Has something changed? Richard Stallman has argued that the MPL is not GPL compliant. Has his position changed? I think not. Last week Miguel of Gnome fame mentioned (no url) that Mozilla couldn't be included in Gnome because it is non-GPL compliant. -Unless I'm mistaken, Debian still doesn't allow non-GPL compliant code into their distribution.
How can you own a "noun combining form"? It's in the dictionary.
Main Entry: -plex Function: noun combining form Etymology: partly from Latin -plex (as in duplex); partly from complex 1 : a figure of a given power <googolplex> 2 : a building divided into an often specified number of spaces (as apartments or movie theaters) <fourplex> <multiplex>
I saw a similar post to yours over on mozillazine. According to MozillaAdmin, they are "low-priority" M14 bugs that are in the process of being triaged to M15.
Try making sure you deleted all the mozilla files, registry settings, and don't forget to delete these two: C:\windows\mozregistry.dat and C:\windows\mozver.dat
Then try installing again.
I'm running M14 on my wife's Win98 machine. Seems snappy fast, and hasn't crashed once!
I've finally put my money behind my ethics and joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation. To my knowledge, there is no single organization that better represents the interests of electronic civil liberties than the EFF. For those vocal and lurking around the DeCSS issue, isn't it time to join the ranks?
What is the EFF doing? They are representing defendants in the DVD-CCA case in California and are involved in a similar case in New York. They are making relevant information accessible and available on the internet. This is nothing new. The EFF has a history of protecting online civil liberties in the United States since 1990.
On a personal note, I don't own a single DVD title. However, I'll defend with my EFF membership dues your "fair use" to do with your property as you please. Our readers outside the USA may be asking themselves what any of this means to them. Answer: The U.S. government's legal stance on electronic civil liberties translates into the building blocks and infrastructure of the technology and products you buy today, and what you will buy tomorrow. -Regardless of whether you are buying a product manufactured in America and sold in Japan, or something manufactured in Botswana and sold in the USA.
There are some parties who believe that free speech is less important than poorly designed "protection" schemes which are geared more towards a tight coupling of product and means of utilizing it, than protecting the consumers ability to make "fair use" of the copyrighted materials they've purchased. Indeed one could venture to guess that circumventing the "fair use" of copyrighted materials is the very right they hold more dear than free speech.
If you do decide to join the EFF, when you do so, send a note stating why you joined to membership@eff.org to let them know why you joined.
[Disclaimer: I don't work for, represent, or receive any compensation from the EFF. -they represent me!]
I've owned Corel stock from time to time, and if I've learned one thing, it is that Corel has a talent for using rumours, false promises, shady accounting, and insider trading to manipulate the value of their stock.
But it is hard to cover up what Corel really is. -Namely, a lackluster under-performing Software Development Company who is trying to go head to head with Microsoft, and is both financially and technologically on the ropes.
If it isn't rumours that Novell, IBM, or Sun is going to buy Corel, then it is vaporware promises of WordPerfect Office for Java. Bottom line: Read the financial statements, not the press releases.
Linux is good for Corel, but is Corel good for Linux?
Selling WordPerfect and Office Suites for Linux is a good market direction for Corel to be going. It'll make them some good money. -Especially since their products aren't doing to well in the WinTel market, better to reposition for a less competive one (Linux). But how long will it last?
Why a Corel Linux Distribution?
Does Corel really have what it takes to become a major player in Linux Distributions? Is it technically superior? Maybe on a couple points. Is it more user-friendly? Maybe, maybe not. Is it likely to stay ahead of the curve for long? No. Linux distributions require staying power. The ability to consistently deliver a more value-added distribution than the competitors.
We all benefit for Corel's effort to improve Linux... I hope that they do become a major player, but I just don't think they've got it in them. I hope I get to eat my words.
What value would Corel add to RedHat?
Little to none. Unless Redhat is looking to put the rather expensive WordPerfect(TM) feather in their hat, they little to gain from an aquisition of Corel. Gnome and KDE are already churning out Office Suites of their own. And I'll bet given a year or two, those Office Suites will be technically superior and more user friendly than anything Corel will have to offer.
What we really need, is to open the door for a U.S. Government vs. every Tech company Spanish Inquisition. I would suggest that no good will come of opening the door for government regulation of the technology industry.
Sure a case can be made when extremely powerful companies like Microsoft hold 95% of a market, use bloadthroat business practices, and have an image for inferior products, and no innovation.
