The real reason so few employees have switched, IMO is not just the all the old in-house apps that are wedded to Windows but the all the off-the shelf apps they are reliant on as well. For example: Distributed Callcenter, an in-house graphical frontend to RETAIN (IBM's PMR, or problem record, database). Dependent on IBM Object Rexx interpreter, and IBM Personal Communications. Neither ported to Linux. ObjRexx will (supposedly) run under WINE, PCOMM will not. And Callcenter depends on API hooks into PCOMM to communicate so you can't just use another TN3270 product. I could go on.
"Just because it's different, doesn't mean it's wrong. At the very least, when another culture chooses to manage its society differently, we should give the other approach serious consideration, and choose the best, or a compromise between the advantages of both."
I call bullshit. I'm so tired of apologists for the Chinese gov't saying that things like democracy are 'not part of the Chinese culture' - maybe they're not, but that's completely beside the point. the *real* reason that freedoms of religion, conscience, and expression are repressed in authoritarian regimes like China, is that they cannot tolerate or afford any belief or speech which could pose a threat to their hold on power. The Chinese elite is a thouroghly corrupt, nepotistic plutocracy; the Communist Party merely provides a convenient veneer and mechanism for advancement and control. What these people fear most is genuine religious, moral, and intellectual conviction. They know that those who answer to a higher power or ideal can only be pushed so far before they will bend no farther. The state cannot allow competition for the hearts and minds of its subjects. We saw the same thing in the Soviet Union and in Nazi Germany.
... and post corroborating links if you have 'em. I remember hearing Ellison say this in 2003, and I remember thinking that there was no way in hell this takeover would fly: 1) The PSFT board would fight like hell (they did), 2) the justice Dept. would step in (they did, and lost), 3) the EU would kibosh it (they didn't).
I guess they're handing sweaters out in hades today.
Oh. Disclaimer time. Yes, I am an IBMer. And yes, I do work with DB2. And no, I'm not FUDing - I am speaking personally here. While the Oracle deal may or may not have a minimal impact on me and my job, my main concern is that the little guy may get the shaft here based on on some of Larry Ellison's verbal excretions back in 2003, indicating that they were more interested in the customer base than the product.
So, what happens to the Peoplesoft-IBM Alliance?
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Peoplesoft and IBM recently penned a strategic alliance to resell and promote each others' products. So I guess this will begoing the way of the dodo. Or will it? Will the contract language leave Oracle in the embarrassing position of promoting DB2 as the preferred database platform for Peoplesoft and JD Edwards?
I'm also wondering, long-term, about support from Oracle for Peoplsoft on platforms other than Oracle. Will Oracle support Peoplesoft on Oracle, Oracle, and Oracle? My understanding that most Peoplesoft implementations were historically SQL Server with the new preferred platform being DB2. if that changes again it'd be BIG headaches for DB2 customers...
Exactly. Why not just hire Charlie Sheen (his acting sucks, but hey, Gordon Freeman never says anything, and he's a dead ringer for our goateed hero) and make the game-based movie that actually *deserves* to be made?
Yes Exactly. Editor: Maureen O'Gara. Read the Fine Article. Maureen is the one trying to unseal to records because "If SCO's Case Proved, It Could Derail The Linux Market and Take The Open Source Movement Down With It". QED.
Ok. Following that logic, I'm sre that you agree that it's high time that America unilaterally invade:
- Sudan: to stop the Genocide in Darfur and the civil war in the South (FYI the UN Charter *mandates* military action in cases of Genocide, how come the US isn't pushing this harder?)
- North Korea: Kim Jong-Il is a nucular-armed (sic) madman who oppresses and starves his subjects while maintaining a massive military complex and threatening his neigbors
- Iran: A major sponsor of global terrorism, has its own nuclear program, and has been working covertly to undermine US efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Myanmar: A brutal, bloody and tyrannical regime by any standard
- Syria: Fellow Baathists, also tyrannical, also supporters of terrorism (Hamas, hezbollah, Islamic Jihad). Somehow our friends in the War on Terror (?!). Oh yeah, they're the US torture outsourcer of choice!
- Pick any one of at least a dozen regimes in Africa that are as Brutal as the Iraqi Baathist regime. Or more so.
Y'know what I find funny? Many of the same people who are now saying that it was good for America to invade Iraq to liberate its people would have said the exact opposite a few years earlier. I remember much grouching about the 'new world order' and America's role as 'Global Cop'. I remember a presidential candidate who said he would not be a nation builder. I guess it's ok to change your philosophy ('flip-flop') once your guy's in power, though, right?
Don't get me wrong. Even though I knew, in March 2003 (it was well-knowneven then) that the rationale for going to war (WMD's *NOT* liberation) was a sack of BS and that the war had been predicided by mid '02, I thought the war was a good thing: Saddam was a monster and his kids were even worse. If the American's are even halfways competent the Iraqis would be free and it would all be worth it. But they weren't. And it wasn't. And now Iraq is a far more dangerous place than it was before 03/03.
