I was considering your service for a customer I was doing consulting for, they have built a small web based data driven application for doing internal CRM. Looks like my final recommendation is going to be racksaver as they are not in corroboration with The SCO Group.
I have read the terms of their license agreement, and I don't see anything of value in that contract. Contrary seem to open yourself up to their crosshairs in the future exposing yourself, and anyone that I would recommend to your service. I also strongly feel that they are weaving nothing but lies and decept in their practices, and I can't help but wonder what your company must have gained by doing business with them.
Unfortunately, I do fear that your going to have a backlash of bad press come from this and will be nothing but harm for your company. (Again, another reason that I would in the future not recomend anyone to do business with EV1Servers.NET, I don't believe you can sustain a business with that kind of bad press).
I suggest reading the following website: www.groklaw.net, as I am sure that it's just a matter of hours before your company is front page to it and will definitely be posed as a sacrificial lamb. Having been a business partner/owner myself, I would strongly suggest that you put a clear stance on the front page of your website regarding the purchase. The community that feeds you business will turn on you if you don't. I personally have been completely turned off by the news.
I hope you don't feel this letter was an attack, nor do I expect a response. I hope that the matter might be resolved before further harm is done to your business. Today you just lost one potential customer. I felt enclined to at least notify you why that would be, as maybe it can be corrected.
" One social feature of the game that deserves special mention is the "sidekick" feature. In a typical massively multiplayer game, high-level characters can't really effectively adventure with low-level characters -- if your friends develop their characters past you, you might as well kiss them goodbye.
City of Heroes combats that problem in a way that fits in with the title's "all action, no hassle" gameplay. If you want to team up with a high-level character, you become that character's "sidekick." All of your existing powers are souped up, almost to the level of your mentor's, so you can participate in all of the high-level missions. The experience a sidekick gets will only be proportional to his/her level, but at least nobody gets left out of the action. It's a fun way to make sure that everyone can enjoy the game, and it fits in perfectly with superhero fiction."
Anyone that has played MMO's will appreciate this feature. I like to play with my wife on Dark Age of Camelot, but I find that it takes her about 10x as long to XP her toons up as me, unless I spend all my time PL'n her. This is a way for me to play at my pace, and include my non-junkie friends in the adventures without having to feel like I need to slow down or them get discouraged they are left behind.
This game looks great, I will definately give it a try.
Tell me the application that needs more than 8 CPU's that doesn't cluster? I won't go far on a limb to say -most-, but a LOT of new applications that are being developed on the enterprise are web based, or using web services. These applications are a natural fit for clustering.
Database you say? Take a look at 10g from oracle, it's built from the ground to cluster. DB2 does the same AFAIK.
If your stuck running SQL Server, your definately going to have a problem... but , I have little need to run our database systems on big iron. (We are right now testing our billing systems on oracle 10g running on Linux, thus far we are extremely impressed...)
I believe that a smart design can compensate for need for pig iron, most implimentations that require it either have way to big of a budget or lazy design which requires single image to scale.
"Is the Unisys/W2000 a contender with Sun in the 8-32 CPU space ? Not really, because all W2000 processes run in their own small protected space, whereas one application on Sun can take advantage of all CPU's on the system if necessary."
Explain to me, maybe I mis-understand. 1 process / thread on sun will only take 1 CPU. If you have a program with multiple threads of execution, it will take advantage on n number cpu's with a little bit of overhead.
Unless you have written your application to run in multiple threads, or forks... you won't take advantage of all the cpu's on a sun box. Same with SGI IRIX, same with AIX, same with Windows/Intel, and definately so with Linux.
I honestly was a bit scheptical myself before buying a laptop. I have been notorious at my company for buying a laptop and finding a way to give it to someone else and end up back on my workstation. About 2 years ago, when the tiBook had released the 800 mhz chip version (pre superdrive), I decided to make the jump.
First, the tools have come a long way. I was quite used to running eclipse on windows/cygwin or linux. Eclipse was very immature on mac when I bought my tiBook, but now isn't a problem.
