I have worked with a large company that had a lot of Lotus Notes applications that caused all kinds of migration issues. Lots of pain, suffering, angst and failure moving to another platform if they found one.
The craziest part of the whole story is they chose to move to Sharepoint for a lot of their migrations.
Once again Microsoft has found a way to rebrand Lotus technology / software and claim it new.
I have managed Linux servers in a professional environment for 20 years and for "production" environments I highly recommend paying for support.
I have had the good fortune of getting a tech on the phone to handle issues that were solved by the people that know the software the best. Red Hat and SUSE both employ top notch support folks. I have not experienced any others, I would expect they are also quite good. Talking to another tech on the phone that you can trust is totally worth it to you and the business that you are working for.
Contrast that with hoping that someone has had the problem you are trying to solve and has solved it and has posted to a forum you search is just not the route to go. In my opinion, you should not allow a business to make this choice. It is insurance and not a guarantee of success but that is why the business pays for it and other types of insurance.
Also these paid support contracts help fund the open source world and are, again in my opinion, the responsibility of a business using open source software.
Yep that is one cool tiny gizmo. I know that it is an over used meme but what if you did have a Beowulf cluster of these? Strip away the packaging and fill a rack with these tiny machines and set up a cluster. Or for that matter a room full of them, how would these scale?
Except building a house is a one time endeavor. A better analogy would be to build a house on the foundation of another house and then remodel it a dozen times and then add on a few additions. Soon there after divorce your spouse and find another to guide the new additions and find another site upon which you can move that house to and hopefully not have to deal with that awful foundation.
How many people are just using a browser to do whatever they do on a PC? Whatever else they do there is an icon on the Desktop for launching the program. A business user might have some special apps but average users have a very small selection. Except of course gamers and even those are starting die off.
So lets say that you have this super secret network smartphone and you had a super secret topic that you wanted to talk about with another super secret person. Where could you have this discussion and should you even be talking out loud? Wouldn't you need to be in a building somewhere that has sound insulation, or some other mechanism to keep your voice from being picked up from some other microphone than the one on your super secret smart phone? Or is it a fancy camera phone and not meant for voice? I hope that the camera is better than the one on my smartphone.....
World renown philosopher who wrote many well received books on his thoughts, changed whole countries and inspired uncounted multitudes, MAY have had a point? Here we are staring at the very brink of capitalism collapsing and I am guessing that he is laughing in his grave. Sure communism has not worked out in the end, which I believe is a failing of humanity not the ideal, however it is completely condescending to sum up in such a title.
To say that these things can not make anything useful is very far from correct. Checkout RepRap which is a very similar device to makerbot. Its firmware has the code built in to print the parts it is made from and is one of the tenants of the project. The video on the RepRap home page explaining the project is brilliant. These projects are indeed very worthy of getting funded.
The problem that needs to be solved is the reason for the spark. The reason for the spark is the need for the ignition of fuel. Switching to laser beam driven electron motors would be crazy cool (or whatever other cool use there is for a laser in an electric motor if there is one). "Fixing" something that is not broke with a gadget that needs to bought (and thus sold) seems like a great idea for an infomercial, not a solution to the worlds problems.
Oracle has owned Berkley DB and Sleepycat since February 2006 and it is still in fine shape. Still open source and still used the same as it ever was. I suspect that MySQL will be the same.
Back in 1995 IBM unveiled the ThinkPad 701C which had a folding keyboard. These should be resurrected and put into Netbooks. It really was a slick way to shrink a full sized keyboard. For some reason that notebook was the only one ever to have that keyboard. I have a BlueTooth Folding keyboard that is almost OK but it lacks many keys and you are forced to use meta keys for too many items.
Stand alone GPS has every road in the palm of your hand w/o any connection where Google's maps need gigabytes of pixel based maps at each resolution you want to view.
I have (and really like) a Nokia Internet tablet with Maemo Mapper and it is great but I am constantly managing the maps prior and during a trip. The golld old Garmin V had the whole US inside it just worked.
Another plus for stand alone is water navigation. Although a much smaller segment, I would think that small craft GPS would never switch to Google.
That is the ugliest SGI ever made!! I spent the late 90's on Indys, O2s, Octanes (the real ones), Onxys, and Origins and they all were beautiful. Maybe they should outsource design to Apple and get some mojo back.
I agree!! I thought that the alternative to norm and pushing the bounds was what this crowd was all about.
As far as doing the math, if they take the money they save from hardware and provide good jobs to people that can not be outsourced (this setup is going to need on-site hands) how about commending them for that. They should get some small US town (with a fat pipe) to help on the taxes for bringing tech jobs to them.
