My guess would be that they'll be using some sort of compression gateway that would proxy web/pop/etc traffic. The server would compress the traffic and client software would be responsible for uncompressing. Some of the compression is lossy (such as that on images) so the consumer will see lower quality images and the extra bits wont need to be sent over the wire. It's something used by many wireless carriers to increase the perceived throughput to tethered user. To the average consumer it *looks* like it's a faster connection, when in fact it's the same real connection speed, because of compression and unecessary packets never making it to their end.
It's most definately not marketing speak and reflects sales of it's servers. Check out a recent cnet article which states "The product overhaul comes at a critical time for Sun, a company striving to maintain its No. 1 ranking in the marketplace for Unix servers."
Cnet has posted articles reflecting actual sales and Sun is (barely) #1. I can't seem to find the article with the figures, however it's definately not simply "marketing speak."
How in God's name could that be considered insightful? The original poster mentioned PAID subscribers -- meaning ones that provided their credit card information which is accompanied by address, expiration date, etc. If THAT information is as well guarded as the 1313 Mockingbird Lane information as a paying subscriber I'd be nervous.
They better be making a nice amount of _profit_. All the article mentions is revenue. Most of the dot-coms made some revenue, just not enough to cover costs and actually post a profit.
After all, anyone can sell dollar bills for $0.75 and his revenues would be through the roof. He'd never make money however.:)
Actually, you could always log on to the RedHat Network http://rhn.redhat.com and delete the entry for the "system" that you had initially set up. You'll then be able to register the "new" system (OS load) with rhn_register and use up2date normally.
Focusing on the verbiage of the web site is silly. It's not as if these are static pages -- they are dynamically generated. Had the pre-order sale price been inserted as "$329" instead of "199" the text surrounding it would change to say "SPECIAL PRE-ORDER! 329! $80 SAVINGS." I don't believe it was a bait-and-switch tactic as much as some poor schmo making a mistake when entering the sale price into the system.
I don't agree with the tactics they chose to follow afterwards, but I do believe the price listed was made in error (obviously they wouldn't sell the card below cost).
I'm astounded that Apple hasn't gone down that path. With the name recognition of "Apple" and the developer pool for *BSD, as well as commercial giants like Microsoft and Adobe, OS-X on the PC could definately compete. However, one would have to think that those hundreds of millions of dollars Microsoft invested in Apple came at a high cost....
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My guess would be that they'll be using some sort of compression gateway that would proxy web/pop/etc traffic. The server would compress the traffic and client software would be responsible for uncompressing. Some of the compression is lossy (such as that on images) so the consumer will see lower quality images and the extra bits wont need to be sent over the wire. It's something used by many wireless carriers to increase the perceived throughput to tethered user. To the average consumer it *looks* like it's a faster connection, when in fact it's the same real connection speed, because of compression and unecessary packets never making it to their end.
It's most definately not marketing speak and reflects sales of it's servers. Check out
a recent cnet article which states "The product overhaul comes at a critical time for Sun, a company striving to maintain its No. 1 ranking in the marketplace for Unix servers."
Cnet has posted articles reflecting actual sales and Sun is (barely) #1. I can't seem to find the article with the figures, however it's definately not simply "marketing speak."
As soon as they get to F, which I am intimately familiar with, I might pick it up..
How in God's name could that be considered insightful? The original poster mentioned PAID subscribers -- meaning ones that provided their credit card information which is accompanied by address, expiration date, etc. If THAT information is as well guarded as the 1313 Mockingbird Lane information as a paying subscriber I'd be nervous.
They better be making a nice amount of _profit_. All the article mentions is revenue. Most of the dot-coms made some revenue, just not enough to cover costs and actually post a profit.
:)
After all, anyone can sell dollar bills for $0.75 and his revenues would be through the roof. He'd never make money however.
Actually, you could always log on to the RedHat Network http://rhn.redhat.com and delete the entry for the "system" that you had initially set up. You'll then be able to register the "new" system (OS load) with rhn_register and use up2date normally.
Focusing on the verbiage of the web site is silly. It's not as if these are static pages -- they are dynamically generated. Had the pre-order sale price been inserted as "$329" instead of "199" the text surrounding it would change to say "SPECIAL PRE-ORDER! 329! $80 SAVINGS." I don't believe it was a bait-and-switch tactic as much as some poor schmo making a mistake when entering the sale price into the system.
I don't agree with the tactics they chose to follow afterwards, but I do believe the price listed was made in error (obviously they wouldn't sell the card below cost).
I'm astounded that Apple hasn't gone down that path. With the name recognition of "Apple" and the developer pool for *BSD, as well as commercial giants like Microsoft and Adobe, OS-X on the PC could definately compete. However, one would have to think that those hundreds of millions of dollars Microsoft invested in Apple came at a high cost....