Have all the world's CIOs reported their results to you?
Do large corporations report every computer problem--especially when they're under intense scrutiny from the stockholders as is the case with Y2K-related problems?
Are all data output from all programs actually used the moment they are generated?
Linuxs marketplace is going (from where I'm looking anyway) going to be in replacing stuff up to NT server levels, but something which is going to require say a million transactions a day on SAP/Oracle/Informix, well thats at least three or four years away, and at that stage the big servers will probably need to run more, and the whole cycle starts again.
IBM have already announced RS/6000s (43P and another model?) with Linux installed. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before the entire RS/6000 line is available with Linux. I also recall reading that they are working on their own IBM distro. There have also been hints that there is an AS/400 port in progress, EWS AFAIK, but I'm sure it will make it onto some production boxes somehow. Once Linux breaks into the AS/400 world, it's only a matter of time before it starts inheriting some very heavy-duty enterprise-level features.
Go back and read some of the/. articles on this stuff and I think you'll see that there is a great potential for some serious enhancement in the near future. IBM have an interest in Linux' development path now, and where IBM goes, Linux will follow.
I'm not sure how the two compare, but R/3 lives on top of Oracle, so what's good for one is good for the other.
I imagine this announcement implies that Oracle are going to be bringing their Linux version up to sync with the other platforms--otherwise I doubt SAP would be working on the port. This is very good news for Linux, indeed.
Looks to me like the wrong people were too successful with online sales. As soon as one of Compaq's big retail players makes the move to Internet sales, this will change.
What strikes me as hilarious is this "retailers give 'real' support" argument. For the last several years, I haven't even wasted my time trying to get support from local retailers--I go straight to the manufacturer's web site. How in the hell can you get support from someone who thinks a "SCSI adapter" is a printer cable and Linux is a Windows 95 golf game?
Adobe snatched up Word for Word Pro, the only decent doc conversion tool on the market, released an all-in-one CD with the DOS, Mac, Windows (the worst Windows app I've ever used, BTW), and SCO versions (runs CLI or CUI under iBCS)--then didn't market it at all. They subsequently sold it off to INSO, who gutted it for the filters, which they included in some outrageously priced web design software and some other windows crap, then they dumped it. INSO keep promising to re-release the Word for Word product under some "Gold software" line, but I'm not holding my breath.
As far as rumors of this sort are concerned, almost every tech takeover rumor has had some weight. Even the Netscape takeover deal was shot down as a rumor, at first.
I'd be interested to learn if Adobe has any kind of relationship with Microsoft. Having a bean counter-, marketing weasel-driven company like Adobe snatch up Corel would be a nice way to get rid of a highly anticipated Linux office suite, as well as Linux versions of Draw and Photo-Paint (?), without drawing fire from the feds.
Power PC, SMP. I care, 'cuz a customer sent me a brand spankin' new proc complex for a 43P, gratis. (Seems IBM shipped the part out of the blue, cust. called IBM support and they told them to call us 'cuz they didn't know what to do with it.) Now if I can just scrounge up the rest of the parts--Linux PPC, here we come!
I wonder what would happen if just 10% of the world's nerds called in sick twice a week for a couple of months? This seems to be having quite an impact for the AA pilots.
the AC MS-shilling I've seen on/. consists usually of "govt don't belong in software industry" anti-DOJ rantings of teenage libertarians who are drunk with their newfound religion.
The government has no business going after Microsoft, or any other corporation, unless they are guilty of interstate criminal activity.
Microsoft is doing a fine job of self-destruction without any help from the federales. There is no way MS can compete against Free Software--even if they pull their usual tricks, they'll eventually lose, it's just a matter of time. You know it, I know it, Bill Gates knows it. If the feds really wanted to "make Gates honest," they would use Linux and/or FreeBSD instead of NT. Government licenses must make up a huge chunk of MS's sales. (Didn't I just read that the USN is going back to UNIX after the NT-based "smart ship" debacle?)
Wouldn't it be great if we could get Traficant to do a "Beam me up Scotty..." one-minute on NT v. Free Software?
The excuse I always heard when I asked about an OS/2 version of an app was "Why should we waste the time and money--you can run the Windows version of our program on OS/2, can't you?"
This is what bothers me about WINE. Not that WINE isn't cool or anything, don't get me wrong. I'm just concerned that if it's too good, ISVs may turn around and start giving the same lame excuse WRT Linux versions of their apps.
