First of all, if you have ever migrated a corporate messaging system (email, calendar, shared documents, etc), you wouldn't make light of such a task.
Second, I should be more specific; it needs to work with Outlook. The reason for this is that given a choice, users will work with software that is already installed vs. installing something new; and this includes the users in the IT department. If you don't beleive me, look at browser usage statistics; why install Netscape when you already have IE installed? Why install AIM when you have MSN right there on your new XP box?
Make it work with outlook and you immediately have a client base. Make a tool to ease the migration and you're golden.
If that were true, it would have already happened. There are several good calendar/messaging systems avaliable in the open source market however exchange remains as the corporate standard.
The reason for this is simple. Exchange uses the Outlook client; the Outlook client comes with Office; Office is the de-facto standard software for almost any corporation that uses computers.
At first I thought if there was an open source system that was compatible with Outlook that would do the trick, however HP offered a system that did just that, and even it didn't make a dent in Exchange's market.
Step 1: decide what you are communicating Step 2: decide who you are communicating to Step 3: communicate to your audience Step 4: DO NOTHING ELSE
The genuine purpose of most of the web is communication; once you've accomplished that, don't waste time, bandwidth and screen on anything else.
If you're having trouble with #3, maybe you should be asking questions in a writing newsgroup or something (but definately not on/., since most of us can't even spell).
I guess that's my point, why is it even possible to have applications that have cut-n-paste that don't use the clipboard? Kinda defeats the purpose?
...that's just the first thing that came to mind; there is a long list (inconsistent drag-and-drop, shortcut key mappings, etc) that will keep anyone but the patient or technically-savvy away from linux.
The only thing funnier is that your "business" doesn't keep you busy enough to keep you out of places like slashdot...
Let me guess; religion, mac mention, basic in all caps....you're a failed dotcom marketing refugee with nothing to do but burn up minutes on free AOL cd's that you found at WalMart; am I right?
Everyone does upgrade their car, they just junk one and get a new one. This is a very effective model for almost any consumer-grade device; maybe we should be considering this when we're trying to get people to buy computers?
"No one would buy a car with a welded-shut hood..."
I don't know about you, but most people I know don't even know where their hood release is. The reason for this is that most people are not mechanics, and most modern cars don't require the driver to open the hood to find the car useful.
With obvious irony, Don makes a case against his own statements, by once again reminding us that linux is not designed for "users" but programmers (the mechanics in this analogy). Linux will continue to be vacant from the desktop if it's "value" pertains to things that only programmers or sysadmins can appriciate.
When someone can build a linux distro that has the hood welded shut, they might have a chance at the desktop market where users don't care about writing programs, security or anything besides getting their job done.
Cheerleaders typically do one thing well (you know what I mean, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more???), which is more than I can say for most of the population.
I don't know much about police work, but it would make sense to show up with more troops and guns than your enemy if only to show that resistance is futile, to reduce the chances that they might fight back.
And if they do, you've got that covered also. It's not like these cops were too busy with anything else.
Space. eBay is a Web space that occupies no space, whose links are based not on contiguity but on human interest. eBay demonstrates that the geography of the Web is as ephemeral as human interest iself, each of us looking across the space that is eBay and seeing vastly different landscapes -- of games, quilts, Star Wars memorabilia, battery chargers. ...
I think it's funny that people think this is new, that this "space" has only recently existed....
Is this so amazing? What about when you talk on the phone? Isn't that the same type of space, where that conversation happens?
Slashdot Mirror
You forgot to add "I'm a fucking moron".
...buy a sewing machine...
Since when is 1974 30 years ago?
I know I'm getting old, but damn I'm not 30 yet!
...a written excuse for all you lazy bastards!!!
Does anyone make micro airplanes?
First of all, if you have ever migrated a corporate messaging system (email, calendar, shared documents, etc), you wouldn't make light of such a task.