The speed isn't the fastest in the world, probably on par with any lower end windows laptop you can buy today for 1100-1500 dollars still. BUT, I do strongly prefer to do java dev on my mac still. This is the first laptop that I have used as long as I have. It's working well enough, I am not sure I am going to even upgrade it this year.
iChat is pretty sweet, I use that as my primary communication tool with the rest of the engineers on my team. Unix terminal is great, I would get iTerm (Free), which is prefect for working on my remote app servers. Resin runs fine on my mac, so I can emulate my full development and deployment platform.
I also do a lot of scripts in Python as well, panther comes out of the box with everything just working. I haven't even bothered to install the debian tools apt for my mac yet.
JEdit is a great tool that runs perfect on my mac as well.
Now, I haven't reviewed the update that landed on my laptop yesterday, jdk 1.4.2. (automatic updates are nice).. but seems that everything is still working great after the update.
The ONLY complaint I have about my model is the poor reception on the wireless card.
My battery still seems to be holding strong.
I can't play any games on it, but thats probably not a bad thing as I would probably just get distracted.
I don't even bother with office for OSX anymore, as openoffice seems to suite my needs. Just find a Cocoa based launcher and your set.
I guess I would recomend that laptop if your wanting a nice tool for doing your work in. The tools are all there, if you use Java based tools. I am sure that the newer powerbooks would just 1-2x faster than what I am used to, but I am not complaining about speed at all. (My home workstation is a 3.06ghz comp with 2 gigs of ram, my laptop doesn't feel unreasonbly slow even after goofing with linux/windows on that machine).
My final advice is, determine if there is anything that you HAVE to do that won't work on mac, if the answer is no, it's definately a good buy and even though the laptops are a bit expensive, in my opionion, I have gotten every penny and more out of mine thus far and eventually when I feel my laptop is just not able to cut it anymore (no idea when this will be) will be replacing it with another apple high end laptop.
>> I don't have the patience to bother with Linux, so I don't use it, simple as that. People who think everyone can and should switch today are idiots and don't deserve a +5 moderation.
5-6 years ago when kde 1.0 was out, a friend of mine told me it was good enough to replace most of the stuff you do on windows. Of course he was far from right, but because that person pushed so hard, I gave it a try.. today I am not using linux on my desktop, but because of me my company has switched all it's server platforms to linux from windows and I use linux on my workstation for java dev at work.
Maybe because of my work on linux 2-3 other engineers I work with know a bit more about unix and see it as an option other than windows.
Who knows, you never know where someones zelotry will get. But, because my home computer is more an entertainment device than a development workstation, i too use windows at home. I like to play games, and I just can't play the games I want on Linux (or mac for that matter). If it wasn't for the games, the other tools I use have equivilant and acceptable alternatives on Linux.
My guess is that they must be chained up in the basement of their London Utah office. They are fed dinner nightly by Darls hunch-back 1/2 brother with a mutilated face named James, that can do nothing but mutter incoherant sounds and say Darls-wifes pet name, Chunk.
I spent almost a full day getting MythTV working, and still didn't work perfect. Seems business as usual for linux apps. Linux poses no more threat on PVR space than linux based home built routers pose for home access point routers like linksys or netgear.
I have both Mozilla and firebird on my desktop, usually I am browsing in mozilla. Seems that mozilla is a bit more polished at the moment than FB, but I am looking forward to a 1.0 firebird release.
I have a 3.06 ghz p4 tho with a gig of ram.. FB doesn't seem faster than mozilla to me, so I am only interested in stability/features.
I have used opera for a while, but was surprised to find that mozilla not only renders pages better usually, but also crashes less frequently.
I am not trying to flame FB or Opera, I just find that moz does the job better than either.
wpanderson, if your reading this.. I would love some insight on future of Smoothwall, and features.
Is there any plans of adding features such as a very easy interface for Packet shaping.
Is there an easy way to track and monitor the trafic, based on source of the request , type of traffic and the destination.
