The point is IBM is now migrating the clients as well as the servers they don't have to make it work with win2000/XP clients - they are removed from the system.
To do what you want to do now - I think means you need to go part proprietary and investigate Novell's offerings on Linux.
In the long run I am sure the Samba group will come up with what you are looking for.
The Notes client has for several years run under Wine (Lotus has/had a page telling you how to do it even though it was not formally supported). How do you think all the Linux people at IBM work. Have extra Win boxes for Notes or dual boot - Nah ! they run it on their Linux boxes under Wine. Also IBM is introducing a web based client for Notes. Of course for the back end the Domino servers for Notes have run on Linux for years.
As has been already been mentioned Photoshop runs under Linux. But really I suspect most people at IBM don't use specialist outside Win apps. I think they probably use IBM's own specialist internal apps many wil be web based or Java, if not the will already be ported or in process of being ported.
For the few people that still have to use apps that will only run on Win they for the time being will have to use VMware or Win4Lin to run them on Linux boxes or alternately have some Windows servers that run Win apps from Rdesktop on Linux clients.
They should easily be able to eliminate the vast majority of Windows clients and servers from their internal IT by 2005. I believe that they have been sytematically ripping out Windows servers and replacing them with Linux for the past year. What is new is that they are now starting on the desktop
"IBM isn't the author of Linux or any of its tools, add-ons, servers,"
Large parts of the Linux Kernel code contain the statement "Copyright IBM", these are the parts SCO scum are accusing of being derivatives of System V UNIX. As for servers - IBM may not be the author of Apache but most of its lead developers work for IBM. So I think your statement is not too close to the truth.
The members of the IBM LTC have a pretty strong attachment to Linux and anyway that secret underground group of anarchists that seems to have been running IBM for the past twenty five years has bet the company on Linux. More power to them
Yes - but this is how the Canopy/SCO scam works - The Vultus purchase was the first one
SCO purchases a Canopy company with newly created shares at a nominal value (yes they have provision for a massive share expansion). The Canopy shareholders - ie Noorda and Yarro then sell the SCO stock at its market price and make a killing.
A worthless Canopy company has been turned into a fortune in cash and the suckers who have been paying through their nose to buy SCO stock have been defrauded.
The HP lawyers have probably come to the conclusion that SCO will not sue any end users because of the risk of criminal prosecution against them if they do.
So it then becomes a no brainer to offer indemnification - you reassure your timid customers and maybe win some from Dell and IBM (untill they follow suit).
Mandrake is also a damn good server distro. Mandrake has two problems. (1) a former management financially wrecking the company in the dot.bomb era and (2) The French government not giving it more support by pushing is use in government agencies.
Mandrake could really become a significant force in the enterprise server area in Europe if the French government gave the same sort of push for its internal use as the Chinese government gives Red Flag Linux. Or for that matter as much as the German Governments at the federal, provincial and municipal level give SuSe.
Listen the US subsidizes its agriculture with public money. It also subsidizes it arms industry with public money granted for research. This effectively subsidizes the civilian aviation industry and many other releated areas. So why shouldn't the east asian countries subsidize OS development and also put their own national priorities ahead in state OS procurement the same way the US does in military procurement.
Why the are you complaining about non payment for MS software in asia? When this new proposal is part of the way to stop it. If you don't use MS junk you don't have to pay for it.
Yes and why now? After all the FUD and hysteria around SCO saying it is going to send out invoices to companies using Linux - now why is this rumour being floated?
Well they are not stupid enough to start sending out invoices, they know that it would invite criminal charges and that this could wreck their sophisticated (e.g. Vultus purchase) pump and dump scheme with a lot of FUD production paid for by the MS "license" millions.
What they will need is a new big news press release item to keep the momentum when they don't actually send out any invoices. The answer sue SGI it will pump the stock and keep the FUD production line going. It's perfectly legal even if the case is pretty much fabricated, so is the one against IBM anyway.
How much longer they can keep up this pump and FUD untill they dump and go away (probably to somewhere in the Caribbean)? I don't know.
"Consider your MP3 collection. Your computer can tell you that a given MP3 is 6:15 long, and that it's 192 kbps, and that it's stereo. It can't know that it's "Treefingers" by Radiohead unless somebody tells it first."
The MP3 Format contains metadata for artist and title. Next time you play an MP3 in XMMS look at the playlist - artist and title information is displayed there (even when there is no current connection to the internet).
"Thanks to Bell, we now know that (unless theory takes some really extreme turns), before an interaction with a "classical" apparatus, a quantum particle not only has unknown position and momentum, it actually doesn't have either. It's a subtle argument, but it's pretty well tested."
