You're limiting what you think of as policies, and you may be ignoring the staffing issue. How about policy-driven application distribution? Triggered by the end user on demand instead of a push technology so you're not dumping unneeded garbage on every workstation? And distributed securely using elevated system access so that the user doesn't have to be logged in as Administrator/root/whatever to trigger that installation? Same with distributing printers, software patches, etc.
Look at it this way -- the industry is/will be about identity managment and provisioning resources. There's no reason that workstations and software, storage, servers, etc. can't be treated as resources. This moves towards the ability to handle Linux systems as just another resource.
Actually, deploying and managing hundreds or thousands of workstations in a policy-driven fashion is critical in a large buisiness network. It's the policy-driven part that's important -- it can really cut down on the number of people you have running around changing workstation configs. The non-corporate elements around here tend to discount these sort of things, but if you're short-staffed and faced with 1,500 workstations, managment and deployment are huge issues. And up until recently, those tools for Linux werent there. They're not really there for MacOS. If you want to beat Windows, you have to not only match what the OS does for managment, you have to have 3rd-party tools as good as the ones available for Windows. And a lot of those 3rd party tools are quite good.
They all act like this. Their stuff is made in the same factories as PC clones, they're pretty lousy to their customers when there's a defect or quality control problem, and their only concern is their bottom line and their shareholders. The only reason it's worth picking on them for it is they've had this BS image of being above that for years. They aren't, and weren't. Apple fanatics don't like hearing it, but you can't make yourself an individual by buying a mass-market product from a publicly held corporation.
If you've got the Microsoft Background Intelligent Transfer Service update on your sp1 system, it requested SP2 a while ago.
A few places got burned when all of their systems requested SP2 at the same time and downloaded it, even though the block was in place. Really clobbered their internet connections.
As someone at a Netmail site, and with a good amount of experience with Novell products, I'm glad to see this happen, rather than just ditching the product. It prevents all-or-nothing business case situations, and it gives clients some security and Novell some flexibility.
I hope the result is a lot of work on the Evolution client for Windows, and on the Groupwise backend. Novell is in danger of Exchange getting out ahead of it on the technical underpinnings. Single mailbox restore is pretty critical - single message restore would be even better. Not needing to access post offices via file shares to use the admin tools would be a big plus, etc. Groupwise has been stable because it hasn't gone through a lot of needless rewriting, but it's in danger of falling behind now, I think,
Here's the interesting part -- would municipal wifi end up bringing more people downtown? That would help out a lot of businesses. Might help property values as well. And cheap, easy access would certainly increase the chances of people engaging in economic activity on-line in general. The only ones who lose are the companies that want to charge as much as possible for the pipe. Everyone else, from computer makers to Amazon to your local coffee shop who now has wifi like Starbucks to your town library comes out ahead, as far as I can tell.
It's *not* about Linux. Linux is a part of Novell's strategy, but volume licensing programs covering Netware (which now covers Linux/OES as well), Groupwise and Zenworks are a huge chunk of their revenue.
I'd be willing to bet it's a personality / managment thing. I can think of two possibilities - either he was blamed for the slip in the OES ship date, or he didn't want the ship date to slip and was overruled.
Give that it's more important for OES to work than be on time, I'm betting on the latter. Insisting that something get done doesn't mean it can be done right in the aomount of time. Novell has to *prove* it can offer the full range of Netware services on a Linux platform. Trust me, if you're an enterprise customer that's used to those services, you're not going to be willing to give them up on short notice. You're not even going to be willing to spend the cash ripping the old Novell client off your workstations -- Novell wasn't sure they wanted to support the NCP (over IP, not IPX) client connecting to Linux/OES systems originally. Their customer studies convinced them they had to.
Let's not forget that The Last Starfighter used some pretty cool CGI for the space scenes.
And cut it out with the Star Wars #(#*@! The only Star Wars ripoff that didn't have better writing and dialogue was the entire Battlestar Galactica series. The Holiday Special should have been enough to bury the franchise forever. 50 years from now, people will still be watching "Casablanca" but the various "Star Wars" films are going to be about as unwatchable as the Smurfs.
Of course, the fact that most of the Novell sites are site licensed and have a significant commitment, the fact that they're making money, the fact that they have no significant debt and that some decent property holdings doesn't factor.
