There are ways to make mail work even if exchange doesn't. The easiest way is to drop a caching mail server running sendmail/exim/postfix/qmail/carrier pigeon in front of it using the exchange server as a smart host. This way when exchange blows up, the messages are cached and not lost forever.
If you can't have at least one of your MXes accept mail and deliver it to the correct mailbox at some point in time, you should not be an admin.
Pretty much what these tests are designed to weed out are the curmudgeon lab trolls who may be able to write wonderful code but are unwilling to listen to input from their peers and generally unpleasant to deal with. Take this as a sign that you will not have to deal with someone like this if you do get an offer and decide to work there.
When Ellison says "We're not interested in RedHat / Novell right now," he means RIGHT NOW. Share prices rise on acquisition news and fall when those acquisitions fail to materialize. If he says "We're not buying RedHat," then the recent gains RedHat has seen because of the oracle takeover talk will probably go away (AFAIK there are no other suitors.)
The argument is that people are fed up with Windows and the market is ripe for something that will replace it. Boot Camp makes the transition much easier on people because they don't have to quit Windows cold turkey.
People no longer trust Microsoft as they did in the past (right or wrong, most users blame Microsoft for viruses and spyware.) While Macs are not immune to them, the default security policies on OS X (have to enter a password to install anything) make it a lot harder to fool users into running attachments which install anything to their machine.
Microsoft's big market is the corporate desktop market. Corporate users don't like surprises. They like it when you announce software a year in advance and give them specs well ahead of time.
MS also knows that most of their big corporate users probably won't be migrating to Vista for at least 2 years. It's expensive and it takes years to get a budget like that pushed through the beancounters of a big company.
This is a good opportunity for Apple to gain some marketshare on the home user side of things. Most of us shrug off Boot Camp as "Yeah, dual boot, I was doing that with LiLo in 1995" but for the non-techie users, Boot Camp is *HUGE*.
It means they are no longer tethered to Windows. They will buy a Mac expecting to use Windows 90% of the time, but they will start using Mac OS more and more and come to like it. Once Apple introduces in-house virtualization, they will realize they really don't need to boot to Windows at all.
Once this starts to happen, the big achilles heel for Apple (which is largely a myth anyway) -- software support -- starts to go away. No, Apple's not going to have 95% market share overnight (the corporate side is a lot slower to move and there really is no replacement for the Outlook/Exchange combo on the mac side yet,) but I don't see 25-30% as an unreasonable number. People are *looking* for an alternative to Windows, and Apple is in the right place at the right time.
No, it's probably not the best idea. But it's no reason to make him disappear to a shady psuedo-legal prison in Cuba, is it? Since when did we engage in running gulags? Gitmo (and all the other secret prisons around the world that we run, because there's pretty good evidence for that too.)
These days the OS costs as much if not more than a new PC!
For a business setting, I would argue that MS Office might as well be a part of the operating system. If this is the case, software/OS is approximately 70% of the cost of a new office PC.
Most businesses also *don't* pirate windows. It's a good bit harder to pirate windows than it seems like it would be; the *real* big reason for the "Microsoft Malware Removal Tool" that automatic updates downloads once a month is really to disable everyone's activation cracks (because it does this too.)
Would you want to worry about your PC just one day not letting you log on, or would you pay the $200 to make sure that doesn't happen? If you picked the first one, move out of your parents basement into the real world please.
If you actually bothered to read my previous post you'd see I wasn't talking about running Windows all the time on an Apple machine because basically no one wants to do that.
This is slashdot, nobody reads anything. Its much more fun to just assume things and flame people, don't you agree?
People make fun of Windows hibernation because it *still* doesn't work. My PowerBook works most of the time, but more often than not with windows it will just sit there and drain your battery in 6 hours and not hibernate at all.
No, I totally agree with you. What I meant is the low end code is so easy to write these days, if you want to find a job you'd better have your shit together and know what you're doing. The easy stuff that doesn't matter is farmed out to wherever.
Computer science is not the only part of the IT field, and a shrinking one at that.
Programming languages have become much easier to write and debug in. Add to this that a lot of programming work really can and is being farmed out to other countries.
Administration and maintenance are something you *can't* outsource, and that's where the real job growth is. All the new complicated programs being created run on large disk arrays, which require large networks and lots of servers accessing the data to be stable. This means there is a good job market out there for system, network, storage and database admins and engineers.