The extreme turn that works to recover physical reality is to abandon the principle of contra-factual definiteness (a system cannot be in two logically incompatible states at the same time).
This of course brings about the many worlds/many histories interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (yes once again a multiplicity of universes). Many physicists reject this - Bell did but he seemed to reject this on moral grounds not physical ones.
On the other hand most comologists and quantum computation theorists do accept this - particularily following the development of decoherence theory. Furthermore a number of leading Nobel prizewinning theoretical physicists do, such as Gell-Mann and Steven Weinberg.
But then Weinberg's group now is primarily devoted to string theory and I guess you don't like it.
Quantum computers are different from classical digital computers in their fundamental logic. A classical computer works on bits: 0 or 1.
A quantum computer works on qubits: 0 or 1 or (0 and 1). The last state represents a quantum superposition. i.e. when Schrodinger's cat is both dead and alive at the same time.
If IBM were to offer legal assistance for anyone being sued for using Linux on an IBM machine. It would provide a basis in in improving shareholder value by helping to fight off SCO. It would get support from their customers and would persuade people to buy machines from IBM at least until HP and Dell came up with a similar promise.
The support of the FLOSS community is important for IBM as its whole company strategy is built around Linux and they therefore need the support of open source developers.
Virtually all Maths and Physics profs use a Unix like operating system (nowadays more often than not Linux)
The reason is simple - it is the standard practice in these fields to write your papers in LaTex as the best system for typsetting complicated mathematical equations. It is therefore the major format expected by academic journals in these fields. This naturally makes you more likely to use a Unix like system than windows even thouth there is the MikTex port of LaTex to Win32.
I don't think that they are suckers but I do think they exist.
Microsoft just anounced that it had a Linux test lab. I am sure MS has just bought a license for every processor in that lab and more. Remember that the "license" it has already paid for is for its Unix Services not Linux.
Just another way to funnel the FUD money. And to enable SCO not to have to outright lie in its press release. As if they wouldn't lie - they are just "economical with the truth"
Except for considering konqueror any better than Nautilus - it just sucks in different ways. And while the lack of table support of Abiword is a bind at least it works unlike Kword.
However for those of us that like a GTK desktop the way to go is XFce4
This is all about Java and nothing to do with SCO. SuSE is an extension of IBM (IBM rescued SuSE from bankruptcy and parachuted in long time IBM Germany executive Richard Seibt in as SuSE CEO)
My guess is that by getting SuSE to distribute the Sun JVM in return them distributing SuSE on their x86 kit they are hoping it will help to stave of IBM's increasing influence over the development of Java. This is especially so as Linux moves into the enterprise datacenter running middleware where java apps are the key.
I am a chemist not a fucking developer but I know enough about modern computing to understand what it all means. I am browsing here with Karma to spare and I am moderating - I thought of moderating this down - but no I thought I would have a minor rant instead
But seriously:
1. This was posted for developers.slashdot.org and added to the general post.
2. Even the general slashdot postings presuppose some level of computing knowledge
3. All those acronyms give you a start to find out about them - ever heard of google.
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If you want to set up Emacs to act as the LaTeX editor for MikTeX on Win32 you have to.
IANAD (I am not a developer).
I could see them hiving off the PC division. Just the way they hived off the Printer division as Lexmark.
The point is IBM is now migrating the clients as well as the servers they don't have to make it work with win2000/XP clients - they are removed from the system. To do what you want to do now - I think means you need to go part proprietary and investigate Novell's offerings on Linux. In the long run I am sure the Samba group will come up with what you are looking for.
The Notes client has for several years run under Wine (Lotus has/had a page telling you how to do it even though it was not formally supported). How do you think all the Linux people at IBM work. Have extra Win boxes for Notes or dual boot - Nah ! they run it on their Linux boxes under Wine. Also IBM is introducing a web based client for Notes. Of course for the back end the Domino servers for Notes have run on Linux for years.
As has been already been mentioned Photoshop runs under Linux. But really I suspect most people at IBM don't use specialist outside Win apps. I think they probably use IBM's own specialist internal apps many wil be web based or Java, if not the will already be ported or in process of being ported.
For the few people that still have to use apps that will only run on Win they for the time being will have to use VMware or Win4Lin to run them on Linux boxes or alternately have some Windows servers that run Win apps from Rdesktop on Linux clients.
