One of the problems with Judge Penfield talking to a reporter during the trial about his strong feelings is that the Judge created a situation where it could be leaked and people might have traded on that information.
The reason your son won't go near the barbie site is there are no dinosaurs on it.
At least, that's my 5 yr olds opinion when his 9 yr old sister was on it.
I'm in a services organization and business is poor right now.
Yes, service orgs make lots of PR for each signed deal, but they are over many years and sometimes they get cancelled in advance of completion.
Also, services have more costs associated with them than do software or hardware sales.
To some extent, accounting of service contracts can be misleading by both front-ending the benefits and by buying other service orgs to obtain their profits but spreading out the acquisition costs.
It's not a comfortable business to be in right now.
You said
"It is far from its Windows cousins, not only in terms of infected machines but also in attacks."
Are you implying that Window's hackers write better (more destructive) worms than Linux hackers? You should be cast into the void for implying they are better than we, the pure and righteous.
All of what you said could be said of Microsoft and Windows administrators, but of course we'd never say that...
Part of the problem is that servers which are already in use often never get patched. This applies to any OS.
Management at one large ISP I once worked with wanted new stuff put in to make themselves look good to their bosses. Patches just took time away from that, and didn't make anyone look good, thus it didn't happen. Until Code Red that is and probably they will panic after this one.
HP also signed a deal like this with BEA and people didn't go ballistic. HP signs many deals and they want to be big in services and this and the BEA deal is how you get big in services.
You should be careful about reading corporate press releases, they rarely are in context.
The Register had this article yesterday where they added that the HP system is not available until next year (so how do they know the real cost) while the IBM-Microsoft system is a year old.
A new system is certainly going to cost less than an older one. Not true of cars unfortunately, but true of computers.
What would be nice is a true apples-to-apples test on the same hardware.
My experience with IBM Global Services is they say they push "Best of Breed", but then will look to switch everything they possibly can to IBM. We got badly burned by this when they talked management into tossing out a competitor's servers and replaced with IBM ones that had serious problems with their dual-headed NICs.
One thing, unlike you say, IGS will never sell you Oracle over their own DB2.
If this bug has really been known for months, are we hypocritical to bash others (always MS) for late fixes?
Bugs should be publicized immediately so fixes will happen sooner. It's good to first inform those who are responsible for the code so they can have a heads up, but months (if true here) is too long to wait.
Epson violated the GPL, was caught, and is
handling it.
The music industry uses a license for their products. Not the GPL, but it is a license.
Yet many people who get upset when the GPL
is violated could care less about other licenses being violated using Napster etc.
What we need is GPL-DRM to protect code from the unwashed corporations...
Ok, since we are part of Slashdot we naturally compare this to Microsoft, but it's worse.
Almost everyone in the US pays for phone service. Strangly, I have more choice for my OS than I do for our phone service. Besides, many people still don't have computers, but they have phones.
I pay for an MS OS license via a PC seller once (if ever). Since they buy in volume, its maybe 30 bucks.
I pay more to my phone company each month.
So, to the question, will anyone bother to sue? I hope so.
This will get me marked permanently as a troll, but I think Microsoft passed IBM a few years ago in terms of R&D expenditures.
In terms of giving up on hard drives, IBM may also be looking at other technologies to replace it. I suspect this is a good short-term move for them (but not the IBM ex-employees) since its a commodity item that other companies are paying the research bill for.
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What will really happen is that people buying the low-end machines will then borrow a copy of Office 97 or Office 2000 from a friend and copy it.
One of the problems with Judge Penfield talking to a reporter during the trial about his strong feelings is that the Judge created a situation where it could be leaked and people might have traded on that information.
It was truly a stupid thing that the Judge did.
You're right. Let's buy BitKeeper and make it OSS.
I'll raise the money by selling my shares of VA Software (LNUX) and, whoops... that won't work anymore.
The reason your son won't go near the barbie site is there are no dinosaurs on it. At least, that's my 5 yr olds opinion when his 9 yr old sister was on it.
I'm in a services organization and business is poor right now.
Yes, service orgs make lots of PR for each signed deal, but they are over many years and sometimes they get cancelled in advance of completion.
Also, services have more costs associated with them than do software or hardware sales.
To some extent, accounting of service contracts can be misleading by both front-ending the benefits and by buying other service orgs to obtain their profits but spreading out the acquisition costs.
It's not a comfortable business to be in right now.
I don't like bashing but...
at least my customary gesture for the BSOD might do something useful, like reboot.
