Plus nobody seems to consider the premise that mainframe systems perhaps... "aren't dying."
Everything has its ups and downs like the business cycle. Mainframes were big... then horizontal scaling and PC's... now mainframes are coming back in a big way. With a brand spanking new z series box you can have virtual Linux boxen by the 100's or 1000's... and you get IBM's rock solid reliability. So TCO goes up on price of single box and way way down on prices of MANY pieces of hardware that are replaced over and over and over again, man-hours of support, babying, nurse-maiding, trying to adapt projects to a different design mentality, etc., power consumption of x 1000 PC's, software license costs (for the Windows route and also for middleware) on a x boxes scale rather than buy what you need scale... hmmm.
People like to ignore mainframes because they "taste" old... they're not gadgety for the whiz bang kiddiez , they don't do DirectX gamez, and most of all they're too complex for the new crop of compsci students that garbage uni's are turning out these days to wrap their feeble minds around.
Also, if Virtual PC supports Mac OSX, couldn't it also support some of the BSDs since OSX has at least some BSD components underneath?
Like another commenter said... it could be a Carbon app which BSD doesn't have.
BSD ALSO doesn't have a Quartz windowing environment. The app is not X11 so you maybe could run it but not see anything displayed. It also probably requires many Apple runtime libraries.
Well it's also time to replace the Caldera C logo with a SCO/SCOX tree on a yellow background, but they don't do that either. Caldera has nothing to do with the SCO case having been bought and changed in nature before the case happened.
You are telling me Apple should go through all this hassle for what's going to end up being unnoticeable in the end?
Besides that hassle, what about the hassle of switching to an architecture that has almost no growth left to it in the future (it's already being phased out...via AMD-64, Yamhill, etc.) from one that is half as old and has about 5-10 times the growth potential left in it?
The only reason why people want them to switch is the hopeful idea that the prices for their machines will be cheaper then their current cost with the G4/G5 procesors.
But would it? Why would it be cheaper? Who's to say that Apple wouldn't use their own BIOS, so you can't use/make a hombrew clone, and that they wouldn't tack on their "Apple Surcharge" because this is apple h/w?
Switching CPU's alone would make the Apple more expensive. It's a well known fact that for the consumer-grade processors, Intel is more expensive on CPU alone. If you compare volume manufacturing prices of POWER family CPU's (PPC, POWER, MPC, etc.) and x86 family CPU's, the cost of the POWER chip itself is way cheaper... especially in the embedded market (x86 based set-top boxes are way more expensive than PPC ones, LuxSonor ones, MIPS ones, etc.) To make things even more expensive would be to switch to the actually competative processor in features... the Xeon.
In short to make their boxes any less expensive would basically make Apple... "NOT Apple"... they'd be Dell. (Boring as hell and with hardware that is obsolete 3 times as fast)
Why-oh-why-oh-why to people keep talking about numbers of gigahertz when talking about SPARC?
I am firmly not in that camp btw. Smegahertz don't matter when you know about cpu design... the problem is one of perception. IBM is managing to take an extremely powerful and flexible architecture in the POWER family and still doing the clock speeds at a reasonably (not the highest) high level to please dumb dumbs who want to replace REAL computers with Intel PC's... The point is from looking at things it seems Sun has let the SPARC architecture languish a bit. Even MIPS looks like it has a lot more in the way of active development. Since Sun is firmly committed to SPARC (and this is good), they should get with it and keep the arch evolving... this doesn't necessarily translate into clock speed, but that's just one of many features that could be enhanced. I'd love to see a Quad core on a chip, modest clock speed (1-2Ghz), huge cache Ultra IV module.
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The "analyst" here hasn't even talked to Sun execs for some time, is always negative on Sun, wants Sun to drop all their products that compete with Microsoft (pretty much) and force all their existing customers through a complete product and architecture change (by dumping SPARC), which would have them up in arms.
