Folks, you are focusing too much on the Linux part and ignoring everything else here.
Most large financial firms with a serious web presence have a mixture of mainframes (4 or 5), like those 390s, and 200 or 300 A/S 400s. During the day, the web servers are busy, handling transactions, while the mainframes are realtvly idle. At night, the mainframes do batch jobs, while the web servers are quiet. The result of this is that at any point in the day, millions of dollars worth of hardware is doing nothing!
Enter hot-swappable O/Ses. Replace those A/S400s with a few more 390s. Now, during the day you can devote most of those cycles to linux web servers, running only the amount of O/S390 you need for transaction processing. reverse the situation during the night. And, if you need a sudden increase in the number of webservers at 2am, just boot a few more instances.
This whole process saves tons of money. Less hardware, fewer SAs, smaller data centers, less wasted resources.
You guys want Linux to hit the big time? IBM is now going to be pushing Linux as part of an offering that will save companies like E*Trade and Schwab and Wells Fargo and BofA and every other finaincial institution millions of dollars a year.
Well, sort of. Milk companies are allowed to lable their milk as rBGH free (see Horizon Farms). However, they may not imply through this labeling that their is any diffence between milk with and milk without rBGH.
The good folks of the EU all but ban GM foods, and they don't seem to be starving. GM foods are not needed to feed the masses. The only ting they do is increase the profit of Monsanto and other companies of that ilk.
In the United States that may be the case. However, in most third world nations, they do continue to use their own seeds. Requiring these farmers to purchase new seed on an annual basis would destroy their farms. There was a protest over this very issue during the WTO talks in Seattle that was organized by farmers from India
You know, I'm really tired of this high rent argument. Yeah, sure rents are higher in the Bay Area. However, so are the slaries that geeks are making.
I'm a 32 year old high school dropout web master. I'm currenlty pulling in $91k/yr, plus benes, plus a base 15% annual bonus (closer to 30% becuase of company performance). And I'm underpaid for this area! My compensation would not be the same in Phoenix.
Sure, my rent may be two - three times higher then other parts of the country. However, after I pay the rent and buy food, I have a much higher disposable income then most people. The average annual income in the US is $35k a year. I have more then that to play with after rent and taxes.
Now, explain to me again how I'm in a horrible area.
You know, I'm really tired of this high rent argument. Yeah, sure rents are higher in the Bay Area. However, so are the slaries that geeks are making. I'm a 32 year old high school dropout web master. I'm currenlty pulling in $91k/yr, plus benes, plus a base 15% annual bonus (closer to 30% becuase of company performance). And I'm underpaid for this area! My compensation would not be the same in Phoenix. Sure, my rent may be two - three times higher then other parts of the country. However, after I pay the rent and buy food, I have a much higher disposable income then most people. The average annual income in the US is $35k a year. I have more then that to play with after rent and taxes. Now, explain to me again how I'm in a horrible area.
It only sounds stupid if you are ignorant of history.
Careful who you are calling stupid. The United States has had its hands in plenty of atrocites over the past 200+ years. Which is one of the points of Dr. Strangelove, and which George C. Scott potrayed so well.
To drag this back to the subject, GCS had this power as an actor that was incredible. And not just when he was chewing the scenery. There was a great moment in Taps where he is talking about how he is becoming obsolete. He was very calm, but oh so dramatic.
Despite what many may think, Katz is spot on when he sites the lack of personal information about Gates in his book. Before I found my current career, I was in personnel, and had to read many a book of this type. Also went to a fair number of seminars on this subject. And, they all followed a similar pattern:
Author gives management truism
Author tells story, usually from their own life, to illustrate truism
Some of the ideas presented in these books may be at odds with what the reader believes. The reader needs to be convinced, especially when the old way works just fine. As an extreme example, why should a CEO instruct his employees to use email when paper memos work just fine?
Gates is trying to impart his philosophy on business to the business world. He needs to give real world examples of how this philosophy made his company what it is today. Without these examples, B@TSOL becomes nothing more then a lose collection of quotes that Gates and his ghostwriter culled from 30 years of Popular Science.
