That's MS Exchange alright. It's been doing all this and more for almost a decade. And managed properly it's very stable. It's one of the good products that MS makes.
A single database to hold of the user's email. Single instance storage ensures that only one copy of any attachment is in the database at once, no matter in how many email messages it was sent in. API's for back up let you back up the whole database or individual mailboxes. And depending on your backup solution you can restore mailboxes and individual emails. Anti-virus software that integrates into the server side of the software. In Exchange 2000 if you accidently delete a mailbox you can easily bring it back with all emails without restoring from tape. Only files to worry about on the user end is a personal address book and archived email. Unless you use POP3 or it's archived in personal folders the email always stays on the server preventing problems like accidentaly downloading important emails you need at the office being on a home PC. And it's stable. Not as stable as UNIX I admit, but it stays up for months without a reboot. And in my experience most problems are solved by a simple reboot. In 4 yeas of exposure to exchange, the only non-admin related problems I've seen were 1 database corruption where I needed to run a utility and wait 45 minutes for it to work again. And a corrupted MTA that needed a reboot to get it working right again.
Successful? It took 5 times as long to get to version 1.0 than MS did with IE. Open source fanatics like to rant about the bugs in IE and other MS products, well there are still plenty in mozilla. It's not like it's a perfect piece of software. In this case MS is much more efficient.
Open source shows it's strengths in Linux. Open source code and standards and a few companies selling the OS and enterprise services to go along. You've got redhat, IBM and a few others. Mozilla shouldn't be a poster child for open source. Linux yes.
First the encryption the military uses is way advanced of anything in PGP or the civilian sector. Second this will most likely use frequency hopping radio technology. The US Army has had frequency hopping radios with encryption since the 80's. Any crypto the military uses first has to be approved by the NSA. And I haven't heard of anyone hacking into the NSA's classified systems yet.
Most likely not. Since the 80's the military has been using frequency hopping radios. Every tank, armored personnel carrier, most humvees and infantry team have one. The new ones being deployed to ground forces have a MAC address since they will be part of a battlefield TCP/IP network and relay data.
Geeks may do this, but the average person who only plays games, emails and chats won't. $300 for a game machine, DVD player, PVR, chatting and telephone device is worth it. And they may capture some AOL users at the same time. Why pay AOL when xbox will do it all. People will buy it for games/PVR capability and get all the aol features for free.
Difference is Sony's partners are authorized and not hack like the battlenet clone. They will still be payinglicensing fees to sony for the games they sell.
Microsoft's partners will be LucasArts of course and a bunch of small developing houses that don't want to invest tons of $$$ they don't have into their own datacenters. Since they don't have the cash they will be too happy to let MS handle the server side. Powerhouses like EA know all to well what happens when you give some control to MS and since they have the cash they can build their own datacenters. And most likely they already have some kind of infrastructure in place for PC gaming online. Why cede control to MS when you can write a soccer game and have PC players and X-Box players play on your own network? The downside to the Sony approach is multiple billing. With MS you have one bill for all your gaming needs. With Sony you have to worry about budgeting and if you can afford a fifth subscription. And if you already have subs to some online games will you want to set up more? With MS you have one account you can use for all the games you want.
As far as kids tehy have their own credit cards these days and will be able to set up their own online accounts. So parents may be out of the picture in some households.
There is a myth floating around the internet that Windows is less secure than linux. Looking at these statistics from SecurityFocus.com revelas that in 2001 linux had more security vulnerabilities than Windows NT. Windows as a total package still has more incidents than linux, but Windows is deployed much more widely and get a lot more scrutiny.
It's easier to drop the price since there are so many on the shelf. There is probably some kind of revenue split deal with the X-boxes. WIth the accessories it's probably a different deal and would require renegotiation with a lot of stores.
And then slashdotters will start complaining why the newest OS doesn't run on their P75 or slower PC with all the bells and whistles. MS is putting in hardware 3d acceleration into Longhorn and we can all remember how/.ers liked that idea. But if someone else puts out a 3d OS it's OK.
who would only buy a console when it dropped to $99 and came with a game. Personally I don't think this competition will be long lived. Microsoft and Sony will use their cash to push Nintendo out of the hardware market. This is what MS is classic at. Using it's size and resources to simply wait out until the competitors leave the market because they run out of resources. In a few years it will only be Sony and MS in the console market.
Who in their right mind will give away the fruits of their labor for free. Here in NYC there are plenty of well to do artists selling their works for a lot of money. I haven't heard of a single one who toils just to give their work away for free. How many kids dream of being a rock star and being poor? Making unbelievable amounts of money goes hand in hand with dreams of making it big in the music biz. Same thing in anything else with creativity involved.
MS is going down. They can't sell any of their junk and have to cut the price to comptete. Soon the losses will mount and they will stop selling the crap box. This is the start of MS downfall. Did I miss anything?
A friend gave me a bootleg of the first hour or so and it looks pretty good. I saw the first 15 minutes or so. The rest I'm going to watch at home. I think the whole bootleg thing is a George Lucas conspiracy. Ironically you can easily find the first part of AOTC on the file sharing networks, but the second part is no where to be found. Maybe it's a way to wet people's appetites?
What a rip off. Where I work everything except some insignificant stuff is on at least RAID 1. Why would I go the Apple route when I can get a server form Dell or Compaq with SCSI RAID for less? My company is Win2000, but Dell and Compaq also support Linux on servers. Another Apple rip off.
A good sized business will run their own NNTP server anyway and have a real business ISP. But how many small businesses actually use nntp? For what except spamming newsgroups with penile enlargememt ads?
Think about it stupid. A credit card can easily be verified by a computer like they do at Amazon and hundreds of other sites. With photo ID you need paid employees to verify it. Kind of hard running a free services and needing to hire an army of people for monkey work. How are you going to pay them?
