This is a great time to be involved in open source. Congrats for drawing such a difficult but worthy and rewarding assignment. I have a couple thought s for the policy.
It must encourage and reward people for finding creative and effective open source solutions that save money and increase productivity.
It should make provisions for continuing research, and have a framework for studying recommendations made by individuals. Possibly by committee.
Doing these things will take steps toward the creation of an open source 'culture' in the organization. It gets people interested and involved, and gives the IT management a throwback when people cry that they don't like this or that.
Definitely shop for a doctor. Interrogate them as to how many patients they've handled with your similar circumstances, and what the outcomes were.
How many of them needed a followup adjustment?
How many had flap complications?
Will you yourself be performing the surgery, or will it be a trainee, under your instruction?
I considered price very last in my rating scheme. I wound up in NYC, and don't regret it at all. I couldn't identify a member of my family across a large room, and now I'm 20/20 , even better in one eye.
Programming is no prob. You can still use a special prescription to combat any eye strain.
I would caution that the recovery to full vision for programming purposes is really about two months, rather than the two weeks they suggest.
As a taxpayer, I think that instead of spending millions of dollars to purchase proprietary systems, the government (gubment) should be mandated to look first to free software if the project goals can be realized with it.
A move to proprietary software should only be permitted if demonstrable proof exists that a free / open source solution absolutely cannot do the job.
We have two vendor imposed windows 2000 advanced, professional, super-duper, mumbo-jumbo systems, each of which was installed by a dell / microsoft engineering team. The rest of our env is Linux / Netware / Solaris / AiX.
Only a few weeks later, the clustering software was so badly broken and tangled up, that we had to separate the nodes, and remove the clustering software and hardware. This occurred for both of them. Nobody could fix it.
The good news, is that I got two new Linux / Oracle database servers out of it.
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This is a great time to be involved in open source.
Congrats for drawing such a difficult but worthy and rewarding assignment. I have a couple thought s for the policy.
It must encourage and reward people for finding creative and effective open source solutions that save money and increase productivity.
It should make provisions for continuing research, and have a framework for studying recommendations made by individuals. Possibly by committee.
Doing these things will take steps toward the creation of an open source 'culture' in the organization. It gets people interested and involved, and gives the IT management a throwback when people cry that they don't like this or that.
Good Luck!
--Fargo007
Definitely shop for a doctor. Interrogate them as to how many patients they've handled with your similar circumstances, and what the outcomes were.
How many of them needed a followup adjustment?
How many had flap complications?
Will you yourself be performing the surgery, or will it be a trainee, under your instruction?
I considered price very last in my rating scheme. I wound up in NYC, and don't regret it at all. I couldn't identify a member of my family across a large room, and now I'm 20/20 , even better in one eye.
Programming is no prob. You can still use a special prescription to combat any eye strain.
I would caution that the recovery to full vision for programming purposes is really about two months, rather than the two weeks they suggest.
Be patient, and It'll be there.
- Freddy
As a taxpayer, I think that instead of spending millions of dollars to purchase proprietary systems, the government (gubment) should be mandated to look first to free software if the project goals can be realized with it.
A move to proprietary software should only be permitted if demonstrable proof exists that a free / open source solution absolutely cannot do the job.
- Freddy
We have two vendor imposed windows 2000 advanced, professional, super-duper, mumbo-jumbo systems, each of which was installed by a dell / microsoft engineering team. The rest of our env is Linux / Netware / Solaris / AiX.
Only a few weeks later, the clustering software was so badly broken and tangled up, that we had to separate the nodes, and remove the clustering software and hardware. This occurred for both of them. Nobody could fix it.
The good news, is that I got two new Linux / Oracle database servers out of it.
Thanks Microsoft !!!
- Fargo
htdig has made me a hero here. Mostly because of its reliability and price.
It astonishes me how people can sell something that's already free. Canned air will be next.
- Freddy
Some countries have traditionally scoffed at US intellectual property laws, and their doing so has been ignored with equal tradition.
So, why doesn't napster set a network up in one of these countries? BEYOND the reach of US civil law / international agreement?
- freddy@wissingfamily.com