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HP to Heavily Support and Invest in .Net
Dr.Stress writes: "CNet is reporting 'Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft plan to invest $50 million in a joint effort to sell corporate customers on the software giant's .Net Web services efforts....HP plans to devote 3,000 consultants from its HP Services unit to the effort and also train 5,000 people in its sales and support staff.' Microsoft will provide additional installation support, and the companies will jointly market .Net services. This was announced previously, but this article contains a few more details. Frankly, as an HP employee, I am alarmed at all this closeness with Microsoft lately (this, plus the media center PCs....what's next??)."
grammar seems a bit poor in the title....
I am alarmed at all this closeness with Microsoft lately (this, plus the media center PCs....what's next??)
Well if memory serves, MS will use HP for as long as it takes to get its own team together, then screw them over. Of course, MS may really value the partnership, and have absolutely no ulterior motiv...... sorry, I'm laughing too hard to finish!!
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
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why are you a bastard now?
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interj., &n., &v.
An exclamation of incorrectness - esp. when claiming first post.
By posting such unrelated and stupid message to this topic.\n
Dear Bill, do you have a
What's next you ask ?
I do not know. I do have a collection of "Digital - Microsoft alliance" t-shirts from when DEC still existed.
Embrace and Extend.
We are supporting Microsoft! We are supporting Linux! We are going to move forward with HP-UX and Tru-64! Compaq hardware will keep on truckin! We love AMD and Hammer! We love intel and Itanium!
We will say anything to try and keep our stockholders from noticing that we made a former Lucent exec our CEO and are letting her run one of the most wacked-out mergers ever seen!
Frankly, as an HP employee, I am alarmed at all this closeness with Microsoft lately (this, plus the media center PCs....what's next??).
Ohhhh, poor baby. Would you like your bottle? The trials and trubulations of a for profit company doing business with another for profit company to, can you believe the evil, sell goods and services for profit!!!! What is the world comming to? God forbid your company work with an OS that reaches over 90% of the PCs out there. The horror of having to consider the end user!
Linux Expo, 2002; refering to the HP/Compaq merger:
"...it's like watching two slow-moving garbage trucks in a head-on collision..."
Treatment, not tyranny. End the drug war and free our American POWs.
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Looks like Compaq's hiding their shady business behind the HP name again...
Step 1: Control HP
Step 2: Publicly announce evil plans under HP's name
Step 3: Profit????
In SOVIET RUSSIA... erm...NSA AMERICA, the Internet logs onto YOU!
So that you can make your broadband connection perform like a dialup, as SOAP is an XML protocol.
Just imagine, instead of sending your images/mp3s/whatever as a stream of bytes, you can send something like:
<int> 56 </int> <int> 42 </int> <int> 35 </int>
What a fucking breakthough! What insight! And, as an added bonus, you get the overhead of creating the XML at the sender, and parsing it at the receiver. Huzzah! The brilliance knows no bounds!
Yes, I know about the "array of bytes" type, but this is just laughable. You now have all the endian/packing problems of sockets, so if you use this type, SOAP has gained you exactly nothing and you might as well have used raw sockets. And I'm not even going to *ask* what happens if you want to send an array of floats efficiently
It's no suprise that SOAP is from the same geniuses that brought you the joke that was DCOM (which has been swept under the carpet I notice). Perhaps I should send these people some of the standard distributed computing texts for xmas, it's clear they don't have clue one about the topic.
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