NeXT SCSI was bad, but you have to remember that all SCSI drives and interfaces had compatibility problems back then. You couldn't get any PC SCSI to work with a Mac or vice-versa, and, for that matter, getting anything to work with anything from antother company on a PC was an exercise in frustration.
Nah, SCO was never a Microsoft subsidary. Microsoft did their own Unix, Xenix, and then when they got Quick & Dirty Operating System, soon to become PC-DOS and then MS-DOS for cheap, they got out of the Unix biz and sold Xenix to SCO. For a brief while they jointly marketed and supported Xenix, that was it.
For more on Microsoft, the Unix company, and the early days of SCO and Unix on Intel, see my column:
The Unix Trademark, well UNIX actually, belongs to the The Open Group, not SCO. Don't let the name fool you, it's all about open standards, not open code. See
http://www.unix-systems.org/trademark.html
for more than you may have wanted to know.
Caldera does get UnixWare, the press release didn't make that clear. More on who owns what and how will emerge later today. Some of it, however, will end up open source.
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Tech journalism? Dull!? Are you kidding me? Every day, there's real news happening. Politics? Do you really want to cover who's Gore's VP pick will be? Entertainment? You're only allowed to talk to the stars by going through three layers of ultra-protective PR goons and you end up with the same stale sound bite about the star's latest movie or concert tour that everyone else gets. Sports, well ok, sports would be fun.
But, technology, in technology, every week there's new ideas that might actually change the world. Every day there's a new deal that might change the way millions of people work. Will Caldera/SCO open up Unix under the GPL? How will Ian Murdock, of Debian fame, do in the commerical world? How will people react when they finally catch on that Microsoft.Net is a classic Microsoft move to win the Internet standards battle so they can win the Internet war.
OK, so maybe none of these stories will come to anything. But, I'll give you good odds one of them will be important in the long run than Gore's VP choice or whether the Red Soxs finally win the World Series. Go Sox!
You couldn't tear me away from covering technology.
Steven, Editor at Large, Sm@rt Partner http://www.smartpartnermag.com
Ah, the Register story isn't a denial. I'm not honestly sure what I'd call it, but there's no denial here.
As for Noorda in all this, consider that Noorda was fighting Microsoft before Linux was twinkle in Linus' eye... Think about it.
Steven, Editor at Large, Sm@rt Partner
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Not at all. Sm@rt Partner is essentially the same magazine as it was under Sm@rt Reseller. Same mission, same staff, same everything.
Why the name change then? Because people who didn't read us, saw the title and thought, wow, a magazine just for people who build computers in the back half of a strip mall. That was never our mission. Instead, we were, and are, the magazine for people who take technology and turn it into something other people find useful in their businesses. And, we discovered along the way, that people in this business need to partner with each other to deliver the stuff that people really need to make a business go--thus Partner.
Actually, the idea that we were thinking of a Microsoft partnering is worth a chuckle.
Ziff-Davis Inc. is ZDNet, Computer Shopper, and some odds and ends. The print magazines--PC Mag, eWeek, I@W, S@P etc., which also have an online presence on ZDNet, belong to Ziff Davis Media, an entirely different company. Same parents, different kids.
It's really sad that people can be bribed by a shrinkwrapped software package, a book, and a warm, fuzzy feeling from knowing Big Linux People, but hey, that's what these guys said they sold out for.
As for ZD, how many times do we have to write favorable Linux stories, before some people finally get that, in my part of the ZD universe anyway, we call 'em as we see 'em. And, lately, that's meant we write favorable Linux stories because the Linux and BSD people get it right and others don't.
As someone whose first story was on why MS-DOS 3.2 was a dog and who most recently called C# a bad joke, I've gotten really tired of readers who automatically assume I'm pro-Microsoft. Ask someone's who pro-Microsoft and reads me, whether they think I favor Microsoft. Just make sure they're not drinking at the time or be ready to get wet.
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Hello. What he describes is still a problem that goes down to improper relaying.
Steven
Nine will get you ten, the story's fake.
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I find it hard to believe in this miracle hacker who manages to take AOL screen shots from afar, but who doesn't know how to turn off his mail server's open relay functionality, which is what enables spammers to use his site in the first place.
Some times IBM comes through. Sometimes they don't. For example the same day the OS/2 news came out, the AS/400 group announced that they were discontinuing the Firewall for AS/400 product, which was based on OS/2. The reason? OS/2 was a dead end. A couple of thousand of Firewall users are very unhappy right now because they spent money and time on this product and now they're going to have to switch to another firewall.
Darn. And here I thought I'd recommended FreeBSD as the best choice for Web serving.
As for the BSDI/Walnut Creek Merger (not FreeBSD), that happened long after the article was in. For a take on that, see my sister in writing Mary Jo Foley's latest column:
In our embedded system coverage where it belongs. FWIW, though I like the embedded Linuxes so far if I had to build an application for an embedded box tomorrow I'd use QNX. Battled tested and tried, well documented, and you get really fast code out of it.
