It seems to me that the one serious hurdle our organisation will face when contemplating a wholesale switch to Linux will be in *exactly* the area of directory services. Desktop support. OpenOffice, no real problem, but we have a deep investment in Active Directory, and a lack of serious Linux based alternatives. If the upshot of this is some heavyweight directory services based on Linux then this might be a very very good thing in the medium term. Of course it might be nothing to do with that!
Thankfully this should never happen in the UK as the central-government specified e-GIF requirements generally mandate a non-platform specific, standard web protocol based solution for all government-citizen interaction. Maybe there is an upside to living in the UK after all!
Sorry, I don't follow your logic. If I wanted to hit a barn door I would be aiming at Apache, not IIS, surely, based on the figures in the original post which you did not challenge. And yet it's IIS which seems to have the mass-infection problem.
I would be shocked if "big business" were in the habit of implementing Mandrake out of the box with no development, no customisation..I'm sure it doesn't happen. You'll find teams of technicians putting together specialised versions of Linux (maybe based upon particular distros in the first place) and switching base distros would in practice be a relatively trivial affair. It's more likely to be a problem for the smaller customer who has taken the distro "vanilla" out of the box - but then again, just because the supplier goes broke it doesn't stop your computer from working immediately.. Just switch distros when it's time to upgrade.
There's only one reason, and that's the kickass object-oriented Workplace Shell. If you've never experienced it you'll probably never know how beautiful it is/was. If IBM redeveloped it for Linux.......
Nothing wrong with AIX. It's a top-flight Unix-style system. For performance, reliability and *ease of administration* I would currently choose it over Linux most every time if cost is not an issue. I suspect in around three years time I will not be alone in choosing Linux every time though, and AIX, along with Solaris, will gradually fade away over the next ten years.
This is more or less exactly the policy implemented in my organisation five or six years ago, justified on TCO grounds. Since then, the TCO for all IT systems has increased by around a factor of ten while the amount of useful IT systems being run has perhaps doubled. Go figure. Perhaps the original TCO arguments were flawed. Smoke, mirrors, and marketing...
Actually there's another way to boil a frog; pop it in the boiling pot and *put a heavy lid on* - which is exactly analogous to *legislating* for mandatory inclusion of DRM tech in electronic devices in the USA.
I would imagine that DRM facilities will end up being mandated by law in all electronic equipment anyway, and I can't see a company like IBM trying to buck that sort of law!
Do! I recently bought both the first and second series of the original BBC radio series on CD. I had not heard the second series for so many years much of it was fresh again and it was just wonderful....the Shoe Event Horizon! Can I press the button now?
The article concerning De Beers manipulation of the diamond market was a good read but it took me quite a while to realise it is twenty years old! Has anyone got a link to a more recent appraisal of De Beers / the diamond market?
I've no problem with this new law so long as the phone firms are also obliged to allow you to use a different phone without penalty; I ran into problems after legitimately buying a second-hand phone (original phone broke) and then finding that the network provider required me to buy a new phone before they would allow my SIM card to work. I don't think that's fair.
You also have to remember that general computing power has incresed beyond all recognition in the last few years; by the time this software comes to fruition the performance penalty of using a language like Java (or even C#/.net for that matter) will be less noticeable.
Most of what you say is mirrored in my environment. However, there is every chance that the EU will make use of OSS based software *mandatory*, so even the most die-hard stick-my-head-in-the-sand Windows affiliate will have to get a clue in the end. I gave up trying to get OSS stuff installed through the front door some time ago; now I concentrate on using Linux/*nix servers whereever I can, and repeatedly hammer on about browser-based apps / open document formats whereever possible. It's a long haul, but with any luck in a few years time when the current cycle of Windows-exclusive applications has come to the end-of-life we just *might* have a chance of realising the cost savings of a non-Windows environment. For the moment, we have no choice.
I think I'd rather take the penalty for driving in London (£5) than the alternative legal proceedings for illegal manipulation of license plates - this is serious stuff that Authority will not turn a blind eye to. Wear illegal license plates at your peril.
I immediately assumed it was something to do with the old London Palladium theatre, where lightweight showbiz glitz with no substance behind it used to be performed.
The spamassassin homepage refers to a Windows port "SpamAssassin Pro" being developed by Deersoft; I have no knowledge of this but it might be what you are looking for?
You seem to be missing the difference that this format is "royalty-free". Microsoft formats may be many things but I would hazard a guess that "royalty-free" isn't a term that would be used very often to describe them.
You've been had! Clearly the Queueing component is actually completely watertight, but there are five million other serious flaws in other components waiting to be discovered that MS want your attention distracted from........."knowing" there's a flaw in Queueing, you'll expend the next two years in a fruitless search for the non-existent flaw. Meanwhile MS point to how the discovery rate for new flaws is dropping.......
...clearly all we need is a p2p network of real people prepared to purchase items in their home country and ship as a private transaction to the "oppressed" purchaser.......try taxing that. Did it myself recently and saved $20 on a console game purchase even including all shipping!
Surely if a packaged "Windows" application won't run on a particular "flavour" of WIndows then that's just an indictment that non-core OS functions were incorrectly included in the new Windows "core" product. If the OS itself is going to be stripped out properly this is not a situation that should arise. It doesn't seem to apply with the myriad "flavours" of Linux around for a start.
Watch the UK government reduce the necessary switched percentage of the population to 66% sometime in 2003/4, coupled with ad jargon "massively successful", "what the consumer wants", "explosion of choice", etc, etc. The analogue bandwidth is just too valuable to allow mere percentage target figures to get in the way of a switch-off.
Slashdot Mirror
Article also in the Sunday Times - a bit more respectable but from the same family I think so could be the same source.