Actually the way I remember it, the PC's were so popular they were backordered at Christmastime, leading to a bunch of dissatisfied customers. Then they went bankrupt on warranty claims due to really crappy power supplies. A good business lesson on the dangers of not being prepared for success.
It's not the taxes, silly, it's the healthcare premiums. Since medicare is universal and federally-funded, they're much lower here for employers. Oh, and corporate taxes are generally lower here too!
1 m3 = 1 e6 cm3 = 1000 litres * 1 kg/l = 1000 kg = 1 T (metric tonne) (@20 degrees C of course)
As long as you're working with lukewarm water, it's completely logical;-)
In a slander of title case there must be a valid claim of special damages. Since SCO didn't adequately plead this claim, the case IN WHOLE is dismissed due to the aformentioned ruling granting Novell's motion to dismiss on the Plaintiff's pleading of special damages.
So, for the umpteenth time, this thing is FRICKIN' DISMISSED!
Let's all hope that SCO falls to a "toxic convert". I wonder if the street will recognize the move for what it is, as well. If so, that alone should hammer the stock price. And I don't think McBride et al will see it coming.
Read 1421- The Year China Discovered The World, by Gavin Menzies. This book and it's author have been getting a lot of attention from the archeological community lately 9 see also here, here, here, etc. There's a lot of evidence that suggest that Zhang He's fleet continued east to the americas. Early Western explorers reportedly encountered chinese-speaking peoples in both South and North America.
There's a Ray Bradbury story (I think it's Bradbury's, don't know the name either) in which Venus is terraformed using bacteria. The clouds in Venus' upper atmosphere is seeded with bacteria that thrive on Carbon Dioxide and Sulphuric Acid. As they spread through the upper atmosphere, they generate Oxygen and water in huge quatities and also greatly reduce atmospheric pressure. This allows liquid water to form in the lower atmosphere and fall as rain.
Over a period of months (or years?), the planet's surface cools enough to allow a team of astronauts to be sent to the planet's surface. On their initial survey, they find large, dead worm-like creatures. These creature had lived just under the surface.
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The real reason so few employees have switched, IMO is not just the all the old in-house apps that are wedded to Windows but the all the off-the shelf apps they are reliant on as well.
For example: Distributed Callcenter, an in-house graphical frontend to RETAIN (IBM's PMR, or problem record, database). Dependent on IBM Object Rexx interpreter, and IBM Personal Communications. Neither ported to Linux. ObjRexx will (supposedly) run under WINE, PCOMM will not. And Callcenter depends on API hooks into PCOMM to communicate so you can't just use another TN3270 product. I could go on.
"Just because it's different, doesn't mean it's wrong. At the very least, when another culture chooses to manage its society differently, we should give the other approach serious consideration, and choose the best, or a compromise between the advantages of both."
I call bullshit.
I'm so tired of apologists for the Chinese gov't saying that things like democracy are 'not part of the Chinese culture' - maybe they're not, but that's completely beside the point. the *real* reason that freedoms of religion, conscience, and expression are repressed in authoritarian regimes like China, is that they cannot tolerate or afford any belief or speech which could pose a threat to their hold on power. The Chinese elite is a thouroghly corrupt, nepotistic plutocracy; the Communist Party merely provides a convenient veneer and mechanism for advancement and control. What these people fear most is genuine religious, moral, and intellectual conviction. They know that those who answer to a higher power or ideal can only be pushed so far before they will bend no farther. The state cannot allow competition for the hearts and minds of its subjects. We saw the same thing in the Soviet Union and in Nazi Germany.
... and post corroborating links if you have 'em. I remember hearing Ellison say this in 2003, and I remember thinking that there was no way in hell this takeover would fly:
1) The PSFT board would fight like hell (they did),
2) the justice Dept. would step in (they did, and lost),
3) the EU would kibosh it (they didn't).
I guess they're handing sweaters out in hades today.
Oh. Disclaimer time. Yes, I am an IBMer. And yes, I do work with DB2. And no, I'm not FUDing - I am speaking personally here. While the Oracle deal may or may not have a minimal impact on me and my job, my main concern is that the little guy may get the shaft here based on on some of Larry Ellison's verbal excretions back in 2003, indicating that they were more interested in the customer base than the product.
Peoplesoft and IBM recently penned a strategic alliance to resell and promote each others' products. So I guess this will begoing the way of the dodo. Or will it? Will the contract language leave Oracle in the embarrassing position of promoting DB2 as the preferred database platform for Peoplesoft and JD Edwards?
I'm also wondering, long-term, about support from Oracle for Peoplsoft on platforms other than Oracle. Will Oracle support Peoplesoft on Oracle, Oracle, and Oracle? My understanding that most Peoplesoft implementations were historically SQL Server with the new preferred platform being DB2. if that changes again it'd be BIG headaches for DB2 customers...
