Mod parent up! I currently use all 3 (Oracle10,Postgres8,MySQL5) on several projects. For basic (low-complexity, low-traffic) webapps, MySQL is perfectly fine. For unlimited budgets or >5-nines uptime, Oracle please. Everything else (most enterprise projects I have seen) would do well on Postgres.
The Oddpost webmail is available for sale AND it runs on linux. Actually the Scalix backend is a tomcat (java) webapp, the frontend is an AJAX javascript engine.
Having now seen screenshots of Yahoo's new webmail, it looks alot like a re-skinned Oddpost. Oddpost webmail can be purchased here http://www.scalix.com/
Agree, mod parent's parent up. This is the REAL story that gets easily lost in slashdot noise.
Intuit can play both ends: they squeeze the customer with forced upgrades, and the banks with "compatibility" policies.
There is no technical reason why my Quicken 2000 stopped importing QFX files on 4/18/2004: the file format hasn't changed. In fact, I can STILL download QFX from my bank and rename the FID (financial instution id) and it works! Its also possible to edit "hosts" file to block the Intuit "phone home" 127.0.0.1 ofx-prod-brand.intuit.com, 127.0.0.1 ofx-prod-fiusage.intuit.com 127.0.0.1 ofx-prod-cuusage.intuit.com
What I dont understand is why banks agree to this? If every bank would just allow download of OFX from their website, customers could take Intuit's "branding" servers out of this loop, a place where Intuit never belonged in the first place.
I finally said "screw you Intuit" and have been happily importing OFX files into GnuCash for 6 months.
As usual the problem here is NOT that other browsers are incapable of WYSIWYG functionality. The problem is the developers have chosen to use non-standard (IE-specific) methods, even though other methods exist which ARE cross browser compatible.
Here is an example of a WYSISYG cross-browser HTML editor: http://dynarch.com/htmlarea/examples/fully-loaded. html
This is an extreme case of DHTML/javascript. And yet there are very very few if (isIE) then... else... branches in the source code.
Here is clear proof that advanced cross-browser code is very possible without writing it all twice.
Indeed this announcement is HUGE, a shot across both Sun's and Microsoft's bow. IBM has been saying for a long time that Eclipse/SWT/Java are a general purpose application PLATFORM. This product announcment is more proof. Anybody who thinks this Eclipse/SWT stuff is immature/ slow/ buggy should consider that IBM has been shipping (for over 2 years) their flagship developer IDE Application Studio, it sells pretty well even at $4000 per seat.
For all those posing about Javascript/HTML/ActiveX/etc please read the parent link about Eclipse/SWT. imagine a native GUI widget set (very fast, indistingushable from a native app) for Java developers. So the architecture is:
JavaApplet -> SWT -> Eclipse core -> JVM
The webserver delivers the JavaApplet which is cacheable for offline usage. The other pieces (SWT/Eclipse/JVM) are pre-installed but could be web launched initially to naked desktops.
Not exactly. JSF does not "replace" Struts at all,
rather, JSF is more of a replacement for JSP's. What
may have confused you is that a major feature of
of Struts is tag libraries for JSPs, those taglibs
WILL be abandoned in a future Struts release once
JSF has matured. Read it all here
http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/proposals/struts- faces.html
Basically, the MVC aspect of Struts will live on, only the "V" part (view) will become JSF instead of JSP.
Lets review some of the reasons Munich made their initial decision of Linux over MS:
1. Freedom: total independence from an overseas monopoly.
2. Public interest: a large % of project dollars is going to local integrators paychecks instead of overseas to Redmond.
3. ROI: long term analysis showed that, even though initial Linux cost was greater, Linux would soon proove cheaper.
4. Security: aside from all the MS vulnerabilities (viri, worms, etc) the Munich government is not woried about the possibility of closed source spyware.
5. Future model: any lessons learned by this project only help ensure the success and low cost of deploying Linux in other government agencies.
I would love to watch this Apple infomercial but its only QuickTime format. Of course, Apple does not offer a QuickTime viewer for Linux so I cant watch it!
Does it seem hypocritical that this V-T supercomputer runs on Linux but Apple wont even make a Linux QuickTime viewer?
this virus spreads itself by email a ZIP attachment which contains EXE that must be run, of course its Windows only.
I would love a way to identify IP address of all idiots who contract this virus, just to be sure my AOL/RoadRunner/Verizon netblock blacklists are complete.
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> MySQL is largely playing catchup.
Mod parent up! I currently use all 3 (Oracle10,Postgres8,MySQL5) on several projects.
For basic (low-complexity, low-traffic) webapps, MySQL is perfectly fine.
For unlimited budgets or >5-nines uptime, Oracle please.