Just because much of the grunt coding work isn't being done here doesn't mean the job market sucks. Unless you're a really good programmer to begin with, you're not going to find a high paying programming job fresh out of college anymore.
Adding new TLDs is doing nothing except generating revenue for the registrars.
Pretty much any reasonably sized company who owns a.com address registered the.eu address as well. There were no checks to see if the person registering the domain was actually in Europe, so the.eu landrush was actually many American companies registering companyname.eu so nobody else does.
The most this will be useful for is to host a website for the european arm of a large multinational corporation (which formerly would be served by a "Choose your region" screen.) Anyone who wants to set up a unique presence will do it on a domain name which is not registered in the.com TLD or will buy their name from wholesale squatters. But you've gotta have the.com before you'll buy the.eu.
Outlook may be downright awful, but it is the main groupware client at a *lot* of companies. Calendaring and contact lists that will sync with a BlackBerry are the big features a lot of companies seem to use Outlook for.
So true. RedHat is probably the best mix available of "hackable open source" mixed with "corporate oversight." There *has* to be a company with investors who have something to lose for most corporate boards to trust a piece of software. This means that the community loses control. There have to be viable support options that will be there 5 or 10 years from now and companies just don't get those assurances with community-based efforts.
It really is all about the support. RedHat is not that evil really, they contribute a lot of code to various open source projects. I think most peoples' beef with them is that they don't distribute a binary version of RHEL for free (source RPMs are of course available,) but you know what, the GPL says they don't have to. Get CentOS if you just want the OS, or get RedHat if you want the support. Or, if you just don't like RedHat as a distro, don't use it. Just don't expect a lot of proprietary stuff to support your distro (again with the support!)
Because collaboration software requires everyone to have the software installed for it to be useful. Everyone already has e-mail and it does 90% of what people want to do with collaboration software.
People don't like having to re-learn how to do their jobs. They especially don't like having to re-learn them for every client/vendor who might use a different collaboration suite. So they just use e-mail, because it works well enough.
Now give me a million dollar consulting contract for telling you the obvious. You know you want to.
Yes. Slashdot is becoming more and more like the traditional media every day (if you don't think this kind of stuff goes on with traditional media you are naive.) Most papers/news agencies have set pricing for press releases, which is why they're called press releases.
What's the point of a press release if none of the press do anything with it? This product is marketed at the kind of people who read slashdot, and Splunk looks like it might be useful. Since when did everything useful have to be free?
Yep. The president wants a lasting legacy with "No Child Left Behind," which basically raised the bar significantly for public school performance while also slashing their funding. Public school sucks because they basically have to hire any idiot off the street.
My mother has been an elementary school teacher for 15 years and I made more at my first job out of college working level 1 call center tech support. You don't attract talent at those wages, especially with the bureaucracy you have to deal with in a public school district.
The even sadder part is that we could fix public schools for the next ten years on half of what we have spent in Iraq this year. Of course, that money wouldn't go right into the pockets of Halliburton, so the legislators and lobbyists aren't interested...
Yeah, but they sure as hell don't use sendmail. It's just easier to open a socket connection on port 25 and spew out your faked headers than it is to bother trying to hack it through sendmail.
I don't know if they really even qualify as games.. They're more like interactive storybooks. It's not that they're bad, it's just that there's not much there.
No. Because if someone can get the job done faster with Windows, they will use Windows. There *is* no compromise. The end user/decision maker sees "free vs $200, with free being less productive."
You may technically be *able* to fix the show-stopper bug with OSS, but in reality this means 5-10 hours of digging through the source to see how it works with a reasonably-complex project. The time I spend fixing my productivity software is not very productive.
Don't get me wrong, I love OSS for the reasons you described, I just don't think that for desktop stuff OSS is really a good match. When you pay for proprietary software you pay for the months of QA and usability testing. Not necessarily the greatest for security stuff, but for creating usable software, the proprietary model seems to work pretty well.
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There are ways to make mail work even if exchange doesn't. The easiest way is to drop a caching mail server running sendmail/exim/postfix/qmail/carrier pigeon in front of it using the exchange server as a smart host. This way when exchange blows up, the messages are cached and not lost forever.
If you can't have at least one of your MXes accept mail and deliver it to the correct mailbox at some point in time, you should not be an admin.