Second, I should be more specific; it needs to work with Outlook. The reason for this is that given a choice, users will work with software that is already installed vs. installing something new; and this includes the users in the IT department. If you don't beleive me, look at browser usage statistics; why install Netscape when you already have IE installed? Why install AIM when you have MSN right there on your new XP box?
Make it work with outlook and you immediately have a client base. Make a tool to ease the migration and you're golden.
If that were true, it would have already happened. There are several good calendar/messaging systems avaliable in the open source market however exchange remains as the corporate standard.
The reason for this is simple. Exchange uses the Outlook client; the Outlook client comes with Office; Office is the de-facto standard software for almost any corporation that uses computers.
At first I thought if there was an open source system that was compatible with Outlook that would do the trick, however HP offered a system that did just that, and even it didn't make a dent in Exchange's market.
Untill there is a standard calendar protocol, and that protocol is supported by exchange, you won't be able to get rid of it.
I'm glad to see the TRS-80 Model 100 back in black!
As so many Harley-Davidson riders have said before:
"If you have to ask, you'll never understand"
Step 1: decide what you are communicating
/., since most of us can't even spell).
Step 2: decide who you are communicating to
Step 3: communicate to your audience
Step 4: DO NOTHING ELSE
The genuine purpose of most of the web is communication; once you've accomplished that, don't waste time, bandwidth and screen on anything else.
If you're having trouble with #3, maybe you should be asking questions in a writing newsgroup or something (but definately not on
I guess that's my point, why is it even possible to have applications that have cut-n-paste that don't use the clipboard? Kinda defeats the purpose?
...that's just the first thing that came to mind; there is a long list (inconsistent drag-and-drop, shortcut key mappings, etc) that will keep anyone but the patient or technically-savvy away from linux.
The only thing funnier is that your "business" doesn't keep you busy enough to keep you out of places like slashdot...
Let me guess; religion, mac mention, basic in all caps....you're a failed dotcom marketing refugee with nothing to do but burn up minutes on free AOL cd's that you found at WalMart; am I right?
Everyone does upgrade their car, they just junk one and get a new one. This is a very effective model for almost any consumer-grade device; maybe we should be considering this when we're trying to get people to buy computers?
The Boy Scouts of America are after you?
Maybe start with making cut and paste work between applications? I mean, I know it's only 18 years since this became commonplace, but come on!
I don't know about you, but most people I know don't even know where their hood release is. The reason for this is that most people are not mechanics, and most modern cars don't require the driver to open the hood to find the car useful.
With obvious irony, Don makes a case against his own statements, by once again reminding us that linux is not designed for "users" but programmers (the mechanics in this analogy). Linux will continue to be vacant from the desktop if it's "value" pertains to things that only programmers or sysadmins can appriciate.
When someone can build a linux distro that has the hood welded shut, they might have a chance at the desktop market where users don't care about writing programs, security or anything besides getting their job done.
Cheerleaders typically do one thing well (you know what I mean, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more???), which is more than I can say for most of the population.
I don't know much about police work, but it would make sense to show up with more troops and guns than your enemy if only to show that resistance is futile, to reduce the chances that they might fight back.
And if they do, you've got that covered also. It's not like these cops were too busy with anything else.
Space. eBay is a Web space that occupies no space, whose links are based not on contiguity but on human interest. eBay demonstrates that the geography of the Web is as ephemeral as human interest iself, each of us looking across the space that is eBay and seeing vastly different landscapes -- of games, quilts, Star Wars memorabilia, battery chargers.
...
I think it's funny that people think this is new, that this "space" has only recently existed....
Is this so amazing? What about when you talk on the phone? Isn't that the same type of space, where that conversation happens?
All of us at work were just thinking the same thing. Do any of you /.'ers know if there is some sort of contractual or finacial reason for this?
You can't punch a guy in the face with a jeep, stupid!
Microsoft and the BSA
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The Boy Scouts of America?
That would be great if you could edit it, or even compose it without a piece of software that costs hundreds of dollars...
Aren't Diva's supposed to be hot?