Find shops with any cost predictability and disciplined operation. Hen's teeth.
I wish I could name names of the places I have consulted! You'd be surpised at those who couldn't be trusted to wipe their own arse, let alone manage large-scale systems. And they all go to ITIL classes, and they all have Master ratings, and they can't run a service.
Needles to say, many of them no longer get my commerce. I have no trust in the integrity of their systems. Oh, and I weep for their shareholders.
Pish and bosh! When did MS drop compatibility? This is FUD through "the wrong end of the telescope".
I can run the clock, MSDOS Executive and Notepad from Windows 1.0 on Vista, forgodssake!.Net 1.0 code runs fine on the.Net 3 VM, just as most Java 1 code runs on the new Java6 JVM. Deprecated libraries can be accessed one way or another.
Azure is mostly a.Net machine with some REST for storage - with a very good deployment tool integrated with VisStudio TS. You want to pull out of the cloud and self-host? Pretty easy. Just watch your cost to deliver service go up.
The green os. 12-18% better power savings for 'always-on' desktops. Sell it to the CFO, not the CTO, and leverage half the marketing budget to the Windows Green campaign. Don't bother with other features or capabilities. They are unneeded, and do nothing to drive adoption or deployment. (Sorry, feature teams.)
Exchange uses SMTP as its primar mail transport - and Exchange Front-End servers are SMTP MTA 'smart hosts'.
That said, intra-Exchange traffic doesn't normally use the external MTA transport, which would lead to redundancies, traffic load, speed penalties, etc. Exchange treats internal messaging in the store like the database operations that they are.
This leads to very confusing - and unnecessarily derogatory - situations.
It is the ability to share/delegate calendars, send out invites to multiple distributions, and receive feedback on acceptance - or consume requests from participant to re-schedule, etc.
As a personal calendar, I am sure they are on par with Yahoo! - only easier to use.
Yahoo would have to go down to Ford and GM prices, for MS to consider this again. They are now stuffing that cash into a stock buy-back. Opportunity missed, Mr. Yang.
Exchange is great. No jokin'. If you have the right staff, who don't treat it like an SMTP engine and IMAP4 - then kick it when it doesn't behave that way.
The problem for a U is that you have the population of a large corp - but 80% turnover, every 3 months! That is an issue in provisioning/de-provisioning and self-service management that AD and Exchange have a tough time with. They are capable - but there's no tool, yet. If you have to pony up for the (now beta) Identity Lifecycle Manager v2, you may no longer be in competitive territory - 'tho the solution is fantastic. Accounts can be provisioned by the same process and personnel that hand out student ID and mealcards!
So, I believe that Google is nothing but a life of frustration - and in five years, when you see you've helped to build a monster that will make you wish for the good 'ol days of MS Monopoly? No thanks! Still there's the business case, and it isn't that great. The UI is good for webmail. Whoopie! No calendar / scheduling worth snot.
Yahoo! is compelling with the acquisition of Zimbra. Zimbra is amazing Ajax. Don't build your own - it is as nonstandard as you can make postfix/courier, and very intolerant of customising the backend. Instead, license Zimbra as a service, elastically as needed. Downside? Is Yahoo! still with us in 9 mos? Yang turned down Ballmers' USD 38/share, and last I looked today, they were trading at USD 11 and going down, while the CFO is looking to bypass the nominal severance minimums demanded by California for their mass bloodletting.
MS is beginning to license Exchange as a service online. It's good today, and prolly great tomorrow. Look into that - I think the real advantages happen once the number of users approaches 15K. It's an elastic service, and they do SharePoint integrated portal, too.
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How do you model PILLAGE and THEFT and CONFIDENCE GAMES?
Rome wasn't sacked in a day.
Can I send in Visigoths from Second Life?
Yes! But the XJ isn't made of Unobtanium!
No. Jaguar. 1995 XK12, Six-Litre.
Never logged in at Fark. Funny.
I actually go over there in bursts, or quanta. Sometimes... months pass.
Like inhaling farts and sleeping with corpses, it is an acquired taste.
No. The rest of us Fark on a continual basis.
Find shops with any cost predictability and disciplined operation. Hen's teeth.
I wish I could name names of the places I have consulted! You'd be surpised at those who couldn't be trusted to wipe their own arse, let alone manage large-scale systems. And they all go to ITIL classes, and they all have Master ratings, and they can't run a service.