Is there an easy way to access the network with an out of the box VPN service.
Is there support for multiple external IP's.
Is there support for mixed STANDARD MODE and NAT MODE for external interfaces. And rules that let you push back and forth between the different zones.
Does smoothwall support 3 physical devices, or more, for DMZ/Lan/WAN configuration.
Does SW support 1-1 NAT and filters/services based on that nat configuration?
External logging, eventlog, traffic, etc?
Support for various devices above mentioned and a 802.11b sharing device with authentication.
I am assuming that SW uses SNORT for it's IDS. Is there plans for automated updates of rules on that or an easy way to manage those rules.
I am very interested in Smoothwall, I would love to dig into it when I have time. How friendly is the SW community with rolling features back into the project if one so chooses? (I definately am not interested in adding features to a system which will only be sold at a commercial level... if so I would probably go help the people at IPCop...).
Looks like you guys have worked on this project and congradulations on your 2.0 release. I might fire up a machine in my closet to give it a kick. and see how it runs at home, maybe even start hacking on it. We have a couple medium / small offices where I work, and we could use such a toy to help secure the networks. (netgear cablemodem routers are so boring).
I wish I knew of an active place like slashdot which was focused on exactly that. Seems that it's always the same old crap here. I can read release anouncements on freshmeat.
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"As does NetWare."
thats the first thought that flew through my mind after reading Darls comment.
Netware does a lot of the common tasks as UNIX ware:
They would have to be much more specific on what the terms of the non-compete. INAL , but it seems that if they can push a non-compete for SuSE , they can also get it for Netware as well as possibly some of the other products.
My guess is they can't go after existing business that SCO holds or develop a UNIX operating system themselves... where technically Linux isn't UNIX, it's all going to come into the careful wording of the non-compete.
I have ran debian in the past but have had problems with Java running w/out segfaults on it without manually updating some of the base libraries, etc. Maybe it's better now, but I might just jump ship from redhat to SuSE for all my needs.
From what I have seen , SuSE doesn't lack anything redhat has, just free downloads. I guess it wouldn't hurt me to have to cough up money for a base release.
mandrake just doesn't seem like a reasonable option to use for work/server environment on stable production servers.
I guess I will be running redhat for the next 12 months as I slowly migrate to my only aparant option SuSE.
Very true not all projects are the same. But, i said that for (i try not to make ubiquitous statements for blindly for everyone), but i have found that lockin without an option has been nothing but problems.
If.NET is a great technology and your entire team knows it, hold onto it. Trust that your single vendor choice will not let you down. Use it on server.. definately use it on the client. On the same note, C# is not 'harder' to learn and use than someone with a decent amount of experience with Java. i would NEVER even consider moving to C# as a platform until there are more commerical choices. (I don't use Tomcat as a app server for example, it's crap.. I use commercial app servers for our cluster...) Anyway, if MS turned out to have a mediocre solution on C#, your technology is bound without a choice.
If the mistake doesn't have any real concequence, it doesn't matter... for me to make a huge lock-in mistake that leaves the organiation is a vote of lack-of-confidence that would probably cost me my job.
C# isn't 'crap' on the desktop. We have bet BIG on that horse, and I don't think it's going to let us down.
Apple, meet orange. (as another slashdot poster well put it)
"Is your car bonnet welded shut ? Or can you open it up and play with it ? Since you own it, that is, you aren't licensing it from the car manufacturer, you should be able to do what ever you like with it, including pouring sugar in the petrol tank. If you choose to, that is up to you. The car manufacturer doesn't care what you do with their car, as it's yours - they have made their money. Set it on fire for all they care."
i think this is a bad example. It would be more like everyone having the capability to replicate/duplicate and distribute a car based on the modification of a single engine mold, that costs nothing but time to modify. After that that mold can reproduce as many offshoots of that car as wanted, at 0 cost, metal, machining , painting and deployment don't cost a penny, or at least you can mass distribute through at a cost of 20-39 dollars per month fixed.
