Most of the time, yes, that's what you do. But striving for 3 9's means that you have to be quick. If you're having a problem with, say, a Web server that keeps crashing, you can't afford to be down for three days, two days, or even 1 day while you try to troubleshoot it. You need answers and you need them NOW. Most of the time, you're able to solve problems on your own.
Referring to the disparate radio systems scattered among first responders at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, Gates said effective command and control cannot arise from cracked communications.
His words served as a segue into his description of a new Microsoft Corp. application, called Regional Automated Information Network, which allows three local law enforcement agencies in Washington state to share records.
The new pilot, which Microsoft officials said started last November, combines Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Visual Studio.NET and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 in a desktop portal and Extensible Markup Language-based query engine that lets 17 jurisdictions electronically search each other's records management systems.
Hmmm...shouldn't have any problems with cracked communication there.:)
Funny thing is 80% of *my* telemarketing calls are from long-distance phone companies trying to get me to switch my service and people trying to sell me [auto, home, health, life] insurances. So I suppose there isn't any point for me to sign up is there?:)
You don't get the nifty collaboration features that Outlook has. Group calendaring, group task lists. It's nice, for instance, to be able check your boss's meeting schedule so you can fit in that Quake III Arena deathmatch.;)
We have some Samba servers on Red Hat, actually. But we have certain applications that absolutely *require* Windows servers (for one, we use Outlook for mail:( ), plus some of our contracts with our customers actually specify what kind of server and what operating system(s) are to be used to house their data.
When you have to maintain 24/7 and 3 9's reliability on limited staff, YES, you *have* to have vendor support. What if something fails that you can't figure out a solution for in less than hour? That's why you pay Microsoft (or Red Hat or IBM or whoever).
...where I work. Why upgrade a server if it still works? Put 2000 and XP on the workstations, sure, but why replace an already-functional server? As long as it keeps serving files, right?
Now there will be companies like ours scrambling to get 2000 Server or 2K3 server on their servers by the end of next year. And we won't have a choice. Upgrade or lose support. What do you do? You upgrade.:-/
Of course, the fact that *BSD hasn't been ported to larks, sparrows or any songbirds of any kind at this point just proves that *BSD is, in fact, dying.:)
No, it's not. I agree mostly. But Microsoft also shouldn't be engaging in anticompetitive behaviour and violating their contract with Sun by including their own broken implentation of Java. If Windows isn't going to include a proper implementation of Java (whether that be Sun's or a version of Microsoft's that conforms to standards), then it shouldn't include one at all.
Ahhh...that's why TACOM may have had a site license, but other parts didn't. That makes much more sense now. The vagueness of the article didn't help.:)
In that case, it sounds like the Army actually got a really good deal. Hopefully they got a nice support contract as part of that too.
Unlike many people here, I don't believe that open source is *always* the answer. Sometimes you *gotta* run Microsoft (or whatever else) because it best meets your needs. Where I differ with Microsoft is that they seem to think that that you *always* gotta run Microsoft. But then again, that opinion is rather self-serving so it makes sense from their perspective.:)
In cases where open source meets the need, I'll gladly evangelize open source. But it's crazy to think that any one solution will work in every given scenario. Sure, maybe they could use OpenOffice and Linux. But sometimes there aren't just technical barriers to running Linux (and there are, believe me), but there's also sometimes organizational and business need variables to consider. You can't really judge a particular decision unless you know every factor that went into making that decision. Common sense 101.
Right. They *ALREADY HAVE* these site licenses. That's why I mentioned the specific client packages. They're probably site licensing the server products, but paying full retail for the packages to be installed on the client machines.
Read my reply elsewhere in this thread.
Why assume that I'm spouting falsehoods to make fun of the Army or Microsoft or to push the Open Source agenda? Oh, never mind this is slashdot. I get it.:)
No doubt they got some CALs basically thrown in for free. But it's important to note that not all of the Army's machines have access to SQL Server or Systems Management Server. At least that was the case at TACOM.
