Point taken. I'm referring at those (the largest) of customers currently running SAP that are NOT using Microsoft. What do you think they might do if they were forced to run on a pure Microsoft platform?
SAP's current strengths are the large array of business partners and its business model of platform independence. Sometimes, it is a bit mind-boggling going through their support site and seeing all of the options you have for running some of their applications. Some people would call that complexity, others would call it flexibility. This flexibility, if Microsoft were to purchase SAP, would definitely go away. There is a litany of services/vendors that Microsoft has trouble converting (or has totally destroyed) when trying to assimilate them into their corporate culture. I fear this is what would happen with either a Yahoo or SAP purchase.
What do you think is going to happen when Microsoft takes its attitude of 'only on a Microsoft platform' and extends it, as they've had, with the SAP platform? A lot of angry customers, most sworn to never run core business components on a Microsoft platform. I'm sure that analysts would suggest that Microsoft keep their hands off of an SAP purchase (if it went through altogether); but the temptation would be too great.
Microsoft should focus on spending their money in making their customers happy in their current core competencies; make Windows Vista and Office the products people should be happy about using. Right now, they are the products most of the people I know are stuck with using. I'm at a loss as to why Microsoft obsesses with Google or SAP or Yahoo for that matter; I know they need to stay competitive, but I'm not convinced they are the leading innovators in their current field.
AIX. It comes, buried somewhere the installation CD's. But it is not installed by default; unless you build a NIM image. Oh? You asked for a 'modern' operating system. Sorry about that. Carry on.
There will be no greater disappointment than a Wii game that uses the Star Wars license and totally reeks on the gameplay side. I rather see the game development take some time and get it correctly on the execution, than a hastily put together game that tries to cash in on the license. Again.
Not that THAT has ever happened before on a Star Wars game. On a Nintendo platform. Or any other platform.
Jim Prendergast is executive director of Americans for Technology Leadership.
Before everybody goes crazy about the Fox News article, consider the source. American for Tech Leadership is a what it amounts to a PAC for different tech companies. Guess who is one of their major contibutors??
So don't act all surprised when you see what amounts to a Microsoft spokesperson saying that Open Source formats are going to "cost too much" or "take too much effort".
Fox News should be ashamed to run this "ad" as a news story; but when I come to think of it, everybody else does it too.
Compaq servers have the Insight Remote Console, a stripped version of the LOM board. You can connect to the server serially (we do it with a terminal server), reboot the server and follow the POST as well. Better yet, it comes free (if you buy the Proliant series). This coupled with VNC do pretty much what you want with the $499 cost.
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Point taken. I'm referring at those (the largest) of customers currently running SAP that are NOT using Microsoft. What do you think they might do if they were forced to run on a pure Microsoft platform?
SAP's current strengths are the large array of business partners and its business model of platform independence. Sometimes, it is a bit mind-boggling going through their support site and seeing all of the options you have for running some of their applications. Some people would call that complexity, others would call it flexibility. This flexibility, if Microsoft were to purchase SAP, would definitely go away. There is a litany of services/vendors that Microsoft has trouble converting (or has totally destroyed) when trying to assimilate them into their corporate culture. I fear this is what would happen with either a Yahoo or SAP purchase.
What do you think is going to happen when Microsoft takes its attitude of 'only on a Microsoft platform' and extends it, as they've had, with the SAP platform? A lot of angry customers, most sworn to never run core business components on a Microsoft platform. I'm sure that analysts would suggest that Microsoft keep their hands off of an SAP purchase (if it went through altogether); but the temptation would be too great.
Microsoft should focus on spending their money in making their customers happy in their current core competencies; make Windows Vista and Office the products people should be happy about using. Right now, they are the products most of the people I know are stuck with using. I'm at a loss as to why Microsoft obsesses with Google or SAP or Yahoo for that matter; I know they need to stay competitive, but I'm not convinced they are the leading innovators in their current field.
AIX. It comes, buried somewhere the installation CD's. But it is not installed by default; unless you build a NIM image.
Oh? You asked for a 'modern' operating system. Sorry about that. Carry on.
There will be no greater disappointment than a Wii game that uses the Star Wars license and totally reeks on the gameplay side. I rather see the game development take some time and get it correctly on the execution, than a hastily put together game that tries to cash in on the license. Again.
Not that THAT has ever happened before on a Star Wars game. On a Nintendo platform. Or any other platform.
Before everybody goes crazy about the Fox News article, consider the source. American for Tech Leadership is a what it amounts to a PAC for different tech companies. Guess who is one of their major contibutors??
You guessed it, Microsoft.
http://www.techleadership.org/about/
So don't act all surprised when you see what amounts to a Microsoft spokesperson saying that Open Source formats are going to "cost too much" or "take too much effort". Fox News should be ashamed to run this "ad" as a news story; but when I come to think of it, everybody else does it too.
Compaq servers have the Insight Remote Console, a stripped version of the LOM board. You can connect to the server serially (we do it with a terminal server), reboot the server and follow the POST as well. Better yet, it comes free (if you buy the Proliant series). This coupled with VNC do pretty much what you want with the $499 cost.