Using soft and hard good comparisons is apples and oranges. no matter how you look at it.
i am not saying I agree or disagree. (well, I guess if my wallet is an indicater, I strongly agree as looking whats in my computer). If you want open source drivers, i am sure you can find one that was released for your old Trident hardware. who knows. If youw ant bleeding edge, you have your choices of 2 companies, and binary drivers. I am happy that both companies are supporting ANY amount of time into a market that has 5% (+- 2%) desktop marketshare. I commend them actually for making such a silly business decision, because they know how strongly the community feels about it.
For me, rating heat/noise on 1/2 is not really fair.. maybe mid-range , like 5-7 on both.. i have a gforce4 ti and no problems with heat... noise isn't a problem either, on or off...d oesn't cary a huge impact on DB ratiing as whole.
Now, a big one for me:
Past Problems ati: 3 nvidia: 9
to me thats the most important factor. My friend still has to hit reset 7-8 times before the bios will take his video card, very strange. I have been burnt once with a ATI card myself, and I won't go back until i know that it won't happen again.
i have NEVER had a problem with supported games, or solid drivers on my gforce line of cards, or the old TNT line for that matter. Even if I dual boot into linux.
If you build your system around one game imparticular, not a problem... but I guess I 'believe' or 'trust' (feelings) that my nvidia card will be less problematic and better supported by OS/games/etc.
Until ATI can overcome peoples scheptical view of their past, and present, they are going to never be king.
C# is splendid on the client, if your deploying to windows. Much better than Java in my opinion. But on the server side, C# has a long ways to go before I would ever trust it for a massively scalable project. Frankly java does the job, and does it VERY well on the server side.
C# has very very limmited options on the server side. In Java I have massive selection of JVM's, --> SERVER PLATFORMS -- , servlet containers, EJB containers, IDE's.
As a matter of fact, I can't think of a single tier 1 player other than borland jumping in line to give balmer a rim-job and provide technology at a infrastructure level for C#.NET.
Frankly, I have been burnt by microsoft enough times, that I won't do anything with.NET unless it's a client deployed application that I understand will be limited to a 9x/win2k/XP environment. Java would of been my next choice if we had to suport macs or linux, but we don't.
Also, to say that database performance is higher with C# is frankly bullshit. I would venture to say that eventually things will improve with C#/CLR based applications, but performance is not a factor between the two. Usually good design implimentation is what determines how well an application runs, not the environment that it runs in.
BMP/CMP ejb implimentations where hugely misused in early days of EJB. Now that the technology and the people that use it have matured, you can build a VERY scalable and robust solution without any problem.
to say that C# is perfect, even VS.NET is perfect is frankly a joke too. I have had more than once had to do cludgey work-arounds because the code that the IDE generates when moving a widget causes a problem. Many things are improving in the newer version of VS.NET , but again... lets see.
Frankly people that say that Java is loosing ground in the enterprise have no idea what they are talking about and are quite out of touch with whats really happening.
How many european / asian firms would you believe are jumping up-and-down to impliment a lockin-microsoft solution at this point in the game? not many that I know of. Many US organizations are b ecoming more scheptical as well. Possibly because they have found they are tired of being ass-rammed by security/quality issues that come as a concequence of those decisions.
Microsoft made a mistake not launching a Java alternative early on, but like the internet, they are late to the game and will build on other peoples ideas/mistakes.. but I am scheptical that C# is going to knock java into insignificane until there ar eas many options for C# as there are for Java. That means microsoft letting go of the control, and frankly.. if you believe that will happen, I have land to sell you in the middle of the Great Salt Lake.
Personally I think netbeans is best kept a secret. It's Java's attempt at being emacs for all I can tell. I find myself to be MUCH more productive with Eclipse or IDEA.
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Hello Sir,
I was considering your service for a customer I was doing consulting for, they have built a small web based data driven application for doing internal CRM. Looks like my final recommendation is going to be racksaver as they are not in corroboration with The SCO Group.
