Typical Microsoft response. If someone else has a technology that could damage them, they buy the company and hide the technology to collect cobwebs. If they don't like a company, they browbeat them into the ground(prime example, Netscape). If they don't like the test results, they say the test was illegal and it doesn't count(They did this a while back with a few Linux vs. NT tests too). If the test results come back bad, MS should see it as where they came short this round, but to accept and try to fix in the future. Learn from your mistakes, don't cover them up and lie about the matter.
How could you really classify as putting 'other' as religion then putting something as being false? If you think about it, alot of people do not conform to one religion. Look at Oriental culture: lots of Asians are in fact part of multiple religions, this is perfectly accepted. One of my friends is Taoist and Buddhist. So technically is he Taoist or Buddhist? No, both. I am like this too, more of a mishmash of Christianity, Buddhism, Taoist and a few personal beliefs to boot, thus do I not have my own religion? It is what I personally believe in.
Though I am not in favor of paying a few thousand dollars for a new HDTV, by forcing everyone to switch to HDTV could have its positives. Look at all the problems the computer industry has due to the need to support legacy hardware. If the computer industry was freed from having to support old hardware and software, think of the problems it would alleviate. By being torn from the old alot of good could come from it.
I think it is is extremely foolish what the RIAA and the music industry is doing. The Napster community is millions strong, it just is not going to disapear no matter what the RIAA wants. By forcing Napster to remove copyrighted material all it is going to do is cause people to come up with more injenious and more clever methods of bypassing the system, prime example the Pig Latin encryption trick. And the harder the RIAA tries to tighten their grip the more people are going to squirm to get around it. It got too big before they did anything about it. Thus, instead of the RIAA just saying 'OK' and allowing the basic Napster technology which is easy for them to keep track of since the servers log all transactions(I believe the main ones do atleast) which the RIAA could use for data anaylsis, instead they foolishly decide to make it even harder on themselves to keep tabs of. Napster is now close if not a household word to alot of people, and alot of people do not see it as being wrong to use. We see a classic example of the old big bad guys versus the shiny new guys, and everyone is rooting for the shiny flashy newcomer. In the end, the music industry is going to lose, maybe not to Napster, but prehaps to another P2P technology that is alot harder to shut down due to a non-centralized network model, or located in a foreign country that does not obey American copyright laws.
I would recommend using what works for you and what conforms to your business. If the database is mission critical, then having the 24/7 Oracle support may be useful. Oracle also likes to tout how they are faster than the compeition, thus the whole 1 million dollar bet they have.
However do not overlook MySQL, as it could be exactly what you need, plus the added advantage of it's cost. Negative being no formal support infrastructure(That I know of) along the lines that Oracle has. Prehaps try setting up a test server with MySQL and do some load tests on it that you believe you be fairly close to what your production server would be handling.
Actually, the old phrase goes "No one ever got fired for buying IBM". IBM was around LONG before Microsoft.
I guess what is rather ironic about this is how during the battle between the at the time new VCR technology and the movie industry was the fact that the movie industry believed if the VCR was made available to the public, it would decimate the industry. Though it was not immediately seen, the industry now enjoys royalties from all the prerecorded tapes and blank tapes that are sold. Now, recording something off TV is a very normal thing to do and I don't know of anybody that thinks of it as being wrong. Want to watch a movie when your not home? Tape it, no one thinks about it from a legal aspect. We are now in a similar state with the music industry. I think it is too soon to say how P2P will effect the future of the industry. Prehaps in the end a similar outcome as with the VCR will result and the industry will come out ahead and also the consumer. However just like before, the industry is crying foul too early IMHO.
I believe I have heard about a potential law that is being considered in Oregon that would ban the use of cell phones while driving. If you wanted to use a cell phone in the car, you would have to pull over, take your call, then go on your way. I think this is a great I have been scared many times by drivers that are on their phones and think they own the road. I see a same problem coming from Internet in the car. However, if used properly, as in pulling over or using it while your parked somewhere I see it as being very useful. If you are out of town and want to know where good resteraunts are with reviews to look at, just hop on the web and there you go. Or maps, hotels, I can think of many very positive aspects of having internet in the vehicle, if people use it properly.
Since the article says the ad is going to run world-wide, I wonder how it will be taken by other countries that did not experience a "psychedelic" age such as America did during the 1960's-1970's.
I am very pleased to see Big Blue spending money on marketing Linux to the world.