But the market corrects itself. And it does so much more effeciently than the Government. What is more dangerous, is to set a precedent for Government involvement in the Technology industry.
Could you imaging how many Tech companies would exist tomorrow if the they were faced with all the hurdles Drug, Car, Utility, Phone, and Airline companies face when getting their products to market?
Maybe the bandwagon has a few too many pick-pockets and thieves on board. I'm tired of hearing companies say "Open Source". I'm not listening. I wait a couple weeks and see how many people complain about the latest public embrace of "Open Source" by yet another big name company.
Honestly, once you expand beyond the bounds of GPL, BSD, and Artistic licenses... I don't really know whether it is open source or not. The Open Source Initiative has a pretty resonable definition of "Open Source". But what does it matter if everyone under the sun can chime in with the magic words "Open Source"... If there isn't a way to tell if they really are || aren't.
It'd be nice if "OSI Certified" takes off. Then someone could make a blacklist for everyone who claims to be Open Source, but isn't. Until someone does that... I'll remain dazed and confused by the plethora of licenses being used.
In the end, I don't really care what the hell you call the license. I just want to know whether it is open source or not. -And any license that is OSI compliant is going to be fairly decent at capturing the spirit of what exactly open source means (to me).
Looks like this is yet another opportunity for those people who make petitions to put one to good use.
I'm amazed that a company could see so many people get so excited by a product, and then dump it. Maybe they figured the delivery could never live up to the hype. Still, it looks like there is a lot of pent up demand for a new Amiga.
Too bad the Amiga fans will have to wait again. Gateway shouldn't be allowed to get away with whipping the poor Amiga fanatics up into a frenzy and then leaving them high and dry. I hope they get lots of bad press!
If you are developing anything that is for the long haul, as Brooks in the "Mythical Man Month" says, you'll be tossing out at least the first attempt. Chances are, you'll be refining, maintaining, and redefining the requirements again and again. And if you want to have a maintainable code-base, it pays to have people developing for the long haul. Instead of bringing in new "bodies" to keep re-inventing the wheel for better or worse.
Using contractors is one good way to find out who you want to hire. If they're good hire them. Pay them whatever they want in salary/wages and benefits (within reason). They'll be worth it. There are countless studies (despite the platitude, I can't name one) that state that the difference in productivity between a great and a normal programmer can be six times the productivity. Good programmers on staff are worth it.
Once you have a couple good lifers on board, they'll usually be able to give you leads from their own network of contacts as to who is available, and who will fit the bill for a given job. Which in the end, is better than trying out 6 contractors to find 1 good one.
If you'd bother to read the cpu review which this thread is after all about, you would know that ATA-66 drives are comparable in speed to SCSI 2UW. Note: I say "comparable" not as fast as. But for the price, you can't beat it.
I don't understand how the FSB speed would affect a C466 running at 75 MHz FSB any differently than a 300A. What I've heard, is that the 466MHz and higher speed Celerons just don't overclock as well.
FYI: I don't intend on overclocking this system until it is pretty out of date. I.e., a year or two.
It would be wrong to say that individuals (myself included) are not influenced by smoke and mirrors, but we ought not to compromise the inherent nature of "open" source code by obfuscating it in smoke and mirrors marketing tactics that redefine and blur the meaning of "open" when-ever it is convenient
ggoebel wrote: ESR is a definitely feeling the need to take credit
mbmccurdy wrote: Then how do you explain that he is stepping down? A ploy to gain more media spotlight? Go talk to some of th people in alt.ESR.consipiracy instead. It simply seems unlikely that he really needs to take credit.
I'll explain it when he actually steps down. I remember Eric from his pre-Linux days, and I'll wager that the day he'll step down from the limelight is the day that every major open source code developer that he respects stands up in a line and asks him to stand down.
mbmccurdy wrote: The most crucial part in a technology taking hold is awareness, followed closely by good marketing. Think BetaMax, think Amiga, OS/2, commodore, etc., yadda, yadda, yadda. [...]Marketing gets customers, and good products keep them.
I would point out that RedHat, Caldera, SuSe, VA Research, and IBM have customers. "Open Source Software" does not.
mbmccurdy wrote: Do not be sucked into believing that we got here based on the merits of the product. That takes over after you have awareness.
If you think I'll use a shitty product because everyone is aware that it exists and talks it up... Then why aren't you using Microsoft Windows NT?