With products like DirXML, Netmail, Zenworks for Desktops, and yes, even Netware, trust me, they're going to be around. A Netware 6 cluster offering native Netware, NFS, Apple FS and CIFS support is pretty amazing. So are products like Account Managment, which lets you sync AD and eDirectory users, as well as Unix accounts, IBM mainframe user accounts, etc. Probably doesn't mean much to the usual/. poster, but integrating this stuff makes a huge difference in a large enterprise. And you're not going to hear an integration story from Microsoft.
Sure, it's not always flashy, but you can get real work done, which is what those of us getting paid to do IT work should be focusing on.
I have a book from the late 70's -- authorized -- going through and showing with stills (and pictures from the sets, locations, etc.) from Star Wars and older SciFi/Adventure/Comedy where some of the influences came from. (C3PO/R2-D2 from Laurel and Hardy, for example).
As Steven Hart pointed out in his Salon piece, without EE "Doc" Smith, there's probably no Jedi.
The Campbell thing didn't come up until 1980 or so, and like the recent films, seems to be some sort of huge retcon (retroactive continuity, for the non-comics folks) that people bought because they wanted a space opera to be highbrow.
So at what point does Apple violate the terms of the agreement with Apple Records for ripping off the name and logo? At what point have they engaged in music-related business?
IBM has had defensive patents for years -- stuff they
never intended to charge for, but they wanted to make
sure someone else didn't screw them.
During the IBM/Microsoft divorce, IBM was supposidly
able to drop a big, thick pile of patents on the table to prevent Microsoft from really shafting them.
Didn't IBM have a software patent way back on using the TAB key to move between fields in software? They never charged anyone for that one.
At one point, a bunch of banks were using it to do front-ends for employees, etc. in front of IBM datasystems. It apparantly had a presence in financial.
IBM had (they may still sell) a really nice VisualAge Smalltalk development environment. The IDE from this product actually migrated out into IBM's other development tools, if I remember correctly.
Wise's original director cut was used on airline flights -- it was short enough. Apparantly, it was a lot better.
Paramount wanted to use all the expensive special effects, no matter how much it screwed up the movie.
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In the early-to-mid 90's, there was a version of MacOS that ran on 486 systems in development. Apple was supposidly getting some help from a company that sells networking software in red boxes. Anyway, it apparantly was working pretty well when Apple got cold feet because they didn't want to lose the cash from hardware sales.
The best part is that you can't look up health information from a lot of hospital and health organization web sites with blocking software in place.
My wife's a teacher, and when she demonstrated to parents how blocking software worked, a lot of them were actually pissed off that it was so general. The public has the idea that the programs can actually identify porn and only porn.
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Most OpenVMS systems on the internet are probably running Multinet anyway. At least a plurality of them.
It's a pretty good IP stack. And Compaq's current IP offering is based on a 3rd-party product that had been around for years (I forget if it was TCPware or one of the others).
And yes, in addition to NT, various Unixes and Netware, I do manage two OpenVMS systems.
And how many of those 40 million macs are running
old software? If it isn't a PPC Mac with a recent
version of MacOS, it's not worth counting.
Apple's biggest problem is a large number of
their sales are to replace old, junk Macs. And
the iMac -- a huge chunk of recent sales, is
a dog with OSX on it. The reality is that it's
going to take longer than Apple wants for OSX
to matter.
Also, tons of schools are now switching to
PCs. Dell is doing a booming business, and
sells far more PCs to education than Apple at this point. What the kids use at school is still
a large factor in what gets bought for home.
And outside of publishing, Apple's presence in
corporate is laughable.
CNN had very specific performance and scalability requirements that NDS needed to meet. CNN needed to be able to service 2,000 requests per second with 100% success. Some of that time would need to be allocated to DNS resolution, wire
latency, and injection of personalized advertising, leaving only 250 milliseconds for
NDS to do a directory lookup and personalize the content.
With CNN's requirements in hand, Novell headed to its SuperLab for proof of concept. "In the SuperLab we implemented a basic off-the-shelf configuration," says Bourgeois. "No special cards or disk controller caching on the box, just
standard NetWare 5, RAID drives, 100Mbps Ethernet, and 1GB of RAM."
The Novell team tested fifty NT workstations each doing ten requests per second against a single NetWare server running NDS. Without taking advantage of NDS replication and multiple servers running NDS, the single directory server handled
500 requests per second with less than 60 milliseconds of latency.
Actually, if you look at the per-seat instead
of per-server count, it looks a lot better.
