well, actually they ARE limiting the free online viewing now, so get out the checkbook. I haven't noticed a real difference yet to be honest, but I've been getting a number of emails from them about a change in their policy.
biggest closed-source, for-pay competitor? They're for vastly different purposes, and if anything they can complement each other, but don't compete. MySQL won't die, even if Oracle decides it's not worth maintaining, it would just change names and continue as a separate fork. More likely, Oracle will continue to put development effort into it to make it play nicely with their own line of products.
MySQL and Oracle have never directly competed, and never will. If Oracle were to shell MySQL, there are plenty of groups willing to jump in and maintain a fork. I don't know why a lot of people seem to be worried about Oracle's commitment to open source anyway. They have a good track record and there's no business reason to stop supporting it.
That's a terrible headline. Not even the "study" authors claim this was in any way scientific, yet slashdot chooses to use a sweeping general statement as the headline. Besides not being newsworthy, the statement is also blatantly false. The actual outcome of this unrepresentative study is that 5 of 16 people liked a song encoded at a lower bitrate and using a completely different codec "better". If that's in any way noteworthy it must be an awfully slow news day.
Dont' throw the PeopleSoft and Siebel mergers into the same pot. The PeopleSoft takeover had just one purpose: to eliminate a direct competitor (and PS did duplicate the entire Applications suite, not just CRM). Yes, they're cherrypicking the best PS features for Fusion, but it isn't much that will survive. Siebel however has stuff that's actually better than Oracle's own software, and to some extent compliments their product line, so yeah you can say they bought their CRM position for 3.4 billion (after subtracting Siebel's cash in hand, this is the approximate cost to Oracle).
Would it have been cheaper to develop these tools on-site had they started 10 years ago? Maybe, but don't forget that all the risks you normally take are eliminated. They're buying a sure thing: an actual suite of products with actual customers and a guaranteed revenue.
CRM apps are being developed by Oracle in-house, it's just that it has been a rather recent development. This is why the Oracle CRM apps aren't quite as good as Siebel (or even Salesforce) apps and why it makes perfect sense to buy them out. Unlike the PeopleSoft acquisition, this one is not meant to eradicate a competitor's product but rather to make it their own and build on it.
Anyway, it has little to do with the Oracle culture or Larry's interpersonal skills, and everything with priorities and timing why CRM wasn't a big focus for Oracle 10 years ago but is now.
Predictable move, but the timing would worry me if I were an Oracle stock holder, considering this acquisition was announced a week prior to the quarterly earnings report. Seems like they're already looking to distract from the results and nothing's better than a merger to explain away underachieving stock...
Ah, but that's the beauty of 360: you can determine who gets access to what content. Put your mom and colleagues in one group and your pals in another.
If he were serious about trying to make SF a better place he should have persuaded Jello Biafra to run for mayor again, and finance his campaign. I'm sure with Jello at the helm SF's nightlife problem would be solved.
Take this as a friendly advice, not an insult. But before you start talking about the "best rockband ever" you should get to know a little more rockbands, don't you think? I read your homepage where you list some of your favorite bands and the selection clearly indicates that you're still fettered by what the mainstream puts on your plate. Try some civil disobediance and explore music for yourself, you will find many many more rockbands you never heard of before which you may or may not find much better than the Who. The Who were hardly original, you'll see.
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it said the clause would be that "no GNU, FSF or Copyleft software shall be USED IN THE PRODUCTION of it" Thats an entirely different thing as saying you may not re-use GPL code. That indeed would be rational but its not what it says. According to this wording the programmers wouldn't be allowed to use Emacs to write the code:) It's just a thing that a lawyer figured out without really understanding what he's talking about.
I noticed a couple of comments disappear, too. And yea, they really vanished, not downgraded. Weird things are happening lately indeed. I wonder what tcx (the mysql guys) has to say about that, did you buy support?
I've been saying for years that academics and research need to start over and make a new network . Split the damn internet! Give the AOL osers their porn and spam traffic they want so badly and allow all the commercial usage on there. And for the rest of us, who actually need the internet for research and to get work done (remember? that's what it was developed for initially), have our own academic network. Thank you, I don't need the commercial part of the internet.