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Folks, you are focusing too much on the Linux part and ignoring everything else here.
Most large financial firms with a serious web presence have a mixture of mainframes (4 or 5), like those 390s, and 200 or 300 A/S 400s. During the day, the web servers are busy, handling transactions, while the mainframes are realtvly idle. At night, the mainframes do batch jobs, while the web servers are quiet. The result of this is that at any point in the day, millions of dollars worth of hardware is doing nothing!
Enter hot-swappable O/Ses. Replace those A/S400s with a few more 390s. Now, during the day you can devote most of those cycles to linux web servers, running only the amount of O/S390 you need for transaction processing. reverse the situation during the night. And, if you need a sudden increase in the number of webservers at 2am, just boot a few more instances.
This whole process saves tons of money. Less hardware, fewer SAs, smaller data centers, less wasted resources.
You guys want Linux to hit the big time? IBM is now going to be pushing Linux as part of an offering that will save companies like E*Trade and Schwab and Wells Fargo and BofA and every other finaincial institution millions of dollars a year.
Linux just hit the big time.
Those french had the nerve to ban hormone treated beef from the US! In response, the US imposed $150 million in tarrifs on French luxury foods.
When will the French learn that corporations know best?
Well, sort of. Milk companies are allowed to lable their milk as rBGH free (see Horizon Farms). However, they may not imply through this labeling that their is any diffence between milk with and milk without rBGH.
The good folks of the EU all but ban GM foods, and they don't seem to be starving. GM foods are not needed to feed the masses. The only ting they do is increase the profit of Monsanto and other companies of that ilk.
In the United States that may be the case. However, in most third world nations, they do continue to use their own seeds. Requiring these farmers to purchase new seed on an annual basis would destroy their farms. There was a protest over this very issue during the WTO talks in Seattle that was organized by farmers from India
You know, I'm really tired of this high rent argument. Yeah, sure rents are higher in the Bay Area. However, so are the slaries that geeks are making.
I'm a 32 year old high school dropout web master. I'm currenlty pulling in $91k/yr, plus benes, plus a base 15% annual bonus (closer to 30% becuase of company performance). And I'm underpaid for this area! My compensation would not be the same in Phoenix.
Sure, my rent may be two - three times higher then other parts of the country. However, after I pay the rent and buy food, I have a much higher disposable income then most people. The average annual income in the US is $35k a year. I have more then that to play with after rent and taxes.
Now, explain to me again how I'm in a horrible area.
You know, I'm really tired of this high rent argument. Yeah, sure rents are higher in the Bay Area. However, so are the slaries that geeks are making. I'm a 32 year old high school dropout web master. I'm currenlty pulling in $91k/yr, plus benes, plus a base 15% annual bonus (closer to 30% becuase of company performance). And I'm underpaid for this area! My compensation would not be the same in Phoenix. Sure, my rent may be two - three times higher then other parts of the country. However, after I pay the rent and buy food, I have a much higher disposable income then most people. The average annual income in the US is $35k a year. I have more then that to play with after rent and taxes. Now, explain to me again how I'm in a horrible area.
Careful who you are calling stupid. The United States has had its hands in plenty of atrocites over the past 200+ years. Which is one of the points of Dr. Strangelove, and which George C. Scott potrayed so well.
To drag this back to the subject, GCS had this power as an actor that was incredible. And not just when he was chewing the scenery. There was a great moment in Taps where he is talking about how he is becoming obsolete. He was very calm, but oh so dramatic.
- Author gives management truism
- Author tells story, usually from their own life, to illustrate truism
Some of the ideas presented in these books may be at odds with what the reader believes. The reader needs to be convinced, especially when the old way works just fine. As an extreme example, why should a CEO instruct his employees to use email when paper memos work just fine?Gates is trying to impart his philosophy on business to the business world. He needs to give real world examples of how this philosophy made his company what it is today. Without these examples, B@TSOL becomes nothing more then a lose collection of quotes that Gates and his ghostwriter culled from 30 years of Popular Science.