a lot of linux distros ship with everything and you choose what to install. Ubuntu is trying to cater to the non-techie so they strip out anything a desktop PC for the average user won't need without confusing them during the install process.
Windows 7 is getting all the media hype, but MS has been working on a new OS architecture for a while now
I think the way it works there is the Tech Fellows and a small group of their best engineers spend years making next gen tech in secret and than pass it on to the lower level coders to build a finished product around it. I remember I read about what eventually became.NET years before Steve Ballmer first hyped it. It was a pet project of one of their top engineers.
nice thing about a subscription is that there is no more justification to upgrade. you buy the Sub for windows, office, sql and whatever else you want and upgrade when you want.
if you buy licenses then if you want to upgrade a version you have to sell management on why you need to spend $300,000 on SQL or $250,000 on Exchange 2007 and how it will help the business.
i did one recently to justify the purchase of a new backup system. i got the purchase orders and added how much it all cost over the last 3 years for support, maintenance, offsite tape storage, etc. then compared to a new LTO-4 and estimated a few years out. put everything in a nice easy to read PPT to show how buying a new tape library will save a lot of money going forward.
Same here. get all the costs associated with whatever you run. You might need to ask your boss of finance department. estimate the costs of transition and running the new solution and compare the two.
MS licensing is a nightmare and there are a bunch of programs depending on how much users you have and which program you buy into. ask your finance people to pull copies of the purchase orders.
I work in a 95% MS shop. Reason MS rules is 90% of all MS software is stupid little scripts to make things easier. like the box to create a new user in AD. With Open Source you need to customize a lot of it and it may cost money for the consultants, extra support, etc. I help manage 30 or so SQL servers and in the last 2 years our support costs were around $1000 for a few support cases. In all cases MS released a hotfix after we opened a case. No need for custom coding.
we do have a lot of internally depeloved apps and it's like Quake point releases with them. constant updates and fixes.
every time a company reports weak growth or a drop in revenue they always say something like this to make it seem nice.
I remember one time i had symantec stock and they reported 4% earnings growth and no future guidance. 4% growth is as good as negative growth. of course the press release started by saying that Symantec reports record revenue and earnings per share.
same thing with amazon. the dollar amount probably stinks so some poor analyst spent a weekend mining the data to try to find a way to put lipstick on a pig
most SUV's are nothing more than 1970's style station wagons with kits to give it more room off the ground and larger wheels. when rednecks put those big wheels on their trucks the coastal people laughed at them and how stupid they were. the same people are buying station wagons with the same kits and big wheels and paying a huge premium for it and calling them "crossover" SUV's or some other stupid name.
Toyota makes a station wagon version of the Avalon. It's called a Lexus RX and people pay $40,000 and more for it.
3dfx's problem was they could never figure out how they sold their cards. they flipped flopped from themselves to having others make the cards like Nvidia does. after so many times no one wants anything to do with you because it's bad for business planning.
nvidia has had it's current selling model for 10 years and only its partners have changed. if you want to sell video cards you can trust that if you sell cards based on nvidia's chips they won't pull the rug out from under you next year and decide to sell the cards themselves
you can't print out checks and then not issue them. i bet once a check is printed the data goes to the accounting system to subtract that money from the bank account. if you don't issue the checks it's going to be an accounting nightmare since you will now have to account for the money that wasn't really subtracted
because this is america and people only make decisions on the number they see. you can charge more but then someone will charge less and have a termination fee and this company will get all the business because everyone will say they are cheaper and go with them
back in 2002 it was called web services, then it was web 2.0 and a few other things. the 2008 name is cloud computing. come early 2009 they will make up another name to hype at the conventions and get eyeballs to tech news websites
anything labeled USDA Organic has to adhere to very strict standards. It takes a farmer at least 3 years to transition to growing organic fruits and vegetables with inspections each step of the way
there was a recent article about how MS hired a new advertising guy to help them with branding. MS's online efforts are pretty good compared to Google, but completely disorganized and not marketed properly
the government uses ChoicePoint for it's information needs to bypass laws that prohibit it from gathering data on citizens. Google health can end up selling health data to anyone who asks for any reason
a herd of tiny companies makes something to fix some obscure problem that 99% of people will never encounter but the marketing hype makes it seem like the end of the world
i can't count how many products are crazy ways to push updates or check for updates or are just easier ways for admins to use features of Windows or some other MS product that is part of the product but requires more than clicking a button to make it work. I use SQL 2005 and there are so many ways to get into the guts of the product and see what is really happening that it will take months to learn it all. but there is no shortage of products that do the exact same thing except with a colorful GUI and so you don't have to invest the time to learn the product yourself
there is a company called CCH that collects all kinds of tax info from around the US, organizes it and sells it to businesses so they can collect taxes. this has been the case with telephone service for decades now
why spend your capital to buy niche products that may sit in the warehouse for months when you can rent website space to let someone else take the risk. this way you can spend your capital to buy up top 40 CD's and bestseller books that will sell more copies
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in case of fraud you are probably very easy to find and arrest
a lot of linux distros ship with everything and you choose what to install. Ubuntu is trying to cater to the non-techie so they strip out anything a desktop PC for the average user won't need without confusing them during the install process.