Yes I was considering the first half of the letter to be pretty much spot-on, then I got to the phase-out of SPARC and I knew that he was out of his mind. When will companies learn that the only way to compete in today's market is to NOT dump your crown jewels of technology in favor of an AOL'er me too on Intel. It's the #1 way to KILL your company. Carly's already started it with HP, and she's killed their processor arch, Compaq (nee DEC)'s, Tandem's, etc. And she's fired lots of people, bought two planes (with plans for 3 more), and continues to churn out sh*ty PC's... Their entire product line has taken on a relatively cheap look... enough about HP, though... the point is Sun really needs to do a few things to turn around. (Most likely... i.e. success is still dependent on a lot of unpredictable things)
1. Consolidate and simplify their software product lines... middleware etc. But put lots of R&D on the most efficient and useful products 2. Place lots of R&D on SPARC... it needs to be competitive with POWER... so they need to catch up a bit. It needs to break 1.5-2Ghz (but still be the elegant architecture it is... no corner-cutting) 3. Slash all server margins... especially in the high end... still keep them large enough to cover R&D and modest profit... but none of this milk you dry kind of pricing. Offer special deals on bundles of servers that are extremely compelling. 4. Keep up the Mad-Hatter stuff and treat Linux and the OSS community better... a little closer to Apple would be appreciated... none of this posturing towards other companies like IBM about how we are immune to SCO etc. 5. Simplify and possibly divest some of their x86 stuff. They really haven't done so well with Cobalt HW. I'd love to see Cobalt HW return to MIPS... especially if they can do some really awesome stuff on an embedded scale...i.e.
How would you like an ultra-silent, fanless rack of 42 servers that uses less juice than your desktop PC yet outperforms it by a factor of 10 and has no moving parts to break (Flash disks). A partnership with SGI would help... but SGI would also have to ditch the "milk the cash cow" mentality. Something that would allow cross-licensing and development of a PowerPC analog to R16K and beyond. Or they could just use PPC... it's a great option and cheaper in volume than the equivalent x86 on embedded scales.
I do like their new Java enterprise pricing thing... I think it will help a lot, but without some nice whizbang competitive hardware, it doesn't have full impact. It's time to see US IV in widespread use and US V and VI on the way.
And telemarketers are Corporate speech. They are speaking on behalf of a company... which is not protected speech. Free speech issues also get difficult because they are violating my space to give me an unwanted message and disrupting my usage of the phone for more important things (i.e. if you hang up they just keep calling). Free speech would protect a person who goes to a public place and says something, or writes it in a book, or yada yada... Free for perusal and not censored. It also means they can't be thrown in jail as individuals for uttering a phrase. It has nothing to do with guaranteed delivery of message or allowing one to choose not to receive said message.
I'm not saying that obesity is not a real killer of both quantity and quality of life. I'm only saying that restricted calorie diets come with tradeoffs.
Obesity is not a real killer. Period. Lifestyle is the killer. You can genetically be quite fat but eat right and exercise and live way longer than thin people who don't eat as well. You could also starve and diet yourself to thinness (same person...) and live a MUCH shorter life because your f*ing with your natural system. Most people involved in the war on obesity are there because it makes them money... pure and simple... it's in a doctor's best interest to take a group of perfectly OK people with low self esteem and keep them working on unsolvable problems for life that line his pockets. He doesn't care if they live or die. Some doctors do care but they listen to the other doctors who don't and it rubs off... they read research funded by the diet industry and it rubs off even more... pretty soon they've formed their own hypotheses or opinions based on bad data. Look at just about every media-hyped article on health and you see critical flaws in the research method, heavy funding by the diet industry, and/or both. Just take any JAMA article on that subject and flip through the sources in the bibliography... go ahead... look them up in a University library... see what the real meaning of all quoted research is... you'd be surprised at the hare-brained conclusions the quoting article draws from each. Data they use to massage their own idea of the truth.
However, instead of willpower, people are going the bariatric surgery route... I've seen more TV news magazine reports recently about this trend than I've ever seen before. Danger, Will Robinson.
