Trust me - the HP employee discount is not something to look forward to. They only offer a fraction of the catalogue to employees and you can easily find better prices on the net. In summary don't get excited about it.
OK I own up... I actually put the code into Linux, I think. Damn if I told anyone about the NDA I signed then I might be held responsible for leaking propriety NDA âlegaleseâ(TM) source. So actually I didnâ(TM)t. Hold on Iâ(TM)m confused now just like SCO and the ludicrous number of cases they are filing
Exactly... As much as I loathe to say it, but with Outlook + Exchange Server 2000 you can do some pretty good stuff. OK so most idiot users, just use it to send a few emails, but if you know what youâ(TM)re doing itâ(TM)s a really flexible and powerful environment. Put it another way - sendmail isnâ(TM)t exactly gonna cut it. The OSS community needs to address this failing coz at the moment Iâ(TM)d love be able to give up Windows in favor of Linux but being able to open a few Word documents in StarOffice doesnâ(TM)t really cut it.
It seems to me that the problem is not with the MS Office file formats etc. given time any piece of software can exactly ape what MS Office can do, the problem lies with all the 'extra' code & macros written around Office documents. How does any piece of non MS software keep up with this, trying to replace the VBA environment (what Office macros are written in) blows the whole thing wide open, instead of trying to replace an Office suite you are trying to replace a development environment, a set of APIâ(TM)s, many, many MS specific libraries and controls etc, etc. I think youâ(TM)ll never be able to replace MS Office with an alternative (OO/StarOffice) in _every_ instance.
This is just a US problem, we've had cross operator number portability in the UK for years in the UK and I think most other European countries have it too.
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Trust me - the HP employee discount is not something to look forward to. They only offer a fraction of the catalogue to employees and you can easily find better prices on the net. In summary don't get excited about it.
OK I own up... I actually put the code into Linux, I think. Damn if I told anyone about the NDA I signed then I might be held responsible for leaking propriety NDA âlegaleseâ(TM) source. So actually I didnâ(TM)t. Hold on Iâ(TM)m confused now just like SCO and the ludicrous number of cases they are filing
Exactly...
As much as I loathe to say it, but with Outlook + Exchange Server 2000 you can do some pretty good stuff. OK so most idiot users, just use it to send a few emails, but if you know what youâ(TM)re doing itâ(TM)s a really flexible and powerful environment. Put it another way - sendmail isnâ(TM)t exactly gonna cut it. The OSS community needs to address this failing coz at the moment Iâ(TM)d love be able to give up Windows in favor of Linux but being able to open a few Word documents in StarOffice doesnâ(TM)t really cut it.
It seems to me that the problem is not with the MS Office file formats etc. given time any piece of software can exactly ape what MS Office can do, the problem lies with all the 'extra' code & macros written around Office documents. How does any piece of non MS software keep up with this, trying to replace the VBA environment (what Office macros are written in) blows the whole thing wide open, instead of trying to replace an Office suite you are trying to replace a development environment, a set of APIâ(TM)s, many, many MS specific libraries and controls etc, etc. I think youâ(TM)ll never be able to replace MS Office with an alternative (OO/StarOffice) in _every_ instance.
I swear I heard a story once about IBM's R&D looking into building a trinary computer.
Then again I might have been drunk...
This is just a US problem, we've had cross operator number portability in the UK for years in the UK and I think most other European countries have it too.
IBM's latest zSeries mainframes can run Linux natively (in fact so could the older models too)