Maybe Oracle will buy PeopleSoft and transition all users to their own platform.
If by "own platform" you mean an Oracle database, that wouldn't be necessary. Most PeopleSoft customers already run the application on a backend Oracle database. PeopleSoft can also run on SQL Server and DB2. However, Oracle is really the main player.
If you mean that Oracle will kill off PeopleSoft as an application and transition people to the Oracle application suite, then you're totally correct. Oracle has already said that in an acqusition of PeopleSoft they would not continue the product line. They said they'd release bug fixes and continue to support the current apps for something like eight years, but after that it's game over.
it thought, not this again. Some people think if we only knew what the poor web server meant, we'd have a greater understanding of the universe.
rights to digital music DRM
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TMBG was talking about having the rights to their digital music as opposed to their record company owning it. Basically, they are allowed to distribute it themselves. They were not talking about DRM in the sense of copy protected files.
Did the submitter even read the article or was he just dense?
I got a cease and desist letter from my ISP about two months ago seeding a CD. I've been running PeerGuardian since then. I'm amazed to see how many peers try to connect from banned IP addresses.
Being the resident tech guy in my family and circle of friends, I'm tasked with supporting all their computers. I do it free of charge for my family and work for beer when it comes to friends. With all the malware that infects Windows PCs through Internet Explorer I've been quite busy. I finally decided to install Firefox on all their PCs. As a condition of ongoing support, they must continue to use Firefox. Since I've institued this policy, they far happier with their online experience, no pop-ups, almost no ads (Adblocker rules!), and it's faster. Not only that, but my time supporting their PCs has gone down to almost nothing.
Now that the Mozilla Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization I think I may have to insist that the family/friends make a little donation.
Use of Adblock by the/. crowd brings up an interesting point. Obviously websites rely on advertising to make money and thus stay in business. Sites that cater to the tech crown are catering to the crowd most likely to block all ads. So, how does a tech site make money when a large percentage of its users don't see any of the ads they serve?
Maybe someone from SCO is a/. subscriber. Since they would get to see the story earlier than the rest of us, they could DDoS any site they didn't want us to see.
Maybe the original RJ-11 was supposed to be for a T1 line.
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Apparently the most telling evidence is that parts of the SCO code and Linux code include identical annotations made by developers when they wrote the programs, says DiDio, who compares such notes to the signature or fingerprint of a developer's work.
The moral of this story is to never comment your code.
My company has purchased about 150 PCs in the last year. We will not be buying any new desktop machines for the next three years. We do however plan to outfit most of the staff with Pocket PC based devices during that three year period. I'd guess that in the next five year period we'll purchase approximately about 125 new PCs. During that same period we'll probably purchase about 250 Pocket PC based PDAs. Mainly this is due to them not being useful as long. It has nothing to do with our plans to switch anyone from a PC to a PDA. Now, if you also count all the Smartphones that may be running a version of CE, our numbers could go from 250 to 500 easily in that same 5 year period. So, IMHO, PCs are going nowhere.
I work for one of the vendors listed on that site. We sell every part you could possibly need to do something like this, but we don't sell to home consumers or even individual restaurants. We're a sister company of the largest manufacturer of fountain soda machines in the world. So, working were I do, I've found out a fair amount about these machines. We have about 90 employees in our office and haven't installed a fountain machine because with so few employees the lines would get coated with syrup in no time. You really need a larger volume of people, or you will have to flush the lines all the time. Personally, I say just get yourself a Culligan water dispenser and save your money and teeth. If you really need soda, buy 2 liter bottles.
Why is the U.S. military funding it?
My guess would be that the military will either take OpenBSD, combine it with some code from the NSA, and make a really secure OS, or take some code from it and add it to an OS they already use.
What do you get out of it?
It's Free Software so we get to see the source code that's being developed as part of the project. We get to tweak that code, make it better, port it to another system, etc.
I think it's pretty cool the US Gov. is partially funding OpenBSD. I guess it's no different that government grants to universities for medical research and such.
Truth be known, I'd spend the last minutes/hours praying alone. I love my family, but my last few minutes would have to be spent between me and my God.
I'd like to think that if the world was coming to an end the editors of Slashdot would be spending their last minutes on Earth with their loved ones. Call me a softie.
Of course nobody wants to see a repeat of 9/11. However, a balance must be struck between the need for security and the need to maintain our individual freedoms.
I'm a law abiding citizen, so why should I worry? I worry because liberty isn't taken all at once. It's slowly taken over time.
If the point of all past wars was to protect the American way of life, liberty, and freedom, what is the purpose of the War on Terror? It seems to me that if we allow ourselves to be so afraid we take away our own liberty and freedom, then the terrorists have already one.
As Ben Franklin said, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
I was just explaining to my co-irker how to mount a floppy drive in linux. Every time I said "mount" he laughed. He said I had "an unhealthy obsession with technology." Two minutes later I go to/. and find this article. This is some kind of strange cosmic coincidence right?
According to the OEM EULA with Windows, the copy of Windows must remain with the hardware. The license is forever married to the box it came with. Microsoft caused a big stink about this a month or two ago, warning schools about accepting donated hardware.
Now Microsoft is saying that normal licenses can't be transfered because the software is copyrighted?
It was my understanding that a license was an asset. You owned it and you could transfer it. Something isn't sitting right with me here. There must be more to the story that's being left out. (Yea, I know, Microsoft is the Evil Empire. However, I still think there's more than meets the eye going on here.)
I think it's sad that the RIAA already has 23% of the population convinced that they shouldn't be able to make a copy of a CD they own for personal use.