Not to mention crippling a perfectly good and functional organ for life. Stapling surgery is the medical equivalent of opening up an S390 and trying to overclock it PC-kiddie style... we truly don't know jack about the subtleties of the digestion process and assume it's ok to just reconnect a hose here or there. (Right on on the nutrition and suffering bit you quoted)... I think this trend is just like plastic surgery doctors who need to pay for their Mercedes and will play on people's fear, uncertainty, doubt, and vanity to get that money. They were even recommending this surgery for people under 18. Now anyone in good conscience who could recommend this n*ziesque experimental surgery on a child should be slapped in irons.
So not only the Count has to die, but the studio bosses also love lengthy fighting scenes, to attract the not so much Star War addicted. So I would be very, very surprised, if we don't see Count Dooku dying on Dagobah in Episode III.
Don't forget the epic fight nearly to the death of Obi-wan and Anakin that puts him in the enviro suit in the first place.
Well, I don't know about speed but the Honda Civic Hybrid looks exactly like a regular Civic, which is pretty nice looking
Yeah but if we're gonna pay extra for hybridity, why can't we get a REAL car as a hybrid... i.e. not the Civic but the Accord or Prelude.... Not the Prius but a Camry or Solara, Why not a BMW hybrid (or the famed hydrogen fueled 5 series). Something sexy... something that won't fold up like a cardboard box when you are rear-ended by an SUV
If Porsche can put AWD on its 911 Turbos why can't they make a hybrid sports car. (This is the way to make people stop hurting the environment)... a hybrid SUV would be an instant sell if it had reasonable performance and good looks.
Every car should at least have a diesel model available... then we can all go biodiesel if need be. I'm looking forward to the rumored diesel VW Toureg. Unfortunately in a traditionally capitalist (gasoline favoring) move, my state has toughened the diesel laws so that no current diesel vehicle meets emissions standards.
The Honda Civic Hybrid is the exact same body style as the regular Civic, which is generally not considered "ugly". Of course, tasts vary. I'd agree that the Prius looks a good deal better than the Insight.
I'd say the opposite. The Insight is cool with its funky shape... loveable...like the skirts... but the Prius and it's non-hybrid baby shoe looking high butt too short cereal box fit n' finish status is well...it's a tin can not a car. It's gasoline only cousin the Echo is equally ugly. It's simply too short, the wheels are too small, the doors are too thin, and overall it's way too expensive to feel that cheap.
Blargh flame-bait... but.... I still cheer the Prius and all hybrids on... they are fighting the good fight and some people like them and will buy them.
I'd rather have a larger selection of diesel SUV's (like any)... so we can use biodiesel or veggie oil in the future.
He's just trying to make the Open Source community look stupid by deliberately crossing the fair-use RIAA de-CSS case with this one. This is not and has never been a case about or for "fair-use" rights.
This kind of bullshit needs to stop...
He also is seriously pretending like he is the know-all of market technique and can dictate to the Open Source community how it can properly join the enterprise market... ummm hello we're there... and more so than he is...
I love the bit about Linux companies going out of business left and right and not having a sustainable market...
83% Efficient? Thats impressive, if true. If you think that a typical car engine is only 20% efficient. Maybe one day you could run your car on Glucose..
Damn... and then putting sugar in someone's gas tank won't be a way to disable their car...
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Why do I start to get the feeling that Cloud City could be a reality.... atmo pressure of earth at sea-level.... room temperature... hmmm so we have to keep it between 5:34 PM and 5:12 PM... now we just have to find Billy Dee Williams and elect him governor in a manner similar to the Gray Davis deal...
But JFS, XFS, NUMA, RCU, et. al. are not the entire derivative work that is AIX, IRIX, and/or Dynix/ptx. They are components. Components designed and developed by their respective copyright holders...not SCO.
They aren't by any stretch of the imagination defined as derivative works... since they implement things for which there was no equivalent in the previous work. They are ADDITIONS... not derivatives... especially in light of the additions that came from other OS's... i.e. OS/2. That's like saying if IBM decided to license the right to give away golf bags with every copy of AIX to keep your OS books in that SCO could claim that the golf bags were a derivative work...or by that nature think of the SGI freeware CD... oh... it comes along-side the OS in pre-compiled form... it is therefore a derivative work... I bet some of that code source has shared hd space with IRIX internal code on some developers computer.... it must be a derivative work after all it works with IRIX.