I'm not per se looking for traction from my post, I just happen to have inside info about the Army's network through friends at TACOM, which is basically a civilian army organization that buys stuff for the army and has a headquarters here in Warren, MI.
Charles Di Bona, software analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, said in a research report that the contract would most likely add $16.6 million per quarter of "high-margin (in the range of 89 percent) revenues and add $0.001 per quarter to EPS."
What products make M$ *that* much profit? Windows and Office of course.
Let's see...if the Army is paying full retail (which I wouldn't doubt):
Microsoft Windows XP Professional: $299 Microsoft Office XP Professional: $449 Microsoft Visio Standard: $199
Total: $947
There's most likely your answer.
(Also, I happen to know that Visio Standard comes on the Army's standard build (a friend of mine worked for TACOM), so that's why picked it:)
Are there any good long-term storage solutions? I'm talking on the order of decades, not years. Paper's done a pretty good job so far, but even that degrades, and it's a little hard to store digital information in an easily retrievable format on paper.
You young whippersnappers! Obviously, you're not old enough to remember punched cards and paper tape! Stores for decades, easily retrievable!
Burgertime! Yeah! That was COOL game. Until I got a job in fast food anyway.:)
Was that released on Intellivision? I remember playing it on ColecoVision, but I suppose since they were contemporaries it could have been released on Intellivision.:)
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You took it off?! You listened to *them*?! Put it back on *now* it's not too late to save yourself!!
Most of the time, yes, that's what you do. But striving for 3 9's means that you have to be quick. If you're having a problem with, say, a Web server that keeps crashing, you can't afford to be down for three days, two days, or even 1 day while you try to troubleshoot it. You need answers and you need them NOW. Most of the time, you're able to solve problems on your own.
"[Palladium/Trustworthy Computing] can make our country more secure and prevent the nightmare vision of George Orwell at the same time," Gates said.
.NET and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 in a desktop portal and Extensible Markup Language-based query engine that lets 17 jurisdictions electronically search each other's records management systems.
:)
Wow. He said that with a straight face? I'd HATE to have played poker with this guy in college. No wonder he cleaned up the table.
Referring to the disparate radio systems scattered among first responders at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, Gates said effective command and control cannot arise from cracked communications.
His words served as a segue into his description of a new Microsoft Corp. application, called Regional Automated Information Network, which allows three local law enforcement agencies in Washington state to share records.
The new pilot, which Microsoft officials said started last November, combines Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Visual Studio
Hmmm...shouldn't have any problems with cracked communication there.
Funny thing is 80% of *my* telemarketing calls are from long-distance phone companies trying to get me to switch my service and people trying to sell me [auto, home, health, life] insurances. So I suppose there isn't any point for me to sign up is there? :)
What he said. :)
You don't get the nifty collaboration features that Outlook has. Group calendaring, group task lists. It's nice, for instance, to be able check your boss's meeting schedule so you can fit in that Quake III Arena deathmatch. ;)
Hmmm...I wonder if they're hiring investigators... :)
Dude! So does this mean I can have his account? ;)
We have some Samba servers on Red Hat, actually. But we have certain applications that absolutely *require* Windows servers (for one, we use Outlook for mail :( ), plus some of our contracts with our customers actually specify what kind of server and what operating system(s) are to be used to house their data.
When you have to maintain 24/7 and 3 9's reliability on limited staff, YES, you *have* to have vendor support. What if something fails that you can't figure out a solution for in less than hour? That's why you pay Microsoft (or Red Hat or IBM or whoever).
...where I work. Why upgrade a server if it still works? Put 2000 and XP on the workstations, sure, but why replace an already-functional server? As long as it keeps serving files, right?
:-/
Now there will be companies like ours scrambling to get 2000 Server or 2K3 server on their servers by the end of next year. And we won't have a choice. Upgrade or lose support. What do you do? You upgrade.
Someone should tell Microsoft this, since they apparently believe that their stuff is the solution to every single senario..
:)
Um, I said that.