Besides, the "We" that wrote the code that got "Us" "Here" are using open source software. "We" don't need to prostitute it on the masses. If the masses want to use it... fine. If you are worried about convincing your manager that open source software is better, you damned well ought to do it on technical merit rather than smoke and mirrors.
Honestly, does Eric S. Raymond think he can take credit for the popularity of Open Source Software (OSS) just because of recent press coverage? -Not to say that his self-publicizing hasn't been useful But it ain't the cat's meow. He, Bruce, and RMS certainly make for a lot of embarrassing in-fighting. I wish they'd stay off the soap box and spend more time coding. Politicians will take credit for which ever way the wind blows, and ESR is a definitely feeling the need to take credit.
I'm also entertained by the use of "We" whenever he wishes to contrast his views versus those of another person. ESR is skilled at the rhetoric he accuses RMS of misusing.
Further I think that it is funny that most of us (note the royal use of "us") would agree that Linux, Perl, Apache, and the countless un-named "OSS" success stories are driven not by the candy wrapper of marketing and press coverage, but by content. -When the press grows tired of covering freely transmitted source code, it will go on. Why does Eric feel that it must be prostituted to the masses for them to accept it?
As for ESR's comments about not sticking to his beliefs when it doesn't fit strategically and rhetorically with the goal of the day... I'll misquote Benjamin Franklin when I say "Those who would relinquish a bit of their liberty for security deserve neither"
How would one define a real world benchmark? -Specifically?
Some of the benchmarks are real-world benchmarks and some suspect. Or perhaps benchmarks are a pain in that they show one perspective on the "real-world". Is there any URL source with a long-winded analysis of the relative merits of different benchmarks?
Is there any effort underway by the open/free software community do publically develop a set of real-world benchmarks? If so, where can I find more information?
Netware has never been based on DOS. I may be wrong, but the core proprietary OS which Novell created, and which went on to become Netware probably predates DOS.
I remember reading somewhere that Netware like Banyan Vines was based on one of the old AT&T UNICES. UNIX dumbed down and simplified enough to be easily administered. Of course all of this happened way back when, so both Banyan and Novell ended up creating their own network protocols based off of IP. -But of course incompatible.
Directory Services is where Novell's future lies... and they know it. Netware is dying the death of a product which has little going for it besides its huge installed base, and the addition of NDS
Besides, I was able to access Netware resouces using bindery services back in the days of the pre 1.0 release of Caldera's Linux. If ncpfs ain't there yet why not use the old support for shared bindery resources?
NDS being the future of the company and all, you can't completely knock them for making it hard for others to catch up
I really shouldn't open my mouth here... because it will rapidly end up with a foot in it. I don't know anything about the current state of ncpfs and accessing NDS shared data on a network.
In the end, NDS is pretty damn secure. Even if some of it is security through obscurity.
NDS and other Directory Services may not matter much to nickle and dime shops, but anyone who has to manage more than 10 networked devices can appreciate the ability to do so from a single administration front-end to directory services
Novell has been doing this for years. The only thing keeping Novell from dying as a company, is that they keep making their network adminstration easier through directory services. With NDS 8, Novell Netware 5.0, and Zero Effort Networks (ZEN), you can administer just about every device on your network in about every way imaginable.
Those that have implemented NDS the right way just can't switch to NT, they'd have to increase the number of employees in their IT department by and order of magnitude.
With NDS and ZEN, you can lock down who can login from which specific machines. Have their printers and data resources move automatically based on User and Workstation. Install and distribute software updates. Administer resource quota's, etc. And that is just the start.
With the addition of NDS for UNIX and NT, life is going to get a lot easier for those that have to administer, maintain, and support networks.
I only wish the open source community could deliver 10% of the product that NDS already is. -And I don't mean spending 1000+ hours to configure this-and-that open source tools which already exist... but rather a single intuitive rock-solid directory server with an accompanying intuitive administrative interface.
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Has something changed? Richard Stallman has argued that the MPL is not GPL compliant. Has his position changed? I think not. Last week Miguel of Gnome fame mentioned (no url) that Mozilla couldn't be included in Gnome because it is non-GPL compliant. -Unless I'm mistaken, Debian still doesn't allow non-GPL compliant code into their distribution.
How can you own a "noun combining form"? It's in the dictionary.