Exactly. Why not just hire Charlie Sheen (his acting sucks, but hey, Gordon Freeman never says anything, and he's a dead ringer for our goateed hero) and make the game-based movie that actually *deserves* to be made?
Yes Exactly. Editor: Maureen O'Gara. Read the Fine Article. Maureen is the one trying to unseal to records because "If SCO's Case Proved, It Could Derail The Linux Market and Take The Open Source Movement Down With It". QED.
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Conclusion: It's not a defacement. It's their new corperate motto.
Based on Hatch's record, i expect the answer to that one is, the MPAA is authorized to hack into and destroy your bladder.
"Why must we wear these ridiculous ties?"
O'crap. Sorry for the typos. Grammar Nazis please move on, nothing to see here
Ok. Following that logic, I'm sre that you agree that it's high time that America unilaterally invade:
- Sudan: to stop the Genocide in Darfur and the civil war in the South (FYI the UN Charter *mandates* military action in cases of Genocide, how come the US isn't pushing this harder?)
- North Korea: Kim Jong-Il is a nucular-armed (sic) madman who oppresses and starves his subjects while maintaining a massive military complex and threatening his neigbors
- Iran: A major sponsor of global terrorism, has its own nuclear program, and has been working covertly to undermine US efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Myanmar: A brutal, bloody and tyrannical regime by any standard
- Syria: Fellow Baathists, also tyrannical, also supporters of terrorism (Hamas, hezbollah, Islamic Jihad). Somehow our friends in the War on Terror (?!). Oh yeah, they're the US torture outsourcer of choice!
- Pick any one of at least a dozen regimes in Africa that are as Brutal as the Iraqi Baathist regime. Or more so.
Y'know what I find funny? Many of the same people who are now saying that it was good for America to invade Iraq to liberate its people would have said the exact opposite a few years earlier. I remember much grouching about the 'new world order' and America's role as 'Global Cop'. I remember a presidential candidate who said he would not be a nation builder. I guess it's ok to change your philosophy ('flip-flop') once your guy's in power, though, right?
Don't get me wrong. Even though I knew, in March 2003 (it was well-knowneven then) that the rationale for going to war (WMD's *NOT* liberation) was a sack of BS and that the war had been predicided by mid '02, I thought the war was a good thing: Saddam was a monster and his kids were even worse. If the American's are even halfways competent the Iraqis would be free and it would all be worth it. But they weren't. And it wasn't. And now Iraq is a far more dangerous place than it was before 03/03.
Actually the way I remember it, the PC's were so popular they were backordered at Christmastime, leading to a bunch of dissatisfied customers. Then they went bankrupt on warranty claims due to really crappy power supplies. A good business lesson on the dangers of not being prepared for success.
It's not the taxes, silly, it's the healthcare premiums. Since medicare is universal and federally-funded, they're much lower here for employers. Oh, and corporate taxes are generally lower here too!
Ah... you're thinking of the perpetual /. favorite, Sam Barrios, of Powerlabs fame. Pics and video here.
1 m3 = 1 e6 cm3 = 1000 litres * 1 kg/l = 1000 kg = 1 T (metric tonne) (@20 degrees C of course) ;-)
As long as you're working with lukewarm water, it's completely logical
In a slander of title case there must be a valid claim of special damages. Since SCO didn't adequately plead this claim, the case IN WHOLE is dismissed due to the aformentioned ruling granting Novell's motion to dismiss on the Plaintiff's pleading of special damages.
So, for the umpteenth time, this thing is FRICKIN' DISMISSED!
Hey! I work at 8200 Warden (B4) and no, he's not lying. Of course, I work in Service, not Development :-)
Actually I prefer this icon, or this one.
Let's all hope that SCO falls to a "toxic convert". I wonder if the street will recognize the move for what it is, as well. If so, that alone should hammer the stock price. And I don't think McBride et al will see it coming.
Read 1421- The Year China Discovered The World, by Gavin Menzies. This book and it's author have been getting a lot of attention from the archeological community lately 9 see also here, here, here, etc. There's a lot of evidence that suggest that Zhang He's fleet continued east to the americas. Early Western explorers reportedly encountered chinese-speaking peoples in both South and North America.
Who says we're any better off?
There's a Ray Bradbury story (I think it's Bradbury's, don't know the name either) in which Venus is terraformed using bacteria. The clouds in Venus' upper atmosphere is seeded with bacteria that thrive on Carbon Dioxide and Sulphuric Acid. As they spread through the upper atmosphere, they generate Oxygen and water in huge quatities and also greatly reduce atmospheric pressure. This allows liquid water to form in the lower atmosphere and fall as rain.
Over a period of months (or years?), the planet's surface cools enough to allow a team of astronauts to be sent to the planet's surface. On their initial survey, they find large, dead worm-like creatures. These creature had lived just under the surface.
But I haven't seen Darl in high heels with a bouiffant hairdo... yet.