Yahoo failed because there was no other likely suitors besides MS, SUN on the other hand, can afford to play hard to get because they have at least 2 other likely suitors (Oracle and Cisco).
I believe sun market cap was in the $3-$4 billion range, it shot up to $6 when IBM plans were announced.
They have a good chance to justify a higher price given their IP and how crazy stock market valuation is. Don't you think it's odd for a company such as IBM to offer this price for SUN given the huge overlap between them? not to mention that many of the software technologies are open sourced and IBM could take advantage of them
I believe this is a move from IBM to make SUN more expensive for likely suitors. Which is why Cisco will have to pay at least $8 billion now if they are to acquire SUN, which I think will hapen.
Aren't the costs mentioned by NYT fixed in nature?
Which means, if they are higher, it would just take longer to recoup.
Lets use a liberal estimate of these costs and say it was $2000.
A customer paying $60 per month, would pay it in 34 months. Even if $40 were going towards paying that costs, and $20 to cover variable costs, it would take 50 months to recoup.
Seem to me like a reasonable time before an investment starts making profit. If only the telcos would just stop abusing their customers and win their loyalty for that period.
Here's another thought, could it be the legal fees and the mismanagement overhead what's making the telcos less profitable?
I recently switched to LaTeX after being a word user for some time. the Zotero firefox plugin makes citations easy, but nothing like LaTex. Latex wins hands down
But I think word (and OOO.org for that matter) are better at collaboration, mainly because track changes is much more effecient than revision control systems like SVN, git, mercurial...etc. These systems were designed with programming in mind, they compare files on a line by line basis. If you change a word SVN would replace the whole line which might be a whole paragraph. So when you do a diff, both the old and new paragraphs are shown and it gets difficult at times to know exactly what changed. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. But at the moment, I would stick with ooo.org & word for collaboration. Don't forget the comment feature which is important during collaboration
Over time, im sure a project will spring up to deal with this problem.
I find the contributions of Anonymous Coward to be most valuable. I can't imagine that anyone exists who thinks otherwise.
It will be a big lose to/. and certainly to all its users if he were to unbookmark/.
I for one will unbookmark/. as well should Anonymous Coward disappear, as will probably half the/. population.
1- create browser based distributed super computer.
2- Do some rather complicated analysis to get some interesting results.
3- (stroke of genius) create a parallel distributed infrastructure to do another set of analysis to estimate the results from the previous analysis.
4- ?????
5- profit!.
seriously, what could go wrong with this plan? it's a sure win!
well.. in computerized systems, we usually make the hacks because its easier than rewriting the whole system from scratch, and in certain situations it is impossible to stop the system so u have to work with what you've got.
I am not with or against government stimulus, but I wonder if the solution u suggested is possible. I mean, how would you liquidate the debt and be fair to the majority of people who continued to make their payment on time? and if you let the situation take it's course without intervening, I think being fair would be the least of our concerns.
Maybe the solution is an intervention from the government, and a change in attitude about savings so things could stabilize over the long run?
for an economic model with two people I agree. But what happens if you add a person C as a bank, who's lent both A,B, to buy houses from builder D. Having made a quick buck, D borrows more to build homes that he expects E,F,G...etc to purchase... but hey.. these guys never showed up.
A & B house value declines because of all these houses in the market which D can't sell. Since the houses were collateral for everyone's loans, they figure its better to walk away and let C reposes them since its more cost effective for them to take the hit. Now everyone is bankrupt, and C is sitting on a lot of homes with no cash.
There, fixed that for you. The model is now a closer representation of reality. Now what were u saying about government stimulus?
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oblig for the heck of it.
Yahoo failed because there was no other likely suitors besides MS, SUN on the other hand, can afford to play hard to get because they have at least 2 other likely suitors (Oracle and Cisco).
u lost me at pussy
based on your argument, flash would be distend to a similar fate, yet it will soon be on iphone.
could it be more related to performance due to bloat?
forgot to mention, lets not forget ORCL
Total Current Assets $15,611.00M
I believe sun market cap was in the $3-$4 billion range, it shot up to $6 when IBM plans were announced.
