I own the Myazaki box set and it was worth every penny... and then some. It was worth more than i payed for it because I get the extra satisfaction of knowing my money ISN'T going to Studio Ghibli!! Just because they're Japanese, let's stop to realize that Ghibli is just as bad as Disney. Why are there no subtitle releases of SG movies outside of Japan? Because they've sold North American distibution rights of *every*movie*Myazaki*will*make*till*he $#!@ dies!! There are no options for those of us who would even be willing to pay good $$$ for authentic imports. Like Disney, like Ghibli, the decisions theses bastards make is how to best screw the consumer. Does Ghibli care about fans in the States?
Its very sad that brilliant artists can't get closer to the truth about salesmenship in the modern world and are jerked around by Big Media. I think of this every time I am *forced* to buy a David Lynch film that someone has decided that I can't have. Good example: Eraserhead. Apparently Australians have fit the target marketing strategy for several years and Americans haven't... no DVD for us? I think not!! I happily watch my region 4 DVD decrypted on the fly w/ DeCSS on my laptop.
Piracy will never go away -- it will always cut into your proft margin. The difference is whether you want to cut in by several percent, or by tens of points. Try to fathom the dollars that would be going into the pockets of SG if they sold what fans wanted directly to them, and didn't have to hide behind Disney.
I work at a small but rather high-profile consulting company, doing both design and admin/support. We're a M$, IBM and Lotus partner company, so we end up working a lot in multi-platform, multi-this, multi-that environments, and even though Domino is scoffed sometimes by database-minded folks as "flat" and difficult, it is a life-saver for long-term evolving situations (the secret being that this is MOST places...), because data can be indexed and worked with in ways M$ and many other vendors have never dreamed of dealing with. [What I'm skipping here is a dissertation on why the word "Workgroup" strikes fear into the folks in Redmond, because they KNOW they are 5 years behind according to current development models, and why its so often overlooked by the shrink-wrap software world in general, but I digress...]
The question, then, is given that Lotus is so much better entrenched in the corporate development landscape, what IBM and its daughter company, Lotus/Iris, will do with Linux and vice versa. IBM is farther into Linux than I think a lot of/.'ers might think.... Linux will probably running on the S390 mainframes and RS/6000's midranges (and maybe who knows what this will do to the AS/400 world???) within 18 months. And mix this into the sales push of Windows 2000 next year, with its plethora of bugs and outrageous hardware req's.... wow! Domino and the new R5 client is a blow to M$ companies which have come to realize that they don't want their network infrastructure being designed from the desktop up and out; rather, they need integrated environments with sophisticated replication and access that a PC-centric model does not provide. Companies line-up to hear about the power of Domino/R5... and when you mention that they can subtract the NT or Solaris license fees....
This is the vector by which a large number of Linux hosts will infect the corporate bioms, in addition to the Apache/Linux combo. The crucial thing to observe, though, is how the linux philosophy might infiltrate into the halls of Iris (the dev. half of Lotus). Right now, the folks at Iris could really care less about Linux -- papa IBM came down and told them to port to yet another Unix... big deal, they say. (there no way in HELL domino is going open source... not yet) But if the number of Domino servers increases because of Linux, then 2001 or 2002 will see headline stories talking about the Sun development model paralleled with the Iris dev. model...
Linux will not take over the world by winning the desktop -- and it doesn't need to. The flow of the Linux meme into the IBM world is the most significant thing to have happened in the computer world since the advent of the PC. IF you are in the midst of deciding how to built a dynamic enterpise right now, you don't care whether the Linux philosophy is better than some particular companies product... but if you take one of the BEST development environments around and set it on top of Linux, then you know that no matter WHAT happens in the computer world in the next 5 years, you will be guaranteed to be position to pick and choose the best-of-breed options, whether they are open source, gnu, or proprietary.
To specifically answer the original post: I've installed and run the Linux version of Domino, and if you know anything about Domino, its EXACTLY the same on every platform it runs on (OS/400, NT, Solaris, AIX, etc...) By Q#2 2000, Linux Domino will be stable and ready to starting crushing Exchange/SQL Server setups... and don't forget about DB2 for Linux when Domino needs extra horsepower. This combo could be the smartest path an IS manager could make next year.
