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You really don't understand Microsoft, do you? One of their defining characteristics is their totally singleminded focus on market share. Doesn't matter what size the market is. Witness their reaction to Welsh translations of rival software: this and this. The market in New Zealand dwarfs the market of Welsh-speaking Welsh people..

It is not clear to me that your mom's computer needs cannot be met using Linux together with Win4Lin (also here), WineX (Cedega) (also here), wine, VMWare, etc.
I suspect that not all of these would be needed by your mom and some things still might not work. However, not all (windows) applications she might want will run on Apple machines. In fact, not all windows applications will run on windows machines.

Call IBM Global services. You'll be surpised what they support.

For the right price, they happily support Oracle [from a competitor] running on Solaris [from a competitor] and Ingres [from a competitor] running on NT [from a competitor].

I think you may be talking to the wrong group in IBM. If you guys have the cash to pay them, they'll gladly support Debian (though possibly through a partner company).

The ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) recently went to a linux solution. Here's a press release with the gist of the story. What they don't tell you is the reason the ASPCA went to the Linux solution is because the Microsoft Exchange server they were using was going down for several hours at least once a week. This was bad because the ASPCA needed it to exchange information with the Poison Control center and vetrinarians and couldn't when the server was down.

The ASPCA went to the Linux solution and the server was up for 3 weeks before they rebooted it.

Anybody else have details on the Windows to Linux migration by the ASPCA?

If he does it again though I'm sure that he'll be deported or maybe even defenistratred.

Whoa, you're harsh! Sending him away is one thing, but making him run Linux? Damn!

(Disclaimer: I'm trying to defenestrate, with limited success. I can run Frozen Bubble, at least.)

http://www.osriskmanagement.com/about.shtml is pretty clear that Pamela Jones is staying with groklaw.

http://linuxpr.com/releases/6631.html is as well.

http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/mai n/open_source_insurance.html doesn't mention PJ but is informative.

I agree. I eagerly await the collapse of this stupid ass company that does nothing to further either operating systems in general or Linux.

• Sponsoring several open source projects:
  • kde-look.org
  • kde-apps.org
  • Mozilla
  • Nvu
  • gaim
  • And the list goes on ...
• Hiring Everaldo

The XFce guys have a press release too!!
Read it here:
http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/6260.html

In a critical measure of secure Web serving performance, a 4-way eServer p630 set an industry record for entry level (4-way) systems supporting 1,988 simultaneous connections, far outpacing the 568 simultaneous connections achieved by the 4-way Sun Fire V480 on the SPECweb99_SSL performance measure.[2]

The eServer p630 set an additional 4-way Web serving record when the system processed 6,895 simultaneous connections, offering greater than 50 percent more performance than a 4-way Sun Fire V480 with 4,500 simultaneous connections.[3]

the reason Windows server software is present at most companies is ... because of Exchange

Someone already mentioned Samsung Contact, but there's also a recent announcementof an independent TCO study, comparing Contact/OpenMail with Exchange and Notes. The study includes a spreadsheet (Excel :-( ho hum) so you can tweak the model to match your own environment.

r.

According to some Australians, package installers already have licensing problems.

Brian's home page
Slashdot interview with Brian
Press release about Brian winning Free Software Foundation Award for Mesa

I think the whole issue of Linux acceptance outside of the server realm comes down to this: there is TOO much choice in how to set up Linux.

The Linux Terminal Server Project provides one solution to this. As far as IT issues go, it should provide a "win-win" -- you get to use standard, cheap PCs as a "thin client" AND you get the centralized control over everyone's configuration that IS loves so much (and that does help lower TCO).

For a look at how this works in the "real world," read Major Law Firm Installation of Linux. This provided a standardized KDE desktop for the administrative staff. Since the customer was a long-time WordPerfect user, the staff did not require application retraining, and only required minimal training on the Win* to KDE conversion.

This also had the nice effect of changing an IT manager's nightmare into an IT manager's dream. The law firm ended up with a single point of control for all their desktops, which they could then even oursouce many operations back to Unique Systems, the company which did the rollout in the first place.

What IT manager wouldn't like to be able to say to their boss "Look, for a small consulting charge and minimal retraining, I managed to cut our license fees AND support costs, preserve our legacy data and applications, outsource our administrative overhead, and I did this without purchasing any new hardware"?

