Ahem... the compilation to native code is only done once in a optimization process:-)
You can notice that java programs become significantly faster within the first 30 seconds after startup...
It is not that far off.
Basically 300 years ago the Indian emerging textile industry was crushed by the invading British people who degraded India to a source of cheap raw materials and to a market where they could sell textiles.
It is not what happened in the US but very close but just on a different angle of history.
India probably could have been number one textile producer of the world already around 100 -200 years ago given that they would have been able to adobt technolgoy for their needs.
Sorry... but java has made lots of inroads, aroudn 40% of all projects currently are implemented in java and basically most of the server side stuff is done with it.
Once DRM is established left and rigt, DRM free boxen will be selling like hotcakes.
Sun is in the weird position to have control over all technologies, so that they can lock out DRM once and forall of their machines.
Strange how things change, it seems like Apple currently is gaining market share in Suns former core business, Unix workstations and earning lots of money.
The idea of Sun is not bad at the first thought, but they always were better (until 2001) as the commodity hardware.
What they need is to get their act together and make fast machines which run unix, everything else is lost effort.
The problem is it is hard to beate the Wintel combination, Apple did it and their G5 is selling like hotcakes to Unix pros, Sun....
Sun bake a hot processor, put it in a cool box dump Solaris or Linux on it with a good desktop and sell it....
You have all components, except the processor!
I dont think selling cheapos in Wallymart is really the key for Suns survival.
regarding installation which has come up in decades, besides the fact that Rox is one of the best desktops out there and highly overlooked, I think this should become the standard way of non apt installation on Linux.
Just dump everything onto the hd and let the system configure itself, deinstallation is done by moving the installation to the garbage bin.
There would be a market for their imaging apps and Paradox, I am not sure if Linux needs yet another word processor...
Corel has lots of other applications in their portfolio which linux does not have eqally good equivalents for.
A linux port of Paradox would be heaven sent!
You can sum it easily up. No early adopters who can build their own PowerPC based PCs. The PowerPC and related boards are no commodity hardware you can get for affordable prices. Many early adopters love to build their own computers, they basically are locked out. That basically means no early adopters, no long term mass market. What is left is only niche markets like Apple, who is not too unhappy not to have commodity hardware in their machine (high prices)
PowerPC is strong in many areas but as long as you cant get PowerPC ATX boards and processors at the same prices as their x86 counterparts, and the DRM lock in on the x86 side is not very strong yet, people still will buy x86.
I think the biggest problem in this case is the publishers who shy away from risks.
I want to give two examples: Arx Fatalis and the Gothic series. Both excellent games but both had the biggest problem to find good publishers in the united states, because they were not walkin on proven tracks. They belong to the most interesting and best games released in the recent years but game publishers were unwilling to pick up the already finished games and sell them to the US to fair conditions for the producers. Because they were no shooters and no clickfests.
This might be a small possible solution.
KWord follows similar design principles as framemaker, maybe apple has the idea, to give the kword authors a helping hand:-)
There is no way this thing will be canned unless you ban digital sat cards
a) There is no copy protection circumventend
b) All the DVB cards over here in Europe have similar software included, so this thing is not new, it is just better than the normal solutions and runs on Linux.
c) This thing is a european thing only since the US hasnt adobted DVB like the rest of the world.
And PC-DVB solutions have been existing for years now over here. (I got my card in 98 or 99 for Sat Internet)
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Ahem... the compilation to native code is only done once in a optimization process :-)
You can notice that java programs become significantly faster within the first 30 seconds after startup...
It is not that far off. Basically 300 years ago the Indian emerging textile industry was crushed by the invading British people who degraded India to a source of cheap raw materials and to a market where they could sell textiles. It is not what happened in the US but very close but just on a different angle of history. India probably could have been number one textile producer of the world already around 100 -200 years ago given that they would have been able to adobt technolgoy for their needs.
Sorry... but java has made lots of inroads, aroudn 40% of all projects currently are implemented in java and basically most of the server side stuff is done with it.
Once DRM is established left and rigt, DRM free boxen will be selling like hotcakes. Sun is in the weird position to have control over all technologies, so that they can lock out DRM once and forall of their machines.
Strange how things change, it seems like Apple currently is gaining market share in Suns former core business, Unix workstations and earning lots of money. The idea of Sun is not bad at the first thought, but they always were better (until 2001) as the commodity hardware. What they need is to get their act together and make fast machines which run unix, everything else is lost effort. The problem is it is hard to beate the Wintel combination, Apple did it and their G5 is selling like hotcakes to Unix pros, Sun.... Sun bake a hot processor, put it in a cool box dump Solaris or Linux on it with a good desktop and sell it.... You have all components, except the processor! I dont think selling cheapos in Wallymart is really the key for Suns survival.
regarding installation which has come up in decades, besides the fact that Rox is one of the best desktops out there and highly overlooked,
I think this should become the standard way of non apt installation on Linux.
Just dump everything onto the hd and let the system configure itself, deinstallation is done by moving the installation to the garbage bin.
There would be a market for their imaging apps and Paradox, I am not sure if Linux needs yet another word processor... Corel has lots of other applications in their portfolio which linux does not have eqally good equivalents for. A linux port of Paradox would be heaven sent!
You can sum it easily up.
No early adopters who can build their own PowerPC based PCs. The PowerPC and related boards are no commodity hardware you can get for affordable prices.
Many early adopters love to build their own computers, they basically are locked out.
That basically means no early adopters, no long term mass market. What is left is only niche markets like Apple, who is not too unhappy not to have commodity hardware in their machine (high prices)
PowerPC is strong in many areas but as long as you cant get PowerPC ATX boards and processors at the same prices as their x86 counterparts, and the DRM lock in on the x86 side is not very strong yet, people still will buy x86.
I think the biggest problem in this case is the publishers who shy away from risks.
I want to give two examples:
Arx Fatalis and the Gothic series. Both excellent games but both had the biggest problem to find good publishers in the united states, because they were not walkin on proven tracks.
They belong to the most interesting and best games released in the recent years but game publishers were unwilling to pick up the already finished games and sell them to the US to fair conditions for the producers. Because they were no shooters and no clickfests.
This might be a small possible solution. KWord follows similar design principles as framemaker, maybe apple has the idea, to give the kword authors a helping hand :-)
There is no way this thing will be canned unless you ban digital sat cards a) There is no copy protection circumventend b) All the DVB cards over here in Europe have similar software included, so this thing is not new, it is just better than the normal solutions and runs on Linux. c) This thing is a european thing only since the US hasnt adobted DVB like the rest of the world. And PC-DVB solutions have been existing for years now over here. (I got my card in 98 or 99 for Sat Internet)
SDMI compliance. To bad Creative doesnt advertise it as it should be. They easily would kill off their sales to the half in no time.