So.....what's all this have to do with Princess Amygdala? Will she survive the Clone Conventions in Boston and New York? Will she be abducted by Darth Cheney? Will she make it to Episode III????
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FreeBSD 5.1 Released
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Ummmm....actually, you needn't install 5.1-RELEASE to get the latest KDE/GNOME versions. 'Portupgrade' is your friend....;-)
So I just got laid off from a dot.com teetering on the brink of becoming a dot.bomb....it was bought by a software development company based in.....you guessed it....India.
But, hey, I just got my CMBF certification (Certified McDonalds Burger Flipper), so what, me worry??
The business of business is Customers, period, and Ms. Chan has just reminded us that REAL customers, in the REAL business world, gravitate towards total solutions (which either lower a firm's costs or generate a firm's profits), not OS ideologies or disparate, piecemeal fixes. That simply means you offer a product or service that meets another company's needs, that helps them do what they do best more productively and more efficiently than the other options out there. That's why many ISP's use BSDs, why chain stores choose Linux at the back end, why academia and government is taking Linux clustering seriously.
But in the real world, as Ms.Chan points out, CIOs and others responsible for making those solutions work are wary as hell of the finger-pointing game: they can't afford the waste of time and revenue that results. A company will almost always bank on a single provider offering a total solution if they can, if they can't afford to do it in-house. It may sound worrisome that anyone would put "all their eggs in one basket", but the alternative (to them) is scarier: having to chase down a fix for a problem among multiple vendors, additional in-house support costs, etc.
Linux will easily survive the fallout of those companies for whom it was an integral piece of their business model. It will simply continue to be an integral piece of better business models now being implemented, models that focus squarely on customer needs.
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So.....what's all this have to do with Princess Amygdala? Will she survive the Clone Conventions in Boston and New York? Will she be abducted by Darth Cheney? Will she make it to Episode III????
Ummmm....actually, you needn't install 5.1-RELEASE to get the latest KDE/GNOME versions. 'Portupgrade' is your friend....;-)
FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE
XFree86 4.3.0
GNOME 2.2.1/KDE 3.1.2
....and still my favorite WM: WindowMaker 0.80.2 (who needs a dot.oh release anyway???)
FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE
XFree86 4.3.0
GNOME 2.2.1/KDE 3.1.2
....and still my favorite WM: WindowMaker 0.80.2 (who needs a dot.oh release anyway???)
But, hey, I just got my CMBF certification (Certified McDonalds Burger Flipper), so what, me worry??
CVSup is Heaven, portupgrade is Nirvana....."Luke, the Source is with you!"
The business of business is Customers, period, and Ms. Chan has just reminded us that REAL customers, in the REAL business world, gravitate towards total solutions (which either lower a firm's costs or generate a firm's profits), not OS ideologies or disparate, piecemeal fixes. That simply means you offer a product or service that meets another company's needs, that helps them do what they do best more productively and more efficiently than the other options out there. That's why many ISP's use BSDs, why chain stores choose Linux at the back end, why academia and government is taking Linux clustering seriously. But in the real world, as Ms.Chan points out, CIOs and others responsible for making those solutions work are wary as hell of the finger-pointing game: they can't afford the waste of time and revenue that results. A company will almost always bank on a single provider offering a total solution if they can, if they can't afford to do it in-house. It may sound worrisome that anyone would put "all their eggs in one basket", but the alternative (to them) is scarier: having to chase down a fix for a problem among multiple vendors, additional in-house support costs, etc. Linux will easily survive the fallout of those companies for whom it was an integral piece of their business model. It will simply continue to be an integral piece of better business models now being implemented, models that focus squarely on customer needs.