(And no, I don't work for Unique Systems, I'm just familiar with them from them from their good work with the Toledo Area Linux Users Group, and from considering just this setup for a former employer.)

OpenGL is a better choice. It's being used in a variety of markets all the way from gaming up to complex scientific visualization, CAD, etc. OpenGL is the standard for the scientific/engineering marketplace. Linux has the better chance of making inroads into this market than it does general desktop & gamer markets. Why? Because people in those areas are used to working on Unix workstations and to them, Linux would be very similiar to what they've already been using, just on cheaper hardware with zero licensing costs. Given that OpenGL is available on PCs, Macs, and Unix workstations, developers who want to have something that can work on a wide variety of platforms will use OpenGL.

The reason OpenGL is slow is due to poorly implemented hardware drivers or it being implemented completly in software. With the efforts of the XFree team, SGI, and others, this won't be a problem for much longer. SGI recently announced a new graphics system that's been developed with NVidia to provide hardware accelerated graphics to linux.

Besides, do you really think Microsoft is going to provide a DirectX linux port anytime soon? Don't hold your breath.

obDisclaimer: I don't represent internet.com or LinuxToday. Anyone who says I tried is full of it.

I post to LinuxToday on a daily basis (my user name is "mhall"), and I write for LinuxPlanet (you can also l ook at my article history. My status in both relationships is that of a freelancer ("independent contractor").

There is a policy against announcing new site launches. I don't know when it was enacted because I'm fairly new to LinuxToday. I can say, however, that we routinely reject new site announcements. If one gets posted, it was a mistake.

There's another side of the coin, though, and one which the person posting the initial question could have followed: part of the LinuxToday "family" is the site LinuxPR, which allows anyone with a Linux-related business or site to join at no cost.

By signing up for LinuxPR, anyone posting a Linux-related press release (new product announcement, conference, or, most important to this case, site launch) gets their press release posted not only on the main page of LinuxPR, but on the front page of LinuxToday. Press releases are posted on a frequent basis as we're able. My own personal habit is to look in on the press releases several times an hour while I'm posting stories. I even take the step of correcting bad URL's and cleaning up some of the more egregious grammar problems.

Second, sites doing more than just announcing their existence are always welcome to use the LinuxToday contribute form.

Spend a few minutes looking at LinuxToday, please. Where do the stories come from? They come from other sites. How much of each story do we carry before pointing the reader to the rest of it? Seldom more than three or four paragraphs. When we have a reciprocal agreement with an organization like VNUNet or when the story is run by another internet.com site that isn't in the Linux channel we'll run the whole thing (which, when you think about it, is actually limiting the number of banners the internet.com site is going to move.) If anything, LinuxToday provides a means by which some smaller Linux-related sites can get more traffic than they might have before we thoughtfully provided a link to their story along with a few paragraphs of "teaser" to get the reader's curiosity up.

If LinuxToday were following an "anti-other-Linux-sites" policy, it would soon dry up and blow away. The strength of the site is the near-constant flow of news from around (and outside) the Linux community.

Finally, (and because this is the part most people will feel the most comfortable ignoring, because I'm talking about my client):

Despite several months of working on LinuxToday, I have never felt particularly "watched over" by internet.com. The other editors on the site and its primary programmer are all Linux enthusiasts who are interested in providing a good service to the Linux community. I've never knowingly withheld a story for any reason other than the fact we've already covered it ad nauseum or that it should be submitted as a press release because it's nothing more than an attempt to sell something (including eyeballs).

When I first threw in my lot with LinuxToday and LinuxPlanet, I had some concerns about the nature of the entity that owned them. My own roots in Linux go back over four years, and I've been a UNIX enthusiast for more than twice that time. I've contributed documentation to a major open free software product under the copyleft. I love Linux, and I love the community surrounding it. I get up each day at 6 a.m. to start posting on LinuxToday, and my thoughts are not to how well the money's flowing that day, but how much information is being moved to readers. When I set fingers to keyboard for a story on LinuxPlanet, it isn't because I'm thrilled at the prospect of creating revenue, it's because I hope I can help people make decisions, or inform them in some way. The people I work with (who are in a more durable relationship with internet.com than I) have shown the same instincts and concern for the Linux community.

There may be a site worthy of paranoia and suspicion, but I don't think LinuxToday is it.

Though it should not require reiteration, I'll note once more that I don't speak for any of the entities mentioned in this post besides myself. I'm just a freelancer.

