You think they're going to lock down the sound & video API's in the OS so that nobody can make their own media players?
There used to be a company called 'Netscape', they made this application called a 'Webbrowser'. It was a seperate application from the operating system.
Thank you for formulating so clearly why the interests of commercial software companies are fundamentally different from the interest of their (governemental) clients.
Karin Spaink is has been battling Co$, Spammers and MS (the disease, not the company) for years. It's nothing short of amazing how she just keeps going.
... the new systems are necessary to protect entertainment content as well as safeguard corporate data and personal privacy against identity theft. Without such built-in controls, they say, Hollywood and the music business will refuse to make their products available online.
That's funny, US music and movies already are available online. Often even before they are available off-line.
'Darknet' has a cool ring to it though, straight out of a Neil Stephenson novel.
The article states SA spends 3Bn Rand ($300 mil) on mostly foreign software licences. You can hire a lot of programmers/support staff for that kind of money. Especially in a country like SA that does not have the same level of labour-costs as the US or Europe.
So if I understand you you're saying is that your application-vendor is forcing you to use an expensive, insecure platform made by a company that will do anything and everything to suck a maximum ammount of dollars out of your IT-budget.
Have I understood you correctly?
If so I'd say creating alternative apps (OpenSource or otherwise) should be one of your top priorities. Four years unitll MS will own your data through Palladium, the clock is ticking...
Download the.iso from http://www.samsungcontact.com and try is for yourself. Nope it's not OSS, but more secure, stable and a hellofalot cheaper than Exchange.
(disclaimer - I have no affilation with Samsung - blabla)
China is free to adapt the Linux kernel for use in missile batteries and keep the code to themselves as long as they don't re-distribute the modified kernel (say selling it to N-Korea). You don't have to share your code as long as you do not re-distribute.
Let's say, just for the sake of discussion that anthing that is POP3/LDAP and.. Outlook compatible is pretty close. The-mailserver-formely-known-as-openmail from HP is now sold by Samsung as samsungcontact. No, it's not Opensource (yet anyway) but it is a perfect drop-in replacement dor Exchange, a lot cheaper to buy and own. It runs on linux, solaris, HP-UX, AIX and more. For some reason not many people seem to know about this product. Openmail was used by lager organisations like banks and such until it was taken off the market by HP (rumor has it under pressure from Redmond, but that would be unfair ofcourse;-).
(note: I have no affiliation with Samsung whatsoever)
But markets cannot rule when a single company puts billions into killing all competition. If MS and others had 'played nice' and acted as responsable corporate citizens these kind of law would not be required. But since the gloves have seem to come off in Redmond (calling Opensource an 'cancer' and 'unamerican') little room is left but to fight back.
Remember: it is Micorsoft who chooses to change file-formats every 18 months. It is Microsoft who chooses to mangle protocols (Kerberos, SMB).
Microsoft could have been a true leader if they had learned form the anitrust suit. They didn't. Now the opensource community will do to them what they did to Netscape: 'everything you sell we will give away for free'.
It's called the Amaga. Raytheon (the missile producer) is working on this ruggedized version of the iPaq. I saw a prototye being dropped from 2 meters on a floor. No problems;-). http://www.airforce-technology.com/contractors/s of tware/raytheon/
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There used to be a company called 'Netscape', they made this application called a 'Webbrowser'. It was a seperate application from the operating system.
Thank you for formulating so clearly why the interests of commercial software companies are fundamentally different from the interest of their (governemental) clients.
There are several other IT companies providing Linux support. Among them IBM and HP, you may have heard of those.
Karin Spaink is has been battling Co$, Spammers and MS (the disease, not the company) for years. It's nothing short of amazing how she just keeps going.
'Darknet' has a cool ring to it though, straight out of a Neil Stephenson novel.
Isn't this called Application Service Providing?
It was a Norwegian heavy water factory. There's a movie about the sabotage raid.
The article states SA spends 3Bn Rand ($300 mil) on mostly foreign software licences. You can hire a lot of programmers/support staff for that kind of money. Especially in a country like SA that does not have the same level of labour-costs as the US or Europe.
Didn't happen AFIAKT. Should have been visible here
Only half true. Microsoft offers a little known Word 2000 viewer (and similar viewers for Excel etc) that is available gratis.
Yes, but only on a platform you have to pay for...
So if I understand you you're saying is that your application-vendor is forcing you to use an expensive, insecure platform made by a company that will do anything and everything to suck a maximum ammount of dollars out of your IT-budget.
Have I understood you correctly?
If so I'd say creating alternative apps (OpenSource or otherwise) should be one of your top priorities. Four years unitll MS will own your data through Palladium, the clock is ticking...
I'm sounding like a broken record on this but:
.iso from http://www.samsungcontact.com and try is for yourself. Nope it's not OSS, but more secure, stable and a hellofalot cheaper than Exchange.
There a perfect drop-in replacement for Exhange on Linux/Unix:
Samsung Contact
The_mailserver_formally_known_as_Openmail (from HP)
Download the
(disclaimer - I have no affilation with Samsung - blabla)
China is free to adapt the Linux kernel for use in missile batteries and keep the code to themselves as long as they don't re-distribute the modified kernel (say selling it to N-Korea). You don't have to share your code as long as you do not re-distribute.
Try Samsungcontact (formerly known as HP openmail) www.samsungcontact.com, it's a fine Exchange replacement that runs on Linux.
(I am not affiliated with Samsung, bla bla bla)
Let's say, just for the sake of discussion that anthing that is POP3/LDAP and .. Outlook compatible is pretty close. The-mailserver-formely-known-as-openmail from HP is now sold by Samsung as samsungcontact. No, it's not Opensource (yet anyway) but it is a perfect drop-in replacement dor Exchange, a lot cheaper to buy and own. It runs on linux, solaris, HP-UX, AIX and more. For some reason not many people seem to know about this product. Openmail was used by lager organisations like banks and such until it was taken off the market by HP (rumor has it under pressure from Redmond, but that would be unfair ofcourse ;-).
(note: I have no affiliation with Samsung whatsoever)
But markets cannot rule when a single company puts billions into killing all competition. If MS and others had 'played nice' and acted as responsable corporate citizens these kind of law would not be required. But since the gloves have seem to come off in Redmond (calling Opensource an 'cancer' and 'unamerican') little room is left but to fight back.
Remember: it is Micorsoft who chooses to change file-formats every 18 months. It is Microsoft who chooses to mangle protocols (Kerberos, SMB).
Microsoft could have been a true leader if they had learned form the anitrust suit. They didn't. Now the opensource community will do to them what they did to Netscape: 'everything you sell we will give away for free'.
It's called the Amaga. ;-).
s of tware/raytheon/
Raytheon (the missile producer) is working on this ruggedized version of the iPaq. I saw a prototye being dropped from 2 meters on a floor. No problems
http://www.airforce-technology.com/contractors/