Calculus for SCO - SCO needs to learn that code integration is the opposite of a derivative work
Apple's G5 is just a baby IBM mainframe - in a silver chassis.
So you do have an upgrade path...
Not really... it's more like a p-Series box. It's basically similar to a 44P workstation or SunBlade 2000.
Mainframes like the z-Series are CISCer than CISC... they're like VAXen to a certain extent. I think I was quoted something like a mainframe doing 16 step financial transactions in one clock cycle. (I'd have to go back to my source to verify this but even so they are impressive machines)... the p-series is also tres macho. Even a 20Mhz POWER 1 feels like a 133Mhz Pentium. I have a POWER 3 based system with my name on it (will be getting it later this year).
Uhm, dude, the whole recording industry is satanic.. have you bought any records lately? MilliVanilli-fication is the norm! I think if fans knew just how awful most performers are without the technology, they'd wonder why the engineers name isn't on the front of the album!
If you want to see how bad a lot of performers are, watch them on Saturday Night Live, Showtime at the Apollo, and others.
Why can't all the important kernel developers get together and try to get an injunction barring SCO from shipping their binary-only kernel until the portions they wrote are removed from the kernel... conveniently providing all the lines of code, dates, etc... (just because they are bad citizens doesn't mean we have to be). What SCO will be left with will be their code more or less and less than useless.
At the same time all the kernel developers can grab 2.4.17 and continue right on as before.
A minor setback and a great death blow to SCO.... even better if damages are claimed.
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Plus nobody seems to consider the premise that mainframe systems perhaps... "aren't dying."
Everything has its ups and downs like the business cycle. Mainframes were big... then horizontal scaling and PC's... now mainframes are coming back in a big way. With a brand spanking new z series box you can have virtual Linux boxen by the 100's or 1000's... and you get IBM's rock solid reliability. So TCO goes up on price of single box and way way down on prices of MANY pieces of hardware that are replaced over and over and over again, man-hours of support, babying, nurse-maiding, trying to adapt projects to a different design mentality, etc., power consumption of x 1000 PC's, software license costs (for the Windows route and also for middleware) on a x boxes scale rather than buy what you need scale... hmmm.
People like to ignore mainframes because they "taste" old... they're not gadgety for the whiz bang kiddiez , they don't do DirectX gamez, and most of all they're too complex for the new crop of compsci students that garbage uni's are turning out these days to wrap their feeble minds around.
Also, if Virtual PC supports Mac OSX, couldn't it also support some of the BSDs since OSX has at least some BSD components underneath?
Like another commenter said... it could be a Carbon app which BSD doesn't have.
BSD ALSO doesn't have a Quartz windowing environment. The app is not X11 so you maybe could run it but not see anything displayed. It also probably requires many Apple runtime libraries.
Well it's also time to replace the Caldera C logo with a SCO/SCOX tree on a yellow background, but they don't do that either. Caldera has nothing to do with the SCO case having been bought and changed in nature before the case happened.
You are telling me Apple should go through all this hassle for what's going to end up being unnoticeable in the end?
Besides that hassle, what about the hassle of switching to an architecture that has almost no growth left to it in the future (it's already being phased out...via AMD-64, Yamhill, etc.) from one that is half as old and has about 5-10 times the growth potential left in it?
The only reason why people want them to switch is the hopeful idea that the prices for their machines will be cheaper then their current cost with the G4/G5 procesors.
But would it? Why would it be cheaper? Who's to say that Apple wouldn't use their own BIOS, so you can't use/make a hombrew clone, and that they wouldn't tack on their "Apple Surcharge" because this is apple h/w?
