This looks promising. There is not a lot of information on the site yet, but you can guess a lot from the screen shots. This is one to keep an eye on.
Apparently they plan to keep part of the software commercial by providing it means to access commercial code for some features.
To be successful in most common enterprise environments they will have to support MS AD for quota & user management. Perhaps that can be done through LDAP already.
They didn't mention backup options anywhere. They need to build NDMP support at least.
If this holds, what about all the resellers who want to promote some vendor's products through AdWords? They are certainly not the TM owners. Perhaps reseller agreements will have to be modified to include a right for this?
So you open an encrypted tunnel from your desktop to their site and then connect to their site to use that tunnel? These articles seem to say that "it's encrypted so it's secure". Uh-oh.
Organizations which require security usually control not only access from the internet to the internal network, but also control access from internal network to the internet, for instance by limiting the access to certain protocols only, say http(s) through a proxy, smtp through internal email server only etc. This is because they want to prevent for instance reverse SSH tunnels and limit the ways viruses&worms can find their way in.
Remote access can be done safely and is a great thing, but you should implement with a central management, following organization policies. Now, if users can easily start creating reverse tunnels over SSL on port 445, what can an organization do but start tracking and blocking all sites that offer this kind of services?
Handhelds aside, WinCE market might develop also through desktop thin-client (think Citrix) terminal hardware, some of which run WinCE (Wyse for instance). Of course you can use linux for this kind of hardware aswell.
For your regular office worker with a spreadsheet, word processor, email and maybe some custom software that their company uses, something that hooks up to a terminal server and provides input, display and connectivity interfaces is enough. This kind of hardware will replace many company desktops and WinCE is well placed within this market.
If you expect that your email will not get answered in less than 48 hours, then you should use snail mail. Email older than 48 hours in my inbox has a high probability of not getting answered at all.
Aside being one of the cheap long-distance communication methods, email has to be instant to have any worth.
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At least it is not targeted at MusicMatch, just broadly to all competitors :)
Can't think of uses for IP-addresses? Think of "every" item produced in the future to have it's own IP. Every piece of clothing, every coke can?
This looks promising. There is not a lot of information on the site yet, but you can guess a lot from the screen shots. This is one to keep an eye on.
Apparently they plan to keep part of the software commercial by providing it means to access commercial code for some features.
To be successful in most common enterprise environments they will have to support MS AD for quota & user management. Perhaps that can be done through LDAP already.
They didn't mention backup options anywhere. They need to build NDMP support at least.
Correction: LWP in Solaris doesn't mean a "Light Weight Processor". It means quite exactly the same as a thread.
If this holds, what about all the resellers who want to promote some vendor's products through AdWords? They are certainly not the TM owners. Perhaps reseller agreements will have to be modified to include a right for this?
You could check commerical software such as Veritas' new Storage Reporter(formerly Precision Software's product).
Should be available for Linux among other OSes.
So you open an encrypted tunnel from your desktop to their site and then connect to their site to use that tunnel? These articles seem to say that "it's encrypted so it's secure". Uh-oh.
Organizations which require security usually control not only access from the internet to the internal network, but also control access from internal network to the internet, for instance by limiting the access to certain protocols only, say http(s) through a proxy, smtp through internal email server only etc. This is because they want to prevent for instance reverse SSH tunnels and limit the ways viruses&worms can find their way in.
Remote access can be done safely and is a great thing, but you should implement with a central management, following organization policies. Now, if users can easily start creating reverse tunnels over SSL on port 445, what can an organization do but start tracking and blocking all sites that offer this kind of services?
Handhelds aside, WinCE market might develop also through desktop thin-client (think Citrix) terminal hardware, some of which run WinCE (Wyse for instance). Of course you can use linux for this kind of hardware aswell.
For your regular office worker with a spreadsheet, word processor, email and maybe some custom software that their company uses, something that hooks up to a terminal server and provides input, display and connectivity interfaces is enough. This kind of hardware will replace many company desktops and WinCE is well placed within this market.
If you expect that your email will not get answered in less than 48 hours, then you should use snail mail. Email older than 48 hours in my inbox has a high probability of not getting answered at all.
Aside being one of the cheap long-distance communication methods, email has to be instant to have any worth.
Think about it.
The same Media terminal is also covered in http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/08/142218.shtml
"For everyone who likes to play around with this new kind of tunnel that probably only few persons have ever thought of"
Please read any firewall-piercing-FAQ. I've personally seen a secure shell implemented over DNS queries in 1996 and it wasn't anything even then.