The biggest obstacle to using OSS in seriously large corporations is support.
I'm a lead architect on a seriously big project for a global scale logistics company right now. We use CouchDB, HudsonCI, Membase, EhCache and some other OSS stuff. Its used as core infrastructure on a global deployment to over 100 countries, supporting the entire platform, and handling in the tens-of-millions of messages per day - and I can say from bitter experience that while most managers will buy into the use of this stuff, unless they can buy 24/7 Gold Support with a 4 Hour response, it makes not a shred of difference how good this stuff is technically.
It all boils down to CYA - and no support means no CYA.....
Agreed - what the articel is basically saying is that IT needs to be better aligned with the business. This is what a decent Enterprise Architecture gives you, and its why more companies are now attempting to put these in place despite that fact that doing so costs big money up front before you start to see the benefits...
Yep - US iPhones work fine (after unlocking). I can confirm everything is fine and dandy on Virgin (UK), O2-Prepay (UK) and Orange-FR (france).....signal strength is fine too - even in rural France, around the Limoges area.
I recall a few years ago in Virginia (I think)....there was an Australian syndicate doing just that. They bought loads of tickets through hundreds of 'agents' and actually won a fair chunk of change. Same thing happens in Europe too, although I think some countries changed the rules to limit how many tickets a single syndicate could buy....spoilsports!
No, no, he meant 'Pubes'....in so far as the internet is a big tangled mess that you have to really work your fingers/tongue/other-soft-parts into in order to get anywhere. And occasionally, just when you think you've got what you're after, it comes off in your hands. Or worse, just when you are expecting an IPsex tunnel, you find instead that you're grasping a male connector with a huge dongle that wont fit your plug hole....
Nah, you know you are addicted when your non-geek wife knows the answers to all the interview questions you've spent the last 6 months asking candidates in telephone interviews! My missus is so good she could get a job doing C# easy, and she's never been near an IDE in her life.
(Let the abuse about C# not being a proper language roll)
Then get Asterisk. Hook Asterisk to BroadVoice and then call your Asterisk box from the cell phone and if you signed up for the $20 plan, you can call pretty much anywhere in the world from your cell for the price of a local call.
Been doing it for months and it works like a charm. Plus of course, hook your regular phone up at home and its totally free when you're in the house too!
Checkout Lingo. 25 bucks gets you a number pretty much anywhere (I have a london number). If you call abroad, go for the international plan (N. America and Europe.).
Once you have this, you can use call forwarding, in combination with your local cell phone to get international calls to pretty much anywhere via your cell phone for the price of a local call.
I used to pay 40p per minute to call the US from a cell phone, now I get the same for 5p per minute. Plus, if you Ma wants to call kids/relatives overseas, have her redirect your number temporarily and then call your local number, and BINGO!!
I take your point, but I'm not sure that its not about the database market. At root, it is. Oracle recognizes that revenues from its core product (the DB) is being eroded by cheaper and even (gasp) free software. What Oracle covets from Peoplesoft is the revenue streams generated by Peoplesoft software, and more specifically, they covet the fact that Peoplesoft sells its stuff on a subscription basis, so these revenues are on-going rather than single-point-sales. Since Oracle doesnt publish detailed accounts of revenue by product line, its difficult to know for sure what the trend is on revenues from Oracle DB, but most analysts believe this to be on (at best) a horizontal line. They need new streams, and they need a subscription model. Peoplesoft provides both.
Its not that its no use for building complex relationships, its just that the client has to do it, rather than just shoving some SQL mumbo-jumbo at a parser and having it do it for you. You can build stuff that is just as complex using IMS as you can with Oracle.
Who says data storage abstraction is always a good thing?
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The biggest obstacle to using OSS in seriously large corporations is support.
I'm a lead architect on a seriously big project for a global scale logistics company right now. We use CouchDB, HudsonCI, Membase, EhCache and some other OSS stuff. Its used as core infrastructure on a global deployment to over 100 countries, supporting the entire platform, and handling in the tens-of-millions of messages per day - and I can say from bitter experience that while most managers will buy into the use of this stuff, unless they can buy 24/7 Gold Support with a 4 Hour response, it makes not a shred of difference how good this stuff is technically.
It all boils down to CYA - and no support means no CYA.....