Pretty much what these tests are designed to weed out are the curmudgeon lab trolls who may be able to write wonderful code but are unwilling to listen to input from their peers and generally unpleasant to deal with. Take this as a sign that you will not have to deal with someone like this if you do get an offer and decide to work there.
When Ellison says "We're not interested in RedHat / Novell right now," he means RIGHT NOW. Share prices rise on acquisition news and fall when those acquisitions fail to materialize. If he says "We're not buying RedHat," then the recent gains RedHat has seen because of the oracle takeover talk will probably go away (AFAIK there are no other suitors.)
No, your argument parser needs some work :)
The argument is that people are fed up with Windows and the market is ripe for something that will replace it. Boot Camp makes the transition much easier on people because they don't have to quit Windows cold turkey.
People no longer trust Microsoft as they did in the past (right or wrong, most users blame Microsoft for viruses and spyware.) While Macs are not immune to them, the default security policies on OS X (have to enter a password to install anything) make it a lot harder to fool users into running attachments which install anything to their machine.
What does it give me that Office 2003 doesn't? What is the ROI on it? These are the kind of questions that will slow Office 2007 adoption.
Microsoft's big market is the corporate desktop market. Corporate users don't like surprises. They like it when you announce software a year in advance and give them specs well ahead of time.
MS also knows that most of their big corporate users probably won't be migrating to Vista for at least 2 years. It's expensive and it takes years to get a budget like that pushed through the beancounters of a big company.
This is a good opportunity for Apple to gain some marketshare on the home user side of things. Most of us shrug off Boot Camp as "Yeah, dual boot, I was doing that with LiLo in 1995" but for the non-techie users, Boot Camp is *HUGE*.
It means they are no longer tethered to Windows. They will buy a Mac expecting to use Windows 90% of the time, but they will start using Mac OS more and more and come to like it. Once Apple introduces in-house virtualization, they will realize they really don't need to boot to Windows at all.
Once this starts to happen, the big achilles heel for Apple (which is largely a myth anyway) -- software support -- starts to go away. No, Apple's not going to have 95% market share overnight (the corporate side is a lot slower to move and there really is no replacement for the Outlook/Exchange combo on the mac side yet,) but I don't see 25-30% as an unreasonable number. People are *looking* for an alternative to Windows, and Apple is in the right place at the right time.
No, it's probably not the best idea. But it's no reason to make him disappear to a shady psuedo-legal prison in Cuba, is it? Since when did we engage in running gulags? Gitmo (and all the other secret prisons around the world that we run, because there's pretty good evidence for that too.)
These days the OS costs as much if not more than a new PC!
For a business setting, I would argue that MS Office might as well be a part of the operating system. If this is the case, software/OS is approximately 70% of the cost of a new office PC.
Most businesses also *don't* pirate windows. It's a good bit harder to pirate windows than it seems like it would be; the *real* big reason for the "Microsoft Malware Removal Tool" that automatic updates downloads once a month is really to disable everyone's activation cracks (because it does this too.)
Would you want to worry about your PC just one day not letting you log on, or would you pay the $200 to make sure that doesn't happen? If you picked the first one, move out of your parents basement into the real world please.
Mystery? You mean the fact that I have to sacrifice newborns to Steve Ballmer get my exchange server to not crash once a week?
If you actually bothered to read my previous post you'd see I wasn't talking about running Windows all the time on an Apple machine because basically no one wants to do that.
This is slashdot, nobody reads anything. Its much more fun to just assume things and flame people, don't you agree?
People make fun of Windows hibernation because it *still* doesn't work. My PowerBook works most of the time, but more often than not with windows it will just sit there and drain your battery in 6 hours and not hibernate at all.
No, I totally agree with you. What I meant is the low end code is so easy to write these days, if you want to find a job you'd better have your shit together and know what you're doing. The easy stuff that doesn't matter is farmed out to wherever.
Computer science is not the only part of the IT field, and a shrinking one at that.
Programming languages have become much easier to write and debug in. Add to this that a lot of programming work really can and is being farmed out to other countries.
Administration and maintenance are something you *can't* outsource, and that's where the real job growth is. All the new complicated programs being created run on large disk arrays, which require large networks and lots of servers accessing the data to be stable. This means there is a good job market out there for system, network, storage and database admins and engineers.