Unfortunately this is not whats going to happen with Internet2 in the end. The whole thing only exists because of commercial interests.
naming abiword and KOffice competitors is funny at best. They are nowhere near completion. What are they thinking??? I think they are trying to do something really tricky: they give some examples of competition to the DOJ to prove they have no monopoly and at the same token they choose something so obviously inferior that the general public thinks "Oh, so this is the best free software can do? Well thank you MS for giving us good software and for innovating."
According to cgi-perl.com Matt Wright is co-authoring the Perl/CGI Cookbook. Despite the naming this book is not published by O'Reilly, but Wiley. I can't stop but wondering how you can become so famous writing poor code. I mean Wiley isn't excactly a student-press publisher and the site claims it would be the best-selling CGI book at Amazon. Matt Wright's CGI scripts are good examples how *NOT* to do it. I don't wanna know what horrible tales he is going to tell in the book. Who is going to save us from the wave of Wright-taught CGI-scripters wasting our resources? Anyone ever heard of the other author, Craig Patchett?
yeah, it's a nice book and I looked up some stuff more than once. But is it as essential as the Camel? By no means. It's like a very elaborate FAQ, tasks that have to be done often and stuff ppl do wrong a lot. In this respect it's a good read for Perl-newbies(not neccessarily programming newbies). Once you passed the initial hurdles of intermediate to advanced perl programming however the recipes in this book don't apply to your programming problems very often, and if they do you already know it because you did it hundred times before. The big problem I ahve with this book is that it really doesn't work well as a printed book. This needs to be in electronic form for easy search and copy'n'paste! I was lucky to get my hands on a electronic version before it went into print and bought the book later. It was nicer in zeroes and ones (allthough I didn't keep it as it didn't appear very legal). So I'd say for me it is a 7/10.
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well, actually they ARE limiting the free online viewing now, so get out the checkbook. I haven't noticed a real difference yet to be honest, but I've been getting a number of emails from them about a change in their policy.
biggest closed-source, for-pay competitor? They're for vastly different purposes, and if anything they can complement each other, but don't compete. MySQL won't die, even if Oracle decides it's not worth maintaining, it would just change names and continue as a separate fork. More likely, Oracle will continue to put development effort into it to make it play nicely with their own line of products.
MySQL and Oracle have never directly competed, and never will. If Oracle were to shell MySQL, there are plenty of groups willing to jump in and maintain a fork. I don't know why a lot of people seem to be worried about Oracle's commitment to open source anyway. They have a good track record and there's no business reason to stop supporting it.
That's a terrible headline. Not even the "study" authors claim this was in any way scientific, yet slashdot chooses to use a sweeping general statement as the headline. Besides not being newsworthy, the statement is also blatantly false. The actual outcome of this unrepresentative study is that 5 of 16 people liked a song encoded at a lower bitrate and using a completely different codec "better". If that's in any way noteworthy it must be an awfully slow news day.
Most of what you said applies to the comments on this site. Different target audience, same inane narcissism.
Dont' throw the PeopleSoft and Siebel mergers into the same pot. The PeopleSoft takeover had just one purpose: to eliminate a direct competitor (and PS did duplicate the entire Applications suite, not just CRM). Yes, they're cherrypicking the best PS features for Fusion, but it isn't much that will survive. Siebel however has stuff that's actually better than Oracle's own software, and to some extent compliments their product line, so yeah you can say they bought their CRM position for 3.4 billion (after subtracting Siebel's cash in hand, this is the approximate cost to Oracle).
Would it have been cheaper to develop these tools on-site had they started 10 years ago? Maybe, but don't forget that all the risks you normally take are eliminated. They're buying a sure thing: an actual suite of products with actual customers and a guaranteed revenue.
CRM apps are being developed by Oracle in-house, it's just that it has been a rather recent development. This is why the Oracle CRM apps aren't quite as good as Siebel (or even Salesforce) apps and why it makes perfect sense to buy them out. Unlike the PeopleSoft acquisition, this one is not meant to eradicate a competitor's product but rather to make it their own and build on it.