Main Entry: -plex
Function: noun combining form
Etymology: partly from Latin -plex (as in duplex);
partly from complex
1 : a figure of a given power <googolplex>
2 : a building divided into an often specified number of spaces (as apartments or movie theaters) <fourplex> <multiplex>
I saw a similar post to yours over on mozillazine. According to MozillaAdmin, they are "low-priority" M14 bugs that are in the process of being triaged to M15.
Try making sure you deleted all the mozilla files, registry settings, and don't forget to delete these two: C:\windows\mozregistry.dat and C:\windows\mozver.dat
Then try installing again.
I'm running M14 on my wife's Win98 machine. Seems snappy fast, and hasn't crashed once!
What is the EFF doing? They are representing defendants in the DVD-CCA case in California and are involved in a similar case in New York. They are making relevant information accessible and available on the internet. This is nothing new. The EFF has a history of protecting online civil liberties in the United States since 1990.
On a personal note, I don't own a single DVD title. However, I'll defend with my EFF membership dues your "fair use" to do with your property as you please. Our readers outside the USA may be asking themselves what any of this means to them. Answer: The U.S. government's legal stance on electronic civil liberties translates into the building blocks and infrastructure of the technology and products you buy today, and what you will buy tomorrow. -Regardless of whether you are buying a product manufactured in America and sold in Japan, or something manufactured in Botswana and sold in the USA.
There are some parties who believe that free speech is less important than poorly designed "protection" schemes which are geared more towards a tight coupling of product and means of utilizing it, than protecting the consumers ability to make "fair use" of the copyrighted materials they've purchased. Indeed one could venture to guess that circumventing the "fair use" of copyrighted materials is the very right they hold more dear than free speech.
If you do decide to join the EFF, when you do so, send a note stating why you joined to membership@eff.org to let them know why you joined.
[Disclaimer: I don't work for, represent, or receive any compensation from the EFF. -they represent me!]
Corel Takeover rumours are a dime a dozen.
I've owned Corel stock from time to time, and if I've learned one thing, it is that Corel has a talent for using rumours, false promises, shady accounting, and insider trading to manipulate the value of their stock.
But it is hard to cover up what Corel really is. -Namely, a lackluster under-performing Software Development Company who is trying to go head to head with Microsoft, and is both financially and technologically on the ropes.
If it isn't rumours that Novell, IBM, or Sun is going to buy Corel, then it is vaporware promises of WordPerfect Office for Java. Bottom line: Read the financial statements, not the press releases.
Linux is good for Corel, but is Corel good for Linux?
Selling WordPerfect and Office Suites for Linux is a good market direction for Corel to be going. It'll make them some good money. -Especially since their products aren't doing to well in the WinTel market, better to reposition for a less competive one (Linux). But how long will it last?
Why a Corel Linux Distribution?
Does Corel really have what it takes to become a major player in Linux Distributions? Is it technically superior? Maybe on a couple points. Is it more user-friendly? Maybe, maybe not. Is it likely to stay ahead of the curve for long? No. Linux distributions require staying power. The ability to consistently deliver a more value-added distribution than the competitors.
We all benefit for Corel's effort to improve Linux... I hope that they do become a major player, but I just don't think they've got it in them. I hope I get to eat my words.
What value would Corel add to RedHat?
Little to none. Unless Redhat is looking to put the rather expensive WordPerfect(TM) feather in their hat, they little to gain from an aquisition of Corel. Gnome and KDE are already churning out Office Suites of their own. And I'll bet given a year or two, those Office Suites will be technically superior and more user friendly than anything Corel will have to offer.
What we really need, is to open the door for a U.S. Government vs. every Tech company Spanish Inquisition. I would suggest that no good will come of opening the door for government regulation of the technology industry.
Sure a case can be made when extremely powerful companies like Microsoft hold 95% of a market, use bloadthroat business practices, and have an image for inferior products, and no innovation.
But the market corrects itself. And it does so much more effeciently than the Government. What is more dangerous, is to set a precedent for Government involvement in the Technology industry.
Could you imaging how many Tech companies would exist tomorrow if the they were faced with all the hurdles Drug, Car, Utility, Phone, and Airline companies face when getting their products to market?
Maybe the bandwagon has a few too many pick-pockets and thieves on board. I'm tired of hearing companies say "Open Source". I'm not listening. I wait a couple weeks and see how many people complain about the latest public embrace of "Open Source" by yet another big name company.