Just because much of the grunt coding work isn't being done here doesn't mean the job market sucks. Unless you're a really good programmer to begin with, you're not going to find a high paying programming job fresh out of college anymore.
Adding new TLDs is doing nothing except generating revenue for the registrars.
.com address registered the .eu address as well. There were no checks to see if the person registering the domain was actually in Europe, so the .eu landrush was actually many American companies registering companyname.eu so nobody else does.
.com TLD or will buy their name from wholesale squatters. But you've gotta have the .com before you'll buy the .eu.
Pretty much any reasonably sized company who owns a
The most this will be useful for is to host a website for the european arm of a large multinational corporation (which formerly would be served by a "Choose your region" screen.) Anyone who wants to set up a unique presence will do it on a domain name which is not registered in the
Outlook may be downright awful, but it is the main groupware client at a *lot* of companies. Calendaring and contact lists that will sync with a BlackBerry are the big features a lot of companies seem to use Outlook for.
IE is crap and should never be used, however.
But ninjas totally flip out and chop peoples heads off.
I bet that tricorn hat looks really good when it is sitting on top of the stump you now have for a neck. >:(
So true. RedHat is probably the best mix available of "hackable open source" mixed with "corporate oversight." There *has* to be a company with investors who have something to lose for most corporate boards to trust a piece of software. This means that the community loses control. There have to be viable support options that will be there 5 or 10 years from now and companies just don't get those assurances with community-based efforts.
It really is all about the support. RedHat is not that evil really, they contribute a lot of code to various open source projects. I think most peoples' beef with them is that they don't distribute a binary version of RHEL for free (source RPMs are of course available,) but you know what, the GPL says they don't have to. Get CentOS if you just want the OS, or get RedHat if you want the support. Or, if you just don't like RedHat as a distro, don't use it. Just don't expect a lot of proprietary stuff to support your distro (again with the support!)
Because collaboration software requires everyone to have the software installed for it to be useful. Everyone already has e-mail and it does 90% of what people want to do with collaboration software.
People don't like having to re-learn how to do their jobs. They especially don't like having to re-learn them for every client/vendor who might use a different collaboration suite. So they just use e-mail, because it works well enough.
Now give me a million dollar consulting contract for telling you the obvious. You know you want to.
Actually, at this point I would say North Korea is already a threat in this realm.
Yes. Slashdot is becoming more and more like the traditional media every day (if you don't think this kind of stuff goes on with traditional media you are naive.) Most papers/news agencies have set pricing for press releases, which is why they're called press releases.
What's the point of a press release if none of the press do anything with it? This product is marketed at the kind of people who read slashdot, and Splunk looks like it might be useful. Since when did everything useful have to be free?
Yep. The president wants a lasting legacy with "No Child Left Behind," which basically raised the bar significantly for public school performance while also slashing their funding. Public school sucks because they basically have to hire any idiot off the street.
My mother has been an elementary school teacher for 15 years and I made more at my first job out of college working level 1 call center tech support. You don't attract talent at those wages, especially with the bureaucracy you have to deal with in a public school district.
The even sadder part is that we could fix public schools for the next ten years on half of what we have spent in Iraq this year. Of course, that money wouldn't go right into the pockets of Halliburton, so the legislators and lobbyists aren't interested...
Yeah, but they sure as hell don't use sendmail. It's just easier to open a socket connection on port 25 and spew out your faked headers than it is to bother trying to hack it through sendmail.
I don't know if they really even qualify as games.. They're more like interactive storybooks. It's not that they're bad, it's just that there's not much there.
No. Because if someone can get the job done faster with Windows, they will use Windows. There *is* no compromise. The end user/decision maker sees "free vs $200, with free being less productive."
You may technically be *able* to fix the show-stopper bug with OSS, but in reality this means 5-10 hours of digging through the source to see how it works with a reasonably-complex project. The time I spend fixing my productivity software is not very productive.
Don't get me wrong, I love OSS for the reasons you described, I just don't think that for desktop stuff OSS is really a good match. When you pay for proprietary software you pay for the months of QA and usability testing. Not necessarily the greatest for security stuff, but for creating usable software, the proprietary model seems to work pretty well.
When you pay less than $300 a month for anything, expect your customer service to suck. This is pretty much universal.