mention Microsoft disasters such as Bob, the Zune, Windows Mobile, or Vista

My favorite in this category is still the disaster that TradeElect was. Remember all the marketing / ads that were run with this saying LSE decided to use SQLServer? Wonder why they did not do the same when the whole thing went down the crapper and the whole platform got dumped.

This is huge. If we can't trust the government not to leak classified data over P2P, what makes anyone think they will successfully keep our records private?

Maryland was replaced with electronic. I believe that they plan to scrap the electronic system and go back to paper - or at least a paper trail.

I haven't seen records anywhere in years.

According to this that may change.

Thanks I have always liked the albums as a younger lad.....glad they care coming back and now maybe the can make some money.

I haven't seen records anywhere in years.

According to this that may change.