I ran Xenix on a 4.77MHz 8086. Yes, it was sllloooowwwwww. I shudder to think I actually used to program on that platform. The scars are still with me to this day!
For us, Sm@rt Reseller, we pick the operating systems we cover in large part based on their reseller presence. After all, they're our readers. Hence, I talk about Corel, but not Debian per se.
People must be celbrating St. Pat's day early because I've been hearing that I don't say SMP is in Linux all day. Folks, read the graph, next to the end of the first page. See how it says 2.4 will have improved SMP. Got to have it in there in the first place to have it improved eh?
As for SMP in general, if I had to have heavy-duty SMP Right Now on Unix. I wouldn't use Linux or Intel. Solaris on SPARC and AIX on PowerPC is where you can really hit the gas with Unix and multiple processors. I haven't tested AIX recently, but Solaris eats NT's, and everyone elses, lunch.
Sorry folks, but the LinuxWorld chair got it wrong when he said, "Neither Bill Gates nor Steve Jobs have packed this hall when they've spoken here, but yesterday Linus' keynote was standing room only and a full balcony."
I've been there for Gates and Jobs. They filled the hall too.
Linux is big and getting bigger, don't puff if up to be even bigger than it already is. That's a common corporate BS game, that Microsoft plays especially well. The Linux world doesn't want to play there.
Steven, Editor at Large, Sm@rt Reseller http://www.zdnet.com/sr
SCO hate Linux? Maybe, even probably, but that isn't stopping them from being in a shotgun marriage with Linux. See my SCO and TurboLinux Join Forces article
Slashdot Mirror
NeXT SCSI was bad, but you have to remember that all SCSI drives and interfaces had compatibility problems back then. You couldn't get any PC SCSI to work with a Mac or vice-versa, and, for that matter, getting anything to work with anything from antother company on a PC was an exercise in frustration.
Steven
Nah, SCO was never a Microsoft subsidary. Microsoft did their own Unix, Xenix, and then when they got Quick & Dirty Operating System, soon to become PC-DOS and then MS-DOS for cheap, they got out of the Unix biz and sold Xenix to SCO. For a brief while they jointly marketed and supported Xenix, that was it.
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For more on Microsoft, the Unix company, and the early days of SCO and Unix on Intel, see my column:
http://www.zdnet.com/sp/stories/column/0,4712,2
Steven
The Unix Trademark, well UNIX actually, belongs to the The Open Group, not SCO. Don't let the name fool you, it's all about open standards, not open code. See
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http://www.unix-systems.org/trademark.html
for more than you may have wanted to know.
Caldera does get UnixWare, the press release didn't make that clear. More on who owns what and how will emerge later today. Some of it, however, will end up open source.
For my take on the deal so far see:
http://www.zdnet.com/sp/stories/news/0,4538,261
Steven
Tech journalism? Dull!? Are you kidding me? Every day, there's real news happening. Politics? Do you really want to cover who's Gore's VP pick will be? Entertainment? You're only allowed to talk to the stars by going through three layers of ultra-protective PR goons and you end up with the same stale sound bite about the star's latest movie or concert tour that everyone else gets. Sports, well ok, sports would be fun.
.Net is a classic Microsoft move to win the Internet standards battle so they can win the Internet war.
But, technology, in technology, every week there's new ideas that might actually change the world. Every day there's a new deal that might change the way millions of people work. Will Caldera/SCO open up Unix under the GPL? How will Ian Murdock, of Debian fame, do in the commerical world? How will people react when they finally catch on that Microsoft
OK, so maybe none of these stories will come to anything. But, I'll give you good odds one of them will be important in the long run than Gore's VP choice or whether the Red Soxs finally win the World Series. Go Sox!
You couldn't tear me away from covering technology.
Steven, Editor at Large, Sm@rt Partner
http://www.smartpartnermag.com
Ah, the Register story isn't a denial. I'm not honestly sure what I'd call it, but there's no denial here.
As for Noorda in all this, consider that Noorda was fighting Microsoft before Linux was twinkle in Linus' eye... Think about it.
Steven, Editor at Large, Sm@rt Partner
Not at all. Sm@rt Partner is essentially the same magazine as it was under Sm@rt Reseller. Same mission, same staff, same everything.
Why the name change then? Because people who didn't read us, saw the title and thought, wow, a magazine just for people who build computers in the back half of a strip mall. That was never our mission. Instead, we were, and are, the magazine for people who take technology and turn it into something other people find useful in their businesses. And, we discovered along the way, that people in this business need to partner with each other to deliver the stuff that people really need to make a business go--thus Partner.
Actually, the idea that we were thinking of a Microsoft partnering is worth a chuckle.
Steven, Editor at Large, Sm@rt Partner
Ziff-Davis Inc. is ZDNet, Computer Shopper, and some odds and ends. The print magazines--PC Mag, eWeek, I@W, S@P etc., which also have an online presence on ZDNet, belong to Ziff Davis Media, an entirely different company. Same parents, different kids.
