Yes I totally agree, but we need to set our priorities straight, starting with the most generic most used packages and then diving towards the very specialized packages. OpenOffice affects tens (if not hundreds) of millions of users but something that is industry specific like Pongrass for example is out of the scope now. lets give it a decade and see.
Or the start of a strategy to get rid of it all without causing too much upset in one go
don't we all just wish so here on/. ?
actually all indications show that the current software business model cannot be sustained during the next decade, there are hardly any valuable commercial software without an equivalent open source nephew even if not so-ready today but it is promising (remember how Linux itself started?).
IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft are all stretching this business model to the maximum but the end is coming sooner or later, I think in the future the only valuable commodity in the IT business will be services not licensing commercial software or being so desperate and try to force people to license your IP (SCO).
lets take Microsoft case their revenue is earned mainly from bread & butter Office Suite being challenged by OpenOffice and the desktop which Linux is getting there fast, they are trying to grab a share of the enterprise market by promoting SQL Server 64-bit kicking against market titans like IBM and Oracle, and with.net just barely leaving the vaporware category to face more established Java (btw Java is not perfect but it was simply there first).
Add global reduction on IT spending to one Microsoft screwing there customers by outrageous license costs and terms and you get yourself a recipe for a loser.
It seems that "the road ahead" has a road block for Microsoft and they don't know "where do they want to go Tomorrow.
but it looks as if the V65x is better overall especially for CPU intensive tasks.
Well x86 are CISC processors while Sparcs are RISC processors so you cant just judge by the clock speed alone, they are fundmentally different, another thing...the architecture itself is different. the x86 architecture has indeed evolved a long way from the single user machine to the server land BUT a SUN is a SUN, did you ever wonder why is there a 2K$ gap between the lowest end Sparc and the highest end x86 machine of the same class ?.
I agree 100% as much as I love to see mature open source databases with enterprise featuers I got to admit that it is still not coming anytime soon. IIRC 6-7 months ago a marketing person from Oracle came to our company to discuss if Oracle will be suitable for our next development project, our customer contracted us to develop an online electronic components database with over +20 Million component with all their information, spec sheets. In the first year the database is expected to reach 0.7TB. I recall asking her that we plan to implement heavy server side logic in stored procedures, and she said "if it couldn't be done with Oracle then it can never be done", you get to love Oracle's marketing people but technically she was right.
The only ready-today open source database that comes near Oracle (actually it is equivalent to Oracle 7) is SAPDB and what drives me really nuts is that the open source community ignores it completely in favor for something like MySQL (not that something is wrong with MySQL).
You are right except for one part, that I should evaluate a competing product(s) as well, or I should neglect the vendor name minimally make effort not to make it look like an advertisement (for example fine-printing the product name at the bottom of the page), only then I can be called "credible", "professional", "unbiased" you know those buzzwords we all need in our life?
i will just assume that you are not a troll and try to discuss the matter in a civil way
(?) ter.... connection
you mean terrorism ? nah don't think so but maybe if you have some balls to talk a bit more clearly please?.
now I live in a third world country and we are steadily migrating away from anything Microsoft anything you can pay for to an equivalent free solution, take out MS Office put Open Office, uninstall Adobe and pass that Gimp CD.
So no need to piracy at all, we are all ethical here.
no, but the network administrator can look up your logs and find out where you have been surfing, personally i just offer him a cigratte and the matter is closed:-)
Only somewhat more than chimps.
you are truly entertaining and funny, should I assume that I'm replying to a monkey? I presume that you think snails are even more "special" than we are, then? I was talking about mammals sigh...
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what a sick hack :-)
ever heard the term RTTI?
Yes I totally agree, but we need to set our priorities straight, starting with the most generic most used packages and then diving towards the very specialized packages.
OpenOffice affects tens (if not hundreds) of millions of users but something that is industry specific like Pongrass for example is out of the scope now.
lets give it a decade and see.
Or the start of a strategy to get rid of it all without causing too much upset in one go
/. ?
.net just barely leaving the vaporware category to face more established Java (btw Java is not perfect but it was simply there first).
don't we all just wish so here on
actually all indications show that the current software business model cannot be sustained during the next decade, there are hardly any valuable commercial software without an equivalent open source nephew even if not so-ready today but it is promising (remember how Linux itself started?).
IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft are all stretching this business model to the maximum but the end is coming sooner or later, I think in the future the only valuable commodity in the IT business will be services not licensing commercial software or being so desperate and try to force people to license your IP (SCO).
lets take Microsoft case their revenue is earned mainly from bread & butter Office Suite being challenged by OpenOffice and the desktop which Linux is getting there fast, they are trying to grab a share of the enterprise market by promoting SQL Server 64-bit kicking against market titans like IBM and Oracle, and with
Add global reduction on IT spending to one Microsoft screwing there customers by outrageous license costs and terms and you get yourself a recipe for a loser.
It seems that "the road ahead" has a road block for Microsoft and they don't know "where do they want to go Tomorrow.
very insightful indeed, if have mod points i would mod you up, it seems that you can still read good stuff on /.
For eg. in our project, the programmers outside the core team use java , but they will use native calls to some libs the core team prepares.
exactly what I figured out after being burnt by Java several times, big native components and thin java wrappers around them.
The site is already /.ed but this is a link to the photo of the Cile
but it will only be used against evildoers
Should the government be trusted ? I don't think so, given this and this I don't think their history is so clean.
select * from tblLife where objClass='Slashdot Reader' AND objGirlFriend is NOT NULL;
0 Rows returned.
please read my post carefully, i didnt say it is the cheapest machine i said of the same class
and the highest end x86 machine of the same class ?
but it looks as if the V65x is better overall especially for CPU intensive tasks.
...the architecture itself is different. the x86 architecture has indeed evolved a long way from the single user machine to the server land BUT a SUN is a SUN, did you ever wonder why is there a 2K$ gap between the lowest end Sparc and the highest end x86 machine of the same class ?.
Well x86 are CISC processors while Sparcs are RISC processors so you cant just judge by the clock speed alone, they are fundmentally different, another thing
I agree 100% as much as I love to see mature open source databases with enterprise featuers I got to admit that it is still not coming anytime soon.
IIRC 6-7 months ago a marketing person from Oracle came to our company to discuss if Oracle will be suitable for our next development project, our customer contracted us to develop an online electronic components database with over +20 Million component with all their information, spec sheets. In the first year the database is expected to reach 0.7TB.
I recall asking her that we plan to implement heavy server side logic in stored procedures, and she said "if it couldn't be done with Oracle then it can never be done", you get to love Oracle's marketing people but technically she was right.
The only ready-today open source database that comes near Oracle (actually it is equivalent to Oracle 7) is SAPDB and what drives me really nuts is that the open source community ignores it completely in favor for something like MySQL (not that something is wrong with MySQL).
You are right except for one part, that I should evaluate a competing product(s) as well, or I should neglect the vendor name minimally make effort not to make it look like an advertisement (for example fine-printing the product name at the bottom of the page), only then I can be called "credible", "professional", "unbiased" you know those buzzwords we all need in our life?
Crucial was gracious enough to send me two 128MB sticks of their PC2700 solution to aid my testing.
and also from the article:
Crucial 128MB PC2700 DDR RAM: Part #CT1664Z355
heck what is missing a big BUY NOW blinking ?
i will just assume that you are not a troll and try to discuss the matter in a civil way
(?) ter.... connection
you mean terrorism ? nah don't think so but maybe if you have some balls to talk a bit more clearly please?.
now I live in a third world country and we are steadily migrating away from anything Microsoft anything you can pay for to an equivalent free solution, take out MS Office put Open Office, uninstall Adobe and pass that Gimp CD.
So no need to piracy at all, we are all ethical here.
would care to enlight us on who is reponsible?
earth calling Lumpy...earth calling Lumpy
:-)
it's a troll come back home
I beg to differ as a corporate lawyer specialized in IP laws I think you mom sucks real hard.
now mr.trollboy go play somewhere else.
you've sed that to every post i've read today.
thats because it is likely a script running not a person, notice the same format is used:
, You greasy pimply acne infested Linux geeks can talk about "XYZ" all you want.
I'm going out to get some!
Later, dorks!
where XYZ=Current post title
You greasy pimply acne infested Linux geeks
so your mother can't keep a secret.
because Eclipse is based on SWT not Swing.
Swing = Sick WINdowing Garbage
no, but the network administrator can look up your logs and find out where you have been surfing, personally i just offer him a cigratte and the matter is closed :-)
and probably will be your best friend Ghostzilla it is such a noble browser.
mod parent down, this is not his comment.
f you want to make a good god argument, argue about conciousness. Why are we concious, what or who gave us conciousness
I did in my grand parent post
Only somewhat more than chimps.
you are truly entertaining and funny, should I assume that I'm replying to a monkey?
I presume that you think snails are even more "special" than we are, then?
I was talking about mammals sigh...
creationist posts something pro-creation they are called a troll
tell me about it...
where? Wednesday May 14, @02:16PM
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