Anyway, it has little to do with the Oracle culture or Larry's interpersonal skills, and everything with priorities and timing why CRM wasn't a big focus for Oracle 10 years ago but is now.
Predictable move, but the timing would worry me if I were an Oracle stock holder, considering this acquisition was announced a week prior to the quarterly earnings report. Seems like they're already looking to distract from the results and nothing's better than a merger to explain away underachieving stock...
Ah, but that's the beauty of 360: you can determine who gets access to what content. Put your mom and colleagues in one group and your pals in another.
If he were serious about trying to make SF a better place he should have persuaded Jello Biafra to run for mayor again, and finance his campaign. I'm sure with Jello at the helm SF's nightlife problem would be solved.
Take this as a friendly advice, not an insult. But before you start talking about the "best rockband ever" you should get to know a little more rockbands, don't you think? I read your homepage where you list some of your favorite bands and the selection clearly indicates that you're still fettered by what the mainstream puts on your plate. Try some civil disobediance and explore music for yourself, you will find many many more rockbands you never heard of before which you may or may not find much better than the Who. The Who were hardly original, you'll see.
it said the clause would be that "no GNU, FSF or Copyleft software shall be USED IN THE PRODUCTION of it" :)
Thats an entirely different thing as saying you may not re-use GPL code. That indeed would be rational but its not what it says. According to this wording the programmers wouldn't be allowed to use Emacs to write the code
It's just a thing that a lawyer figured out without really understanding what he's talking about.
I noticed a couple of comments disappear, too. And yea, they really vanished, not downgraded.
Weird things are happening lately indeed.
I wonder what tcx (the mysql guys) has to say about that, did you buy support?
I've been saying for years that academics and research need to start over and make a new network . Split the damn internet! Give the AOL osers their porn and spam traffic they want so badly and allow all the commercial usage on there. And for the rest of us, who actually need the internet for research and to get work done (remember? that's what it was developed for initially), have our own academic network. Thank you, I don't need the commercial part of the internet.
Unfortunately this is not whats going to happen with Internet2 in the end. The whole thing only exists because of commercial interests.
naming abiword and KOffice competitors is funny at best. They are nowhere near completion. What are they thinking??? I think they are trying to do something really tricky: they give some examples of competition to the DOJ to prove they have no monopoly and at the same token they choose something so obviously inferior that the general public thinks "Oh, so this is the best free software can do? Well thank you MS for giving us good software and for innovating."
According to cgi-perl.com Matt Wright is co-authoring the Perl/CGI Cookbook. Despite the naming this book is not published by O'Reilly, but Wiley. I can't stop but wondering how you can become so famous writing poor code. I mean Wiley isn't excactly a student-press publisher and the site claims it would be the best-selling CGI book at Amazon.
Matt Wright's CGI scripts are good examples how *NOT* to do it. I don't wanna know what horrible tales he is going to tell in the book.
Who is going to save us from the wave of Wright-taught CGI-scripters wasting our resources?
Anyone ever heard of the other author, Craig Patchett?
yeah, it's a nice book and I looked up some stuff more than once. But is it as essential as the Camel? By no means. It's like a very elaborate FAQ, tasks that have to be done often and stuff ppl do wrong a lot. In this respect it's a good read for Perl-newbies(not neccessarily programming newbies). Once you passed the initial hurdles of intermediate to advanced perl programming however the recipes in this book don't apply to your programming problems very often, and if they do you already know it because you did it hundred times before.
The big problem I ahve with this book is that it really doesn't work well as a printed book. This needs to be in electronic form for easy search and copy'n'paste! I was lucky to get my hands on a electronic version before it went into print and bought the book later. It was nicer in zeroes and ones (allthough I didn't keep it as it didn't appear very legal).
So I'd say for me it is a 7/10.
me too, but they never bothered to reply. Not even a formletter or an acknowledgement. That's not how you treat customers.