One of the problems I have seeen is with marketing. Even with all the money MS has, they do not market their games for the X-Box. They choose X-Box live and Halo to push all their power behind. Meanwhile so many more games are ignored from a marketing perspective. Sony on the other hand markets most of their games very hard.
With the amount of patches, spyware and vireses in the computing enviroment. Does MS have any plans on opening up their management solutions to Open Soure or outside applications? As it stands if you want to be able to control systems (Desktops and servers running windows) in an enterprise enviroment, you have to incorporate MS solutions from end to end. If you have a mixed enviroment like Linux and Novell, that makes it even more difficult. There are a number of very good management solutions that allow for remote management of patches, spyware and overall network monitoring, but they require addition of MS solutions to work properly with MS clients. Is MS ever going to move to a more industry standard to allow for this, like the usage of SNMP has already shown. One of the nice things about these other solutions (not just Open Source) is that if you want to connect two systems together, it is not impossible because of closed enviroment like MS has.
I enjoyed the original series and was worried about this "version". I have enjoyed this one possibly more. The battle scenes are more realistic and the characters are more "real". I would like to se more of this as a series. I mean if you can get Farscape back, add in Stargate SG1 and this as a weekly lineup. It's all good baby.....
There was a story on slashdot where someone setup a network with a linux server and 486 desktops being used as thin clients. The apps came from the server and if a desktop went down, he could find replacements for real cheap..I will see if I can find the story..
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One of the problems I have seeen is with marketing. Even with all the money MS has, they do not market their games for the X-Box. They choose X-Box live and Halo to push all their power behind. Meanwhile so many more games are ignored from a marketing perspective. Sony on the other hand markets most of their games very hard.
With the amount of patches, spyware and vireses in the computing enviroment. Does MS have any plans on opening up their management solutions to Open Soure or outside applications? As it stands if you want to be able to control systems (Desktops and servers running windows) in an enterprise enviroment, you have to incorporate MS solutions from end to end. If you have a mixed enviroment like Linux and Novell, that makes it even more difficult. There are a number of very good management solutions that allow for remote management of patches, spyware and overall network monitoring, but they require addition of MS solutions to work properly with MS clients. Is MS ever going to move to a more industry standard to allow for this, like the usage of SNMP has already shown. One of the nice things about these other solutions (not just Open Source) is that if you want to connect two systems together, it is not impossible because of closed enviroment like MS has.
I enjoyed the original series and was worried about this "version". I have enjoyed this one possibly more. The battle scenes are more realistic and the characters are more "real". I would like to se more of this as a series. I mean if you can get Farscape back, add in Stargate SG1 and this as a weekly lineup. It's all good baby.....
There was a story on slashdot where someone setup a network with a linux server and 486 desktops being used as thin clients. The apps came from the server and if a desktop went down, he could find replacements for real cheap..I will see if I can find the story..