I agree, Neo Conservative business policies do not contribute to anything but their own bottom line. Now the Irish are in a bind because they built their economy on making it cheap to operate a company. Unfortunately, China, Indo-China, and, India can do it even cheaper.
Most people will not upgrade to it but will change when they update to a newer distro that includes apache2. Also, the functionality of the new apache does not make for a required upgrade.
A few months ago, we were using a Bell-Sympatico DSL line for our web server. Easy-dns provided(bell.easydns.com) provided the dns. Weirdly, out site would not load for our customers. I took the graphics out and the pages loaded fine. They had blocked graphics to port 80. All kinds of graphics: jpeg, gif, and png. I think there is software and/or hardware to block any specific protocol they want.
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I agree, Neo Conservative business policies do not contribute to anything but their own bottom line. Now the Irish are in a bind because they built their economy on making it cheap to operate a company. Unfortunately, China, Indo-China, and, India can do it even cheaper.
Most people will not upgrade to it but will change when they update to a newer distro that includes apache2. Also, the functionality of the new apache does not make for a required upgrade.
One big problem with the SAP DB is that it is a flat database, not relational. Another problem it is bloated(100Meg) compared to MySQL(10Meg).
If they should be able to run code at our computers, they increase the security risk, since viruses may exploit these programs.
Are they liable if they screw up and let out personal information, for damage to data, etc. ?
A few months ago, we were using a Bell-Sympatico DSL
line for our web server. Easy-dns provided(bell.easydns.com) provided the dns. Weirdly, out site would not load for our customers. I took the graphics out and the pages loaded fine. They had blocked graphics to port 80. All kinds of graphics: jpeg, gif, and png. I think there is software and/or hardware to block any specific protocol they want.
My floppy disks from my amiga started to go. All that bbs stuff from the 80-early 90's is disappearing.
Maybe Google will save snapshop of the web.
If nobody trusts this system, it will not get into widespread use. Amazingly, Micro$oft does not succeed at everything.