Linux assures that IBM can happily sell lots of IFL or general purpose CPUs which are necessary to compensate for this inefficient use of mainframe resources.
Oh, and Java! They are very happy that their customers convert their mainframe stuff to be mostly Java, because it's so inefficient and causing them to buy more processing power from IBM!
two specialty mainframe processors designed for Linux
Seriosly? That's just marketing FUD. They are not designed for Linux, they just have some features deactivated so that z/OS can't run on them, so that they "could sell them cheaper".
And people realize this - why should you pay for a CD/DVD, which will eventually become obsolete, when you can get what you want in a digital format (for a cheaper price)?
Now to state the obvious: at least the medium is already digital, in contrast to VCR. People were able to copy the content from VCR to the computer (barring Macrovision, but there were hacks available), just like they were able to do so with CD until copy protection came out (and again, there was the famous CSS {h,cr}ack). DVD made it harder, but was eventually cracked too. People always wanted to copy the content they bought to their hard disks. It's the industry's fault they did invent those protections and tried to make it even more secure with Blu-Ray.
No wonder people don't want to buy content in formats they cannot preserve forever.
For real projects you do use a cache like Turck MMCache. Real projects could also cope with a huge OOP tree, the overhead isn't that much as you would think of. You additionally get a nice set of RAD tools (GUI-Controls) if you code a good framework with OOP, the debugging is easier, the code isn't redundant, the code is reuseable etc. pp I never saw somebody hosting big PHP projects on a server without cache.
Yes, indeed. If you don't take the X GUIs into that boat you'll fail the comparation. It's probably much similiar, that's why I use an alternative WM. But I saw more Bluescreens (which come from the kernel and its drivers) on Windows than Oops/Panics on Linux. Everybody has his own experiences.
Trillian is currently only releasing the patch to paying customers.
Yes, as it's for the Pro version of their software. IMO they would release the patch officially to the free version when it's out of beta. Customers paid for a software, they get a beta hack to get around the Yahoo! "protection". That's the price the free community which hasn't any right for the software has to pay. That's business, nothing else. And not all can be free. Trillian people were nice to give out the new protocol to GAIM, so don't complain (o:
If you're going to get to that level of detail, shall we discuss the (in)stability of Gnome/KDE? It seems all to convenient that when Slashdotters define "Windows crashing", it includes any operational glitch at all, but "Linux crashing" seems to be confined to kernel panic only.
Yes, because Windows includes by itself its GUI. You can't seperate it. Bad luck but nice try;)
Hm. I seems every domain owner who has disabled his DNS entry could go into such a lawsuit, couldn't he? VeriSign does redirect the domain he buyed for the use permission just because no DNS entry is present. At least already registered domains with just no DNS delegation should be excluded.
Same is the case with every TLD which does make use of the same feature so I agree on this point really. Making not-registered domains valid does break services so it's generally a No-No. IMO ICANN should give any resolution out on this matter.
Now linux's really getting into business. I mean you could for no license cost setup a backup server in your domain at a company. Wait some time and the BDC would replace the PDC and so here we are. Samba is for cooperation, right currently. But migration would be a nice target aswell.
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I just have a little to say about that. I tried a HTML::Mason product _with_ mod_perl (request tracker aka RT). It was horrible slow in processing. So I only made bad experiences of perl's performances. Doesn't PHP scale better?
Me neither. It's not that PHP is the non-plus-ultra. But it's free and easy to run. The major point for me is that many nice manuals are available for it, and also components for all kind of work. PHP isn't even a winner in development speed but tell me currently one far better system to program web-application with. PHP is quite fast and easy, and has support for many database servers (performant), what else counts?;)
You would probably use an accelerator on real projects anyway so the compile point doesn't count really. I think PHP does outperform J2EE, however the last could be better in programming. But the main problems of PHP are these mentioned above in the thread. Classes, type handling etc. Even if you are experienced with PHP you'll run into the same issues every few days or so. Debugging gets partially quite hard, that's why it suck. But tell me something better, which performes as good as PHP, not too complicated to understand and which doesn't consume as much memory as big packages like J2EE.
It's all about advertisements, right? They don't get money for they system if users use a free client. IMO the native clients for the protocols suck almost anytime. Perhaps we really need to get to free technologies like XML-based jabber. But it would need time and big companies like Yahoo! or even MSN have at least the powers to found communities.
There is in my eyes no need for X (a multiply of 2) protocols for IM. One would be sufficient. One with free or even some advertisement-sponsored clients from the companies then. The main existence reason of the alternative clients under Windows is to link the protocols together. Perhaps the companies should really rethink their attitude and get together.