This bill is probably nothing more than a message to Intel. The law would never survive a challenge in the courts and everybody knows it--they also know that lobbying against passage would be expensive, that the cost in terms of PR would be big, and that in the unlikely event that it became law, it would cost a lot of money to challenge it in the courts.
My problem with this whole mess is: I haven't been able to find any details on the actual implementation. Would the actual ID be traded, or would it be used to generate a signature? Trading a trusted, indelible ID would only create a huge security hole. Once a cracker has your chip ID, he can spoof your identity and there's nothing you can do about it--you're screwed. A signature can be revoked, but not an ID. Am I wrong?
Seriously, there are a few of us out here who don't have time to keep up with kernel development and can't afford the effort involved keeping up with all the versions. We trust the stable version.
I need the fixes to the st driver's handling of EOD/EOT (hopefully it's fixed) so I can get some tape code working right.
I'm sure this won't be the last time the SCOTUS will have to deal with this issue. It never ceases to amaze me, how the courts will make rulings on subjects about which they know nothing, based on arguments from lawyers who know nothing. I think the Borg have assimilated the District of Corruption.
By itself, Y2K would only create some really big problems in a few places--hopefully most of them in federal agencies (I would be more than happy to do without federal "help" for a year or two) and a few widespread annoyances.
The worst aspect of it all is the way governments are lying about the success of their remediation efforts, forcing themselves into a PR battle that's going to result in widespread panic, runs on the banks and groceries. The EEC members have wasted all their time and money dicking around with the Euro conversion--there will be BIG trouble in Europe and Japan.
Sony are probably concerned about some kind of intrusion on the Net Yaroze console. Seems they've already had problems on that front with folks putting out stuff for PCs--didn't I see some tools that would allow a user with GNU tools to write their own games and play them on a regular PSX?
It's all in the angle. Microsoft will probably be emphasizing "IBM and Linux," "Red Hat, Caldera, Turbo, et al and Linux," "Oracle and Linux," etc. The point being, they will play up the corporate connections and downplay the "freeness" of the GNU project and Linux. "See, there are other big players in the OS marketplace and they are offering an alternative to Windows, therefore, no monopoly exists."
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Linuxs marketplace is going (from where I'm looking anyway) going to be in replacing stuff up to NT server levels, but something which is going to require say a million transactions a day on SAP/Oracle/Informix, well thats at least three or four years away, and at that stage the big servers will probably need to run more, and the whole cycle starts again.
IBM have already announced RS/6000s (43P and another model?) with Linux installed. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before the entire RS/6000 line is available with Linux. I also recall reading that they are working on their own IBM distro. There have also been hints that there is an AS/400 port in progress, EWS AFAIK, but I'm sure it will make it onto some production boxes somehow. Once Linux breaks into the AS/400 world, it's only a matter of time before it starts inheriting some very heavy-duty enterprise-level features.
Go back and read some of the /. articles on this stuff and I think you'll see that there is a great potential for some serious enhancement in the near future. IBM have an interest in Linux' development path now, and where IBM goes, Linux will follow.
I'm not sure how the two compare, but R/3 lives on top of Oracle, so what's good for one is good for the other.
I imagine this announcement implies that Oracle are going to be bringing their Linux version up to sync with the other platforms--otherwise I doubt SAP would be working on the port. This is very good news for Linux, indeed.
Looks to me like the wrong people were too successful with online sales. As soon as one of Compaq's big retail players makes the move to Internet sales, this will change.
What strikes me as hilarious is this "retailers give 'real' support" argument. For the last several years, I haven't even wasted my time trying to get support from local retailers--I go straight to the manufacturer's web site. How in the hell can you get support from someone who thinks a "SCSI adapter" is a printer cable and Linux is a Windows 95 golf game?
Adobe snatched up Word for Word Pro, the only decent doc conversion tool on the market, released an all-in-one CD with the DOS, Mac, Windows (the worst Windows app I've ever used, BTW), and SCO versions (runs CLI or CUI under iBCS)--then didn't market it at all. They subsequently sold it off to INSO, who gutted it for the filters, which they included in some outrageously priced web design software and some other windows crap, then they dumped it. INSO keep promising to re-release the Word for Word product under some "Gold software" line, but I'm not holding my breath.
