WIndows got into the server world from the desktop up. Linux is trying to opposite, and an OS doesn't scale Down very well. Red Hate needs to get a Fedora Lite out there, remove ALL mention of linux from it and see how fast it eats things up. Oh and better game distribution is needed, this is what keeps mac at number 2.
Windows doesn't have to be better than *nix, never has been... never will be. But what a DESKTOP has to be is EASY to use, which is NOT *nix.... even fedora. Until the groups developing *nix embrace the fact that making the ip stack handled more effeciently might make the fat slobs here (myself excluded) happy, it won't make someone want to usurp their desktop for it.
The REAL story is, some company that wants to get/.ed is talking about possibly using knoppix in banks. Hey, BTW, I'm in talks to use windows for workgroups as the space shuttles primary OS too. You guys wanna/. my URLs too?
Nowadays we're re-naming commonly used actions into sexier terms. When did p2p uploads/downloads becoming *casting?? When did a personal webpage become a blog? The internet is pretty much stuck in 1994 (as are most/. users) and we're simply re-naming things instead of innovating.
And open source materials, LOL! Thats what we all want, our search through classic works to get muddled by shit that can't even find a publisher. In today's world where even Paris Hilton can get published DOZENS of times over. If you can't publish, you REALLY suck. Basically thats what creative commons writers do, they wallow in the world of begging publishers and recognize they really SUCK at writing and decide to use an 'alternative' means of publishing.
Anyone else want to jump on the bandwagon and suck the might c*&k of the firefox God(s)?? Yeah, its a nice browser. Will it become a threat to MS? No Will someone make an OS out of it and ruin MS? No. They may make an OS out of it, but it will just be another OS in the white-noise of the BeOS's of the world.
What a total waste of cash! I can't fathom how the CTO bamboozled the IBM board into agreeing to spending that kind of money. IBM is going the way of Wang.
"I would like to know how many companies are out there that would take their pimply faced intern and have him to a default installation for an internet server with databases on it" You haven't worked in the tech industry very long have you? Most companies cannot afford the slovenly, unkempt geeks that reign here to configure their systems for them. The price of course is unjustified and based on tech bubble wet dreams.
But if we're talking about sites where people host their own personal diary, then yeah it's up 58%. I mean lets face it, it was 0% in 2003 before blogs were called blogs and just considered websites and mailing lists.
The author assumes MS will remain some static corporation with little or no foresight. Fact of the matter is, MS will probably be one of the leading OS ASP providers, and will find new and better ways to ensure they maintain a 90% sharehold of the desktop.
Is this the Holy Grail of evidence that linux is over-taking MS? HARDLY. No one calculates MS Server sales using hardware as part of the equation, if you did I'm sure you'd see MS Still eclipses linux. How much did Red Hat or SuSE earn last year selling licenses for their enterprise OS? I'd be interested in comparing apples to apples.
Red Hat's linux. I'm sorry, is there another distro the comes standard/shipped/supported for enterprise application in highly available environments? Debian, Slackware? Gnigga pleaze, wake up the rest of the little distros are the BeOS' of the MS world. I'd give you SuSE as a possible answer, but lets face it, we all know SuSE is just an engine to sell Novell's product-line and services.
The perpetual lip-service and cow-towing before Linus continues. What did he do in 04 that influenced other business' in their executive decision process? Fortune 5 companies use either HPUX or Solaris for high-end, high-avaiable server needs. I didn't see HP or Wal-Mart switch from HPUX or Solaris in '04.
The small market share of enterprise *nix that linux fills is the "we're too small and/or too cheap to get something else" niche. The niche for solaris, right now, is very high-end, very specialized solutions. These two markets do not compete with one another. And never will
Once again, the big HoopLah is over someone porting a windows game to linux.....two months after it's released. When the linux community finally gets their shit together, they will realize they need to negotiate with distributers **BEFORE** the cool games are released.
LOL!!!! How vain to assume sun OWES slashdotters anything. Or that by suggesting that getting a work out to a board of fat, surly munchkins will actually give Sun a little more geek-cred. The asshammers on this board continue to amaze me.
This is akin to saying that the more peso's we pump into the US borders, the more value it will garner. Netscape/Mozilla is not and will not be bundled in the single most popular desktop OS, ever. It will take more than the hype from the release of firefox 1.0 to put even a minor dent in IE. And what good does it do. Explorer isn't something they sell, it's free and embedded into the OS anyway. It will not go away.
This won't fly. For many reasons, but primarily there will be no assurance that what this software removes is truly unlicensed or even the file it thinks it is. And with no way to recoup lost files, it essentially won't gain acceptance. Whoever is hailing this as anything other than draconic needs to be shot.
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WIndows got into the server world from the desktop up. Linux is trying to opposite, and an OS doesn't scale Down very well. Red Hate needs to get a Fedora Lite out there, remove ALL mention of linux from it and see how fast it eats things up.
Oh and better game distribution is needed, this is what keeps mac at number 2.