You asked, "how to build an igloo..."
If you're a real penguin, you don't need no stinkin igloo.
You said
"It is far from its Windows cousins, not only in terms of infected machines but also in attacks."
Are you implying that Window's hackers write better (more destructive) worms than Linux hackers? You should be cast into the void for implying they are better than we, the pure and righteous.
All of what you said could be said of Microsoft and Windows administrators, but of course we'd never say that...
Part of the problem is that servers which are already in use often never get patched. This applies to any OS.
Management at one large ISP I once worked with wanted new stuff put in to make themselves look good to their bosses. Patches just took time away from that, and didn't make anyone look good, thus it didn't happen. Until Code Red that is and probably they will panic after this one.
The Scientologists need to use their secret Thetan DRM to protect their secret intellectual property rights.
Hopefully they'll protect it so well we won't have to hear about them ever again.
Now they need to go after Slashdot to get rid of these posts...
Folks, calm down about this.
HP also signed a deal like this with BEA and people didn't go ballistic. HP signs many deals and they want to be big in services and this and the BEA deal is how you get big in services.
You should be careful about reading corporate press releases, they rarely are in context.
With no sysadmin jobs, what will CS majors do after 4 years of college if they don't want to move to the real world?
There's always the school cafeteria, "Fries with that, sir?"
Will anyone actually try XP SP1 before complaining?
.Net CLR. You have to do that on your own, its not part of SP1.
.Net and then we whine about the opposite.
It does not install the
Funny, they include their JVM, but not
The Register had this article yesterday where they added that the HP system is not available until next year (so how do they know the real cost) while the IBM-Microsoft system is a year old.
A new system is certainly going to cost less than an older one. Not true of cars unfortunately, but true of computers.
What would be nice is a true apples-to-apples test on the same hardware.
My experience with IBM Global Services is they say they push "Best of Breed", but then will look to switch everything they possibly can to IBM. We got badly burned by this when they talked management into tossing out a competitor's servers and replaced with IBM ones that had serious problems with their dual-headed NICs.
One thing, unlike you say, IGS will never sell you Oracle over their own DB2.
If this bug has really been known for months, are we hypocritical to bash others (always MS) for late fixes?
Bugs should be publicized immediately so fixes will happen sooner. It's good to first inform those who are responsible for the code so they can have a heads up, but months (if true here) is too long to wait.
not meant as a troll...
Epson violated the GPL, was caught, and is handling it.
The music industry uses a license for their products. Not the GPL, but it is a license.
Yet many people who get upset when the GPL is violated could care less about other licenses being violated using Napster etc.
What we need is GPL-DRM to protect code from the unwashed corporations...
Why isn't Linux tested in the report? Its certainly more common than many of the other selections.
:-)
Should we assume Linux matches *BSD or some other flavor? or do I need to read more carefully
How do we know VMS is secure?
Many of the hacks on all the OS's are found by people looking for them for fame, fortune, glory and malice.
Has VMS had the attention of these folks to find things?
In other words, if only a few thousand people used Windows, they'd say it was the most secure OS in the world.
Ok, since we are part of Slashdot we naturally compare this to Microsoft, but it's worse.
Almost everyone in the US pays for phone service. Strangly, I have more choice for my OS than I do for our phone service. Besides, many people still don't have computers, but they have phones.
I pay for an MS OS license via a PC seller once (if ever). Since they buy in volume, its maybe 30 bucks.
I pay more to my phone company each month.
So, to the question, will anyone bother to sue? I hope so.
Read the article again, this is the Iowa State Supreme court telling the local court to hear the case.
It wasn't decided if it was anti-trust or that a refund was due. Only that it should be heard.
This will get me marked permanently as a troll, but I think Microsoft passed IBM a few years ago in terms of R&D expenditures.
In terms of giving up on hard drives, IBM may also be looking at other technologies to replace it. I suspect this is a good short-term move for them (but not the IBM ex-employees) since its a commodity item that other companies are paying the research bill for.
Just FYI, the article should've mentioned this is a problem for SQL Server 7, not the current version which is SQL 2000(?)
Even better than Pittman making what you call, "a typical suit decision" is that they suffered under it for over a year.
That is pathetic.
It sounds evil, but it can't be bad, because its open-source, right?
More seriously, I hope the sites being hit with "fake" affiliates revoke the affiliate status of sites that Morpheus redirects thru.
It shouldn't be hard for EBay etc to load a copy and just try it and find out who is playing this game.