Absolutely!! I routinely tell my children that I pay for their life, not their lifestyle. I take care of needs not wants. When they can routinely come up with the money for the want, then they can buy it.
However there are circumstances that would be require it. We live in a small Wisconsin community and school is three easy blocks away, downtown is 7. In a big metro area I am sure life is different (they can have it).
I have the N770 with only 128mg RAM, I get by very well and have not wore out my 1 gig flash by all that swapping. The apps are not from win32land, they are quite well suited to low memory. What the N770 lacks is CPU and the N900 delivers 600mhz (read: I am jealous!!). These Internet Tablets are very well designed and each revision is greatly improved. I am very happy to see a new model as I was worried that Nokia was throwing in the towel on Maemo, which is another great asset for this line.
Adobe will still sell you Dreamweaver and Fireworks even though their original products are their preferred. I think that they actively develop them too. I would think that a product worth it's salt will live on it's own merit.
Unless the person has never had a computer or does not know where they can get a used one the new ones are not going to off set the energy of disposal of the old one and creation of the new one. I believe that this applies to just about any commodity.
To be really green I think that they should take in the {insert thing name here} for disposal / recycle, and show the true cost like a sticker on a hot water heater shows the energy usage.
People are way too busy patting themselves on the back driving their Prius and using their green MacBook when the landfills are full of their old SUV and Gateway notebooks.
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I can not believe that the reason for paying a very large sum of money for an Open Source company, just to kill it, would be the motivation.
Suppose that were the case and this morning all the download areas of MySql were gone. There was no way to get the software besides paying for it, and then make it worse, it cost a large sum money.
Don't you think that someone would take the source that is out in the wild and fork it off to make another Open Source product? It is included in several large distros, the source is scattered all over the net. I do not think that it is killable.
The next time you are in the coffee shop, hotel lobby, airport, hangout... that has an access port look around at all the people with notebooks and then count all the things that they have sticking out of them.
So they had a computer loaded with a bunch of apps and an OS, all tuned for the device. Then they wipe that off and put some version of Windows with write, paint and Outlook Express on it? Hopefully they got minesweeper and solitaire too, with the promise of porting Freecell with the next service pack.
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I have worked with a large company that had a lot of Lotus Notes applications that caused all kinds of migration issues. Lots of pain, suffering, angst and failure moving to another platform if they found one.
The craziest part of the whole story is they chose to move to Sharepoint for a lot of their migrations.
Once again Microsoft has found a way to rebrand Lotus technology / software and claim it new.
I have managed Linux servers in a professional environment for 20 years and for "production" environments I highly recommend paying for support.
I have had the good fortune of getting a tech on the phone to handle issues that were solved by the people that know the software the best. Red Hat and SUSE both employ top notch support folks. I have not experienced any others, I would expect they are also quite good. Talking to another tech on the phone that you can trust is totally worth it to you and the business that you are working for.
Contrast that with hoping that someone has had the problem you are trying to solve and has solved it and has posted to a forum you search is just not the route to go. In my opinion, you should not allow a business to make this choice. It is insurance and not a guarantee of success but that is why the business pays for it and other types of insurance.
Also these paid support contracts help fund the open source world and are, again in my opinion, the responsibility of a business using open source software.
Or floating point operations / watt?
If this could be applied to my checking account I might be able to pay for my kids education before they graduate!
If it was applied to my weight I would loose the weight of the snack before it hit my stomach!
Hair loss could be a thing of the past?
If your resume cannot be formated in anything other than MS Office, your resume might need some more work that formatting.
Yep that is one cool tiny gizmo. I know that it is an over used meme but what if you did have a Beowulf cluster of these? Strip away the packaging and fill a rack with these tiny machines and set up a cluster. Or for that matter a room full of them, how would these scale?
Except building a house is a one time endeavor. A better analogy would be to build a house on the foundation of another house and then remodel it a dozen times and then add on a few additions. Soon there after divorce your spouse and find another to guide the new additions and find another site upon which you can move that house to and hopefully not have to deal with that awful foundation.
So you can choose which mail server or java vm you use but not which syslog daemon you want to use?
How many people are just using a browser to do whatever they do on a PC? Whatever else they do there is an icon on the Desktop for launching the program. A business user might have some special apps but average users have a very small selection. Except of course gamers and even those are starting die off.
So lets say that you have this super secret network smartphone and you had a super secret topic that you wanted to talk about with another super secret person. Where could you have this discussion and should you even be talking out loud? Wouldn't you need to be in a building somewhere that has sound insulation, or some other mechanism to keep your voice from being picked up from some other microphone than the one on your super secret smart phone? Or is it a fancy camera phone and not meant for voice? I hope that the camera is better than the one on my smartphone.....