Of course, the fact that *BSD hasn't been ported to larks, sparrows or any songbirds of any kind at this point just proves that *BSD is, in fact, dying. :)
No, it's not. I agree mostly. But Microsoft also shouldn't be engaging in anticompetitive behaviour and violating their contract with Sun by including their own broken implentation of Java. If Windows isn't going to include a proper implementation of Java (whether that be Sun's or a version of Microsoft's that conforms to standards), then it shouldn't include one at all.
And they could make it out of Aluminum or Titanium! And then they could put a PPC 970 processor in it! Hey, then it could run....OS X! And ... and ...
:(
Oh, never mind. I hear Apple just beat me too it.
Many Mini-ITX boxes, like those from Shuttle, will support a regular-sized hard drive.
:)
google for 'mini itx'
You should at least wait til the story scrolls off the front page before copy and pasteing a joke from it.
Ahhh...that's why TACOM may have had a site license, but other parts didn't. That makes much more sense now. The vagueness of the article didn't help. :)
:)
In that case, it sounds like the Army actually got a really good deal. Hopefully they got a nice support contract as part of that too.
Unlike many people here, I don't believe that open source is *always* the answer. Sometimes you *gotta* run Microsoft (or whatever else) because it best meets your needs. Where I differ with Microsoft is that they seem to think that that you *always* gotta run Microsoft. But then again, that opinion is rather self-serving so it makes sense from their perspective.
In cases where open source meets the need, I'll gladly evangelize open source. But it's crazy to think that any one solution will work in every given scenario. Sure, maybe they could use OpenOffice and Linux. But sometimes there aren't just technical barriers to running Linux (and there are, believe me), but there's also sometimes organizational and business need variables to consider. You can't really judge a particular decision unless you know every factor that went into making that decision. Common sense 101.
Right. They *ALREADY HAVE* these site licenses. That's why I mentioned the specific client packages. They're probably site licensing the server products, but paying full retail for the packages to be installed on the client machines.
:)
Read my reply elsewhere in this thread.
Why assume that I'm spouting falsehoods to make fun of the Army or Microsoft or to push the Open Source agenda? Oh, never mind this is slashdot. I get it.
No doubt they got some CALs basically thrown in for free. But it's important to note that not all of the Army's machines have access to SQL Server or Systems Management Server. At least that was the case at TACOM.
I'm not per se looking for traction from my post, I just happen to have inside info about the Army's network through friends at TACOM, which is basically a civilian army organization that buys stuff for the army and has a headquarters here in Warren, MI.
From the article:
:)
Charles Di Bona, software analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, said in a research report that the contract would most likely add $16.6 million per quarter of "high-margin (in the range of 89 percent) revenues and add $0.001 per quarter to EPS."
What products make M$ *that* much profit? Windows and Office of course.
Let's see...if the Army is paying full retail (which I wouldn't doubt):
Microsoft Windows XP Professional: $299
Microsoft Office XP Professional: $449
Microsoft Visio Standard: $199
Total: $947
There's most likely your answer.
(Also, I happen to know that Visio Standard comes on the Army's standard build (a friend of mine worked for TACOM), so that's why picked it
Can you say 'patent infringement suit'?
/var/log/cron:
Yeah, I bet Akamai even installed a vixie-cron job to launch the suit automatically in the next few days.
From Akamai's
Jun 25 04:00:00 main.akamai.com CROND[5248]: (root) ALL UR CACHE R BELONG TO US!!!
Are there any good long-term storage solutions? I'm talking on the order of decades, not years. Paper's done a pretty good job so far, but even that degrades, and it's a little hard to store digital information in an easily retrievable format on paper.
You young whippersnappers! Obviously, you're not old enough to remember punched cards and paper tape! Stores for decades, easily retrievable!
Of course, NOW someone will port it just to prove that *BSD isn't dying. :)
Burgertime! Yeah! That was COOL game. Until I got a job in fast food anyway. :)
:)
Was that released on Intellivision? I remember playing it on ColecoVision, but I suppose since they were contemporaries it could have been released on Intellivision.