Kind regards,

Michael
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Michael Hall
Charlottesville, Virginia

obDisclaimer: I don't represent internet.com or LinuxToday. Anyone who says I tried is full of it.

I post to LinuxToday on a daily basis (my user name is "mhall"), and I write for LinuxPlanet (you can also l ook at my article history. My status in both relationships is that of a freelancer ("independent contractor").

There is a policy against announcing new site launches. I don't know when it was enacted because I'm fairly new to LinuxToday. I can say, however, that we routinely reject new site announcements. If one gets posted, it was a mistake.

There's another side of the coin, though, and one which the person posting the initial question could have followed: part of the LinuxToday "family" is the site LinuxPR, which allows anyone with a Linux-related business or site to join at no cost.

By signing up for LinuxPR, anyone posting a Linux-related press release (new product announcement, conference, or, most important to this case, site launch) gets their press release posted not only on the main page of LinuxPR, but on the front page of LinuxToday. Press releases are posted on a frequent basis as we're able. My own personal habit is to look in on the press releases several times an hour while I'm posting stories. I even take the step of correcting bad URL's and cleaning up some of the more egregious grammar problems.

Second, sites doing more than just announcing their existence are always welcome to use the LinuxToday contribute form.

Spend a few minutes looking at LinuxToday, please. Where do the stories come from? They come from other sites. How much of each story do we carry before pointing the reader to the rest of it? Seldom more than three or four paragraphs. When we have a reciprocal agreement with an organization like VNUNet or when the story is run by another internet.com site that isn't in the Linux channel we'll run the whole thing (which, when you think about it, is actually limiting the number of banners the internet.com site is going to move.) If anything, LinuxToday provides a means by which some smaller Linux-related sites can get more traffic than they might have before we thoughtfully provided a link to their story along with a few paragraphs of "teaser" to get the reader's curiosity up.

If LinuxToday were following an "anti-other-Linux-sites" policy, it would soon dry up and blow away. The strength of the site is the near-constant flow of news from around (and outside) the Linux community.

Finally, (and because this is the part most people will feel the most comfortable ignoring, because I'm talking about my client):

Despite several months of working on LinuxToday, I have never felt particularly "watched over" by internet.com. The other editors on the site and its primary programmer are all Linux enthusiasts who are interested in providing a good service to the Linux community. I've never knowingly withheld a story for any reason other than the fact we've already covered it ad nauseum or that it should be submitted as a press release because it's nothing more than an attempt to sell something (including eyeballs).

When I first threw in my lot with LinuxToday and LinuxPlanet, I had some concerns about the nature of the entity that owned them. My own roots in Linux go back over four years, and I've been a UNIX enthusiast for more than twice that time. I've contributed documentation to a major open free software product under the copyleft. I love Linux, and I love the community surrounding it. I get up each day at 6 a.m. to start posting on LinuxToday, and my thoughts are not to how well the money's flowing that day, but how much information is being moved to readers. When I set fingers to keyboard for a story on LinuxPlanet, it isn't because I'm thrilled at the prospect of creating revenue, it's because I hope I can help people make decisions, or inform them in some way. The people I work with (who are in a more durable relationship with internet.com than I) have shown the same instincts and concern for the Linux community.

There may be a site worthy of paranoia and suspicion, but I don't think LinuxToday is it.

Though it should not require reiteration, I'll note once more that I don't speak for any of the entities mentioned in this post besides myself. I'm just a freelancer.

Kind regards,

Michael
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Michael Hall
Charlottesville, Virginia

From linuxpr

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Bynari To Bundle Trade Products with Corel

May 18th, 12:39 UTC

Use of Debian and Corel Desktop Important to Strategy

Dateline Dallas May 18, 2000 - Bynari Inc.'s Product Development Group announced that the Company will bundle TradeXCH with Corel 1.1 and Corel's Office2000 for Linux. TradeServer, due for release the week of May 23rd also requires Debian. The Product Development Group plans to bundle TradeServer and its LGPL product, Tradeclient with Corel's latest distribution.

TradeXCH allows Linux desktop users to communicate with Windows users of Outlook through MS Exchange. The use of Corel 1.1 allows TradeXCH to function in a GNU/Linux distribution which speaks to Windows networks and UNIX NFS computers.