Honestly, once you expand beyond the bounds of GPL, BSD, and Artistic licenses... I don't really know whether it is open source or not. The Open Source Initiative has a pretty resonable definition of "Open Source". But what does it matter if everyone under the sun can chime in with the magic words "Open Source"... If there isn't a way to tell if they really are || aren't.
It'd be nice if "OSI Certified" takes off. Then someone could make a blacklist for everyone who claims to be Open Source, but isn't. Until someone does that... I'll remain dazed and confused by the plethora of licenses being used.
In the end, I don't really care what the hell you call the license. I just want to know whether it is open source or not. -And any license that is OSI compliant is going to be fairly decent at capturing the spirit of what exactly open source means (to me).
Looks like this is yet another opportunity for those people who make petitions to put one to good use.
I'm amazed that a company could see so many people get so excited by a product, and then dump it. Maybe they figured the delivery could never live up to the hype. Still, it looks like there is a lot of pent up demand for a new Amiga.
Too bad the Amiga fans will have to wait again. Gateway shouldn't be allowed to get away with whipping the poor Amiga fanatics up into a frenzy and then leaving them high and dry. I hope they get lots of bad press!
If you are developing anything that is for the long haul, as Brooks in the "Mythical Man Month" says, you'll be tossing out at least the first attempt. Chances are, you'll be refining, maintaining, and redefining the requirements again and again. And if you want to have a maintainable code-base, it pays to have people developing for the long haul. Instead of bringing in new "bodies" to keep re-inventing the wheel for better or worse.
Using contractors is one good way to find out who you want to hire. If they're good hire them. Pay them whatever they want in salary/wages and benefits (within reason). They'll be worth it. There are countless studies (despite the platitude, I can't name one) that state that the difference in productivity between a great and a normal programmer can be six times the productivity. Good programmers on staff are worth it.
Once you have a couple good lifers on board, they'll usually be able to give you leads from their own network of contacts as to who is available, and who will fit the bill for a given job. Which in the end, is better than trying out 6 contractors to find 1 good one.
If you'd bother to read the cpu review which this thread is after all about, you would know that ATA-66 drives are comparable in speed to SCSI 2UW. Note: I say "comparable" not as fast as. But for the price, you can't beat it.
Thanks for the info.
I don't understand how the FSB speed would affect a C466 running at 75 MHz FSB any differently than a 300A. What I've heard, is that the 466MHz and higher speed Celerons just don't overclock as well.
FYI: I don't intend on overclocking this system until it is pretty out of date. I.e., a year or two.
Mine is on order and due to arrive next week. Price tag on my custom built system from KC Computers? $2500~. Here's what I got:
As you can imagine, I'm chomping at the bit in anticipation. And with ADSL services at $49.95...
True enough.
It would be wrong to say that individuals (myself included) are not influenced by smoke and mirrors, but we ought not to compromise the inherent nature of "open" source code by obfuscating it in smoke and mirrors marketing tactics that redefine and blur the meaning of "open" when-ever it is convenient
ggoebel wrote:
ESR is a definitely feeling the need to take credit
mbmccurdy wrote:
Then how do you explain that he is stepping down? A ploy to gain more media spotlight? Go talk to some of th people in alt.ESR.consipiracy instead. It simply seems unlikely that he really needs to take credit.
I'll explain it when he actually steps down. I remember Eric from his pre-Linux days, and I'll wager that the day he'll step down from the limelight is the day that every major open source code developer that he respects stands up in a line and asks him to stand down.
mbmccurdy wrote:
The most crucial part in a technology taking hold is awareness, followed closely by good marketing. Think BetaMax, think Amiga, OS/2, commodore, etc., yadda, yadda, yadda. [...]Marketing gets customers, and good products keep them.
I would point out that RedHat, Caldera, SuSe, VA Research, and IBM have customers. "Open Source Software" does not.
mbmccurdy wrote:
Do not be sucked into believing that we got here based on the merits of the product. That takes over after you have awareness.
If you think I'll use a shitty product because everyone is aware that it exists and talks it up... Then why aren't you using Microsoft Windows NT?
Besides, the "We" that wrote the code that got "Us" "Here" are using open source software. "We" don't need to prostitute it on the masses. If the masses want to use it... fine. If you are worried about convincing your manager that open source software is better, you damned well ought to do it on technical merit rather than smoke and mirrors.