We buy Dell systems exclusively at my company. We have about 100 Dell desktops and 15 Dell servers. We also buy all our printers from Dell (currently 20 LaserJet 2200dns). Those printers did not come bundled in any deal. They are cheaper from Dell than from other resellers. We also buy all our HP toner from Dell, which again is cheaper than from other resellers.
I see how the government is benefiting from this. They get more skilled workers with the private sector footing the bill for the salaries. Also, the government has strict non-disclosure agreements for the techies, but what about the information the government will gather from this?
I don't see why any business would choose to participate in this program or why any techie would want to go work for The Man.
Monitoring Not Spying...
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SpectorSoft says its software is for monitoring, not spying. Uh huh, so are my proxy logs and packet sniffers. While they certainly have a legitimate use, what's the fun in that?
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If by "own platform" you mean an Oracle database, that wouldn't be necessary. Most PeopleSoft customers already run the application on a backend Oracle database. PeopleSoft can also run on SQL Server and DB2. However, Oracle is really the main player.
If you mean that Oracle will kill off PeopleSoft as an application and transition people to the Oracle application suite, then you're totally correct. Oracle has already said that in an acqusition of PeopleSoft they would not continue the product line. They said they'd release bug fixes and continue to support the current apps for something like eight years, but after that it's game over.
it thought, not this again. Some people think if we only knew what the poor web server meant, we'd have a greater understanding of the universe.
Did the submitter even read the article or was he just dense?
I got a cease and desist letter from my ISP about two months ago seeding a CD. I've been running PeerGuardian since then. I'm amazed to see how many peers try to connect from banned IP addresses.
Now that the Mozilla Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization I think I may have to insist that the family/friends make a little donation.
Use of Adblock by the /. crowd brings up an interesting point. Obviously websites rely on advertising to make money and thus stay in business. Sites that cater to the tech crown are catering to the crowd most likely to block all ads. So, how does a tech site make money when a large percentage of its users don't see any of the ads they serve?
here's how.
Office 2003, the latest version of Office, requires Windows XP to run.
Not that I can actually see the site (/.ed) but I did a little Googling and see that other sites linked to there in December of 2001.
Maybe someone from SCO is a /. subscriber. Since they would get to see the story earlier than the rest of us, they could DDoS any site they didn't want us to see.
I want to believe.
Maybe the original RJ-11 was supposed to be for a T1 line.
The moral of this story is to never comment your code.
I work for one of the vendors listed on that site. We sell every part you could possibly need to do something like this, but we don't sell to home consumers or even individual restaurants. We're a sister company of the largest manufacturer of fountain soda machines in the world. So, working were I do, I've found out a fair amount about these machines. We have about 90 employees in our office and haven't installed a fountain machine because with so few employees the lines would get coated with syrup in no time. You really need a larger volume of people, or you will have to flush the lines all the time. Personally, I say just get yourself a Culligan water dispenser and save your money and teeth. If you really need soda, buy 2 liter bottles.
My guess would be that the military will either take OpenBSD, combine it with some code from the NSA, and make a really secure OS, or take some code from it and add it to an OS they already use.
What do you get out of it?
It's Free Software so we get to see the source code that's being developed as part of the project. We get to tweak that code, make it better, port it to another system, etc.
I think it's pretty cool the US Gov. is partially funding OpenBSD. I guess it's no different that government grants to universities for medical research and such.
Truth be known, I'd spend the last minutes/hours praying alone. I love my family, but my last few minutes would have to be spent between me and my God.
I'd like to think that if the world was coming to an end the editors of Slashdot would be spending their last minutes on Earth with their loved ones. Call me a softie.
I'm a law abiding citizen, so why should I worry? I worry because liberty isn't taken all at once. It's slowly taken over time.
If the point of all past wars was to protect the American way of life, liberty, and freedom, what is the purpose of the War on Terror? It seems to me that if we allow ourselves to be so afraid we take away our own liberty and freedom, then the terrorists have already one.
As Ben Franklin said, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
I was just explaining to my co-irker how to mount a floppy drive in linux. Every time I said "mount" he laughed. He said I had "an unhealthy obsession with technology." Two minutes later I go to /. and find this article. This is some kind of strange cosmic coincidence right?
According to the OEM EULA with Windows, the copy of Windows must remain with the hardware. The license is forever married to the box it came with. Microsoft caused a big stink about this a month or two ago, warning schools about accepting donated hardware.
Now Microsoft is saying that normal licenses can't be transfered because the software is copyrighted?
It was my understanding that a license was an asset. You owned it and you could transfer it. Something isn't sitting right with me here. There must be more to the story that's being left out. (Yea, I know, Microsoft is the Evil Empire. However, I still think there's more than meets the eye going on here.)
I think it's sad that the RIAA already has 23% of the population convinced that they shouldn't be able to make a copy of a CD they own for personal use.
It wouldn't take an equivalent number. We could do it about half the number. Microsoft is weak.
We buy Dell systems exclusively at my company. We have about 100 Dell desktops and 15 Dell servers. We also buy all our printers from Dell (currently 20 LaserJet 2200dns). Those printers did not come bundled in any deal. They are cheaper from Dell than from other resellers. We also buy all our HP toner from Dell, which again is cheaper than from other resellers.
I see how the government is benefiting from this. They get more skilled workers with the private sector footing the bill for the salaries. Also, the government has strict non-disclosure agreements for the techies, but what about the information the government will gather from this?
I don't see why any business would choose to participate in this program or why any techie would want to go work for The Man.
SpectorSoft says its software is for monitoring, not spying. Uh huh, so are my proxy logs and packet sniffers. While they certainly have a legitimate use, what's the fun in that?