Switching CPU's alone would make the Apple more expensive. It's a well known fact that for the consumer-grade processors, Intel is more expensive on CPU alone. If you compare volume manufacturing prices of POWER family CPU's (PPC, POWER, MPC, etc.) and x86 family CPU's, the cost of the POWER chip itself is way cheaper... especially in the embedded market (x86 based set-top boxes are way more expensive than PPC ones, LuxSonor ones, MIPS ones, etc.) To make things even more expensive would be to switch to the actually competative processor in features... the Xeon.
In short to make their boxes any less expensive would basically make Apple... "NOT Apple"... they'd be Dell. (Boring as hell and with hardware that is obsolete 3 times as fast)
Let's see how many /.-isms I can throw into a single sentence:
The SCOmbag behind this fiaSCO, $CO is SCOspiciously silent when people say, "show me the SCOurce"!
How's that? What did I miss?
"In Soviet Russia... the SCOurce code infringes you!"
Why-oh-why-oh-why to people keep talking about numbers of gigahertz when talking about SPARC?
I am firmly not in that camp btw. Smegahertz don't matter when you know about cpu design... the problem is one of perception. IBM is managing to take an extremely powerful and flexible architecture in the POWER family and still doing the clock speeds at a reasonably (not the highest) high level to please dumb dumbs who want to replace REAL computers with Intel PC's... The point is from looking at things it seems Sun has let the SPARC architecture languish a bit. Even MIPS looks like it has a lot more in the way of active development. Since Sun is firmly committed to SPARC (and this is good), they should get with it and keep the arch evolving... this doesn't necessarily translate into clock speed, but that's just one of many features that could be enhanced. I'd love to see a Quad core on a chip, modest clock speed (1-2Ghz), huge cache Ultra IV module.
The "analyst" here hasn't even talked to Sun execs for some time, is always negative on Sun, wants Sun to drop all their products that compete with Microsoft (pretty much) and force all their existing customers through a complete product and architecture change (by dumping SPARC), which would have them up in arms.
Yes I was considering the first half of the letter to be pretty much spot-on, then I got to the phase-out of SPARC and I knew that he was out of his mind. When will companies learn that the only way to compete in today's market is to NOT dump your crown jewels of technology in favor of an AOL'er me too on Intel. It's the #1 way to KILL your company. Carly's already started it with HP, and she's killed their processor arch, Compaq (nee DEC)'s, Tandem's, etc. And she's fired lots of people, bought two planes (with plans for 3 more), and continues to churn out sh*ty PC's... Their entire product line has taken on a relatively cheap look... enough about HP, though... the point is Sun really needs to do a few things to turn around. (Most likely... i.e. success is still dependent on a lot of unpredictable things)
1. Consolidate and simplify their software product lines... middleware etc. But put lots of R&D on the most efficient and useful products
2. Place lots of R&D on SPARC... it needs to be competitive with POWER... so they need to catch up a bit. It needs to break 1.5-2Ghz (but still be the elegant architecture it is... no corner-cutting)
3. Slash all server margins... especially in the high end... still keep them large enough to cover R&D and modest profit... but none of this milk you dry kind of pricing. Offer special deals on bundles of servers that are extremely compelling.
4. Keep up the Mad-Hatter stuff and treat Linux and the OSS community better... a little closer to Apple would be appreciated... none of this posturing towards other companies like IBM about how we are immune to SCO etc.
5. Simplify and possibly divest some of their x86 stuff. They really haven't done so well with Cobalt HW. I'd love to see Cobalt HW return to MIPS... especially if they can do some really awesome stuff on an embedded scale...i.e.
How would you like an ultra-silent, fanless rack of 42 servers that uses less juice than your desktop PC yet outperforms it by a factor of 10 and has no moving parts to break (Flash disks). A partnership with SGI would help... but SGI would also have to ditch the "milk the cash cow" mentality. Something that would allow cross-licensing and development of a PowerPC analog to R16K and beyond. Or they could just use PPC... it's a great option and cheaper in volume than the equivalent x86 on embedded scales.
I do like their new Java enterprise pricing thing... I think it will help a lot, but without some nice whizbang competitive hardware, it doesn't have full impact. It's time to see US IV in widespread use and US V and VI on the way.
