Business Week had a good sub-article about the merger this week - it discussed the general downside forseen by the merger. In essence, the article regarded AOL's acquisition of TW to be cast in the mold of alfred Sloan's GM of years past, where any useful competitor what swallowed up into the vertically integrated giant.
The writer offered a compelling argument that this might not be the way companies should be behaving in the "new economy", as the vertically-integrated conglomerate was really a relic of the "old economy".
The writer contrasted AOL/TW's goal of owning all of the content with Yahoo's approach of partnering for content, while staying relatively nimble.
Agreed. On FreeBSD is crashes on almost every page
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I run FreeBSD 3.4 and the mozilla M12 binary crashes on any page that isn't static html.
As far as I am concerned, they are six months away or longer on this platform.
The company I work at has a number of web mirrors distributed worldwide. They are a pain in the ass to manage, and nothing is going to change that.
Try a service like Akamai to reduce this pain. They basically filter your content throughout their network of servers, and requests are redirected there. It works great and is an obvious alternative to maintaining a long list of mirrors. Of course you may want one or two mirrors for your own edification, but maintaining twenty-thrity is really a job better left to a caching provider.
Take one mega corporation and merge it with another...what do you get? A monument to mediocrity that will take years to integrate and even longer to get anything real done.
There's a point where it doesn't make sense to make a corporation any bigger folks. AOL has created a dinosaur. Their competition should find it fairly easy to outflank them now.
Stake one mega corporation and merge it with another...what do you get? A monument to mediocrity that will take years to integrate and even longer to get anything real done.
There's a point where it doesn't make sense to make a corporation any bigger folks. AOL has created a dinosaur. Their competition should find it fairly easy to outflank them now.
Caldera really hasn't created a meaningful presence in the market the way RedHat has, or made a full-on dramatic embrace of linux the way Corel has.
Caldera is the wallflower of linux distrobutions - it has pathetic marketing, a weak brand, and very little in the way of a compelling value add. I fail to see how Caldera is better suited for "business" than any other distribution.
Whether you like RedHat or not, you have to commend the way they have created a huge buzz around their brand - they've made themselves synonomous with linux.
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The writer offered a compelling argument that this might not be the way companies should be behaving in the "new economy", as the vertically-integrated conglomerate was really a relic of the "old economy".
The writer contrasted AOL/TW's goal of owning all of the content with Yahoo's approach of partnering for content, while staying relatively nimble.
As far as I am concerned, they are six months away or longer on this platform.
Try a service like Akamai to reduce this pain. They basically filter your content throughout their network of servers, and requests are redirected there. It works great and is an obvious alternative to maintaining a long list of mirrors. Of course you may want one or two mirrors for your own edification, but maintaining twenty-thrity is really a job better left to a caching provider.
In fact, AOL's web site, AOL.com, is fairly weak, and hardly provides the functionality of Yahoo's site or even some of the other smaller competitors.
There's a point where it doesn't make sense to make a corporation any bigger folks. AOL has created a dinosaur. Their competition should find it fairly easy to outflank them now.
There's a point where it doesn't make sense to make a corporation any bigger folks. AOL has created a dinosaur. Their competition should find it fairly easy to outflank them now.
Yahoo has no problem adding a link in their own directory for legit parodies, here
Caldera is the wallflower of linux distrobutions - it has pathetic marketing, a weak brand, and very little in the way of a compelling value add. I fail to see how Caldera is better suited for "business" than any other distribution.
Whether you like RedHat or not, you have to commend the way they have created a huge buzz around their brand - they've made themselves synonomous with linux.