Anything that counts in the UK is metric. You purchase petrol in litres, when you put paper in you printer it is A4 (a metric size), threads on screws are metric (like GL14), when you go to Tesco's you will purchase in kilograms and liters. The metric system is complete where ever money changes hands. People still measure their weight in stones because at 14 pounds to a stone, it sounds like you weigh a lot less!
I have a great crew. All have been in their job for many years. An incident happened to one emplyoee that was neither my fault nor the compaines fault. The reaction of this employee was so horrible towards me that I would have never dreamed my worst enemy could be so vile. The point being: Some people are mean, nasty and vengeful. Sometimes they are bosses and sometimes they are employees
and we use Linux servers for our databases (Postgresql), Linux for our industrial machine drivers, Linux for our web access (much safer than windows) but we still use Win2K as desktop clients. Our office suite is Star Office though and we are very stable and please with the combination. Problems, none! One day the Win2K may go away but not the Postgresql, it is the most stable piece of software in our businesses.
I find that the process of creation is only half of the beauty of Linux. The other half is the wide flexibility to use the elements of Linux to do new things. There is no preconcept to the use of the collection of components which give rise to solving an ever widening range of problems and interests
If Microsoft give a US$ 1.00 dividend to its stockholders that is just a 4% return on the per share price. If they do this 5 times then all of that money in the bank is gone. I have bad invenstments that return better than 4%. You can currently get a muni (at least in California) that returnes more than 4% per year for 25 years, tax free! Even with this dividend you would need to believe that the price per share is going to go up as if Microsoft were a growth company
I have a small company and was attacked in a similar way by a large German company (I'm in the USA). They simply attacked with a lawyer from a large office in New York and I am in a small town in California. My lawyer did some digging and found that there is a federal law that states you must give the person in violation a full description of the violation and allow a responce. If there is not a civilized responce then you can go to court. We never went to court and we got the problem sorted out. It sounds like SCO would be in violation of that federal law.
It is an excellent start on fixing a problem that is could stop general avaition in is tracks. 100LL fuel (most piston airplanes use this fuel) will be outlawed for use by the EPA in the not too distant future. There are only two alternatives; diesel and electric. Diesel has quite a head start but it still uses fossil fuels burned in the aircraft. Congrats to this group in trying to come up with an alternative. I look forward to my first chance to fly an electric airplane
In our corporation we used Oracle with good success for many years. We switched to Postgres for many reasons and have found great success with it. It is very stable, excellent documentation available and is much more straight forward to administer. No problem convincing the suits as the cost of the Oracle licenses went into orbit. I would recommend Postgresql for use in a production environment
It now looks quite clear how Microsoft plans of keeping control of the market. They make the desktop operating system, the server operating system, the database, the applications software. A nice neat package to do a specific job, complete! Just sign the contract and sit back. No need to call IBM, Sun or HP. They would still offer bits and pieces instead of a complete package. The ultimate weapon? Microsoft could withdraw its desktop operating system unless you buy a complete package. Very strong marketing plan.
I have used both. GNUcash is a double entry system and has taught me lots about proper accounting. Quicken is more of a personal checkbook register. Quicken is probable easier to set up, GNUcash is better for more complex accounting.
We switched from Oracle to Postgresql and have been far more satisfied with Postgresql. We are a small shop (25 users) but give the database a fair workout. Not a single problem and we find it to be faster than the last version of Oracle that we used (8.1.6). For me it is much easier to administer the Postgresql also.
Spot On! It is only a tool. For me Linux kicks butt because it makes my life easier, I get home from work on time and I do not need to reinvent the wheel every year or two. But all I do is administer a corporate database. Good GUI, nice but not necessary.
I have the problem of many commercial pop3 accounts which supply techncal information for the use of end users of our products. Spam chokes up several accounts to such a great degree as to make them unusable. I searched Freshemeat and tried a program called "mailfilter". It goes out to pop3 accounts on the server and deletes mail based on your rules. Believe me, it rules! Spam problem for us is gone. Best wishes to you guys on the other side of the pop3 server with this new technology
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Anything that counts in the UK is metric. You purchase petrol in litres, when you put paper in you printer it is A4 (a metric size), threads on screws are metric (like GL14), when you go to Tesco's you will purchase in kilograms and liters. The metric system is complete where ever money changes hands. People still measure their weight in stones because at 14 pounds to a stone, it sounds like you weigh a lot less!