Windows doesn't have to be better than *nix, never has been... never will be.
But what a DESKTOP has to be is EASY to use, which is NOT *nix.... even fedora.
Until the groups developing *nix embrace the fact that making the ip stack handled more effeciently might make the fat slobs here (myself excluded) happy, it won't make someone want to usurp their desktop for it.
The REAL story is, some company that wants to get /.ed is talking about possibly using knoppix in banks. /. my URLs too?
Hey, BTW, I'm in talks to use windows for workgroups as the space shuttles primary OS too. You guys wanna
Nowadays we're re-naming commonly used actions into sexier terms. /. users) and we're simply re-naming things instead of innovating.
When did p2p uploads/downloads becoming *casting??
When did a personal webpage become a blog?
The internet is pretty much stuck in 1994 (as are most
And open source materials, LOL!
Thats what we all want, our search through classic works to get muddled by shit that can't even find a publisher.
In today's world where even Paris Hilton can get published DOZENS of times over. If you can't publish, you REALLY suck.
Basically thats what creative commons writers do, they wallow in the world of begging publishers and recognize they really SUCK at writing and decide to use an 'alternative' means of publishing.
Anyone else want to jump on the bandwagon and suck the might c*&k of the firefox God(s)??
Yeah, its a nice browser. Will it become a threat to MS? No
Will someone make an OS out of it and ruin MS? No. They may make an OS out of it, but it will just be another OS in the white-noise of the BeOS's of the world.
What a total waste of cash!
I can't fathom how the CTO bamboozled the IBM board into agreeing to spending that kind of money. IBM is going the way of Wang.
"I would like to know how many companies are out there that would take their pimply faced intern and have him to a default installation for an internet server with databases on it"
You haven't worked in the tech industry very long have you?
Most companies cannot afford the slovenly, unkempt geeks that reign here to configure their systems for them. The price of course is unjustified and based on tech bubble wet dreams.
Everyone here seems to think a video game like this is great for working out frustration or aggression.
Try the gym you fat slobs!
But if we're talking about sites where people host their own personal diary, then yeah it's up 58%. I mean lets face it, it was 0% in 2003 before blogs were called blogs and just considered websites and mailing lists.
The author assumes MS will remain some static corporation with little or no foresight.
Fact of the matter is, MS will probably be one of the leading OS ASP providers, and will find new and better ways to ensure they maintain a 90% sharehold of the desktop.
I wonder how many ads IE will have to take out to compete with this?
Oh, thats right, none.
It also has fewer features.
Anyone else read that header and think of the mobile you'd hang over a crib? (pronounced Moe-Beel)??
A Mrs. Fields cookie or a Famous Amos cookie?
Lets go get a full page add barfing the success of making it past beta in only 4 years!
Is this the Holy Grail of evidence that linux is over-taking MS? HARDLY.
No one calculates MS Server sales using hardware as part of the equation, if you did I'm sure you'd see MS Still eclipses linux.
How much did Red Hat or SuSE earn last year selling licenses for their enterprise OS? I'd be interested in comparing apples to apples.
Red Hat's linux.
I'm sorry, is there another distro the comes standard/shipped/supported for enterprise application in highly available environments?
Debian, Slackware? Gnigga pleaze, wake up the rest of the little distros are the BeOS' of the MS world.
I'd give you SuSE as a possible answer, but lets face it, we all know SuSE is just an engine to sell Novell's product-line and services.
The perpetual lip-service and cow-towing before Linus continues.
What did he do in 04 that influenced other business' in their executive decision process?
Fortune 5 companies use either HPUX or Solaris for high-end, high-avaiable server needs. I didn't see HP or Wal-Mart switch from HPUX or Solaris in '04.
The small market share of enterprise *nix that linux fills is the "we're too small and/or too cheap to get something else" niche.
The niche for solaris, right now, is very high-end, very specialized solutions.
These two markets do not compete with one another. And never will
Once again, the big HoopLah is over someone porting a windows game to linux.....two months after it's released.
When the linux community finally gets their shit together, they will realize they need to negotiate with distributers **BEFORE** the cool games are released.
LOL!!!! How vain to assume sun OWES slashdotters anything. Or that by suggesting that getting a work out to a board of fat, surly munchkins will actually give Sun a little more geek-cred. The asshammers on this board continue to amaze me.
This is akin to saying that the more peso's we pump into the US borders, the more value it will garner. Netscape/Mozilla is not and will not be bundled in the single most popular desktop OS, ever. It will take more than the hype from the release of firefox 1.0 to put even a minor dent in IE. And what good does it do. Explorer isn't something they sell, it's free and embedded into the OS anyway. It will not go away.
This won't fly. For many reasons, but primarily there will be no assurance that what this software removes is truly unlicensed or even the file it thinks it is. And with no way to recoup lost files, it essentially won't gain acceptance. Whoever is hailing this as anything other than draconic needs to be shot.
All this funding to basically say: "They HAVE no choice but to learn it. And they simply attach frequent patterns with frequent results."