When Jonathan Schwartz spoke at the Utah Java Users' Group he said Java drives a LOT of server sales for Sun. He specifically mentioned embedded java, e.g. in cell phones, as opening new revenue areas for servers. Java licening fees themselves are a drop in the bucket relatively.
It will be interesting to see what kind of license Sun goes with given their oft-given fear of forking Java. Seems to me that something like the Qt license would be the way to go.
Java developers already know where to get Eclipse, the free IDE started by IBM but spun off into a community project. a survey by O'Reilly recently showed Eclipse to be used by over 60% of java developers (including me, so I guess I'm biased -- but I use emacs almost as much) while NetBeans is used by under 20%.
So it looks to me like Sun is trying to pull a Microsoft and hope people use the bundled product even if it's inferior. But like I said, Java developers already know where to get Eclipse.
too bad greenspun's a caricature of himself now
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it's like he's trying to karma whore -- the trollish kind, that is -- on his own weblog. (Which appears to be down right now. So much for my point.)
pretty underwhelming that something described as a "virtual mouse and keyboard" turns out to be more like "virtual touchscreen, as long as you don't have more than a few options you want touchable."
Easy: Pixar and Dreamworks have both developped highly proprietary rendering technology. They're not about to just give copies to everyone who wants one. Even if the renderer itself weren't reverse-engineered, which isn't beyond the realm of possibility, it would likely be far easier to decipher the protocol used and voila, a functioning copy of [Pixar|Dreamworks]'s renderer.
Lobotomizing it to the point where this wouldn't be useful would probably make it useless for distributing the workload as well.
Indeed, all the billions IBM has pumped into Linux so far haven't bought it a dominant market position. IBM ranks third among sellers of x86-based Linux computers, with a 20% share, versus 28% for HP and 22% for Dell, says market researcher IDC. Rivals gloat that IBM's snazzy Linux ads are driving business to them, not IBM. HP claims it did $2.5 billion in Linux-related sales last year (25% more than IBM) and has done it without alienating Microsoft. "IBM has taken a religious view. Their message is Linux, Linux, Linux. Microsoft understands HP is not running a religious jihad," says Martin Fink, vice president of Linux at HP.
Sounds like IBM's ROI could be higher if their marketing were smarter. Then again, does it matter to OS if HP gets more Linux business than IBM does?
A few months ago Mandrake 10 "community edition" was released. Then when the bugs were shaken out they released "official" which is what I'm running. So you get the cutting-edge software (I really, really wanted a 2.6 kernel) but it's not as half-baked as some of their old releases infamously were.
that this server serves over 500k database-backed pages (not hits) per day. So it's no yahoo, but it's a bit more than the average falls-over-when-it-smells-slashdot-coming hobby site can brag about.:)
with all the backporting vendors do, you're really smocking some serious crack if you think SUSE's/Sun's 2.4.19 + backports is all that different from RH's 2.4.21 + backports.
even linux 2.4 could handle more than 8, and now you can google people running 2.6 on 64. So it's getting there, but you're right, Solaris still scales better at the high end.
Corporate clients are far more interested in stability than in the latest & greatest. Look how long RH goes between updates of their workstation and advanced server lines.
Java Desktop R2 seems to be more of an upgrade to the bundled apps. Nothing really major here.
The good news, I guess, is that a dumb patent got invalidated. The bad news is, it took 7 years. How many small companies could keep up a legal battle that long?
Sure, there's useless actions (almost everyone, for instance, selects his peons over and over at the beginning of the game) but it's more to get into the groove than to spam for the sake of spamming.
It's funny how average players always think the highest APM achievable while remaining efficient is within a percent or two of their own.:P
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When Jonathan Schwartz spoke at the Utah Java Users' Group he said Java drives a LOT of server sales for Sun. He specifically mentioned embedded java, e.g. in cell phones, as opening new revenue areas for servers. Java licening fees themselves are a drop in the bucket relatively.
It will be interesting to see what kind of license Sun goes with given their oft-given fear of forking Java. Seems to me that something like the Qt license would be the way to go.
So it looks to me like Sun is trying to pull a Microsoft and hope people use the bundled product even if it's inferior. But like I said, Java developers already know where to get Eclipse.
it's like he's trying to karma whore -- the trollish kind, that is -- on his own weblog. (Which appears to be down right now. So much for my point.)
Eric contributed blindfolds to Nethack!
If that's not significant, I don't know what is.
it said MS will be introducing playerS. presumably some will be flash based; you already see those for $50.
pretty underwhelming that something described as a "virtual mouse and keyboard" turns out to be more like "virtual touchscreen, as long as you don't have more than a few options you want touchable."
Easy: Pixar and Dreamworks have both developped highly proprietary rendering technology. They're not about to just give copies to everyone who wants one. Even if the renderer itself weren't reverse-engineered, which isn't beyond the realm of possibility, it would likely be far easier to decipher the protocol used and voila, a functioning copy of [Pixar|Dreamworks]'s renderer.
Lobotomizing it to the point where this wouldn't be useful would probably make it useless for distributing the workload as well.
I've installed Mandrake 10 official on 3 systems and it works fine.
Sounds like IBM's ROI could be higher if their marketing were smarter. Then again, does it matter to OS if HP gets more Linux business than IBM does?
or does GeekMan remind you of Bill Gates?
is they recently moved to a dual-release model.
A few months ago Mandrake 10 "community edition" was released. Then when the bugs were shaken out they released "official" which is what I'm running. So you get the cutting-edge software (I really, really wanted a 2.6 kernel) but it's not as half-baked as some of their old releases infamously were.
...why the windows crowd continues to dismiss linux users as a bunch of fanboys with so much success. :-|
that this server serves over 500k database-backed pages (not hits) per day. So it's no yahoo, but it's a bit more than the average falls-over-when-it-smells-slashdot-coming hobby site can brag about. :)
no complaints. why do you seem to think it's not a viable option?
with all the backporting vendors do, you're really smocking some serious crack if you think SUSE's/Sun's 2.4.19 + backports is all that different from RH's 2.4.21 + backports.
even linux 2.4 could handle more than 8, and now you can google people running 2.6 on 64. So it's getting there, but you're right, Solaris still scales better at the high end.
or has never used modern Solaris on Sun hardware.
Corporate clients are far more interested in stability than in the latest & greatest. Look how long RH goes between updates of their workstation and advanced server lines.
Java Desktop R2 seems to be more of an upgrade to the bundled apps. Nothing really major here.
no wonder the poor site is dead!
The good news, I guess, is that a dumb patent got invalidated. The bad news is, it took 7 years. How many small companies could keep up a legal battle that long?
for on-the-job sleepiness when you finish the questions?
:-|
"A nap combined with 2 Pro Plus tablets will temporarily alleviate tiredness."
I don't trust a "scientific method" that ends with a sales pitch.
"But a professor," I try to explain...
"You can't have one."
Sure, there's useless actions (almost everyone, for instance, selects his peons over and over at the beginning of the game) but it's more to get into the groove than to spam for the sake of spamming.
:P
It's funny how average players always think the highest APM achievable while remaining efficient is within a percent or two of their own.
Get a grip. The article is targetted at a mass market audience. Not everyone has played half a dozen RTS games in the past couple years.
if there is anything resembling or being used as a surfboard, it will suck HARD.