And you never ever want to be FORCED to switch your complete source repository to another system when you are not prepared for - because a mister XYZ wants to change his license at will. Think of it like file formats: you don't want to forced to switch away from you complex Excel macros, Exchange customisations and so, only because M$ wants to change the EULA.
And another point: the clause causing all the loud noise is rightout silly. There are just a few version control systems out there - free and commercial. Most of the system are self hosted just to prove they are working. Why does he give a damn about "helping" competition with his free license when he says he has the best product. He only got bad PR, lost reputation and got not one a licensee extra because of this clause.
Pitchfork
PS: Ok, it could be a sort of PR stunt. Lots of bad PR gets a real good brand recognition. Brand recognition leads to more sales. Hmm.
In our team (and some other that i know of) the project manager puts the tasks of the next two weaks into our bug tracker (bugzilla btw) and does the monitoring there. It's kind of annoying but actually works quite well. If somebody has a full automated two way ms projectbugzilla synchronisation tool (like the perforcebugzilla integration) i would be very happy, but on the other side, i do not happen to be the project manager (uffa).
Stored procedures reduce the SQL parse overhead, the latency of a command and a whole lot of net load. There are many cases where moving logic from the middle tear (web server) to the db server increases overall performance without reducing performance of the db server. It's just the way of db access with least overhead.
Re:anyone else notice the history of SAP
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PostgreSQL vs. SAP?
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SAP licensed Adabas D from Software AG some time back with some powerful rights to the source - making a code fork. Both companies then developed the database further with different directions. Once SAP decided to open source the renamed SAP DB (still based on the same Adabas core) I imaging Software AG was a little pissed off and doesn't want the info to flow around too much... there still trying to sell Adabas D for a whole lot of money while the SAP DB is GPLd. And btw. from all that I know, SAP DB evolved much faster than Adabas D.
you have either 500 linux 1 HE boxes or 1 mainframe with 500 partitions. You have a total peak for all 500 systems and you must have hardware to deliver to this peak. z/VM cannot add processing power to the system as a whole, it can only shift it between the virtual machines.
My opinion about that:
It all depends whether the peaks of the 500 systems happen at the same time or if the peaks are distributed in time.
When they happen at the same time, then nothing but raw processing power can help you. There is no shifting of CPU cycles between VMs possible, everything is eaten up.
When the peaks happen at different times, the resources from one VM can be shifted to another VM and IBM has a solution to minimize the costs.
The solutions Sun offers is also viable: take 500 cobalts put a load balancer in front and let all the 500 cobalts run ALL applications/web sites. In this way the processing power is also perfectly shared between the instances. With the negative impact that they is no real barrier between the systems and that will make some of your customers unhappy.
Re:Adabas/SAPDB -- Relational and Hierarchical
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SAPDB 7.3.00.20 Released
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There are two different Version from Adabas from Software AG (the ones making Adabas).
- Adabas, the hierarchical database
- and Adabas D the relational. Adabas D is packaged with Suse Linux and StarOffice 5.2.
SAP DB is based from Adabas D. From my (somewhat limited) experience SAP DB has much better support and more features than the original Adabas D. Adabas D is still sold from Software AG and not that cheap, so if you are interested in either of the two I'd go for SAP DB.
Btw, SAP DB does not come with any form of official support (unless you pay for it together with the license for SAP R/3) but the developers are very active and responsive on their mailing list.
Another comment to make: SAP DB is used in commercial situations to run SAP R/3 the business application framework from SAP in quite a lot of companies. The standard databases for R/3 are Oracle,DB2,etc. but the existence of an supported installment of SAP R/3 on SAP DB is a strong vote for this database.
The german government is well aware of the fact that a computer is a hackable device. There are laws for the public key infrastructure PKI to be government accepted and it just goes far beyond trust in the certification issuer. The computer that creates the keys has to be sealed off and what not all, i do not know all of this stuff, since this was all decided a few years ago.
About the chipcard in itself not being safe but only in conjunction with a safe computer, there were plans to build chipcard readers with to not reveal the private key to the PC but only tell the PC whats needed for the encryption job. And this is also done after the user entered a PIN code on the keyboard of the chip card reader (and not on the keyboard of the PC). But I do not know, to what level the protection of the home PC is enforced to get the digital signature legally accepted.
Re:Aqua l'n'f or native Aqua implementation?
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Qt Released For OS X
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From interviews with Trolltech and my understanding of the design principles of QT I am betting, that they reimplemented the widgets with the Aqua Look and Feel. The whole design of QT is about not using native widgets and they have some nice whitepapers about the reasons for this.
They worked together with Apple in developing QT/Mac and I think they reimplemented the widgets and signed agreements not to ship these widgets for the other platforms.
I use linux for quite some time, but mostly in text modus shell form on my servers, but last time I looked, Suse 7.1 was completely configured from the KDE control center. There was a folder full of admin plugins like install software, change network settings, and probably all the stuff, yast has.