Is that a Brown Slice Of Death ?
No black slice of death.
Clippy in the toaster would cause electrocution.
And telemarketers are Corporate speech. They are speaking on behalf of a company... which is not protected speech. Free speech issues also get difficult because they are violating my space to give me an unwanted message and disrupting my usage of the phone for more important things (i.e. if you hang up they just keep calling). Free speech would protect a person who goes to a public place and says something, or writes it in a book, or yada yada... Free for perusal and not censored. It also means they can't be thrown in jail as individuals for uttering a phrase. It has nothing to do with guaranteed delivery of message or allowing one to choose not to receive said message.
I'm not saying that obesity is not a real killer of both quantity and quality of life. I'm only saying that restricted calorie diets come with tradeoffs.
Obesity is not a real killer. Period. Lifestyle is the killer. You can genetically be quite fat but eat right and exercise and live way longer than thin people who don't eat as well. You could also starve and diet yourself to thinness (same person...) and live a MUCH shorter life because your f*ing with your natural system. Most people involved in the war on obesity are there because it makes them money... pure and simple... it's in a doctor's best interest to take a group of perfectly OK people with low self esteem and keep them working on unsolvable problems for life that line his pockets. He doesn't care if they live or die. Some doctors do care but they listen to the other doctors who don't and it rubs off... they read research funded by the diet industry and it rubs off even more... pretty soon they've formed their own hypotheses or opinions based on bad data. Look at just about every media-hyped article on health and you see critical flaws in the research method, heavy funding by the diet industry, and/or both. Just take any JAMA article on that subject and flip through the sources in the bibliography... go ahead... look them up in a University library... see what the real meaning of all quoted research is... you'd be surprised at the hare-brained conclusions the quoting article draws from each. Data they use to massage their own idea of the truth.
However, instead of willpower, people are going the bariatric surgery route... I've seen more TV news magazine reports recently about this trend than I've ever seen before. Danger, Will Robinson.
Not to mention crippling a perfectly good and functional organ for life. Stapling surgery is the medical equivalent of opening up an S390 and trying to overclock it PC-kiddie style... we truly don't know jack about the subtleties of the digestion process and assume it's ok to just reconnect a hose here or there. (Right on on the nutrition and suffering bit you quoted)... I think this trend is just like plastic surgery doctors who need to pay for their Mercedes and will play on people's fear, uncertainty, doubt, and vanity to get that money. They were even recommending this surgery for people under 18. Now anyone in good conscience who could recommend this n*ziesque experimental surgery on a child should be slapped in irons.
So not only the Count has to die, but the studio bosses also love lengthy fighting scenes, to attract the not so much Star War addicted. So I would be very, very surprised, if we don't see Count Dooku dying on Dagobah in Episode III.
Don't forget the epic fight nearly to the death of Obi-wan and Anakin that puts him in the enviro suit in the first place.
WRM?.... Windows Rights Management Client update?
Sounds dastardly to me.
Well, I don't know about speed but the Honda Civic Hybrid looks exactly like a regular Civic, which is pretty nice looking
Yeah but if we're gonna pay extra for hybridity, why can't we get a REAL car as a hybrid... i.e. not the Civic but the Accord or Prelude.... Not the Prius but a Camry or Solara, Why not a BMW hybrid (or the famed hydrogen fueled 5 series). Something sexy... something that won't fold up like a cardboard box when you are rear-ended by an SUV
If Porsche can put AWD on its 911 Turbos why can't they make a hybrid sports car. (This is the way to make people stop hurting the environment)... a hybrid SUV would be an instant sell if it had reasonable performance and good looks.
Every car should at least have a diesel model available... then we can all go biodiesel if need be. I'm looking forward to the rumored diesel VW Toureg. Unfortunately in a traditionally capitalist (gasoline favoring) move, my state has toughened the diesel laws so that no current diesel vehicle meets emissions standards.
The Honda Civic Hybrid is the exact same body style as the regular Civic, which is generally not considered "ugly". Of course, tasts vary. I'd agree that the Prius looks a good deal better than the Insight.