World renown philosopher who wrote many well received books on his thoughts, changed whole countries and inspired uncounted multitudes, MAY have had a point? Here we are staring at the very brink of capitalism collapsing and I am guessing that he is laughing in his grave.
Sure communism has not worked out in the end, which I believe is a failing of humanity not the ideal, however it is completely condescending to sum up in such a title.
To say that these things can not make anything useful is very far from correct. Checkout RepRap which is a very similar device to makerbot. Its firmware has the code built in to print the parts it is made from and is one of the tenants of the project. The video on the RepRap home page explaining the project is brilliant. These projects are indeed very worthy of getting funded.
The problem that needs to be solved is the reason for the spark. The reason for the spark is the need for the ignition of fuel. Switching to laser beam driven electron motors would be crazy cool (or whatever other cool use there is for a laser in an electric motor if there is one). "Fixing" something that is not broke with a gadget that needs to bought (and thus sold) seems like a great idea for an infomercial, not a solution to the worlds problems.
Oracle has owned Berkley DB and Sleepycat since February 2006 and it is still in fine shape. Still open source and still used the same as it ever was. I suspect that MySQL will be the same.
Back in 1995 IBM unveiled the ThinkPad 701C which had a folding keyboard. These should be resurrected and put into Netbooks. It really was a slick way to shrink a full sized keyboard. For some reason that notebook was the only one ever to have that keyboard.
I have a BlueTooth Folding keyboard that is almost OK but it lacks many keys and you are forced to use meta keys for too many items.
Stand alone GPS has every road in the palm of your hand w/o any connection where Google's maps need gigabytes of pixel based maps at each resolution you want to view.
I have (and really like) a Nokia Internet tablet with Maemo Mapper and it is great but I am constantly managing the maps prior and during a trip. The golld old Garmin V had the whole US inside it just worked.
Another plus for stand alone is water navigation. Although a much smaller segment, I would think that small craft GPS would never switch to Google.
That is the ugliest SGI ever made!! I spent the late 90's on Indys, O2s, Octanes (the real ones), Onxys, and Origins and they all were beautiful. Maybe they should outsource design to Apple and get some mojo back.
I agree!! I thought that the alternative to norm and pushing the bounds was what this crowd was all about.
As far as doing the math, if they take the money they save from hardware and provide good jobs to people that can not be outsourced (this setup is going to need on-site hands) how about commending them for that. They should get some small US town (with a fat pipe) to help on the taxes for bringing tech jobs to them.
Absolutely!! I routinely tell my children that I pay for their life, not their lifestyle. I take care of needs not wants. When they can routinely come up with the money for the want, then they can buy it.
However there are circumstances that would be require it. We live in a small Wisconsin community and school is three easy blocks away, downtown is 7. In a big metro area I am sure life is different (they can have it).
I have the N770 with only 128mg RAM, I get by very well and have not wore out my 1 gig flash by all that swapping. The apps are not from win32land, they are quite well suited to low memory. What the N770 lacks is CPU and the N900 delivers 600mhz (read: I am jealous!!). These Internet Tablets are very well designed and each revision is greatly improved. I am very happy to see a new model as I was worried that Nokia was throwing in the towel on Maemo, which is another great asset for this line.
Adobe will still sell you Dreamweaver and Fireworks even though their original products are their preferred. I think that they actively develop them too. I would think that a product worth it's salt will live on it's own merit.
Unless the person has never had a computer or does not know where they can get a used one the new ones are not going to off set the energy of disposal of the old one and creation of the new one. I believe that this applies to just about any commodity.
To be really green I think that they should take in the {insert thing name here} for disposal / recycle, and show the true cost like a sticker on a hot water heater shows the energy usage.
People are way too busy patting themselves on the back driving their Prius and using their green MacBook when the landfills are full of their old SUV and Gateway notebooks.
I can not believe that the reason for paying a very large sum of money for an Open Source company, just to kill it, would be the motivation.
Suppose that were the case and this morning all the download areas of MySql were gone. There was no way to get the software besides paying for it, and then make it worse, it cost a large sum money.
Don't you think that someone would take the source that is out in the wild and fork it off to make another Open Source product? It is included in several large distros, the source is scattered all over the net. I do not think that it is killable.
The next time you are in the coffee shop, hotel lobby, airport, hangout... that has an access port look around at all the people with notebooks and then count all the things that they have sticking out of them.
So they had a computer loaded with a bunch of apps and an OS, all tuned for the device. Then they wipe that off and put some version of Windows with write, paint and Outlook Express on it? Hopefully they got minesweeper and solitaire too, with the promise of porting Freecell with the next service pack.