I think it has something to do with being
able to handle far more users at a time
on the same box with Netware than NT (file
and print). You can run 1,000 users off a
Pentium II with 256 megabytes of RAM. You
just have to buy more boxes for NT/2000,
and deal with the extra managment that causes.
The big problem is that a lot of companies,
including Novell, signed license agreements
with RSA. To get them, they had to sign agreements that extended beyond the life
of the patent, September 20th, 2000. So,
basically, Novell often can't release
stuff open source because of the RSA
agreement, and there are limits to what they
can do to get around the problem.
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Look at it this way -- the industry is/will be about identity managment and provisioning resources. There's no reason that workstations and software, storage, servers, etc. can't be treated as resources. This moves towards the ability to handle Linux systems as just another resource.
Actually, deploying and managing hundreds or thousands of workstations in a policy-driven fashion is critical in a large buisiness network. It's the policy-driven part that's important -- it can really cut down on the number of people you have running around changing workstation configs. The non-corporate elements around here tend to discount these sort of things, but if you're short-staffed and faced with 1,500 workstations, managment and deployment are huge issues. And up until recently, those tools for Linux werent there. They're not really there for MacOS. If you want to beat Windows, you have to not only match what the OS does for managment, you have to have 3rd-party tools as good as the ones available for Windows. And a lot of those 3rd party tools are quite good.
They all act like this. Their stuff is made in the same factories as PC clones, they're pretty lousy to their customers when there's a defect or quality control problem, and their only concern is their bottom line and their shareholders. The only reason it's worth picking on them for it is they've had this BS image of being above that for years. They aren't, and weren't. Apple fanatics don't like hearing it, but you can't make yourself an individual by buying a mass-market product from a publicly held corporation.
A few places got burned when all of their systems requested SP2 at the same time and downloaded it, even though the block was in place. Really clobbered their internet connections.
I hope the result is a lot of work on the Evolution client for Windows, and on the Groupwise backend. Novell is in danger of Exchange getting out ahead of it on the technical underpinnings. Single mailbox restore is pretty critical - single message restore would be even better. Not needing to access post offices via file shares to use the admin tools would be a big plus, etc. Groupwise has been stable because it hasn't gone through a lot of needless rewriting, but it's in danger of falling behind now, I think,
Here's the interesting part -- would municipal wifi end up bringing more people downtown? That would help out a lot of businesses. Might help property values as well. And cheap, easy access would certainly increase the chances of people engaging in economic activity on-line in general. The only ones who lose are the companies that want to charge as much as possible for the pipe. Everyone else, from computer makers to Amazon to your local coffee shop who now has wifi like Starbucks to your town library comes out ahead, as far as I can tell.
I'd be willing to bet it's a personality / managment thing. I can think of two possibilities - either he was blamed for the slip in the OES ship date, or he didn't want the ship date to slip and was overruled.
Give that it's more important for OES to work than be on time, I'm betting on the latter. Insisting that something get done doesn't mean it can be done right in the aomount of time. Novell has to *prove* it can offer the full range of Netware services on a Linux platform. Trust me, if you're an enterprise customer that's used to those services, you're not going to be willing to give them up on short notice. You're not even going to be willing to spend the cash ripping the old Novell client off your workstations -- Novell wasn't sure they wanted to support the NCP (over IP, not IPX) client connecting to Linux/OES systems originally. Their customer studies convinced them they had to.
Let's not forget that The Last Starfighter used some pretty cool CGI for the space scenes.
And cut it out with the Star Wars #(#*@! The only Star Wars ripoff that didn't have better writing and dialogue was the entire Battlestar Galactica series.
The Holiday Special should have been enough to bury the franchise forever. 50 years from now, people will still be watching "Casablanca" but the various "Star Wars" films are going to be about as unwatchable as the Smurfs.
Of course, the fact that most of the Novell sites are site licensed and have a significant commitment, the fact that they're making money, the fact that they have no significant debt and that some decent property holdings doesn't factor.
/. poster, but integrating this stuff makes a huge difference in a large enterprise. And you're not going to hear an integration story from Microsoft.
With products like DirXML, Netmail, Zenworks for Desktops, and yes, even Netware, trust me, they're going to be around. A Netware 6 cluster offering native Netware, NFS, Apple FS and CIFS support is pretty amazing. So are products like Account Managment, which lets you sync AD and eDirectory users, as well as Unix accounts, IBM mainframe user accounts, etc. Probably doesn't mean much to the usual
Sure, it's not always flashy, but you can get real work done, which is what those of us getting paid to do IT work should be focusing on.
