Yep...Lets monitor all 145,074 of them at one time. Oh wait.
Kinda funny that this concept was first described for a prison.
Oh well. I sure hope that the residents enjoying paying their taxes for this, considering that a lot of the big banks in CA are not accepting CA IOU's anymore.
But with the knife hanging over you, wouldn't you have more incentive to keep the imagination/heart of the community alive? It may be more difficult than simply answering to a board of directors/stockholders, but in the end you end up with a better quality product.
Sun/Oracle/MySQL did not lose control of their product by any means, as they still own the name and brand. Most corporate customers most likely will stay with the main branch of the code and the supporting company rather than go with the "forked" branch. If one of the open source forks produces something that was missing in the original branch, then it will (hopefully) be merged back into the main branch.
I agree there are risks to open sourcing your main product, but if you provide the better support and code base and keep an organized/energetic community, you'll garner a larger share of paying corporate customers.
I'm not too certain of that. I use the replication built into MySQL (with minimal glue) and I've found it to be extremely easy to setup with a few stock Ubuntu server images. Just doing a brief google search reveals a lot of postgres replication products (Slony/PGCluster/DBBalancer), but they did not seem to have any active development on them in a while. I am not knocking PostGres by any means as I find the different language options for Procedures/Functions and the admin tools to be a huge boon.
Playing devils adv...Or the "whiny" webmaster will say that IE works fine and tell users to use that instead. It can easily turn into a smear campaign saying that Firefox is just for "geeks" and doesn't work very well. Firefox should have realized that they still do not have the market share yet to be able to try anything strong-armed like this.
Also, the servers are meant to run as...a server. They usually have a lot more services than are available on the workstation version. IIS for multiple virtual sites, Active Directory Server (DC), Certificate Authority, terminal server (not just remote desktop)...etc.
Win2k advanced server is still my primary windows os today. Can do most of my development on it.
While I agree building what you need is sometimes a great thing, it depends on the customer's needs/use of the CMS. That small amount of "effort" can lead to a tremendous amount of effort if you deploy this package across multiple customers. You are therefore responsible for all of the security auditing,patching, documentation and upgrade paths.
Having had to "jump in" and fix a fair share of similar custom packages throughout the years for customers that have had their contractors go out of business, I can tell you it has cost the customers twice as much for the lifecyle of the product. Once to have it developed, and once for me to takeover with no documentation. I spend most of the time, figuring out the framework that was used (if any) and fixing/updating the code as needed.
I agree that weighing the risk is very important in deciding on a portal (eg Joomla goes away), but from my experience with small to mid businesses it is often cheaper to get a framework. (Although, having a bit of job security is nice as well).
I think you made some valid points, but I still think it could easily be done with some imaginative script writing.
The premise of the show was not his specilization of skills, but his ability to assess a situation, and use the tools in the environment to escape/remedy the problem (using physics/chemistry/etc). In essence, he was a bit like a ninja (Ninja MacGyver would be awesome..but I digress).
I imagine the movie to be a bit like Bear Grylis (Man Versus Wild), in adapting to any situation using what you have. Sure the technology has changed, but the physics (in general) has stayed the same (things still explode/react as they did in the 80's). MacGyver would not have to be an Ubber Hacker to make a good film.
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What happens if SourceForge goes under?
Or its a great opportunity for other media sources to be able seize his market share.
Yep...Lets monitor all 145,074 of them at one time. Oh wait.
Kinda funny that this concept was first described for a prison.
Oh well. I sure hope that the residents enjoying paying their taxes for this, considering that a lot of the big banks in CA are not accepting CA IOU's anymore.
But if Python does it, its okay?
If you don't like the new features, stick with the old one.
Well almost true about Google. Try typing "10 megabytes in kilobytes" into a Google search. Probably not as effective as WA, but still a start.
Ye Dare Mock the Perl Illuminati?
It is buried in reality, at least in the bank accounts of SpringSource.
1.) IBM/Oracle/Microsoft have cash and are itching to buy companies.
2.) Announce new Open Source panacea that will "beat IBM/Microsoft/etc".
3.) Step back and wait for the buyout offers to begin.
4.) Profit.