"We feel this bundle gives enterprises a new choice," Bynari's Product Manager says. "Users have all the functionality of a robust productivity environment, a distribution which promotes corporate convergence and a tool to allows Windows users to communicate with and collaborate with Linux users in a way theu have become accustomed."

Bynari will support the Corel-TradeXCH bundle with toll free call support in Canada and the United States.

More extensive information about Bynari initiatives with Corel products will be released in the next week through Bynari's Marketing Director, Lary Freeman, who has led the Company's efforts in forming several strategic alliances.

From the Office of the CEO, Bynari Inc.

Bynari Inc.

2512 Program Drive Suite 108

Dallas, TX 75220

1-800-241-1086

1-214-350-5772

info@bynari.com

http://www.bynari.com

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At Linux PR you can read a bit about the e-commerce apps coming out for that environment.

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Unfortunately, they went on to say that Linux systems had never been infected yet, which is incorrect. I've heard of a couple Linux viruses from a few years back - they just didn't spread very quickly.

I think I found them.
http://www.enlightendsm.com/

Here's their explanitory qoute:

Enlighten Software Solutions builds software products that provide easy to use Systems Management Solutions for the Workgroup Environment. Make your life simpler and more productive with Enlighten products and services!

Manage mixed Linux, UNIX and Windows systems from a single EnlightenDSM software console. Resolve problems before they start with the software's proactive monitoring tools, and increase users' productivity by insuring higher system availability. These are just some of the benefits EnlightenDSM offers.

There's a press release on linuxpr.com at:
http://linuxpr.com/releases/1220.html

Google seemed to come up with good results. Thats where I got this from.

I think you are referring to this recent /. article. According to the press release by LinuxPR it IS supposed to be in SUSE 6.3, "...and we are pleased that with the release of SuSE 6.3 with journaling ReiserFS included we will be the first Linux vendor to ship journaling functionality" (taken from the abovementioned article).

I e-mailed SUSE about this 4 days ago but have yet to get a response.

- Wolfgang Spangler

I think you are referring to this recent /. article. According to the press release by LinuxPR it IS supposed to be in SUSE 6.3, "...and we are pleased that with the release of SuSE 6.3 with journaling ReiserFS included we will be the first Linux vendor to ship journaling functionality" (taken from the abovementioned article).

I e-mailed SUSE about this 4 days ago but have yet to get a response.

- Wolfgang Spangler

Also here is a link to Heroes of Might and Magic III web page.

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Go here.
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pb Reply rather than vaguely moderate me.

Sanyo, a $17 billion consumer electronics manufacturer, will be using TurboLinux as the base operating system in 20,000 Newve medical workstation products it expects to ship over the next four years.

...

The workstations replace PA-RISC Hewlett-Packard workstations running HP (UX).

What we need now is to have someone start LinuxFacts.com (or some other such name) and do things like benchmarking, stability testing, and basically serve as an "one stop open-source marketing shop".

If people want to moderate, why not have them pay for the privilege?

Consider this:

Signing up to be moderator a costs $10 or so. The money goes to charity
chosen by the moderator (fsf, spi, eff, etc.) Meta Moderators would need
to pay a heftier fee ($50-$100).

All moderators could start out with XX points, and either gain or lose
based on the review of the meta moderators (who could only meta moderate
a moderator once - try saying that five times fist). Once they lose all
their karma points, they lose moderator privilges and their money. If
they get meta-moderated to a higher Karma, they would have the ability
to become a meta-moderator (possibly for free or for a reduced rate).

Meta moderators would be under the control of slashdot itself (I'm sure
andover.net could spring for the cost of a Meta Moderator Manager). Any
meta moderator caught abusing the system would loose their status and their
money.

This way, it weeds out the moderators who are just in it to cause trouble
and some deserving non-profits get some cash. Plus, it goes great with chicken.

Found it. The link is at Linux PR, the company is CoolKeyboards, and you can get 'em at Linux Mall or sales@coolkeyboards.com

The Press Release is at: linuxpr.com/releases/310.html and Aspen is at www.aspsys.com

HH

How fast? They're claiming a score of 53.7 in SPECfp_base95. AMD claims 22.4 for a 650Mhz Athlon and 15.1 for a Pentium II Xeon. According to the Aspen web site (www.aspen.com, a basic single-processor system with Red Hat Linux starts at over $10,000. You'd be looking at around $14,000 for a dual 500Mhz alpha system. HH