... Bill Gates is still the richest man in the world, check.... Microsoft is still the dominate OS, check.... Microsoft revenue increases every year, check.
I don't see what this has to do with news at all. Just another Microsoft rant this place has become so famous for.
One of the big reasons that I believe home based servers will triumph over hosted apps is the very same reason that they do in any organization -- security and privacy. Case in point, about 6 months ago after being a fan of Gmail for a long time I pulled the plug. Why? Reading the local newspaper one day I saw an article about how the courts have ruled that if your e-mail is stored on someone elses server they don't need a warrant for it. I'm not sure how universal this is, or if it was just in one particular jurisdiction, but that was enough to make me switch. I now run my own mail server.
Similarly the same goes for hosted apps. It's great they are backing it up, but remember, it only takes one rogue employee to sell your secrets to your competitor. If you are a business storing business-related documents on a hosted service you are at the mercy of the hosted company. You can say "it won't happen because of XYZ" all you want, but again it only takes one rogue employee working for the hosting company. Furthermore, if you are a public company or deal with sensitive information -- forget about it -- unless you want to be out of business tomorrow.
Centralized storage and data manipulation is the key -- whether that be in the home or the workplace. We are just now entering into this market and I think we are going to see some really good innovations come of it.
And, personally, yes I've tried out the Beta of Windows Home Server. My thoughts? I love it. It has a few features missing, but when it goes "gold" I plan on switching my home server over to it.
You can really see the "me" generation in these replies. Just because someone chooses to work in retail does not mean they aren't good at anything else. Some people enjoy working retail. It's amazing how people, especially here, seem to think that unless you are out clawing your way to the top of the corporate ladder by stepping on everyone else then you are a nobody.
My grandfather was a salesman for Sears & Roebuck. He worked there from the time he was 30 until the day he retired at 72. He was proud of what he did, and enjoyed every day of it. Back then people being a salesman was a noble profession. He knew every product he sold (appliances, hardware, etc.) and if a customer came in he would listen to them and recommend the best solution -- even if it was not a Sears solution.
I am sure there are people who work at Circuit City who are modern day versions of him. They may enjoy what they do, and enjoy helping people make the right decisions. Now, instead of cutting the fat from the top of this tanking company, they decide to attack the low level employees. I can tell you right now I will never shop there again.
People deserve respect no matter what they do in life. I'm shocked and disgusted by how I see people not only on this forum but elsewhere just have such utter disrespect for those who have lower-level jobs than they do.
Remember, at the end of life you are just as dead as the salesclerk, janitor or dishwasher will be. Try showing a bit of kindness and respect, you might be surprised how well that goes over.
... is that I switched to Vista about 2 weeks ago and am loving it. Despite all the negativity people seem to have about it I find most of that negativity comes from people who have never installed it or used it.
Anti-Microsoft bandwagon. I'm seriously beginning to wonder if reading Slashdot makes any sense. It seems to be nothing more than a constant bash of Microsoft along with questionable articles about anything non-Microsoft. You claim to be a news source, but when you slant the news all the times you become a propoganda machine and not a news source.
There is nothing wrong with sharing information about how to do something. Microsoft is merely showing people how to do something on their operating system. It isn't a consipracy theory, there are no hidden agendas, it is just people sharing information with other people.
Do you honestly think a company like Wal-Mart, who will argue with a vendor for MONTHS about 2 extra inches of floor space being allocated to their product line, is going to spend the TIME, RESOURCES and MANPOWER to get these in and then not advertise them? I remember the advertising for the Wal-Mart Linux laptops. There was no shortage of it. But the bottom line is they didn't sell. Customers didn't want it. So, Wal-Mart being a business, they got rid of it. The same way they get rid of the potato chips that don't sell and bring in another brand that does.
Business is about business and what makes money. You can claim all the reasons you want about why it didn't sell, but at the end of the day they are no longer there because very few people bought them.
Wal-Mart could give a rats ass whether it was a Linux laptop, Windows desktop, bag of pretzels or a bottle of bleach.