But with the knife hanging over you, wouldn't you have more incentive to keep the imagination/heart of the community alive? It may be more difficult than simply answering to a board of directors/stockholders, but in the end you end up with a better quality product.
Sun/Oracle/MySQL did not lose control of their product by any means, as they still own the name and brand. Most corporate customers most likely will stay with the main branch of the code and the supporting company rather than go with the "forked" branch. If one of the open source forks produces something that was missing in the original branch, then it will (hopefully) be merged back into the main branch.
I agree there are risks to open sourcing your main product, but if you provide the better support and code base and keep an organized/energetic community, you'll garner a larger share of paying corporate customers.
I'm not too certain of that. I use the replication built into MySQL (with minimal glue) and I've found it to be extremely easy to setup with a few stock Ubuntu server images. Just doing a brief google search reveals a lot of postgres replication products (Slony/PGCluster/DBBalancer), but they did not seem to have any active development on them in a while. I am not knocking PostGres by any means as I find the different language options for Procedures/Functions and the admin tools to be a huge boon.
Why wouldn't Groovy be a suitable replacement? (Curious about Scala).
"find someone who was recently in debt, and is now very much out of debt."
You mean like most US companies that just got bailed out by the government?
Good luck with that.
I believe the content providers and Hulu are one and the same?
I found this link in one of the boxee forums.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,305877,00.html
I believe all the huffing/puffing from the Boxee community is not going to make the house fall down.
Free Nationwide Press Coverage?
Fix it the right way, does not always fall in line with budgets, schedules and expectations. Small business careers are very tricky to manage.
Playing devils adv...Or the "whiny" webmaster will say that IE works fine and tell users to use that instead. It can easily turn into a smear campaign saying that Firefox is just for "geeks" and doesn't work very well. Firefox should have realized that they still do not have the market share yet to be able to try anything strong-armed like this.
I would love to do this, but are their any local centers in the US? Do you have to dissemble the parts first?
that only the "Wizard" could love! (Cmon, Late 80's folks, you know what I'm talking about!).
Also, the servers are meant to run as...a server. They usually have a lot more services than are available on the workstation version. IIS for multiple virtual sites, Active Directory Server (DC), Certificate Authority, terminal server (not just remote desktop)...etc.
Win2k advanced server is still my primary windows os today. Can do most of my development on it.
That being said, it is still a very nice scripting language to do data parsing and integration on the fly.
D'arrrrrr?
So? I'll switch Salmon with more Cheesburgers. More cow bell! This isn't rocket science!
While I agree building what you need is sometimes a great thing, it depends on the customer's needs/use of the CMS. That small amount of "effort" can lead to a tremendous amount of effort if you deploy this package across multiple customers. You are therefore responsible for all of the security auditing,patching, documentation and upgrade paths.
Having had to "jump in" and fix a fair share of similar custom packages throughout the years for customers that have had their contractors go out of business, I can tell you it has cost the customers twice as much for the lifecyle of the product. Once to have it developed, and once for me to takeover with no documentation. I spend most of the time, figuring out the framework that was used (if any) and fixing/updating the code as needed.
I agree that weighing the risk is very important in deciding on a portal (eg Joomla goes away), but from my experience with small to mid businesses it is often cheaper to get a framework. (Although, having a bit of job security is nice as well).
CORNY CLICHE MODE ENGAGED...
"Some m****rf****rs are always trying to ice skate uphill."
--Wesley Snipes as Blade
EO CORNY CLICHE MODE...
Its a matter of perspective really. I manage the IT of a small office who relies heavily on MS Office.
I don't want something else. I want a clone of MS Office. I want to save money to spend it on training costs.
I think you made some valid points, but I still think it could easily be done with some imaginative script writing.
The premise of the show was not his specilization of skills, but his ability to assess a situation, and use the tools in the environment to escape/remedy the problem (using physics/chemistry/etc). In essence, he was a bit like a ninja (Ninja MacGyver would be awesome..but I digress).
I imagine the movie to be a bit like Bear Grylis (Man Versus Wild), in adapting to any situation using what you have. Sure the technology has changed, but the physics (in general) has stayed the same (things still explode/react as they did in the 80's). MacGyver would not have to be an Ubber Hacker to make a good film.