I have a great crew. All have been in their job for many years. An incident happened to one emplyoee that was neither my fault nor the compaines fault. The reaction of this employee was so horrible towards me that I would have never dreamed my worst enemy could be so vile. The point being: Some people are mean, nasty and vengeful. Sometimes they are bosses and sometimes they are employees
and we use Linux servers for our databases (Postgresql), Linux for our industrial machine drivers, Linux for our web access (much safer than windows) but we still use Win2K as desktop clients. Our office suite is Star Office though and we are very stable and please with the combination. Problems, none! One day the Win2K may go away but not the Postgresql, it is the most stable piece of software in our businesses.
I find that the process of creation is only half of the beauty of Linux. The other half is the wide flexibility to use the elements of Linux to do new things. There is no preconcept to the use of the collection of components which give rise to solving an ever widening range of problems and interests
If Microsoft give a US$ 1.00 dividend to its stockholders that is just a 4% return on the per share price. If they do this 5 times then all of that money in the bank is gone. I have bad invenstments that return better than 4%. You can currently get a muni (at least in California) that returnes more than 4% per year for 25 years, tax free! Even with this dividend you would need to believe that the price per share is going to go up as if Microsoft were a growth company
I have a small company and was attacked in a similar way by a large German company (I'm in the USA). They simply attacked with a lawyer from a large office in New York and I am in a small town in California. My lawyer did some digging and found that there is a federal law that states you must give the person in violation a full description of the violation and allow a responce. If there is not a civilized responce then you can go to court. We never went to court and we got the problem sorted out. It sounds like SCO would be in violation of that federal law.
It is an excellent start on fixing a problem that is could stop general avaition in is tracks. 100LL fuel (most piston airplanes use this fuel) will be outlawed for use by the EPA in the not too distant future. There are only two alternatives; diesel and electric. Diesel has quite a head start but it still uses fossil fuels burned in the aircraft. Congrats to this group in trying to come up with an alternative. I look forward to my first chance to fly an electric airplane
In our corporation we used Oracle with good success for many years. We switched to Postgres for many reasons and have found great success with it. It is very stable, excellent documentation available and is much more straight forward to administer. No problem convincing the suits as the cost of the Oracle licenses went into orbit. I would recommend Postgresql for use in a production environment
It now looks quite clear how Microsoft plans of keeping control of the market. They make the desktop operating system, the server operating system, the database, the applications software. A nice neat package to do a specific job, complete! Just sign the contract and sit back. No need to call IBM, Sun or HP. They would still offer bits and pieces instead of a complete package. The ultimate weapon? Microsoft could withdraw its desktop operating system unless you buy a complete package. Very strong marketing plan.
I have used both. GNUcash is a double entry system and has taught me lots about proper accounting. Quicken is more of a personal checkbook register. Quicken is probable easier to set up, GNUcash is better for more complex accounting.
I believe that the URL name alone should convince the government types that Linux is a serious community to base its computer systems on.
We switched from Oracle to Postgresql and have been far more satisfied with Postgresql. We are a small shop (25 users) but give the database a fair workout. Not a single problem and we find it to be faster than the last version of Oracle that we used (8.1.6). For me it is much easier to administer the Postgresql also.
Spot On! It is only a tool. For me Linux kicks butt because it makes my life easier, I get home from work on time and I do not need to reinvent the wheel every year or two. But all I do is administer a corporate database. Good GUI, nice but not necessary.
I have the problem of many commercial pop3 accounts which supply techncal information for the use of end users of our products. Spam chokes up several accounts to such a great degree as to make them unusable. I searched Freshemeat and tried a program called "mailfilter". It goes out to pop3 accounts on the server and deletes mail based on your rules. Believe me, it rules! Spam problem for us is gone. Best wishes to you guys on the other side of the pop3 server with this new technology