Yeah and as for the other article mentioned... This is clipped from Bill Hunt's Digital Bits. We've got some extremely cool news for you today! This morning on KROQ radio in Los Angeles, morning show hosts Kevin and Bean interviewed George Lucas... and he specifically said that his team at Lucasfilm is currently working on the DVD version of Episode I. So since Lucas said it himself that Lucasfilms is developing it now I am banking on it before 6 years.
I would have to argue with IBM's stance on hardware vs. software. Patents on hardware, semiconductors, etc are still very important to them and they still dump a ton of money into high end computing but they are becoming more of a solution provider now. So the hook with Linux isnt necessary to move hardware as much as making money off of consulting and service. The the question that you have to ask yourself is whether they can make money off of the service end. IBM has for a couple years now been going toward support and services as a major source of their revenues. A prime example is their e-business solutions. They will give you the servers and everything you need to get going for free and charge for the service and consulting that they do in setting it up. I can see them doing the same thing for linux. Linux provides them an opportunity to package a customized solution for what ever hardware, drivers, etc they choose to support and sell. I dont really think that they are in this for benefitting from the development software.
phone is something like $3k now and $3/min to use. Motorola is getting railed because their product has trouble inside buildings but the next gen of phones are supposed to be smaller and stronger than the bulky first model. The only other competitor in terms of handset has yet to release their phone because of quality issues so Motorola isn't doing so bad.
I think the Leo thing should fall in the rumors part. Lucas mentioned a couple times ( as recently as his Rosie O'Donnell interview before the movie came out ) that he was going to start work on E2's script the week before E1 came out. I find it hard to believe that the E2 script is completed and Leo has already read and turned it down.
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Yeah and as for the other article mentioned... This is clipped from Bill Hunt's Digital Bits. We've got some extremely cool news for you today! This morning on KROQ radio in Los Angeles, morning show hosts Kevin and Bean interviewed George Lucas... and he specifically said that his team at Lucasfilm is currently working on the DVD version of Episode I. So since Lucas said it himself that Lucasfilms is developing it now I am banking on it before 6 years.
I would have to argue with IBM's stance on hardware vs. software. Patents on hardware, semiconductors, etc are still very important to them and they still dump a ton of money into high end computing but they are becoming more of a solution provider now. So the hook with Linux isnt necessary to move hardware as much as making money off of consulting and service. The the question that you have to ask yourself is whether they can make money off of the service end. IBM has for a couple years now been going toward support and services as a major source of their revenues. A prime example is their e-business solutions. They will give you the servers and everything you need to get going for free and charge for the service and consulting that they do in setting it up. I can see them doing the same thing for linux. Linux provides them an opportunity to package a customized solution for what ever hardware, drivers, etc they choose to support and sell. I dont really think that they are in this for benefitting from the development software.
phone is something like $3k now and $3/min to use. Motorola is getting railed because their product has trouble inside buildings but the next gen of phones are supposed to be smaller and stronger than the bulky first model. The only other competitor in terms of handset has yet to release their phone because of quality issues so Motorola isn't doing so bad.
I think the Leo thing should fall in the rumors part. Lucas mentioned a couple times ( as recently as his Rosie O'Donnell interview before the movie came out ) that he was going to start work on E2's script the week before E1 came out. I find it hard to believe that the E2 script is completed and Leo has already read and turned it down.