I have read the terms of their license agreement, and I don't see anything of value in that contract. Contrary seem to open yourself up to their crosshairs in the future exposing yourself, and anyone that I would recommend to your service. I also strongly feel that they are weaving nothing but lies and decept in their practices, and I can't help but wonder what your company must have gained by doing business with them.
Unfortunately, I do fear that your going to have a backlash of bad press come from this and will be nothing but harm for your company. (Again, another reason that I would in the future not recomend anyone to do business with EV1Servers.NET, I don't believe you can sustain a business with that kind of bad press).
I suggest reading the following website: www.groklaw.net, as I am sure that it's just a matter of hours before your company is front page to it and will definitely be posed as a sacrificial lamb. Having been a business partner/owner myself, I would strongly suggest that you put a clear stance on the front page of your website regarding the purchase. The community that feeds you business will turn on you if you don't. I personally have been completely turned off by the news.
I hope you don't feel this letter was an attack, nor do I expect a response. I hope that the matter might be resolved before further harm is done to your business. Today you just lost one potential customer. I felt enclined to at least notify you why that would be, as maybe it can be corrected.
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One social feature of the game that deserves special mention is the "sidekick" feature. In a typical massively multiplayer game, high-level characters can't really effectively adventure with low-level characters -- if your friends develop their characters past you, you might as well kiss them goodbye.
City of Heroes combats that problem in a way that fits in with the title's "all action, no hassle" gameplay. If you want to team up with a high-level character, you become that character's "sidekick." All of your existing powers are souped up, almost to the level of your mentor's, so you can participate in all of the high-level missions. The experience a sidekick gets will only be proportional to his/her level, but at least nobody gets left out of the action. It's a fun way to make sure that everyone can enjoy the game, and it fits in perfectly with superhero fiction."
Anyone that has played MMO's will appreciate this feature. I like to play with my wife on Dark Age of Camelot, but I find that it takes her about 10x as long to XP her toons up as me, unless I spend all my time PL'n her. This is a way for me to play at my pace, and include my non-junkie friends in the adventures without having to feel like I need to slow down or them get discouraged they are left behind.
This game looks great, I will definately give it a try.
Tell me the application that needs more than 8 CPU's that doesn't cluster? I won't go far on a limb to say -most-, but a LOT of new applications that are being developed on the enterprise are web based, or using web services. These applications are a natural fit for clustering.
Database you say? Take a look at 10g from oracle, it's built from the ground to cluster. DB2 does the same AFAIK.
If your stuck running SQL Server, your definately going to have a problem... but , I have little need to run our database systems on big iron. (We are right now testing our billing systems on oracle 10g running on Linux, thus far we are extremely impressed...)
I believe that a smart design can compensate for need for pig iron, most implimentations that require it either have way to big of a budget or lazy design which requires single image to scale.
"Is the Unisys/W2000 a contender with Sun in the 8-32 CPU space ? Not really, because all W2000 processes run in their own small protected space, whereas one application on Sun can take advantage of all CPU's on the system if necessary."
Explain to me, maybe I mis-understand. 1 process / thread on sun will only take 1 CPU. If you have a program with multiple threads of execution, it will take advantage on n number cpu's with a little bit of overhead.
Unless you have written your application to run in multiple threads, or forks... you won't take advantage of all the cpu's on a sun box. Same with SGI IRIX, same with AIX, same with Windows/Intel, and definately so with Linux.
I believe I was able to download schedule information on classes, etc. from our university gopher server. Thats about all I ever used it for.
I honestly was a bit scheptical myself before buying a laptop. I have been notorious at my company for buying a laptop and finding a way to give it to someone else and end up back on my workstation. About 2 years ago, when the tiBook had released the 800 mhz chip version (pre superdrive), I decided to make the jump.
First, the tools have come a long way. I was quite used to running eclipse on windows/cygwin or linux. Eclipse was very immature on mac when I bought my tiBook, but now isn't a problem.