They have a good chance to justify a higher price given their IP and how crazy stock market valuation is. Don't you think it's odd for a company such as IBM to offer this price for SUN given the huge overlap between them? not to mention that many of the software technologies are open sourced and IBM could take advantage of them
I believe this is a move from IBM to make SUN more expensive for likely suitors. Which is why Cisco will have to pay at least $8 billion now if they are to acquire SUN, which I think will hapen.
Aren't the costs mentioned by NYT fixed in nature?
Which means, if they are higher, it would just take longer to recoup.
Lets use a liberal estimate of these costs and say it was $2000.
A customer paying $60 per month, would pay it in 34 months. Even if $40 were going towards paying that costs, and $20 to cover variable costs, it would take 50 months to recoup.
Seem to me like a reasonable time before an investment starts making profit. If only the telcos would just stop abusing their customers and win their loyalty for that period.
Here's another thought, could it be the legal fees and the mismanagement overhead what's making the telcos less profitable?
u mean this?
http://www.revogear.com/
These are ARM based, you can move them around, but they're no laptops.
no, but you probably can run firefox under emacs.
why there aren't any erotic references to ! "bang" in the comments is beyond me. /.?
Am I on
will we need a 56kbps modem though?
will it run linux?
I can't seem to find any information on that
I recently switched to LaTeX after being a word user for some time. the Zotero firefox plugin makes citations easy, but nothing like LaTex. Latex wins hands down
...etc. These systems were designed with programming in mind, they compare files on a line by line basis. If you change a word SVN would replace the whole line which might be a whole paragraph. So when you do a diff, both the old and new paragraphs are shown and it gets difficult at times to know exactly what changed. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. But at the moment, I would stick with ooo.org & word for collaboration. Don't forget the comment feature which is important during collaboration
But I think word (and OOO.org for that matter) are better at collaboration, mainly because track changes is much more effecient than revision control systems like SVN, git, mercurial
Over time, im sure a project will spring up to deal with this problem.
is finnished!
aparently this marks the birth of the 133rd h4x0r2
i dont think this qualifies as irony ..yes
hypocrisy
I find the contributions of Anonymous Coward to be most valuable. I can't imagine that anyone exists who thinks otherwise. /. and certainly to all its users if he were to unbookmark /. /. as well should Anonymous Coward disappear, as will probably half the /. population.
/. user
It will be a big lose to
I for one will unbookmark
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ps: Power Point is hard, Let's use notepad
seriously, what's so scary about something that outputs this:
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1- create browser based distributed super computer.
2- Do some rather complicated analysis to get some interesting results.
3- (stroke of genius) create a parallel distributed infrastructure to do another set of analysis to estimate the results from the previous analysis.
4- ?????
5- profit!.
seriously, what could go wrong with this plan? it's a sure win!
not to mention a good way to start a consultancy or service company.
well .. in computerized systems, we usually make the hacks because its easier than rewriting the whole system from scratch, and in certain situations it is impossible to stop the system so u have to work with what you've got.
I am not with or against government stimulus, but I wonder if the solution u suggested is possible. I mean, how would you liquidate the debt and be fair to the majority of people who continued to make their payment on time? and if you let the situation take it's course without intervening, I think being fair would be the least of our concerns.
Maybe the solution is an intervention from the government, and a change in attitude about savings so things could stabilize over the long run?
couldn't resist .. .sry :)
for an economic model with two people I agree. But what happens if you add a person C as a bank, who's lent both A,B, to buy houses from builder D. Having made a quick buck, D borrows more to build homes that he expects E,F,G ...etc to purchase ... but hey.. these guys never showed up.
A & B house value declines because of all these houses in the market which D can't sell. Since the houses were collateral for everyone's loans, they figure its better to walk away and let C reposes them since its more cost effective for them to take the hit. Now everyone is bankrupt, and C is sitting on a lot of homes with no cash.
There, fixed that for you.
The model is now a closer representation of reality.
Now what were u saying about government stimulus?
its probably bigger in the UK than it is in the US. this might help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_healthcare_software
mind you, some of the research on open source I looked at considered openoffice a healthcare office suite.
or is there a catch? ..
let me see
there we go, I was right: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/09/1348255
2 apps per user