They should easily be able to eliminate the vast majority of Windows clients and servers from their internal IT by 2005. I believe that they have been sytematically ripping out Windows servers and replacing them with Linux for the past year. What is new is that they are now starting on the desktop
Large parts of the Linux Kernel code contain the statement "Copyright IBM", these are the parts SCO scum are accusing of being derivatives of System V UNIX. As for servers - IBM may not be the author of Apache but most of its lead developers work for IBM. So I think your statement is not too close to the truth.
The members of the IBM LTC have a pretty strong attachment to Linux and anyway that secret underground group of anarchists that seems to have been running IBM for the past twenty five years has bet the company on Linux. More power to them
SCO purchases a Canopy company with newly created shares at a nominal value (yes they have provision for a massive share expansion). The Canopy shareholders - ie Noorda and Yarro then sell the SCO stock at its market price and make a killing.
A worthless Canopy company has been turned into a fortune in cash and the suckers who have been paying through their nose to buy SCO stock have been defrauded.
So it goes.
So it then becomes a no brainer to offer indemnification - you reassure your timid customers and maybe win some from Dell and IBM (untill they follow suit).
Mandrake could really become a significant force in the enterprise server area in Europe if the French government gave the same sort of push for its internal use as the Chinese government gives Red Flag Linux. Or for that matter as much as the German Governments at the federal, provincial and municipal level give SuSe.
Why the are you complaining about non payment for MS software in asia? When this new proposal is part of the way to stop it. If you don't use MS junk you don't have to pay for it.
And just accept that the growing economic power of China and Europe will consign the US to irrelevance - "just another country".
Well they are not stupid enough to start sending out invoices, they know that it would invite criminal charges and that this could wreck their sophisticated (e.g. Vultus purchase) pump and dump scheme with a lot of FUD production paid for by the MS "license" millions.
What they will need is a new big news press release item to keep the momentum when they don't actually send out any invoices. The answer sue SGI it will pump the stock and keep the FUD production line going. It's perfectly legal even if the case is pretty much fabricated, so is the one against IBM anyway.
How much longer they can keep up this pump and FUD untill they dump and go away (probably to somewhere in the Caribbean)? I don't know.
The MP3 Format contains metadata for artist and title. Next time you play an MP3 in XMMS look at the playlist - artist and title information is displayed there (even when there is no current connection to the internet).
I guess Storage accesses this metadata.
Note from a quick Google: Ralph J. Yarro is another active memeber of the Church of Latter Day Saints.
The extreme turn that works to recover physical reality is to abandon the principle of contra-factual definiteness (a system cannot be in two logically incompatible states at the same time).
This of course brings about the many worlds/many histories interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (yes once again a multiplicity of universes). Many physicists reject this - Bell did but he seemed to reject this on moral grounds not physical ones.
On the other hand most comologists and quantum computation theorists do accept this - particularily following the development of decoherence theory. Furthermore a number of leading Nobel prizewinning theoretical physicists do, such as Gell-Mann and Steven Weinberg.
But then Weinberg's group now is primarily devoted to string theory and I guess you don't like it.
A quantum computer works on qubits: 0 or 1 or (0 and 1). The last state represents a quantum superposition. i.e. when Schrodinger's cat is both dead and alive at the same time.
Wealth is distributed it is stolen !
The support of the FLOSS community is important for IBM as its whole company strategy is built around Linux and they therefore need the support of open source developers.
The reason is simple - it is the standard practice in these fields to write your papers in LaTex as the best system for typsetting complicated mathematical equations. It is therefore the major format expected by academic journals in these fields. This naturally makes you more likely to use a Unix like system than windows even thouth there is the MikTex port of LaTex to Win32.
Now I program Python in Gvim - I don't know why ?
YES
Microsoft just anounced that it had a Linux test lab. I am sure MS has just bought a license for every processor in that lab and more. Remember that the "license" it has already paid for is for its Unix Services not Linux.
Just another way to funnel the FUD money. And to enable SCO not to have to outright lie in its press release. As if they wouldn't lie - they are just "economical with the truth"
Except for considering konqueror any better than Nautilus - it just sucks in different ways. And while the lack of table support of Abiword is a bind at least it works unlike Kword.
However for those of us that like a GTK desktop the way to go is XFce4
You can imagine how these creeps are demanding from Google !
My guess is that by getting SuSE to distribute the Sun JVM in return them distributing SuSE on their x86 kit they are hoping it will help to stave of IBM's increasing influence over the development of Java. This is especially so as Linux moves into the enterprise datacenter running middleware where java apps are the key.
But seriously:
1. This was posted for developers.slashdot.org and added to the general post.
2. Even the general slashdot postings presuppose some level of computing knowledge
3. All those acronyms give you a start to find out about them - ever heard of google.