1) Actually, the idea that even large companies would want to write their own infrastructure is clearly out of date. The large company I work for has a stated direction to buy rather than build. This applies to packaged applications such as Siebel and SAP as well as middleware.
Building and especially maintaining infrastructure software is way to expensive for a single company to take on. This is where Open Source comes in. Albeit, a consortium of some sort would have to be put together.
Actually, I went out and bought a PowerBook G4 about two months ago, switched off of Wintel completely. And I'm glad I did. And this is after trying Linux and BeOS.
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That is why I buy laptops and only laptops. Awake they produce less, but not zero noise. Asleep, they are silent.
I used to enjoy going to sleep with the PC noise but no longer.
Weeeel, a thousand searches by slash-dotters is better than what I can do. The power of open source! :-)
1) Actually, the idea that even large companies would want to write their own infrastructure is clearly out of date. The large company I work for has a stated direction to buy rather than build. This applies to packaged applications such as Siebel and SAP as well as middleware.
Building and especially maintaining infrastructure software is way to expensive for a single company to take on. This is where Open Source comes in. Albeit, a consortium of some sort would have to be put together.
I wonder if BestBuy thought of this response? Should we call for a boycott of BestBuy? Anyone think this is practical?
Actually, I went out and bought a PowerBook G4 about two months ago, switched off of Wintel completely. And I'm glad I did. And this is after trying Linux and BeOS.