The speed isn't the fastest in the world, probably on par with any lower end windows laptop you can buy today for 1100-1500 dollars still. BUT, I do strongly prefer to do java dev on my mac still. This is the first laptop that I have used as long as I have. It's working well enough, I am not sure I am going to even upgrade it this year.
iChat is pretty sweet, I use that as my primary communication tool with the rest of the engineers on my team. Unix terminal is great, I would get iTerm (Free), which is prefect for working on my remote app servers. Resin runs fine on my mac, so I can emulate my full development and deployment platform.
I also do a lot of scripts in Python as well, panther comes out of the box with everything just working. I haven't even bothered to install the debian tools apt for my mac yet.
JEdit is a great tool that runs perfect on my mac as well.
Now, I haven't reviewed the update that landed on my laptop yesterday, jdk 1.4.2. (automatic updates are nice).. but seems that everything is still working great after the update.
The ONLY complaint I have about my model is the poor reception on the wireless card.
My battery still seems to be holding strong.
I can't play any games on it, but thats probably not a bad thing as I would probably just get distracted.
I don't even bother with office for OSX anymore, as openoffice seems to suite my needs. Just find a Cocoa based launcher and your set.
I guess I would recomend that laptop if your wanting a nice tool for doing your work in. The tools are all there, if you use Java based tools. I am sure that the newer powerbooks would just 1-2x faster than what I am used to, but I am not complaining about speed at all. (My home workstation is a 3.06ghz comp with 2 gigs of ram, my laptop doesn't feel unreasonbly slow even after goofing with linux/windows on that machine).
My final advice is, determine if there is anything that you HAVE to do that won't work on mac, if the answer is no, it's definately a good buy and even though the laptops are a bit expensive, in my opionion, I have gotten every penny and more out of mine thus far and eventually when I feel my laptop is just not able to cut it anymore (no idea when this will be) will be replacing it with another apple high end laptop.
Good luck
>> I don't have the patience to bother with Linux, so I don't use it, simple as that. People who think everyone can and should switch today are idiots and don't deserve a +5 moderation.
5-6 years ago when kde 1.0 was out, a friend of mine told me it was good enough to replace most of the stuff you do on windows. Of course he was far from right, but because that person pushed so hard, I gave it a try.. today I am not using linux on my desktop, but because of me my company has switched all it's server platforms to linux from windows and I use linux on my workstation for java dev at work.
Maybe because of my work on linux 2-3 other engineers I work with know a bit more about unix and see it as an option other than windows.
Who knows, you never know where someones zelotry will get. But, because my home computer is more an entertainment device than a development workstation, i too use windows at home. I like to play games, and I just can't play the games I want on Linux (or mac for that matter). If it wasn't for the games, the other tools I use have equivilant and acceptable alternatives on Linux.
My guess is that they must be chained up in the basement of their London Utah office. They are fed dinner nightly by Darls hunch-back 1/2 brother with a mutilated face named James, that can do nothing but mutter incoherant sounds and say Darls-wifes pet name, Chunk.
I spent almost a full day getting MythTV working, and still didn't work perfect. Seems business as usual for linux apps. Linux poses no more threat on PVR space than linux based home built routers pose for home access point routers like linksys or netgear.
Too late, already done... it's called the sims online.
Pretty much a flop from what I can tell.
I have both Mozilla and firebird on my desktop, usually I am browsing in mozilla. Seems that mozilla is a bit more polished at the moment than FB, but I am looking forward to a 1.0 firebird release.
I have a 3.06 ghz p4 tho with a gig of ram.. FB doesn't seem faster than mozilla to me, so I am only interested in stability/features.
I have used opera for a while, but was surprised to find that mozilla not only renders pages better usually, but also crashes less frequently.
I am not trying to flame FB or Opera, I just find that moz does the job better than either.
Hmm... actually I have. Those appear to be the missing features I would be interested in.
Looks like I stick with openbsd.
"If you want all that functionallity for nothing you are a piece of work."
Sorta like someone wanting the functionality of a commercial database, operating system and desktop, web servers and development environments?