Honestly, does Eric S. Raymond think he can take credit for the popularity of Open Source Software (OSS) just because of recent press coverage? -Not to say that his self-publicizing hasn't been useful But it ain't the cat's meow. He, Bruce, and RMS certainly make for a lot of embarrassing in-fighting. I wish they'd stay off the soap box and spend more time coding. Politicians will take credit for which ever way the wind blows, and ESR is a definitely feeling the need to take credit.
I'm also entertained by the use of "We" whenever he wishes to contrast his views versus those of another person. ESR is skilled at the rhetoric he accuses RMS of misusing.
Further I think that it is funny that most of us (note the royal use of "us") would agree that Linux, Perl, Apache, and the countless un-named "OSS" success stories are driven not by the candy wrapper of marketing and press coverage, but by content. -When the press grows tired of covering freely transmitted source code, it will go on. Why does Eric feel that it must be prostituted to the masses for them to accept it?
As for ESR's comments about not sticking to his beliefs when it doesn't fit strategically and rhetorically with the goal of the day... I'll misquote Benjamin Franklin when I say "Those who would relinquish a bit of their liberty for security deserve neither"
Or just damned poor resolution right in front of your eyes.
Piecing together one groundless rumour with another:
Maybe Transmeta's first product is going to something that'll make both the Palm Pilot and Isty look big, clunky, and out-dated.
How would one define a real world benchmark? -Specifically?
Some of the benchmarks are real-world benchmarks and some suspect. Or perhaps benchmarks are a pain in that they show one perspective on the "real-world". Is there any URL source with a long-winded analysis of the relative merits of different benchmarks?
Is there any effort underway by the open/free software community do publically develop a set of real-world benchmarks? If so, where can I find more information?
I couldn't find any mention of an Abit MB with support for IDE RAID on their website. Anyone care to include a URL?
Netware has never been based on DOS. I may be wrong, but the core proprietary OS which Novell created, and which went on to become Netware probably predates DOS.
I remember reading somewhere that Netware like Banyan Vines was based on one of the old AT&T UNICES. UNIX dumbed down and simplified enough to be easily administered. Of course all of this happened way back when, so both Banyan and Novell ended up creating their own network protocols based off of IP. -But of course incompatible.
http://www.itli brary.com/reference/library/1575211874/ch22/ch22.h tm Is a pretty good history of the evolution of Netware for anyone who is interested.
NDS is not Netware.
Directory Services is where Novell's future lies... and they know it. Netware is dying the death of a product which has little going for it besides its huge installed base, and the addition of NDS
Besides, I was able to access Netware resouces using bindery services back in the days of the pre 1.0 release of Caldera's Linux. If ncpfs ain't there yet why not use the old support for shared bindery resources?
NDS being the future of the company and all, you can't completely knock them for making it hard for others to catch up
I really shouldn't open my mouth here... because it will rapidly end up with a foot in it. I don't know anything about the current state of ncpfs and accessing NDS shared data on a network.
In the end, NDS is pretty damn secure. Even if some of it is security through obscurity.
NDS and other Directory Services may not matter much to nickle and dime shops, but anyone who has to manage more than 10 networked devices can appreciate the ability to do so from a single administration front-end to directory services
Novell has been doing this for years. The only thing keeping Novell from dying as a company, is that they keep making their network adminstration easier through directory services. With NDS 8, Novell Netware 5.0, and Zero Effort Networks (ZEN), you can administer just about every device on your network in about every way imaginable.
Those that have implemented NDS the right way just can't switch to NT, they'd have to increase the number of employees in their IT department by and order of magnitude.
With NDS and ZEN, you can lock down who can login from which specific machines. Have their printers and data resources move automatically based on User and Workstation. Install and distribute software updates. Administer resource quota's, etc. And that is just the start.
With the addition of NDS for UNIX and NT, life is going to get a lot easier for those that have to administer, maintain, and support networks.
I only wish the open source community could deliver 10% of the product that NDS already is. -And I don't mean spending 1000+ hours to configure this-and-that open source tools which already exist... but rather a single intuitive rock-solid directory server with an accompanying intuitive administrative interface.
I had hoped that Caldera's Open Administration System (COAS) would grow to fill this role... but it seems destined to die of neglect and disinterest.
AceDB is the OO Database used by the Human Genome Project.
Where is the Netwinder LC (Linux Computer) that was promised for January '99?