Updates every 1-2 weeks. And just how many companies are going to be patching apps to 1,000+ desktops every 1-2 weeks? I can tell you right now NONE. We have about 500 desktops and we spend a lot of time on QAing, planning and minimizing downtime before patches, new software, etc. gets deployed. You don't just roll out a new update every 2 weeks like it is nothing.
And yet in one day they manage to post two Google-Apps-Are-So-Great articles, one with numbers that were obviously misleading and downright lies. (100,000 businesses has switched -- including Bank of America -- riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, a bank is hosting its data on external servers)
In this day and age of lawsuits and corporate rules and regulations I can't see any large company using hosted services where their data resides on other servers. That would open up a whole can of legal problems, especially if that data was compromised.
Another example is say that Google kept backup tapes for 10 years, but company was policy was no backups for more than 6 months. A lawsuit comes along and the lawyer for the other side realizes you use Google and subpoeanas the backup tapes from Google and finds the evidence they want.
For many years I was very much against at-will employment as it seemed to give all the advantages to the employer and none to the employee. However, over the years my attitude has changed in now that I see what is "good for the goose is good for the gander."
What employers fail to realize is they will get exactly what they foster in the work environment. If you are an employer who treats employees well (read, as human and not resources) then you will find that first of all you don't have a lot of turnover, and those who do leave to pursue other opportunities will give notice well in advance and help you find a suitable replacement.
On the other hand, those who treat employees like they are a number and see them as nothing more than "expendable" everytime the CEO wants a new jet will get that in return -- one day the person who knows how all the stuff works will be gone and nobody is going to know what to do.
The magic of at-will! Though I am not a lawyer, I can't possibly see how this lawsuit will go anywhere. It's nothing more than a scare tactic by some employer who realized that "Hey, the guy who actually did the work left and now what are we going to do?" At-will employment means just that -- just as the company can tell you at any second to "beat it" you can do the same. There are no contracts, no lengths of time, no anything.
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... Bill Gates is still the richest man in the world, check. ... Microsoft is still the dominate OS, check. ... Microsoft revenue increases every year, check.
I don't see what this has to do with news at all. Just another Microsoft rant this place has become so famous for.
One of the big reasons that I believe home based servers will triumph over hosted apps is the very same reason that they do in any organization -- security and privacy. Case in point, about 6 months ago after being a fan of Gmail for a long time I pulled the plug. Why? Reading the local newspaper one day I saw an article about how the courts have ruled that if your e-mail is stored on someone elses server they don't need a warrant for it. I'm not sure how universal this is, or if it was just in one particular jurisdiction, but that was enough to make me switch. I now run my own mail server.
Similarly the same goes for hosted apps. It's great they are backing it up, but remember, it only takes one rogue employee to sell your secrets to your competitor. If you are a business storing business-related documents on a hosted service you are at the mercy of the hosted company. You can say "it won't happen because of XYZ" all you want, but again it only takes one rogue employee working for the hosting company. Furthermore, if you are a public company or deal with sensitive information -- forget about it -- unless you want to be out of business tomorrow.
Centralized storage and data manipulation is the key -- whether that be in the home or the workplace. We are just now entering into this market and I think we are going to see some really good innovations come of it.
And, personally, yes I've tried out the Beta of Windows Home Server. My thoughts? I love it. It has a few features missing, but when it goes "gold" I plan on switching my home server over to it.
You can really see the "me" generation in these replies. Just because someone chooses to work in retail does not mean they aren't good at anything else. Some people enjoy working retail. It's amazing how people, especially here, seem to think that unless you are out clawing your way to the top of the corporate ladder by stepping on everyone else then you are a nobody.
My grandfather was a salesman for Sears & Roebuck. He worked there from the time he was 30 until the day he retired at 72. He was proud of what he did, and enjoyed every day of it. Back then people being a salesman was a noble profession. He knew every product he sold (appliances, hardware, etc.) and if a customer came in he would listen to them and recommend the best solution -- even if it was not a Sears solution.
I am sure there are people who work at Circuit City who are modern day versions of him. They may enjoy what they do, and enjoy helping people make the right decisions. Now, instead of cutting the fat from the top of this tanking company, they decide to attack the low level employees. I can tell you right now I will never shop there again.