Hypocrite
wpanderson, if your reading this.. I would love some insight on future of Smoothwall, and features.
Is there any plans of adding features such as a very easy interface for Packet shaping.
Is there an easy way to track and monitor the trafic, based on source of the request , type of traffic and the destination.
Is there an easy way to access the network with an out of the box VPN service.
Is there support for multiple external IP's.
Is there support for mixed STANDARD MODE and NAT MODE for external interfaces. And rules that let you push back and forth between the different zones.
Does smoothwall support 3 physical devices, or more, for DMZ/Lan/WAN configuration.
Does SW support 1-1 NAT and filters/services based on that nat configuration?
External logging, eventlog, traffic, etc?
Support for various devices above mentioned and a 802.11b sharing device with authentication.
I am assuming that SW uses SNORT for it's IDS. Is there plans for automated updates of rules on that or an easy way to manage those rules.
I am very interested in Smoothwall, I would love to dig into it when I have time. How friendly is the SW community with rolling features back into the project if one so chooses? (I definately am not interested in adding features to a system which will only be sold at a commercial level... if so I would probably go help the people at IPCop...).
Looks like you guys have worked on this project and congradulations on your 2.0 release. I might fire up a machine in my closet to give it a kick. and see how it runs at home, maybe even start hacking on it. We have a couple medium / small offices where I work, and we could use such a toy to help secure the networks. (netgear cablemodem routers are so boring).
I wish I knew of an active place like slashdot which was focused on exactly that. Seems that it's always the same old crap here. I can read release anouncements on freshmeat.
"As does NetWare."
thats the first thought that flew through my mind after reading Darls comment.
Netware does a lot of the common tasks as UNIX ware:
Runs oracle, runs mysql, pgsql, serves web pages, serves file sharing.
Only diferentiation is the OS itself.
They would have to be much more specific on what the terms of the non-compete. INAL , but it seems that if they can push a non-compete for SuSE , they can also get it for Netware as well as possibly some of the other products.
My guess is they can't go after existing business that SCO holds or develop a UNIX operating system themselves... where technically Linux isn't UNIX, it's all going to come into the careful wording of the non-compete.
"I GO ON FIRST, AND CLEEEAN THE HAIR!"
but noo noo
But I make deh hair SOFT and SILKYY!!
Conditioner is better than Shampoo!!!!!
Thanks for the tip, I will definately take a closer look.
Yup, trying to figure out same thing myself.
I have ran debian in the past but have had problems with Java running w/out segfaults on it without manually updating some of the base libraries, etc. Maybe it's better now, but I might just jump ship from redhat to SuSE for all my needs.
From what I have seen , SuSE doesn't lack anything redhat has, just free downloads. I guess it wouldn't hurt me to have to cough up money for a base release.
mandrake just doesn't seem like a reasonable option to use for work/server environment on stable production servers.
I guess I will be running redhat for the next 12 months as I slowly migrate to my only aparant option SuSE.
Very true not all projects are the same. But, i said that for (i try not to make ubiquitous statements for blindly for everyone), but i have found that lockin without an option has been nothing but problems.
.NET is a great technology and your entire team knows it, hold onto it. Trust that your single vendor choice will not let you down. Use it on server.. definately use it on the client. On the same note, C# is not 'harder' to learn and use than someone with a decent amount of experience with Java. i would NEVER even consider moving to C# as a platform until there are more commerical choices. (I don't use Tomcat as a app server for example, it's crap.. I use commercial app servers for our cluster...) Anyway, if MS turned out to have a mediocre solution on C#, your technology is bound without a choice.
If
If the mistake doesn't have any real concequence, it doesn't matter... for me to make a huge lock-in mistake that leaves the organiation is a vote of lack-of-confidence that would probably cost me my job.
C# isn't 'crap' on the desktop. We have bet BIG on that horse, and I don't think it's going to let us down.