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=microsoft+midori&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f
Windows 7 is getting all the media hype, but MS has been working on a new OS architecture for a while now
I think the way it works there is the Tech Fellows and a small group of their best engineers spend years making next gen tech in secret and than pass it on to the lower level coders to build a finished product around it. I remember I read about what eventually became .NET years before Steve Ballmer first hyped it. It was a pet project of one of their top engineers.
nice thing about a subscription is that there is no more justification to upgrade. you buy the Sub for windows, office, sql and whatever else you want and upgrade when you want.
if you buy licenses then if you want to upgrade a version you have to sell management on why you need to spend $300,000 on SQL or $250,000 on Exchange 2007 and how it will help the business.
in the end the cost is the same
i did one recently to justify the purchase of a new backup system. i got the purchase orders and added how much it all cost over the last 3 years for support, maintenance, offsite tape storage, etc. then compared to a new LTO-4 and estimated a few years out. put everything in a nice easy to read PPT to show how buying a new tape library will save a lot of money going forward.
Same here. get all the costs associated with whatever you run. You might need to ask your boss of finance department. estimate the costs of transition and running the new solution and compare the two.
MS licensing is a nightmare and there are a bunch of programs depending on how much users you have and which program you buy into. ask your finance people to pull copies of the purchase orders.
I work in a 95% MS shop. Reason MS rules is 90% of all MS software is stupid little scripts to make things easier. like the box to create a new user in AD. With Open Source you need to customize a lot of it and it may cost money for the consultants, extra support, etc. I help manage 30 or so SQL servers and in the last 2 years our support costs were around $1000 for a few support cases. In all cases MS released a hotfix after we opened a case. No need for custom coding.
we do have a lot of internally depeloved apps and it's like Quake point releases with them. constant updates and fixes.
half the code in Windows is licensed from third parties. kind of like Disk Management is a lite version of Symantec Volume Manager.
For Ultimate all the extras are probably licensed code from other companies and MS is just passing on the extra licensing costs.
MS has had online capability for years now where multiple people can open and edit documents at the same time. It was just over the corporate network.
every time a company reports weak growth or a drop in revenue they always say something like this to make it seem nice.
I remember one time i had symantec stock and they reported 4% earnings growth and no future guidance. 4% growth is as good as negative growth. of course the press release started by saying that Symantec reports record revenue and earnings per share.
same thing with amazon. the dollar amount probably stinks so some poor analyst spent a weekend mining the data to try to find a way to put lipstick on a pig
most SUV's are nothing more than 1970's style station wagons with kits to give it more room off the ground and larger wheels. when rednecks put those big wheels on their trucks the coastal people laughed at them and how stupid they were. the same people are buying station wagons with the same kits and big wheels and paying a huge premium for it and calling them "crossover" SUV's or some other stupid name.
Toyota makes a station wagon version of the Avalon. It's called a Lexus RX and people pay $40,000 and more for it.
3dfx's problem was they could never figure out how they sold their cards. they flipped flopped from themselves to having others make the cards like Nvidia does. after so many times no one wants anything to do with you because it's bad for business planning.
nvidia has had it's current selling model for 10 years and only its partners have changed. if you want to sell video cards you can trust that if you sell cards based on nvidia's chips they won't pull the rug out from under you next year and decide to sell the cards themselves
you can't print out checks and then not issue them. i bet once a check is printed the data goes to the accounting system to subtract that money from the bank account. if you don't issue the checks it's going to be an accounting nightmare since you will now have to account for the money that wasn't really subtracted
because this is america and people only make decisions on the number they see. you can charge more but then someone will charge less and have a termination fee and this company will get all the business because everyone will say they are cheaper and go with them
how loud is it and does it need the hoover dam to power it up?
the way things are going you will need 2 power supplies in a PC. one for the video card and one for everything else
shocking, who still uses it?
back in 2002 it was called web services, then it was web 2.0 and a few other things. the 2008 name is cloud computing. come early 2009 they will make up another name to hype at the conventions and get eyeballs to tech news websites
anything labeled USDA Organic has to adhere to very strict standards. It takes a farmer at least 3 years to transition to growing organic fruits and vegetables with inspections each step of the way
there was a recent article about how MS hired a new advertising guy to help them with branding. MS's online efforts are pretty good compared to Google, but completely disorganized and not marketed properly
the government uses ChoicePoint for it's information needs to bypass laws that prohibit it from gathering data on citizens. Google health can end up selling health data to anyone who asks for any reason
probably because they served a sentence and now they are out, or does slashdot now advocate life sentences for any crime?
probably anyone who has a conviction in a court of law for a crime committed online will be on this list. kind of like a registered sex offender
it's the same with any product
a herd of tiny companies makes something to fix some obscure problem that 99% of people will never encounter but the marketing hype makes it seem like the end of the world
i can't count how many products are crazy ways to push updates or check for updates or are just easier ways for admins to use features of Windows or some other MS product that is part of the product but requires more than clicking a button to make it work. I use SQL 2005 and there are so many ways to get into the guts of the product and see what is really happening that it will take months to learn it all. but there is no shortage of products that do the exact same thing except with a colorful GUI and so you don't have to invest the time to learn the product yourself
there is a company called CCH that collects all kinds of tax info from around the US, organizes it and sells it to businesses so they can collect taxes. this has been the case with telephone service for decades now
try flowers from one of the organic stores or Whole Foods. they smell a lot better and stronger than pretty much all other flowers i've ever bought
inventory risk
why spend your capital to buy niche products that may sit in the warehouse for months when you can rent website space to let someone else take the risk. this way you can spend your capital to buy up top 40 CD's and bestseller books that will sell more copies