Agreed - what the articel is basically saying is that IT needs to be better aligned with the business. This is what a decent Enterprise Architecture gives you, and its why more companies are now attempting to put these in place despite that fact that doing so costs big money up front before you start to see the benefits...
Yep - US iPhones work fine (after unlocking). I can confirm everything is fine and dandy on Virgin (UK), O2-Prepay (UK) and Orange-FR (france).....signal strength is fine too - even in rural France, around the Limoges area.
I recall a few years ago in Virginia (I think)....there was an Australian syndicate doing just that. They bought loads of tickets through hundreds of 'agents' and actually won a fair chunk of change. Same thing happens in Europe too, although I think some countries changed the rules to limit how many tickets a single syndicate could buy....spoilsports!
It wasnt a virus, it was a fungus.....
Yep, a plain old fungus that brought Windows to its knees (or perhaps it was on its knob, I dont remember).....
bollocks
Just a friendly reminder: "To Gether" is two words, even though they are fre quently slur red to gether when spo ken...your name is Ken, right?
I sometimes say "you should drop them immediately" to my woman.....
No, no, he meant 'Pubes'....in so far as the internet is a big tangled mess that you have to really work your fingers/tongue/other-soft-parts into in order to get anywhere. And occasionally, just when you think you've got what you're after, it comes off in your hands. Or worse, just when you are expecting an IPsex tunnel, you find instead that you're grasping a male connector with a huge dongle that wont fit your plug hole....
Its all basically a nightmare
Neither is 'ablabgiblollopop'
It doesnt. I work there, believe me, it doesnt.
Nah, you know you are addicted when your non-geek wife knows the answers to all the interview questions you've spent the last 6 months asking candidates in telephone interviews! My missus is so good she could get a job doing C# easy, and she's never been near an IDE in her life.
(Let the abuse about C# not being a proper language roll)
Get a BroadVoice connection
Then get Asterisk. Hook Asterisk to BroadVoice and then call your Asterisk box from the cell phone and if you signed up for the $20 plan, you can call pretty much anywhere in the world from your cell for the price of a local call.
Been doing it for months and it works like a charm. Plus of course, hook your regular phone up at home and its totally free when you're in the house too!
But what if theybrought their hamster with them? Those little suckers can crank like mad...
Whoo hoooo!! No more whacked code to fix! (Ever notice how birds cant code to save their lives? Its like it was all written by a psychotic!)
Get 'em out, thats what I say to women in IT.
Dr Spock my arse - It was YODA
Checkout Lingo. 25 bucks gets you a number pretty much anywhere (I have a london number). If you call abroad, go for the international plan (N. America and Europe.).
Once you have this, you can use call forwarding, in combination with your local cell phone to get international calls to pretty much anywhere via your cell phone for the price of a local call.
I used to pay 40p per minute to call the US from a cell phone, now I get the same for 5p per minute. Plus, if you Ma wants to call kids/relatives overseas, have her redirect your number temporarily and then call your local number, and BINGO!!
VoIP is FANTASTIC
Did anyone ever take the time to introduce you to the Capital letteR?? Fantastic invention, feel free to use one when you feel CoNfIdEnT
Thats bollocks - I just bought one last week, and it doesnt have batteries
I take your point, but I'm not sure that its not about the database market. At root, it is. Oracle recognizes that revenues from its core product (the DB) is being eroded by cheaper and even (gasp) free software. What Oracle covets from Peoplesoft is the revenue streams generated by Peoplesoft software, and more specifically, they covet the fact that Peoplesoft sells its stuff on a subscription basis, so these revenues are on-going rather than single-point-sales. Since Oracle doesnt publish detailed accounts of revenue by product line, its difficult to know for sure what the trend is on revenues from Oracle DB, but most analysts believe this to be on (at best) a horizontal line. They need new streams, and they need a subscription model. Peoplesoft provides both.
Dude, thats the funniest one-liner I've seen in donkeys years!
small craft advisory??
Its not that its no use for building complex relationships, its just that the client has to do it, rather than just shoving some SQL mumbo-jumbo at a parser and having it do it for you. You can build stuff that is just as complex using IMS as you can with Oracle.
Who says data storage abstraction is always a good thing?
Dude,
That is a seriously good idea
M-ultiple
I-ndependently targettable
R-eentry
V-ehicle
MIRVs are a sort of ice-cream cone with bubble gum at the bottom (or are they strawberry mivvies??)