Cheers
Apple, meet orange. (as another slashdot poster well put it)
"Is your car bonnet welded shut ? Or can you open it up and play with it ? Since you own it, that is, you aren't licensing it from the car manufacturer, you should be able to do what ever you like with it, including pouring sugar in the petrol tank. If you choose to, that is up to you. The car manufacturer doesn't care what you do with their car, as it's yours - they have made their money. Set it on fire for all they care."
i think this is a bad example. It would be more like everyone having the capability to replicate/duplicate and distribute a car based on the modification of a single engine mold, that costs nothing but time to modify. After that that mold can reproduce as many offshoots of that car as wanted, at 0 cost, metal, machining , painting and deployment don't cost a penny, or at least you can mass distribute through at a cost of 20-39 dollars per month fixed.
Using soft and hard good comparisons is apples and oranges. no matter how you look at it.
i am not saying I agree or disagree. (well, I guess if my wallet is an indicater, I strongly agree as looking whats in my computer). If you want open source drivers, i am sure you can find one that was released for your old Trident hardware. who knows. If youw ant bleeding edge, you have your choices of 2 companies, and binary drivers. I am happy that both companies are supporting ANY amount of time into a market that has 5% (+- 2%) desktop marketshare. I commend them actually for making such a silly business decision, because they know how strongly the community feels about it.
For me, rating heat/noise on 1/2 is not really fair.. maybe mid-range , like 5-7 on both.. i have a gforce4 ti and no problems with heat... noise isn't a problem either, on or off...d oesn't cary a huge impact on DB ratiing as whole.
Now, a big one for me:
Past Problems ati: 3 nvidia: 9
to me thats the most important factor. My friend still has to hit reset 7-8 times before the bios will take his video card, very strange. I have been burnt once with a ATI card myself, and I won't go back until i know that it won't happen again.
i have NEVER had a problem with supported games, or solid drivers on my gforce line of cards, or the old TNT line for that matter. Even if I dual boot into linux.
If you build your system around one game imparticular, not a problem... but I guess I 'believe' or 'trust' (feelings) that my nvidia card will be less problematic and better supported by OS/games/etc.
Until ATI can overcome peoples scheptical view of their past, and present, they are going to never be king.
C# is splendid on the client, if your deploying to windows. Much better than Java in my opinion. But on the server side, C# has a long ways to go before I would ever trust it for a massively scalable project. Frankly java does the job, and does it VERY well on the server side.
C# has very very limmited options on the server side. In Java I have massive selection of JVM's, --> SERVER PLATFORMS -- , servlet containers, EJB containers, IDE's.
As a matter of fact, I can't think of a single tier 1 player other than borland jumping in line to give balmer a rim-job and provide technology at a infrastructure level for C#
Frankly, I have been burnt by microsoft enough times, that I won't do anything with
Also, to say that database performance is higher with C# is frankly bullshit. I would venture to say that eventually things will improve with C#/CLR based applications, but performance is not a factor between the two. Usually good design implimentation is what determines how well an application runs, not the environment that it runs in.
BMP/CMP ejb implimentations where hugely misused in early days of EJB. Now that the technology and the people that use it have matured, you can build a VERY scalable and robust solution without any problem.
to say that C# is perfect, even VS
Frankly people that say that Java is loosing ground in the enterprise have no idea what they are talking about and are quite out of touch with whats really happening.
How many european / asian firms would you believe are jumping up-and-down to impliment a lockin-microsoft solution at this point in the game? not many that I know of. Many US organizations are b ecoming more scheptical as well. Possibly because they have found they are tired of being ass-rammed by security/quality issues that come as a concequence of those decisions.
Microsoft made a mistake not launching a Java alternative early on, but like the internet, they are late to the game and will build on other peoples ideas/mistakes.. but I am scheptical that C# is going to knock java into insignificane until there ar eas many options for C# as there are for Java. That means microsoft letting go of the control, and frankly.. if you believe that will happen, I have land to sell you in the middle of the Great Salt Lake.
Personally I think netbeans is best kept a secret. It's Java's attempt at being emacs for all I can tell. I find myself to be MUCH more productive with Eclipse or IDEA.