Needles to say, many of them no longer get my commerce. I have no trust in the integrity of their systems. Oh, and I weep for their shareholders.
Pish and bosh! When did MS drop compatibility? This is FUD through "the wrong end of the telescope".
I can run the clock, MSDOS Executive and Notepad from Windows 1.0 on Vista, forgodssake! .Net 1.0 code runs fine on the .Net 3 VM, just as most Java 1 code runs on the new Java6 JVM. Deprecated libraries can be accessed one way or another.
Azure is mostly a .Net machine with some REST for storage - with a very good deployment tool integrated with VisStudio TS. You want to pull out of the cloud and self-host? Pretty easy. Just watch your cost to deliver service go up.
Now legal in 12 states, between consenting adults!
Maybe yours is next?
Yep!
Agreed. Maybe he can join Stevens in the pen, someday.
A Senator in the Fed Pen? he's going to come face to face with a whole new series of tubes!
What's that?
Hey, I think your pager is trying to tell you something...
Maybe he should be using the clock on an iPhone. ;-)
welcome our new, robot hunting packs.
In Sony Russia, CD-ROM burns you!
mkxmf
make enlightenment
(hmmnn. I've got 15 minutes. I wonder what's on "Chips'N'Dips"?)
The green os. 12-18% better power savings for 'always-on' desktops. Sell it to the CFO, not the CTO, and leverage half the marketing budget to the Windows Green campaign. Don't bother with other features or capabilities. They are unneeded, and do nothing to drive adoption or deployment. (Sorry, feature teams.)
It's the Plugins, Mofo.
All 12 of us running Linux on the desk don't make or break a browser success story.
Crappy embedded media experiences, and no support for enhanced validation certs, phishing filters, malware screening, etc.?
Bad shot. Plus it was built on a version of WebKit that is so vulnerable, it should be redacted from CVS.
They found you a job?
It had been a while. I was beginning to worry something bad had happened to him...
Exchange uses SMTP as its primar mail transport - and Exchange Front-End servers are SMTP MTA 'smart hosts'.
That said, intra-Exchange traffic doesn't normally use the external MTA transport, which would lead to redundancies, traffic load, speed penalties, etc. Exchange treats internal messaging in the store like the database operations that they are.
This leads to very confusing - and unnecessarily derogatory - situations.
Why shouldn't you be able to take photos of something you own, and paid for?
It is the ability to share/delegate calendars, send out invites to multiple distributions, and receive feedback on acceptance - or consume requests from participant to re-schedule, etc.
As a personal calendar, I am sure they are on par with Yahoo! - only easier to use.
Yahoo would have to go down to Ford and GM prices, for MS to consider this again. They are now stuffing that cash into a stock buy-back. Opportunity missed, Mr. Yang.
Exchange is great. No jokin'. If you have the right staff, who don't treat it like an SMTP engine and IMAP4 - then kick it when it doesn't behave that way.
The problem for a U is that you have the population of a large corp - but 80% turnover, every 3 months! That is an issue in provisioning/de-provisioning and self-service management that AD and Exchange have a tough time with. They are capable - but there's no tool, yet. If you have to pony up for the (now beta) Identity Lifecycle Manager v2, you may no longer be in competitive territory - 'tho the solution is fantastic. Accounts can be provisioned by the same process and personnel that hand out student ID and mealcards!
So, I believe that Google is nothing but a life of frustration - and in five years, when you see you've helped to build a monster that will make you wish for the good 'ol days of MS Monopoly? No thanks! Still there's the business case, and it isn't that great. The UI is good for webmail. Whoopie! No calendar / scheduling worth snot.
Yahoo! is compelling with the acquisition of Zimbra. Zimbra is amazing Ajax. Don't build your own - it is as nonstandard as you can make postfix/courier, and very intolerant of customising the backend. Instead, license Zimbra as a service, elastically as needed. Downside? Is Yahoo! still with us in 9 mos? Yang turned down Ballmers' USD 38/share, and last I looked today, they were trading at USD 11 and going down, while the CFO is looking to bypass the nominal severance minimums demanded by California for their mass bloodletting.
MS is beginning to license Exchange as a service online. It's good today, and prolly great tomorrow. Look into that - I think the real advantages happen once the number of users approaches 15K. It's an elastic service, and they do SharePoint integrated portal, too.