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Typical Microsoft response. If someone else has a technology that could damage them, they buy the company and hide the technology to collect cobwebs. If they don't like a company, they browbeat them into the ground(prime example, Netscape). If they don't like the test results, they say the test was illegal and it doesn't count(They did this a while back with a few Linux vs. NT tests too). If the test results come back bad, MS should see it as where they came short this round, but to accept and try to fix in the future. Learn from your mistakes, don't cover them up and lie about the matter.
How could you really classify as putting 'other' as religion then putting something as being false? If you think about it, alot of people do not conform to one religion. Look at Oriental culture: lots of Asians are in fact part of multiple religions, this is perfectly accepted. One of my friends is Taoist and Buddhist. So technically is he Taoist or Buddhist? No, both. I am like this too, more of a mishmash of Christianity, Buddhism, Taoist and a few personal beliefs to boot, thus do I not have my own religion? It is what I personally believe in.
Though I am not in favor of paying a few thousand dollars for a new HDTV, by forcing everyone to switch to HDTV could have its positives. Look at all the problems the computer industry has due to the need to support legacy hardware. If the computer industry was freed from having to support old hardware and software, think of the problems it would alleviate. By being torn from the old alot of good could come from it.
I think it is is extremely foolish what the RIAA and the music industry is doing. The Napster community is millions strong, it just is not going to disapear no matter what the RIAA wants. By forcing Napster to remove copyrighted material all it is going to do is cause people to come up with more injenious and more clever methods of bypassing the system, prime example the Pig Latin encryption trick. And the harder the RIAA tries to tighten their grip the more people are going to squirm to get around it. It got too big before they did anything about it. Thus, instead of the RIAA just saying 'OK' and allowing the basic Napster technology which is easy for them to keep track of since the servers log all transactions(I believe the main ones do atleast) which the RIAA could use for data anaylsis, instead they foolishly decide to make it even harder on themselves to keep tabs of. Napster is now close if not a household word to alot of people, and alot of people do not see it as being wrong to use. We see a classic example of the old big bad guys versus the shiny new guys, and everyone is rooting for the shiny flashy newcomer. In the end, the music industry is going to lose, maybe not to Napster, but prehaps to another P2P technology that is alot harder to shut down due to a non-centralized network model, or located in a foreign country that does not obey American copyright laws.
I would recommend using what works for you and what conforms to your business. If the database is mission critical, then having the 24/7 Oracle support may be useful. Oracle also likes to tout how they are faster than the compeition, thus the whole 1 million dollar bet they have. However do not overlook MySQL, as it could be exactly what you need, plus the added advantage of it's cost. Negative being no formal support infrastructure(That I know of) along the lines that Oracle has. Prehaps try setting up a test server with MySQL and do some load tests on it that you believe you be fairly close to what your production server would be handling. Actually, the old phrase goes "No one ever got fired for buying IBM". IBM was around LONG before Microsoft.
I guess what is rather ironic about this is how during the battle between the at the time new VCR technology and the movie industry was the fact that the movie industry believed if the VCR was made available to the public, it would decimate the industry. Though it was not immediately seen, the industry now enjoys royalties from all the prerecorded tapes and blank tapes that are sold. Now, recording something off TV is a very normal thing to do and I don't know of anybody that thinks of it as being wrong. Want to watch a movie when your not home? Tape it, no one thinks about it from a legal aspect. We are now in a similar state with the music industry. I think it is too soon to say how P2P will effect the future of the industry. Prehaps in the end a similar outcome as with the VCR will result and the industry will come out ahead and also the consumer. However just like before, the industry is crying foul too early IMHO.
I believe I have heard about a potential law that is being considered in Oregon that would ban the use of cell phones while driving. If you wanted to use a cell phone in the car, you would have to pull over, take your call, then go on your way. I think this is a great I have been scared many times by drivers that are on their phones and think they own the road. I see a same problem coming from Internet in the car. However, if used properly, as in pulling over or using it while your parked somewhere I see it as being very useful. If you are out of town and want to know where good resteraunts are with reviews to look at, just hop on the web and there you go. Or maps, hotels, I can think of many very positive aspects of having internet in the vehicle, if people use it properly.
Since the article says the ad is going to run world-wide, I wonder how it will be taken by other countries that did not experience a "psychedelic" age such as America did during the 1960's-1970's. I am very pleased to see Big Blue spending money on marketing Linux to the world.
At some military base that operates those sats, all of a sudden all the screens start flashing: Ph43r Us!! W3 0Wn YouR GP$ $y$tem!!!! L33t!!!!