I have a book from the late 70's -- authorized -- going through and showing with stills (and pictures from the sets, locations, etc.) from Star Wars and older SciFi/Adventure/Comedy where some of the influences came from. (C3PO/R2-D2 from Laurel and Hardy, for example).
As Steven Hart pointed out in his Salon piece, without EE "Doc" Smith, there's probably no Jedi.
The Campbell thing didn't come up until 1980 or so, and like the recent films, seems to be some sort of huge retcon (retroactive continuity, for the non-comics folks) that people bought because they wanted a space opera to be highbrow.
Or maybe I'm just looking at it the wrong way, and Microsoft got to administer a spanking, and the DOJ really, really wanted to submit to one.
So at what point does Apple violate the terms of the agreement with Apple Records for ripping off the name and logo? At what point have they engaged in music-related business?
During the IBM/Microsoft divorce, IBM was supposidly able to drop a big, thick pile of patents on the table to prevent Microsoft from really shafting them.
Didn't IBM have a software patent way back on using the TAB key to move between fields in software? They never charged anyone for that one.
At one point, a bunch of banks were using it to do front-ends for employees, etc. in front of IBM datasystems. It apparantly had a presence in financial. IBM had (they may still sell) a really nice VisualAge Smalltalk development environment. The IDE from this product actually migrated out into IBM's other development tools, if I remember correctly.
Paramount wanted to use all the expensive special effects, no matter how much it screwed up the movie.
In the early-to-mid 90's, there was a version of MacOS that ran on 486 systems in development. Apple was supposidly getting some help from a company that sells networking software in red boxes. Anyway, it apparantly was working pretty well when Apple got cold feet because they didn't want to lose the cash from hardware sales.
My wife's a teacher, and when she demonstrated to parents how blocking software worked, a lot of them were actually pissed off that it was so general. The public has the idea that the programs can actually identify porn and only porn.
It's a pretty good IP stack. And Compaq's current IP offering is based on a 3rd-party product that had been around for years (I forget if it was TCPware or one of the others). And yes, in addition to NT, various Unixes and Netware, I do manage two OpenVMS systems.
Apple's biggest problem is a large number of their sales are to replace old, junk Macs. And the iMac -- a huge chunk of recent sales, is a dog with OSX on it. The reality is that it's going to take longer than Apple wants for OSX to matter.
Also, tons of schools are now switching to PCs. Dell is doing a booming business, and sells far more PCs to education than Apple at this point. What the kids use at school is still a large factor in what gets bought for home. And outside of publishing, Apple's presence in corporate is laughable.
Honestly, I don't think Adobe's interested in growing the market for this application -- I don't think they want to deal with the extra support, etc.
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CNN had very specific performance and scalability requirements that NDS needed to meet. CNN needed to be able to service 2,000 requests per second with 100% success. Some of that time would need to be allocated to DNS resolution, wire latency, and injection of personalized advertising, leaving only 250 milliseconds for NDS to do a directory lookup and personalize the content.
With CNN's requirements in hand, Novell headed to its SuperLab for proof of concept. "In the SuperLab we implemented a basic off-the-shelf configuration," says Bourgeois. "No special cards or disk controller caching on the box, just standard NetWare 5, RAID drives, 100Mbps Ethernet, and 1GB of RAM."
The Novell team tested fifty NT workstations each doing ten requests per second against a single NetWare server running NDS. Without taking advantage of NDS replication and multiple servers running NDS, the single directory server handled 500 requests per second with less than 60 milliseconds of latency.
Actually, if you look at the per-seat instead of per-server count, it looks a lot better. I think it has something to do with being able to handle far more users at a time on the same box with Netware than NT (file and print). You can run 1,000 users off a Pentium II with 256 megabytes of RAM. You just have to buy more boxes for NT/2000, and deal with the extra managment that causes.
The big problem is that a lot of companies, including Novell, signed license agreements with RSA. To get them, they had to sign agreements that extended beyond the life of the patent, September 20th, 2000. So, basically, Novell often can't release stuff open source because of the RSA agreement, and there are limits to what they can do to get around the problem.
If their policy dictates the content of your data stream to this degree, should they enjoy protection as a common carrier any longer?
Yes -- I received my PIN in the mail early last week. It worked fine.