I agree with AC - name one current (2010 or 2011) American vehicle (I'll even grant trucks, including the over the road tractors!) with a carburetor.
As a matter of fact, name one made since 1999...
XENIX - not Xeonix.
And there's still folks running SCO/Xenix (huh? Who else remembers when SCO was Microsoft's Santa Cruz Operation, writing multi-user OSes for people?) out there. And yes, we're working hard around here to get them onto a recent Linux implementation... But a XENIX/286 box that's been running for 15 years is... hard to beat when it keeps on running and running and running and basically makes the Energizer Bunny look like a wimp and a loser.
Last time I was in, swapping out the slaved Windows servers, they run AS/400s for their backbone - either Linux or zOS (or whatever they've decided to call it today).
Most likely zOS.
The sad part is, I tend to make more money as a "computer guy" from FOSS than from retail software.
Don't make any on the software itself, but for Joe Sixpak and his wife Suzy, they'll pay me to install it, to migrate the data, and to show them how to use it. Which all is pure profit for me, unlike, say, installing a copy of Office (where I'm out at least 350+ dealer cost before I get to make any money on it! And no, I'm not sure, last time I checked it was more like 384 for Office 2000... )
But CRN still doesn't pay much attention to FOSS.
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I agree with AC - name one current (2010 or 2011) American vehicle (I'll even grant trucks, including the over the road tractors!) with a carburetor. As a matter of fact, name one made since 1999 ...
Err - no. It won't check a CD, but has to have a running qualified OS. Which can be the trial version of Vista ...
Probably the same place I laugh at them at - OfficeMax, OfficeDepot, BestBuy, CircuitCity.
XENIX - not Xeonix. And there's still folks running SCO/Xenix (huh? Who else remembers when SCO was Microsoft's Santa Cruz Operation, writing multi-user OSes for people?) out there. And yes, we're working hard around here to get them onto a recent Linux implementation ... But a XENIX/286 box that's been running for 15 years is ... hard to beat when it keeps on running and running and running and basically makes the Energizer Bunny look like a wimp and a loser.
Last time I was in, swapping out the slaved Windows servers, they run AS/400s for their backbone - either Linux or zOS (or whatever they've decided to call it today). Most likely zOS.
The sad part is, I tend to make more money as a "computer guy" from FOSS than from retail software. Don't make any on the software itself, but for Joe Sixpak and his wife Suzy, they'll pay me to install it, to migrate the data, and to show them how to use it. Which all is pure profit for me, unlike, say, installing a copy of Office (where I'm out at least 350+ dealer cost before I get to make any money on it! And no, I'm not sure, last time I checked it was more like 384 for Office 2000 ... )
But CRN still doesn't pay much attention to FOSS.
RwP