Yes probably. But even when they are paid they'll run out of money anytime and the company is dead. Even a single person like SCO's boss can't be that stupid. Ok, they GOT paid the UNIX licenses from Sun and MS. It won't have that big impact on Linux anyway. We'll see how this all ends. I agree, they won't win as it looks currently.
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Linux assures that IBM can happily sell lots of IFL or general purpose CPUs which are necessary to compensate for this inefficient use of
mainframe resources.
Oh, and Java! They are very happy that their customers convert their mainframe stuff to be mostly Java, because it's so inefficient and causing them to buy more processing power from IBM!
two specialty mainframe processors designed for Linux
Seriosly? That's just marketing FUD. They are not designed for Linux, they just have some features deactivated so that z/OS can't run on them, so that they "could sell them cheaper".
Now to state the obvious: at least the medium is already digital, in contrast to VCR. People were able to copy the content from VCR to the computer (barring Macrovision, but there were hacks available), just like they were able to do so with CD until copy protection came out (and again, there was the famous CSS {h,cr}ack). DVD made it harder, but was eventually cracked too. People always wanted to copy the content they bought to their hard disks. It's the industry's fault they did invent those protections and tried to make it even more secure with Blu-Ray.
No wonder people don't want to buy content in formats they cannot preserve forever.
For real projects you do use a cache like Turck MMCache.
Real projects could also cope with a huge OOP tree, the overhead isn't that much as you would think of. You additionally get a nice set of RAD tools (GUI-Controls) if you code a good framework with OOP, the debugging is easier, the code isn't redundant, the code is reuseable etc. pp
I never saw somebody hosting big PHP projects on a server without cache.
Probably not as most enterprises license BIOSes and put their own logo etc. on.
Hm. I seems every domain owner who has disabled his DNS entry could go into such a lawsuit, couldn't he?
VeriSign does redirect the domain he buyed for the use permission just because no DNS entry is present.
At least already registered domains with just no DNS delegation should be excluded.
Same is the case with every TLD which does make use of the same feature so I agree on this point really. Making not-registered domains valid does break services so it's generally a No-No. IMO ICANN should give any resolution out on this matter.
Now linux's really getting into business. I mean you could for no license cost setup a backup server in your domain at a company.
Wait some time and the BDC would replace the PDC and so here we are.
Samba is for cooperation, right currently. But migration would be a nice target aswell.
Old.
Old news I get since days (3 or so) 5-7 mails a day of it. /:
It sucks and I wondered anyway why nowhere was anything claimed about it.
bye
I just have a little to say about that.
I tried a HTML::Mason product _with_ mod_perl (request tracker aka RT). It was horrible slow in processing.
So I only made bad experiences of perl's performances. Doesn't PHP scale better?
Me neither. ;)
It's not that PHP is the non-plus-ultra. But it's free and easy to run. The major point for me is that many nice manuals are available for it, and also components for all kind of work.
PHP isn't even a winner in development speed but tell me currently one far better system to program web-application with.
PHP is quite fast and easy, and has support for many database servers (performant), what else counts?
You would probably use an accelerator on real projects anyway so the compile point doesn't count really.
I think PHP does outperform J2EE, however the last could be better in programming.
But the main problems of PHP are these mentioned above in the thread.
Classes, type handling etc. Even if you are experienced with PHP you'll run into the same issues every few days or so. Debugging gets partially quite hard, that's why it suck. But tell me something better, which performes as good as PHP, not too complicated to understand and which doesn't consume as much memory as big packages like J2EE.
It's all about advertisements, right?
They don't get money for they system if users use a free client. IMO the native clients for the protocols suck almost anytime.
Perhaps we really need to get to free technologies like XML-based jabber. But it would need time and big companies like Yahoo! or even MSN have at least the powers to found communities.
There is in my eyes no need for X (a multiply of 2) protocols for IM. One would be sufficient. One with free or even some advertisement-sponsored clients from the companies then. The main existence reason of the alternative clients under Windows is to link the protocols together. Perhaps the companies should really rethink their attitude and get together.
You don't know that really.
It's easy for kids to get games rated over their age. (At least here in Germany)
Yes probably.
But even when they are paid they'll run out of money anytime and the company is dead. Even a single person like SCO's boss can't be that stupid.
Ok, they GOT paid the UNIX licenses from Sun and MS.
It won't have that big impact on Linux anyway. We'll see how this all ends. I agree, they won't win as it looks currently.
SCO just wants to get buyed in my opinion. ;o)
But even the other companies think that SCO is sick and so they don't buy it to stop these kiddies
Is following the law IBM allowed to buy SCO while this lawsuit is pending?
Seems like a dropzone (o:
A flight-enabled C&C...