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And you never ever want to be FORCED to switch your complete source repository to another system when you are not prepared for - because a mister XYZ wants to change his license at will.
Think of it like file formats: you don't want to forced to switch away from you complex Excel macros, Exchange customisations and so, only because M$ wants to change the EULA.
And another point: the clause causing all the loud noise is rightout silly. There are just a few version control systems out there - free and commercial. Most of the system are self hosted just to prove they are working. Why does he give a damn about "helping" competition with his free license when he says he has the best product. He only got bad PR, lost reputation and got not one a licensee extra because of this clause.
Pitchfork
PS: Ok, it could be a sort of PR stunt. Lots of bad PR gets a real good brand recognition. Brand recognition leads to more sales. Hmm.
IBM DB2 doesn't have it. Bin it *g*
In our team (and some other that i know of) the project manager puts the tasks of the next two weaks into our bug tracker (bugzilla btw) and does the monitoring there. It's kind of annoying but actually works quite well.
If somebody has a full automated two way ms projectbugzilla synchronisation tool (like the perforcebugzilla integration) i would be very happy, but on the other side, i do not happen to be the project manager (uffa).
Stored procedures reduce the SQL parse overhead, the latency of a command and a whole lot of net load. There are many cases where moving logic from the middle tear (web server) to the db server increases overall performance without reducing performance of the db server.
It's just the way of db access with least overhead.
SAP licensed Adabas D from Software AG some time back with some powerful rights to the source - making a code fork. Both companies then developed the database further with different directions. Once SAP decided to open source the renamed SAP DB (still based on the same Adabas core) I imaging Software AG was a little pissed off and doesn't want the info to flow around too much... there still trying to sell Adabas D for a whole lot of money while the SAP DB is GPLd. And btw. from all that I know, SAP DB evolved much faster than Adabas D.
I interpretated the Sun statement as follows:
you have either 500 linux 1 HE boxes or 1 mainframe with 500 partitions. You have a total peak for all 500 systems and you must have hardware to deliver to this peak. z/VM cannot add processing power to the system as a whole, it can only shift it between the virtual machines.
My opinion about that:
It all depends whether the peaks of the 500 systems happen at the same time or if the peaks are distributed in time.
When they happen at the same time, then nothing but raw processing power can help you. There is no shifting of CPU cycles between VMs possible, everything is eaten up.
When the peaks happen at different times, the resources from one VM can be shifted to another VM and IBM has a solution to minimize the costs.
The solutions Sun offers is also viable: take 500 cobalts put a load balancer in front and let all the 500 cobalts run ALL applications/web sites. In this way the processing power is also perfectly shared between the instances. With the negative impact that they is no real barrier between the systems and that will make some of your customers unhappy.
There are two different Version from Adabas from Software AG (the ones making Adabas).
- Adabas, the hierarchical database
- and Adabas D the relational. Adabas D is packaged with Suse Linux and StarOffice 5.2.
SAP DB is based from Adabas D. From my (somewhat limited) experience SAP DB has much better support and more features than the original Adabas D. Adabas D is still sold from Software AG and not that cheap, so if you are interested in either of the two I'd go for SAP DB.
Btw, SAP DB does not come with any form of official support (unless you pay for it together with the license for SAP R/3) but the developers are very active and responsive on their mailing list.
Another comment to make: SAP DB is used in commercial situations to run SAP R/3 the business application framework from SAP in quite a lot of companies. The standard databases for R/3 are Oracle,DB2,etc. but the existence of an supported installment of SAP R/3 on SAP DB is a strong vote for this database.
The german government is well aware of the fact that a computer is a hackable device. There are laws for the public key infrastructure PKI to be government accepted and it just goes far beyond trust in the certification issuer. The computer that creates the keys has to be sealed off and what not all, i do not know all of this stuff, since this was all decided a few years ago.
About the chipcard in itself not being safe but only in conjunction with a safe computer, there were plans to build chipcard readers with to not reveal the private key to the PC but only tell the PC whats needed for the encryption job. And this is also done after the user entered a PIN code on the keyboard of the chip card reader (and not on the keyboard of the PC). But I do not know, to what level the protection of the home PC is enforced to get the digital signature legally accepted.
From interviews with Trolltech and my understanding of the design principles of QT I am betting, that they reimplemented the widgets with the Aqua Look and Feel. The whole design of QT is about not using native widgets and they have some nice whitepapers about the reasons for this.
They worked together with Apple in developing QT/Mac and I think they reimplemented the widgets and signed agreements not to ship these widgets for the other platforms.
Just my $0.02.
I use linux for quite some time, but mostly in text modus shell form on my servers, but last time I looked, Suse 7.1 was completely configured from the KDE control center. There was a folder full of admin plugins like install software, change network settings, and probably all the stuff, yast has.