Interesting. I'm actually a bit too young to really understand the animosity towards IBM, everything I know about it, I heard from other sources. It seems pretty obvious in retrospect, however, the main example being the "throwing the hammer" mac commercial. I suppose in many respects microsoft has taken on the IBM role, though one thing to remember about IBM is it's assets are mostly physical. I mean, they have more than just software.
They are a truly huge company with many physical assets. An interesting point that is often missed about some of the new "eipo.coms" that have started up, and microsoft itself. Microsoft is "worth" 200 billion, but it only HAS 20 billion, unlike "real" companies such as GM and IBM.
I just find the complete and utter turnaround from total Evil Empire to total Underdog Hero amazing, that's all. You don't often get to see that.
I'd like to point out that IBM has recently done an excellent job of grabbing good PR where it used to be terrible. There was a time when IBM was as hated as Microsoft is today, and now even the "underground Microsoft resistance" doesn't have too much bad to say about IBM. I imagine it stems from their underdog status gained during the development of OS/2. Or, it could be their lack of unfair business practices.
Does this IBM VM come with source code? I'd love to get a look at that.
Microsoft's Windows 2000 edges out NetWare for the Network World Blue Ribbon Award. Windows 2000 tops the field with its management interface, server monitoring tools, storage management facilities and security measures.
now. Where in the above does it mention Windows 2000 being fast? Nowhere? That's right, nowhere. Apparently, and.. let's try to take this like calm adults, SPEED ISN'T THE ONLY THING THESE PEOPLE CARE ABOUT!
I wouldn't say Red Hat came in "last", because they weren't really rating them apples to apples. They said Red Hat was best for some things, Windows 2000 was best for others, and so on.
I actually thought the article was somewhat complimentary towards red hat. The benchmark they needed to run, however, was Quake3Arena servers on each. : )
For more than a century, sci-fi writers, futurists and filmmakers - H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Mary Shelley, George Orwell, Arthur C. Clarke, Ridley Scott ("Blade Runner"), the Wachowski brothers ("The Matrix") - have been painting bleak portraits of life in the 2lst Century, our time
Come on, Jon.. you're really going to give Ridley Scott credit for Blad Runner, and leave out Philip K Dick?
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Interesting. I'm actually a bit too young to really understand the animosity towards IBM, everything I know about it, I heard from other sources. It seems pretty obvious in retrospect, however, the main example being the "throwing the hammer" mac commercial. I suppose in many respects microsoft has taken on the IBM role, though one thing to remember about IBM is it's assets are mostly physical. I mean, they have more than just software.
They are a truly huge company with many physical assets. An interesting point that is often missed about some of the new "eipo.coms" that have started up, and microsoft itself. Microsoft is "worth" 200 billion, but it only HAS 20 billion, unlike "real" companies such as GM and IBM.
I just find the complete and utter turnaround from total Evil Empire to total Underdog Hero amazing, that's all. You don't often get to see that.
I'd like to point out that IBM has recently done an excellent job of grabbing good PR where it used to be terrible. There was a time when IBM was as hated as Microsoft is today, and now even the "underground Microsoft resistance" doesn't have too much bad to say about IBM. I imagine it stems from their underdog status gained during the development of OS/2. Or, it could be their lack of unfair business practices.
Does this IBM VM come with source code? I'd love to get a look at that.
Microsoft's Windows 2000 edges out NetWare for the Network World Blue Ribbon Award. Windows 2000 tops the field with its management interface, server monitoring tools, storage management facilities and security measures.
now. Where in the above does it mention Windows 2000 being fast? Nowhere? That's right, nowhere. Apparently, and.. let's try to take this like calm adults, SPEED ISN'T THE ONLY THING THESE PEOPLE CARE ABOUT!
Damned conspiracy theorists.
I wouldn't say Red Hat came in "last", because they weren't really rating them apples to apples. They said Red Hat was best for some things, Windows 2000 was best for others, and so on.
I actually thought the article was somewhat complimentary towards red hat. The benchmark they needed to run, however, was Quake3Arena servers on each. : )
For more than a century, sci-fi writers, futurists and filmmakers - H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, Mary Shelley, George Orwell, Arthur C. Clarke, Ridley Scott ("Blade Runner"), the Wachowski brothers ("The Matrix") - have been painting bleak portraits of life in the 2lst Century, our time
Come on, Jon.. you're really going to give Ridley Scott credit for Blad Runner, and leave out Philip K Dick?
I generally agree with the article, however.
Where's the borg cube with "intel" stamped on to the side?
Microsoft never tried THIS.
first the "shortage" of chipsets, now this?
Let's hope Transmeta and AMD can take over the market.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZING!!!!!!!!
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
***LINUX****
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAHH...
***TOTALLY DIFFERENT***
BLAH BLAH BLAH
MICROSOFT BAD...
clearly,
however I've never seen the Registered Trademark used like this before.
What's Linux's Rasion d'etre if not to be free (speech, not beer)?
is www.linuxsucks.com next?
Linux (R) now then?
I hope not.