As far as rumors of this sort are concerned, almost every tech takeover rumor has had some weight. Even the Netscape takeover deal was shot down as a rumor, at first.
I'd be interested to learn if Adobe has any kind of relationship with Microsoft. Having a bean counter-, marketing weasel-driven company like Adobe snatch up Corel would be a nice way to get rid of a highly anticipated Linux office suite, as well as Linux versions of Draw and Photo-Paint (?), without drawing fire from the feds.
Power PC, SMP. I care, 'cuz a customer sent me a brand spankin' new proc complex for a 43P, gratis.
(Seems IBM shipped the part out of the blue, cust. called IBM support and they told them to call us 'cuz they didn't know what to do with it.)
Now if I can just scrounge up the rest of the parts--Linux PPC, here we come!
The idiots are taking over the world.
I wonder what would happen if just 10% of the world's nerds called in sick twice a week for a couple of months? This seems to be having quite an impact for the AA pilots.
the AC MS-shilling I've seen on /. consists usually of "govt don't belong in software industry" anti-DOJ rantings of teenage libertarians who are drunk with their newfound religion.
The government has no business going after Microsoft, or any other corporation, unless they are guilty of interstate criminal activity.
Microsoft is doing a fine job of self-destruction without any help from the federales. There is no way MS can compete against Free Software--even if they pull their usual tricks, they'll eventually lose, it's just a matter of time. You know it, I know it, Bill Gates knows it. If the feds really wanted to "make Gates honest," they would use Linux and/or FreeBSD instead of NT. Government licenses must make up a huge chunk of MS's sales. (Didn't I just read that the USN is going back to UNIX after the NT-based "smart ship" debacle?)
Wouldn't it be great if we could get Traficant to do a "Beam me up Scotty..." one-minute on NT v. Free Software?
The excuse I always heard when I asked about an OS/2 version of an app was "Why should we waste the time and money--you can run the Windows version of our program on OS/2, can't you?"
This is what bothers me about WINE. Not that WINE isn't cool or anything, don't get me wrong. I'm just concerned that if it's too good, ISVs may turn around and start giving the same lame excuse WRT Linux versions of their apps.
This bill is probably nothing more than a message to Intel. The law would never survive a challenge in the courts and everybody knows it--they also know that lobbying against passage would be expensive, that the cost in terms of PR would be big, and that in the unlikely event that it became law, it would cost a lot of money to challenge it in the courts.
My problem with this whole mess is: I haven't been able to find any details on the actual implementation. Would the actual ID be traded, or would it be used to generate a signature? Trading a trusted, indelible ID would only create a huge security hole. Once a cracker has your chip ID, he can spoof your identity and there's nothing you can do about it--you're screwed. A signature can be revoked, but not an ID. Am I wrong?
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Seriously, there are a few of us out here who don't have time to keep up with kernel development and can't afford the effort involved keeping up with all the versions. We trust the stable version.
I need the fixes to the st driver's handling of EOD/EOT (hopefully it's fixed) so I can get some tape code working right.
I'm sure this won't be the last time the SCOTUS will have to deal with this issue. It never ceases to amaze me, how the courts will make rulings on subjects about which they know nothing, based on arguments from lawyers who know nothing. I think the Borg have assimilated the District of Corruption.
By itself, Y2K would only create some really big problems in a few places--hopefully most of them in federal agencies (I would be more than happy to do without federal "help" for a year or two) and a few widespread annoyances.
The worst aspect of it all is the way governments are lying about the success of their remediation efforts, forcing themselves into a PR battle that's going to result in widespread panic, runs on the banks and groceries. The EEC members have wasted all their time and money dicking around with the Euro conversion--there will be BIG trouble in Europe and Japan.
Sony are probably concerned about some kind of intrusion on the Net Yaroze console. Seems they've already had problems on that front with folks putting out stuff for PCs--didn't I see some tools that would allow a user with GNU tools to write their own games and play them on a regular PSX?
It's all in the angle. Microsoft will probably be emphasizing "IBM and Linux," "Red Hat, Caldera, Turbo, et al and Linux," "Oracle and Linux," etc. The point being, they will play up the corporate connections and downplay the "freeness" of the GNU project and Linux. "See, there are other big players in the OS marketplace and they are offering an alternative to Windows, therefore, no monopoly exists."