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That's MS Exchange alright. It's been doing all this and more for almost a decade. And managed properly it's very stable. It's one of the good products that MS makes.
MS Exchange has been doing this for almost a decade now. Version 5 was the first decent one to get and 5.5 is great.
A single database to hold of the user's email. Single instance storage ensures that only one copy of any attachment is in the database at once, no matter in how many email messages it was sent in. API's for back up let you back up the whole database or individual mailboxes. And depending on your backup solution you can restore mailboxes and individual emails. Anti-virus software that integrates into the server side of the software. In Exchange 2000 if you accidently delete a mailbox you can easily bring it back with all emails without restoring from tape. Only files to worry about on the user end is a personal address book and archived email. Unless you use POP3 or it's archived in personal folders the email always stays on the server preventing problems like accidentaly downloading important emails you need at the office being on a home PC. And it's stable. Not as stable as UNIX I admit, but it stays up for months without a reboot. And in my experience most problems are solved by a simple reboot. In 4 yeas of exposure to exchange, the only non-admin related problems I've seen were 1 database corruption where I needed to run a utility and wait 45 minutes for it to work again. And a corrupted MTA that needed a reboot to get it working right again.
Successful? It took 5 times as long to get to version 1.0 than MS did with IE. Open source fanatics like to rant about the bugs in IE and other MS products, well there are still plenty in mozilla. It's not like it's a perfect piece of software. In this case MS is much more efficient.
Open source shows it's strengths in Linux. Open source code and standards and a few companies selling the OS and enterprise services to go along. You've got redhat, IBM and a few others. Mozilla shouldn't be a poster child for open source. Linux yes.
what a bunch of geeks. It's a commodity. Nothing special.
First the encryption the military uses is way advanced of anything in PGP or the civilian sector. Second this will most likely use frequency hopping radio technology. The US Army has had frequency hopping radios with encryption since the 80's. Any crypto the military uses first has to be approved by the NSA. And I haven't heard of anyone hacking into the NSA's classified systems yet.
Most likely not. Since the 80's the military has been using frequency hopping radios. Every tank, armored personnel carrier, most humvees and infantry team have one. The new ones being deployed to ground forces have a MAC address since they will be part of a battlefield TCP/IP network and relay data.
Geeks may do this, but the average person who only plays games, emails and chats won't. $300 for a game machine, DVD player, PVR, chatting and telephone device is worth it. And they may capture some AOL users at the same time. Why pay AOL when xbox will do it all. People will buy it for games/PVR capability and get all the aol features for free.
Difference is Sony's partners are authorized and not hack like the battlenet clone. They will still be payinglicensing fees to sony for the games they sell.
As far as kids tehy have their own credit cards these days and will be able to set up their own online accounts. So parents may be out of the picture in some households.
There is a myth floating around the internet that Windows is less secure than linux. Looking at these statistics from SecurityFocus.com revelas that in 2001 linux had more security vulnerabilities than Windows NT. Windows as a total package still has more incidents than linux, but Windows is deployed much more widely and get a lot more scrutiny.
It's easier to drop the price since there are so many on the shelf. There is probably some kind of revenue split deal with the X-boxes. WIth the accessories it's probably a different deal and would require renegotiation with a lot of stores.
And then slashdotters will start complaining why the newest OS doesn't run on their P75 or slower PC with all the bells and whistles. MS is putting in hardware 3d acceleration into Longhorn and we can all remember how /.ers liked that idea. But if someone else puts out a 3d OS it's OK.
who would only buy a console when it dropped to $99 and came with a game. Personally I don't think this competition will be long lived. Microsoft and Sony will use their cash to push Nintendo out of the hardware market. This is what MS is classic at. Using it's size and resources to simply wait out until the competitors leave the market because they run out of resources. In a few years it will only be Sony and MS in the console market.
Who in their right mind will give away the fruits of their labor for free. Here in NYC there are plenty of well to do artists selling their works for a lot of money. I haven't heard of a single one who toils just to give their work away for free. How many kids dream of being a rock star and being poor? Making unbelievable amounts of money goes hand in hand with dreams of making it big in the music biz. Same thing in anything else with creativity involved.
I wonder how this will spill over into the slamming done by long distance and other phone companies.
Don't let anyone get between you and your customers. Microsoft and EA both know this.
MS is going down. They can't sell any of their junk and have to cut the price to comptete. Soon the losses will mount and they will stop selling the crap box. This is the start of MS downfall. Did I miss anything?
A friend gave me a bootleg of the first hour or so and it looks pretty good. I saw the first 15 minutes or so. The rest I'm going to watch at home. I think the whole bootleg thing is a George Lucas conspiracy. Ironically you can easily find the first part of AOTC on the file sharing networks, but the second part is no where to be found. Maybe it's a way to wet people's appetites?
That's the whole point. You have to buy the hardware RAID. It's standard on the competitors cheaper models. And software RAID is a joke.
What a rip off. Where I work everything except some insignificant stuff is on at least RAID 1. Why would I go the Apple route when I can get a server form Dell or Compaq with SCSI RAID for less? My company is Win2000, but Dell and Compaq also support Linux on servers. Another Apple rip off.
A good sized business will run their own NNTP server anyway and have a real business ISP. But how many small businesses actually use nntp? For what except spamming newsgroups with penile enlargememt ads?
Businesses can. That's why they pay more. I get free business class DSL from my employer and can run servers and have a public IP.
Think about it stupid. A credit card can easily be verified by a computer like they do at Amazon and hundreds of other sites. With photo ID you need paid employees to verify it. Kind of hard running a free services and needing to hire an army of people for monkey work. How are you going to pay them?
Nobody forces anyone to buy or pirate a copy of any of blizzard's games. It's not like paying taxes.