Everything else (most enterprise projects I have seen) would do
well on Postgres.
The Oddpost webmail is available for sale AND it runs on linux. Actually the Scalix backend is a tomcat (java) webapp, the frontend is an AJAX javascript engine.
Having now seen screenshots of Yahoo's new webmail, it looks alot like a re-skinned Oddpost. Oddpost webmail can be purchased here http://www.scalix.com/
Agree, mod parent's parent up. This is the REAL story that gets easily lost in slashdot noise.
Intuit can play both ends: they squeeze the customer with forced upgrades, and the banks with "compatibility" policies.
There is no technical reason why my Quicken 2000 stopped importing QFX files on 4/18/2004: the file format hasn't changed. In fact, I can STILL download QFX from my bank and rename the FID (financial instution id) and it works! Its also possible to edit "hosts" file to block the Intuit "phone home"
127.0.0.1 ofx-prod-brand.intuit.com,
127.0.0.1 ofx-prod-fiusage.intuit.com
127.0.0.1 ofx-prod-cuusage.intuit.com
What I dont understand is why banks agree to this?
If every bank would just allow download of OFX from their website, customers could take Intuit's
"branding" servers out of this loop, a place where Intuit never belonged in the first place.
I finally said "screw you Intuit" and have been happily importing OFX files into GnuCash for 6 months.
"The GPL is a contract"
You must be thinking of the GPC (General Public Contract)?
GPL = General Public License.
As usual the problem here is NOT that other browsers are incapable of WYSIWYG functionality. The problem is the developers have chosen to use non-standard (IE-specific) methods, even though other methods exist which ARE cross browser compatible. Here is an example of a WYSISYG cross-browser HTML editor: http://dynarch.com/htmlarea/examples/fully-loaded. html
This is an extreme case of DHTML/javascript. And yet there are very very few if (isIE) then ... else ... branches in the source code.
Here is clear proof that advanced cross-browser code is very possible without writing it all twice.
Indeed this announcement is HUGE, a shot across both Sun's and Microsoft's bow. IBM has been saying for a long time that Eclipse/SWT/Java are a general purpose application PLATFORM. This product announcment is more proof. Anybody who thinks this Eclipse/SWT stuff is immature/ slow/ buggy should consider that IBM has been shipping (for over 2 years) their flagship developer IDE Application Studio, it sells pretty well even at $4000 per seat.
For all those posing about Javascript/HTML/ActiveX/etc please read the parent link about Eclipse/SWT. imagine a native GUI widget set (very fast, indistingushable from a native app)
for Java developers. So the architecture is:
JavaApplet -> SWT -> Eclipse core -> JVM
The webserver delivers the JavaApplet which is cacheable for offline usage. The other pieces (SWT/Eclipse/JVM) are pre-installed but could be web launched initially to naked desktops.
Not exactly. JSF does not "replace" Struts at all, rather, JSF is more of a replacement for JSP's. What may have confused you is that a major feature of of Struts is tag libraries for JSPs, those taglibs WILL be abandoned in a future Struts release once JSF has matured. Read it all here http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/proposals/struts- faces.html
Basically, the MVC aspect of Struts will live on, only the "V" part (view) will become JSF instead of JSP.
Lets review some of the reasons Munich made their initial decision of Linux over MS:
1. Freedom: total independence from an overseas monopoly.
2. Public interest: a large % of project dollars is going to local integrators paychecks instead of overseas to Redmond.
3. ROI: long term analysis showed that, even though initial Linux cost was greater, Linux would
soon proove cheaper.
4. Security: aside from all the MS vulnerabilities (viri, worms, etc) the Munich government is not
woried about the possibility of closed source spyware.
5. Future model: any lessons learned by this project only help ensure the success and low cost of deploying Linux in other government agencies.
They (NMAP authors) have NOT changed their license at all: NMAP is still GPL.
Its just that the new RELEASE notes point out an obvious fact: SCO cannot distribute NMAP since SCO does not accept GPL.
By stating this, NMAP has not further restricted the GPL, neither have they changed their license.
I would love to watch this Apple infomercial
but its only QuickTime format. Of course,
Apple does not offer a QuickTime viewer for
Linux so I cant watch it!
Does it seem hypocritical that this V-T supercomputer runs on Linux but Apple
wont even make a Linux QuickTime viewer?
this virus spreads itself by email a ZIP attachment which contains EXE that must be run, of course its Windows only.
I would love a way to identify IP address of all idiots who contract this virus, just to be sure my AOL/RoadRunner/Verizon netblock blacklists are complete.
the article points out that most "groundswell" movements are by walkins/fax/handwritten notes.
this begs the question of what is the most effective target for someone to contact in SUPPORT of the DOJ case against Microsoft?