I'd say the opposite. The Insight is cool with its funky shape... loveable...like the skirts... but the Prius and it's non-hybrid baby shoe looking high butt too short cereal box fit n' finish status is well...it's a tin can not a car. It's gasoline only cousin the Echo is equally ugly. It's simply too short, the wheels are too small, the doors are too thin, and overall it's way too expensive to feel that cheap.
Blargh flame-bait... but.... I still cheer the Prius and all hybrids on... they are fighting the good fight and some people like them and will buy them.
I'd rather have a larger selection of diesel SUV's (like any)... so we can use biodiesel or veggie oil in the future.
He's just trying to make the Open Source community look stupid by deliberately crossing the fair-use RIAA de-CSS case with this one. This is not and has never been a case about or for "fair-use" rights.
This kind of bullshit needs to stop...
He also is seriously pretending like he is the know-all of market technique and can dictate to the Open Source community how it can properly join the enterprise market... ummm hello we're there... and more so than he is...
I love the bit about Linux companies going out of business left and right and not having a sustainable market...
HE doesn't have a sustainable market.
83% Efficient? Thats impressive, if true. If you think that a typical car engine is only 20% efficient. Maybe one day you could run your car on Glucose..
Damn... and then putting sugar in someone's gas tank won't be a way to disable their car...
Why do I start to get the feeling that Cloud City could be a reality.... atmo pressure of earth at sea-level.... room temperature... hmmm so we have to keep it between 5:34 PM and 5:12 PM... now we just have to find Billy Dee Williams and elect him governor in a manner similar to the Gray Davis deal ...
MMMm Smooth Cloud Liquor
But JFS, XFS, NUMA, RCU, et. al. are not the entire derivative work that is AIX, IRIX, and/or Dynix/ptx. They are components. Components designed and developed by their respective copyright holders...not SCO.
They aren't by any stretch of the imagination defined as derivative works... since they implement things for which there was no equivalent in the previous work. They are ADDITIONS... not derivatives... especially in light of the additions that came from other OS's... i.e. OS/2. That's like saying if IBM decided to license the right to give away golf bags with every copy of AIX to keep your OS books in that SCO could claim that the golf bags were a derivative work...or by that nature think of the SGI freeware CD... oh... it comes along-side the OS in pre-compiled form... it is therefore a derivative work... I bet some of that code source has shared hd space with IRIX internal code on some developers computer.... it must be a derivative work after all it works with IRIX.
Calculus for SCO - SCO needs to learn that code integration is the opposite of a derivative work
Apple's G5 is just a baby IBM mainframe - in a silver chassis.
So you do have an upgrade path...
Not really... it's more like a p-Series box. It's basically similar to a 44P workstation or SunBlade 2000.
Mainframes like the z-Series are CISCer than CISC... they're like VAXen to a certain extent. I think I was quoted something like a mainframe doing 16 step financial transactions in one clock cycle. (I'd have to go back to my source to verify this but even so they are impressive machines)... the p-series is also tres macho. Even a 20Mhz POWER 1 feels like a 133Mhz Pentium. I have a POWER 3 based system with my name on it (will be getting it later this year).
Uhm, dude, the whole recording industry is satanic .. have you bought any records lately? MilliVanilli-fication is the norm! I think if fans knew just how awful most performers are without the technology, they'd wonder why the engineers name isn't on the front of the album!
If you want to see how bad a lot of performers are, watch them on Saturday Night Live, Showtime at the Apollo, and others.
Sir Paul McCartney did make a Magical Mystery Tour
Why can't all the important kernel developers get together and try to get an injunction barring SCO from shipping their binary-only kernel until the portions they wrote are removed from the kernel... conveniently providing all the lines of code, dates, etc... (just because they are bad citizens doesn't mean we have to be). What SCO will be left with will be their code more or less and less than useless.
At the same time all the kernel developers can grab 2.4.17 and continue right on as before.
A minor setback and a great death blow to SCO.... even better if damages are claimed.