Come on people, get a life! SCO(Caldera) isn't doing anything different from what FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris X86, BSDI, and Linux do in their Intel Compatability mode. I remember calling it iBCS, for intel Binary Compatability Services, a few years ago, but the concept hasn't changed. If you want to run Linux software on SCO, you copy over a few libraries and that's it. Same for running SCO software on Linux, except that you had to license OpenServer. In fact, IIRC so many people were running Oracle on Linux in SCO compatability mode (this was in '97 or '98) that Oracle decided to go ahead and support Linux. So we have SCO to thank for some of the first commercial enterprise software becoming available for Linux in the first place.
Everybody calm down and take a deep breath. SCO has made some mistakes recently, and they will eventually see the error of their ways and back off. Screaming about petty stuff just makes Slashdot readers look reactionary and ill informed.
About a year ago Nokia offered a peer-to-peer wireless networking product, called Rooftop, that was specifically developed for this kind of application. It was cheap and could cover a large area without having line of sight access to a central location. IIRC, it used the 5.12Ghz band. I can't find anything on the Nokia site about it, but it may be worth looking into.
If the difference is that great, They probably were afraid that you underestimated your time and would have to come back and ask for more money. This occurs a lot in Government bidding, where the bidder will come back with a price, and a year later say, "Because of X and Y, and the Economy, I'm going to have to charge you more for this project or I will go out of business."
Going back to the well and asking for more not only makes you (the vendor) look bad, it makes the person who awarded the bid look bad, because they then have to crawl back to their boss and admit that they made a mistake.
On the other hand, coming in under budget looks great. If you estimate that a project will cose $15,000 and you only bill them $13,500, then you look good, the person who awarded you the bid looks good, and you will be hired back because you saved them money.
My personal rule-of-thumb is to estimate the amount of time it will take to do a job and multiply by 2.5 This will give you enough leeway to make changes, go to design meetings, and document (!) without feeling the pinch.
I work for a company that (among other things) sells predictive dialer systems to telemarketing services. As such, I have found out a couple things about telemarketing that I'd like to pass on:
1. If you get a telemarketer on the phone, all you need to say is "Please put me on your do not call list." Thats all, nothing more. If the telemarketer says anything else to try to get you to buy, ask to talk to their supervisor. After a few months you won't receive any more calls. Telemarketing houses buy lists of names from distributors and are required by law to keep you on a permanent do not call list of you ask for it, and are also required to pass that list back to the distributor.
2. Be careful when you sign up for Magazines, credit cards, etc. Businesses will sell their subscriber's info to telemarketing houses.
3. Look up your state's Public Service Comission. In some states, it's illegal to contact a person that has been put on the state's do not call list. In some cases you can sign up over the Internet.
4. If the phone rings and you get dead air, it's probably a telemarketer. Don't hang up!!! Wait for them to come on the line and follow #1
Linux is not the future of UNIX. SysV is. No really. SCO and HP own the rights to 30 years of UNIX development. If SCO tanks, then HP will own the sole rights to UNIX System V and it's development. I suggest that the big UNIX companies (Sun, SGI, HP, IBM) get together and cooperate on developing SysV further. Opening the source would be a great start, but somehow I doubt that will ever happen.
If you subscribe to Robert A. Heinlein's "world as myth" theory, then anything you write about has already happened in another universe. All we have to do is develop the technology to cross the dimensional borders and we can have any technology we can imagine.
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Come on people, get a life! SCO(Caldera) isn't doing anything different from what FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris X86, BSDI, and Linux do in their Intel Compatability mode. I remember calling it iBCS, for intel Binary Compatability Services, a few years ago, but the concept hasn't changed. If you want to run Linux software on SCO, you copy over a few libraries and that's it. Same for running SCO software on Linux, except that you had to license OpenServer. In fact, IIRC so many people were running Oracle on Linux in SCO compatability mode (this was in '97 or '98) that Oracle decided to go ahead and support Linux. So we have SCO to thank for some of the first commercial enterprise software becoming available for Linux in the first place.
Everybody calm down and take a deep breath. SCO has made some mistakes recently, and they will eventually see the error of their ways and back off. Screaming about petty stuff just makes Slashdot readers look reactionary and ill informed.
About a year ago Nokia offered a peer-to-peer wireless networking product, called Rooftop, that was specifically developed for this kind of application. It was cheap and could cover a large area without having line of sight access to a central location. IIRC, it used the 5.12Ghz band. I can't find anything on the Nokia site about it, but it may be worth looking into.
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If the difference is that great, They probably were afraid that you underestimated your time and would have to come back and ask for more money. This occurs a lot in Government bidding, where the bidder will come back with a price, and a year later say, "Because of X and Y, and the Economy, I'm going to have to charge you more for this project or I will go out of business."
Going back to the well and asking for more not only makes you (the vendor) look bad, it makes the person who awarded the bid look bad, because they then have to crawl back to their boss and admit that they made a mistake.
On the other hand, coming in under budget looks great. If you estimate that a project will cose $15,000 and you only bill them $13,500, then you look good, the person who awarded you the bid looks good, and you will be hired back because you saved them money.
My personal rule-of-thumb is to estimate the amount of time it will take to do a job and multiply by 2.5 This will give you enough leeway to make changes, go to design meetings, and document (!) without feeling the pinch.
I work for a company that (among other things) sells predictive dialer systems to telemarketing services. As such, I have found out a couple things about telemarketing that I'd like to pass on:
1. If you get a telemarketer on the phone, all you need to say is "Please put me on your do not call list." Thats all, nothing more. If the telemarketer says anything else to try to get you to buy, ask to talk to their supervisor. After a few months you won't receive any more calls. Telemarketing houses buy lists of names from distributors and are required by law to keep you on a permanent do not call list of you ask for it, and are also required to pass that list back to the distributor.
2. Be careful when you sign up for Magazines, credit cards, etc. Businesses will sell their subscriber's info to telemarketing houses.
3. Look up your state's Public Service Comission. In some states, it's illegal to contact a person that has been put on the state's do not call list. In some cases you can sign up over the Internet.
4. If the phone rings and you get dead air, it's probably a telemarketer. Don't hang up!!! Wait for them to come on the line and follow #1
Linux is not the future of UNIX. SysV is. No really. SCO and HP own the rights to 30 years of UNIX development. If SCO tanks, then HP will own the sole rights to UNIX System V and it's development. I suggest that the big UNIX companies (Sun, SGI, HP, IBM) get together and cooperate on developing SysV further. Opening the source would be a great start, but somehow I doubt that will ever happen.
If you subscribe to Robert A. Heinlein's "world as myth" theory, then anything you write about has already happened in another universe. All we have to do is develop the technology to cross the dimensional borders and we can have any technology we can imagine.