Imagine if there was no open source. You would still have competitors and they would still be undercutting you. Remember the cost of reproducing software on CD or download is effectively negligible. So perhaps your competitors would sell for a dollar or whatever. The problem is the same. Keep innovating, sell something people want and the best possible price. Unless your selling something tangable its always going to be a race to zero for the item itself.
Working for an IBM business partner i see constant erosion of the products i work with by OSS. This means IBM must keep moving the products forward which i guess is a good thing.
here here! i agree, as a coder ive not tried the other javascript front end frameworks like prototype and jquery but i have tried the server-side ajax frameworks like GWT and i don't like the way that i am detached from the JS that is actuall being generated.
Dojo makes writing JS very easy but the extensibility of it make it very powerful.
The other thing worth noting that may or may not be a good thing is the way Dojo is backed by IBM and used extensively in their products. Hopefully this means dojo is here to stay.
Finally if you use dojo on the client with a JSON-RPC-Adapter on the server you can move your MVC view and controller onto the client and just keep a model and service layer back on the server. This opens up some interesting possibilities.
Agreed two big, broken, burned, messed up sky scrapers would probable have been a MORE potent symbol of the vulnerability to terrorism than a big hole in the ground
Its part of a documentary about bill gates for the money programme. Bit dumbed down for non geek audiences but interesting none the less if only to laugh at all the 70's gates footage and Ballmers big shiney head. Oh and I cant find where but at some point bill gates jumps over a chair... there has to be some jokes in there!
Your spot on, Cloudscape forms the basis of WebSphere Portal (massive J2EE portal server - cost: $$$$$$$$) out of the box. It doesn't scale so IBM recommend putting db2 underneath which I've done a few times and is pretty trivial due to its compatibility.
Cloudscape comes packaged with a lot of IBM's WebSphere product suit including their JSR 168 portal solution. Its just doesn't scale to production level but its trivial to swap out cloudscape and swap in DB2 (and others).
I guess since IBM are bundling it with a lot of things it is actually worth a lot too them. HOWEVER since nobody would ever JUST buy cloudscape it would be good strategy to widen its use by the OSS community.
basically
1. people use cloudscape in their solutions 2. solutions grow big and don't scale too well 3. people buy db2 4. profit.
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...the only people other than criminals who profit from viruses have a stash of 87000 of the little blighters and clearly a lot of knowledge, i feel a conspiracy coming on...
I know Brilliant have gone about this all the wrong way, but the concept of paying for quality content with cpu cyles sure sounds like a great idea to me! Its certaily sounds better than paying for it with real money... is there anyone else that has tried this approach? How much is once cycle of my processor worth and who wants some?
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Imagine if there was no open source. You would still have competitors and they would still be undercutting you. Remember the cost of reproducing software on CD or download is effectively negligible. So perhaps your competitors would sell for a dollar or whatever. The problem is the same. Keep innovating, sell something people want and the best possible price. Unless your selling something tangable its always going to be a race to zero for the item itself.
Working for an IBM business partner i see constant erosion of the products i work with by OSS. This means IBM must keep moving the products forward which i guess is a good thing.
here here! i agree, as a coder ive not tried the other javascript front end frameworks like prototype and jquery but i have tried the server-side ajax frameworks like GWT and i don't like the way that i am detached from the JS that is actuall being generated.
Dojo makes writing JS very easy but the extensibility of it make it very powerful.
The other thing worth noting that may or may not be a good thing is the way Dojo is backed by IBM and used extensively in their products. Hopefully this means dojo is here to stay.
Finally if you use dojo on the client with a JSON-RPC-Adapter on the server you can move your MVC view and controller onto the client and just keep a model and service layer back on the server. This opens up some interesting possibilities.
Agreed two big, broken, burned, messed up sky scrapers would probable have been a MORE potent symbol of the vulnerability to terrorism than a big hole in the ground
er... they are one of the worlds biggest marketing companies?
On XP and i dont have a googleupdate service... i have 2 google update services!!!!!
grrrr
posting with chrome! its er... very damn fast.
Bollox! idle.slashdot.org is diverting effort and resources away from making good parts of slashdot better.
Its also likely to make it blocked on crappy company firewalls if its starts posting NSFW crap.
99% of the internet is NSFW i come to slashdot to get away from this shite
The BBC has some footage of the new photo being take on the iplayer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00c6sdc.shtml?src=ip_mp
Its part of a documentary about bill gates for the money programme. Bit dumbed down for non geek audiences but interesting none the less if only to laugh at all the 70's gates footage and Ballmers big shiney head. Oh and I cant find where but at some point bill gates jumps over a chair... there has to be some jokes in there!
Your spot on, Cloudscape forms the basis of WebSphere Portal (massive J2EE portal server - cost: $$$$$$$$) out of the box. It doesn't scale so IBM recommend putting db2 underneath which I've done a few times and is pretty trivial due to its compatibility.
Cloudscape comes packaged with a lot of IBM's WebSphere product suit including their JSR 168 portal solution. Its just doesn't scale to production level but its trivial to swap out cloudscape and swap in DB2 (and others).
I guess since IBM are bundling it with a lot of things it is actually worth a lot too them. HOWEVER since nobody would ever JUST buy cloudscape it would be good strategy to widen its use by the OSS community.
basically
1. people use cloudscape in their solutions
2. solutions grow big and don't scale too well
3. people buy db2
4. profit.
...the only people other than criminals who profit from viruses have a stash of 87000 of the little blighters and clearly a lot of knowledge, i feel a conspiracy coming on...
If im correct ipv6 stores your 48 bit mac address in the last 64bits (wasteful) so that should make the fbi's job nice and easy
I know Brilliant have gone about this all the wrong way, but the concept of paying for quality content with cpu cyles sure sounds like a great idea to me! Its certaily sounds better than paying for it with real money... is there anyone else that has tried this approach? How much is once cycle of my processor worth and who wants some?