Steven, Editor at Large, Sm@rt Partner
It's really sad that people can be bribed by a shrinkwrapped software package, a book, and a warm, fuzzy feeling from knowing Big Linux People, but hey, that's what these guys said they sold out for.
As for ZD, how many times do we have to write favorable Linux stories, before some people finally get that, in my part of the ZD universe anyway, we call 'em as we see 'em. And, lately, that's meant we write favorable Linux stories because the Linux and BSD people get it right and others don't.
As someone whose first story was on why MS-DOS 3.2 was a dog and who most recently called C# a bad joke, I've gotten really tired of readers who automatically assume I'm pro-Microsoft. Ask someone's who pro-Microsoft and reads me, whether they think I favor Microsoft. Just make sure they're not drinking at the time or be ready to get wet.
Steven, Editor at Large, Sm@rt Partner
They're toast.
Steven
Hello. What he describes is still a problem that goes down to improper relaying.
Steven
I find it hard to believe in this miracle hacker who manages to take AOL screen shots from afar, but who doesn't know how to turn off his mail server's open relay functionality, which is what enables spammers to use his site in the first place.
Steven, Editor at Large, Sm@rt Partner
There's nothing really new here.
The usual intent of this clause is to make sure you don't bundle propritary libraries with your own source code.
In practice, you can send out your source code. After all, in any open source program you're going to be using open source libraries anyway, right?
Steven, Editor at Large, Sm@rt Partner
For more on what BSDi has planned for FreeBSD and BSD/OS check out:
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http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,255
Steven
Editor at Large: Sm@rt Reseller
Some times IBM comes through. Sometimes they don't. For example the same day the OS/2 news came out, the AS/400 group announced that they were discontinuing the Firewall for AS/400 product, which was based on OS/2. The reason? OS/2 was a dead end. A couple of thousand of Firewall users are very unhappy right now because they spent money and time on this product and now they're going to have to switch to another firewall.
Steven
Editor at Large, Sm@rt Reseller
Darn. And here I thought I'd recommended FreeBSD as the best choice for Web serving.
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As for the BSDI/Walnut Creek Merger (not FreeBSD), that happened long after the article was in. For a take on that, see my sister in writing Mary Jo Foley's latest column:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,585
Steven
S@R an NT book!?
Our readers use every OS under the sun, and we review, report, and Use almost every one of them. Heck, we still cover OS/2.
Steven, Editor at Large, Sm@rt Reseller
In our embedded system coverage where it belongs. FWIW, though I like the embedded Linuxes so far if I had to build an application for an embedded box tomorrow I'd use QNX. Battled tested and tried, well documented, and you get really fast code out of it.
Steven, Editor at Large, Sm@rt Reseller
I ran Xenix on a 4.77MHz 8086. Yes, it was sllloooowwwwww. I shudder to think I actually used to program on that platform. The scars are still with me to this day!
Steven, Editor at Large, Sm@rt Reseller
For us, Sm@rt Reseller, we pick the operating systems we cover in large part based on their reseller presence. After all, they're our readers. Hence, I talk about Corel, but not Debian per se.
Steven, Editor at Large, Sm@rt Reseller
People must be celbrating St. Pat's day early because I've been hearing that I don't say SMP is in Linux all day. Folks, read the graph, next to the end of the first page. See how it says 2.4 will have improved SMP. Got to have it in there in the first place to have it improved eh?
As for SMP in general, if I had to have heavy-duty SMP Right Now on Unix. I wouldn't use Linux or Intel. Solaris on SPARC and AIX on PowerPC is where you can really hit the gas with Unix and multiple processors. I haven't tested AIX recently, but Solaris eats NT's, and everyone elses, lunch.
Steven, Editor at Large, Sm@rt Reseller
Sorry folks, but the LinuxWorld chair got it wrong when he said, "Neither Bill Gates nor Steve Jobs have packed this hall when they've spoken here, but yesterday Linus' keynote was standing room only and a full balcony."
I've been there for Gates and Jobs. They filled the hall too.
Linux is big and getting bigger, don't puff if up to be even bigger than it already is. That's a common corporate BS game, that Microsoft plays especially well. The Linux world doesn't want to play there.
Steven, Editor at Large, Sm@rt Reseller
http://www.zdnet.com/sr
on the Web next to predictions on how great W2K is going to be for you.
Oh, that's not meant sarcastically. I realy find both to be gut-wrenching funny.
Steven
They're a coming--but not from Mindcraft.
Steven, Senior Technology Editor, Sm@rt Reseller
Precisely. I often use Slashdot folks for stories and I always ask permission and talk to them first.
Steven, Senior Technology Editor, Sm@rt Reseller
SCO hate Linux? Maybe, even probably, but that isn't stopping them from being in a shotgun marriage with Linux. See my SCO and TurboLinux Join Forces article
9 9,00.html
http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,23821
for more on, not only how they're working with TL on clustering, they're actually selling TL now.
Steven, Senior Technology Editor, Sm@rt Reseller