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk
It seems to me that the one serious hurdle our organisation will face when contemplating a wholesale switch to Linux will be in *exactly* the area of directory services. Desktop support. OpenOffice, no real problem, but we have a deep investment in Active Directory, and a lack of serious Linux based alternatives. If the upshot of this is some heavyweight directory services based on Linux then this might be a very very good thing in the medium term. Of course it might be nothing to do with that!
Thankfully this should never happen in the UK as the central-government specified e-GIF requirements generally mandate a non-platform specific, standard web protocol based solution for all government-citizen interaction. Maybe there is an upside to living in the UK after all!
Sorry, I don't follow your logic. If I wanted to hit a barn door I would be aiming at Apache, not IIS, surely, based on the figures in the original post which you did not challenge. And yet it's IIS which seems to have the mass-infection problem.
I would be shocked if "big business" were in the habit of implementing Mandrake out of the box with no development, no customisation..I'm sure it doesn't happen. You'll find teams of technicians putting together specialised versions of Linux (maybe based upon particular distros in the first place) and switching base distros would in practice be a relatively trivial affair. It's more likely to be a problem for the smaller customer who has taken the distro "vanilla" out of the box - but then again, just because the supplier goes broke it doesn't stop your computer from working immediately.. Just switch distros when it's time to upgrade.
There's only one reason, and that's the kickass object-oriented Workplace Shell. If you've never experienced it you'll probably never know how beautiful it is/was. If IBM redeveloped it for Linux.......
Spot on. The unwritten corollory must be that blind people are not intelligent since they also can't untangle the knotted script, an absurd position.
Nothing wrong with AIX. It's a top-flight Unix-style system. For performance, reliability and *ease of administration* I would currently choose it over Linux most every time if cost is not an issue. I suspect in around three years time I will not be alone in choosing Linux every time though, and AIX, along with Solaris, will gradually fade away over the next ten years.
This is more or less exactly the policy implemented in my organisation five or six years ago, justified on TCO grounds. Since then, the TCO for all IT systems has increased by around a factor of ten while the amount of useful IT systems being run has perhaps doubled. Go figure. Perhaps the original TCO arguments were flawed. Smoke, mirrors, and marketing...
Actually there's another way to boil a frog; pop it in the boiling pot and *put a heavy lid on* - which is exactly analogous to *legislating* for mandatory inclusion of DRM tech in electronic devices in the USA.
I would imagine that DRM facilities will end up being mandated by law in all electronic equipment anyway, and I can't see a company like IBM trying to buck that sort of law!
Do! I recently bought both the first and second ...the Shoe Event Horizon! Can I press the button now?
series of the original BBC radio series on CD. I had not heard the second series for so many years much of it was fresh again and it was just wonderful.
The article concerning De Beers manipulation of the diamond market was a good read but it took me quite a while to realise it is twenty years old! Has anyone got a link to a more recent appraisal of De Beers / the diamond market?
I've no problem with this new law so long as the phone firms are also obliged to allow you to use a different phone without penalty; I ran into problems after legitimately buying a second-hand phone (original phone broke) and then finding that the network provider required me to buy a new phone before they would allow my SIM card to work. I don't think that's fair.
You also have to remember that general computing power has incresed beyond all recognition in the last few years; by the time this software comes to fruition the performance penalty of using a language like Java (or even C#/.net for that matter) will be less noticeable.
Most of what you say is mirrored in my environment. However, there is every chance that the EU will make use of OSS based software *mandatory*, so even the most die-hard stick-my-head-in-the-sand Windows affiliate will have to get a clue in the end. I gave up trying to get OSS stuff installed through the front door some time ago; now I concentrate on using Linux/*nix servers whereever I can, and repeatedly hammer on about browser-based apps / open document formats whereever possible. It's a long haul, but with any luck in a few years time when the current cycle of Windows-exclusive applications has come to the end-of-life we just *might* have a chance of realising the cost savings of a non-Windows environment. For the moment, we have no choice.
I think I'd rather take the penalty for driving in London (£5) than the alternative legal proceedings for illegal manipulation of license plates - this is serious stuff that Authority will not turn a blind eye to. Wear illegal license plates at your peril.
I immediately assumed it was something to do with the old London Palladium theatre, where lightweight showbiz glitz with no substance behind it used to be performed.
The spamassassin homepage refers to a Windows port "SpamAssassin Pro" being developed by Deersoft; I have no knowledge of this but it might be what you are looking for?
You seem to be missing the difference that this format is "royalty-free". Microsoft formats may be many things but I
would hazard a guess that "royalty-free" isn't a term that would be used very often to describe them.
You've been had! Clearly the Queueing component is actually completely watertight, but there are five million other serious flaws in other components waiting to be discovered that MS want your attention distracted from........."knowing" there's a flaw in Queueing, you'll expend the next two years in a fruitless search for the non-existent flaw. Meanwhile MS point to how the discovery rate for new flaws is dropping.......
...clearly all we need is a p2p network of real people prepared to purchase items in their home country and ship as a private transaction to the "oppressed" purchaser.......try taxing that. Did it myself recently and saved $20 on a console game purchase even including all shipping!
Surely if a packaged "Windows" application won't run on a particular "flavour" of WIndows then that's just an indictment that non-core OS functions were incorrectly included in the new Windows "core" product. If the OS itself is going to be stripped out properly this is not a situation that should arise. It doesn't seem to apply with the myriad "flavours" of Linux around for a start.
I use Mozilla 1.0RC1 for e-mail, no problem. It's also a super browser as well. Highly recommended.
Watch the UK government reduce the necessary switched percentage of the population to 66% sometime in 2003/4, coupled with ad jargon "massively successful", "what the consumer wants", "explosion of choice", etc, etc. The analogue bandwidth is just too valuable to allow mere percentage target figures to get in the way of a switch-off.