People deserve respect no matter what they do in life. I'm shocked and disgusted by how I see people not only on this forum but elsewhere just have such utter disrespect for those who have lower-level jobs than they do.
Remember, at the end of life you are just as dead as the salesclerk, janitor or dishwasher will be. Try showing a bit of kindness and respect, you might be surprised how well that goes over.
... is that I switched to Vista about 2 weeks ago and am loving it. Despite all the negativity people seem to have about it I find most of that negativity comes from people who have never installed it or used it.
... IBM telling Oracle to go to hell. They are my hero.
Anti-Microsoft bandwagon. I'm seriously beginning to wonder if reading Slashdot makes any sense. It seems to be nothing more than a constant bash of Microsoft along with questionable articles about anything non-Microsoft. You claim to be a news source, but when you slant the news all the times you become a propoganda machine and not a news source. There is nothing wrong with sharing information about how to do something. Microsoft is merely showing people how to do something on their operating system. It isn't a consipracy theory, there are no hidden agendas, it is just people sharing information with other people.
Do you honestly think a company like Wal-Mart, who will argue with a vendor for MONTHS about 2 extra inches of floor space being allocated to their product line, is going to spend the TIME, RESOURCES and MANPOWER to get these in and then not advertise them? I remember the advertising for the Wal-Mart Linux laptops. There was no shortage of it. But the bottom line is they didn't sell. Customers didn't want it. So, Wal-Mart being a business, they got rid of it. The same way they get rid of the potato chips that don't sell and bring in another brand that does. Business is about business and what makes money. You can claim all the reasons you want about why it didn't sell, but at the end of the day they are no longer there because very few people bought them. Wal-Mart could give a rats ass whether it was a Linux laptop, Windows desktop, bag of pretzels or a bottle of bleach.
Did you ever think the reason they discountinued it was there was no demand?
Well by-golly, we all know the blog-o-sphere is just full of accurate journalism. Some idiot says it is true, then it must be true!
Updates every 1-2 weeks. And just how many companies are going to be patching apps to 1,000+ desktops every 1-2 weeks? I can tell you right now NONE. We have about 500 desktops and we spend a lot of time on QAing, planning and minimizing downtime before patches, new software, etc. gets deployed. You don't just roll out a new update every 2 weeks like it is nothing.
And yet in one day they manage to post two Google-Apps-Are-So-Great articles, one with numbers that were obviously misleading and downright lies. (100,000 businesses has switched -- including Bank of America -- riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, a bank is hosting its data on external servers)
Firefox was marketed and touted as the "SECURE BROWSER". That is all I heard from the Firefox-zealots at work. My, my, my how the times have changed.
Since when did blogs entries become news sources?
In this day and age of lawsuits and corporate rules and regulations I can't see any large company using hosted services where their data resides on other servers. That would open up a whole can of legal problems, especially if that data was compromised. Another example is say that Google kept backup tapes for 10 years, but company was policy was no backups for more than 6 months. A lawsuit comes along and the lawyer for the other side realizes you use Google and subpoeanas the backup tapes from Google and finds the evidence they want.
For many years I was very much against at-will employment as it seemed to give all the advantages to the employer and none to the employee. However, over the years my attitude has changed in now that I see what is "good for the goose is good for the gander."
What employers fail to realize is they will get exactly what they foster in the work environment. If you are an employer who treats employees well (read, as human and not resources) then you will find that first of all you don't have a lot of turnover, and those who do leave to pursue other opportunities will give notice well in advance and help you find a suitable replacement.
On the other hand, those who treat employees like they are a number and see them as nothing more than "expendable" everytime the CEO wants a new jet will get that in return -- one day the person who knows how all the stuff works will be gone and nobody is going to know what to do.
The magic of at-will! Though I am not a lawyer, I can't possibly see how this lawsuit will go anywhere. It's nothing more than a scare tactic by some employer who realized that "Hey, the guy who actually did the work left and now what are we going to do?" At-will employment means just that -- just as the company can tell you at any second to "beat it" you can do the same. There are no contracts, no lengths of time, no anything.