Like it's been said so far -- a very nice shopping list for our community. Of course it is a marvelous of corporate whoring for the archtitectonically deprived: ie I love the repetitive phrase "from the ground up"... make me think of the article on bloatware we noticed yesterday over at www.shift.com. Only new and bright and right from the shiny-shoed guys will work, of course... everything else is cobwebby. "Only this publicly ridiculed and blatantly sophmoric security model _built_from_the_ground_up will outdo a tried and tested 30 year old, honed, battle-fortress security model."
Oh yeah... but back at my first thought:
1. SMP
2. paging file 1. Where are we at on SMP in people's opinions? And where is a good place to go to get into the thick of this discussion/development?
--> 2. Isn't the 128 M paging limit a feature, not a limit, in Linux? If you need to page that much, you need more RAM anyway.... so I gues that makes me wonder about the RAM limitations...
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I own the Myazaki box set and it was worth every penny... and then some. It was worth more than i payed for it because I get the extra satisfaction of knowing my money ISN'T going to Studio Ghibli!! Just because they're Japanese, let's stop to realize that Ghibli is just as bad as Disney. Why are there no subtitle releases of SG movies outside of Japan? Because they've sold North American distibution rights of *every*movie*Myazaki*will*make*till*he $#!@ dies!! There are no options for those of us who would even be willing to pay good $$$ for authentic imports. Like Disney, like Ghibli, the decisions theses bastards make is how to best screw the consumer. Does Ghibli care about fans in the States?
Its very sad that brilliant artists can't get closer to the truth about salesmenship in the modern world and are jerked around by Big Media. I think of this every time I am *forced* to buy a David Lynch film that someone has decided that I can't have. Good example: Eraserhead. Apparently Australians have fit the target marketing strategy for several years and Americans haven't... no DVD for us? I think not!! I happily watch my region 4 DVD decrypted on the fly w/ DeCSS on my laptop.
Piracy will never go away -- it will always cut into your proft margin. The difference is whether you want to cut in by several percent, or by tens of points. Try to fathom the dollars that would be going into the pockets of SG if they sold what fans wanted directly to them, and didn't have to hide behind Disney.
I work at a small but rather high-profile consulting company, doing both design and admin/support. We're a M$, IBM and Lotus partner company, so we end up working a lot in multi-platform, multi-this, multi-that environments, and even though Domino is scoffed sometimes by database-minded folks as "flat" and difficult, it is a life-saver for long-term evolving situations (the secret being that this is MOST places...), because data can be indexed and worked with in ways M$ and many other vendors have never dreamed of dealing with. [What I'm skipping here is a dissertation on why the word "Workgroup" strikes fear into the folks in Redmond, because they KNOW they are 5 years behind according to current development models, and why its so often overlooked by the shrink-wrap software world in general, but I digress...]
/.'ers might think.... Linux will probably running on the S390 mainframes and RS/6000's midranges (and maybe who knows what this will do to the AS/400 world???) within 18 months. And mix this into the sales push of Windows 2000 next year, with its plethora of bugs and outrageous hardware req's.... wow! Domino and the new R5 client is a blow to M$ companies which have come to realize that they don't want their network infrastructure being designed from the desktop up and out; rather, they need integrated environments with sophisticated replication and access that a PC-centric model does not provide. Companies line-up to hear about the power of Domino/R5... and when you mention that they can subtract the NT or Solaris license fees....
The question, then, is given that Lotus is so much better entrenched in the corporate development landscape, what IBM and its daughter company, Lotus/Iris, will do with Linux and vice versa. IBM is farther into Linux than I think a lot of
This is the vector by which a large number of Linux hosts will infect the corporate bioms, in addition to the Apache/Linux combo. The crucial thing to observe, though, is how the linux philosophy might infiltrate into the halls of Iris (the dev. half of Lotus). Right now, the folks at Iris could really care less about Linux -- papa IBM came down and told them to port to yet another Unix... big deal, they say. (there no way in HELL domino is going open source... not yet) But if the number of Domino servers increases because of Linux, then 2001 or 2002 will see headline stories talking about the Sun development model paralleled with the Iris dev. model...
Linux will not take over the world by winning the desktop -- and it doesn't need to. The flow of the Linux meme into the IBM world is the most significant thing to have happened in the computer world since the advent of the PC. IF you are in the midst of deciding how to built a dynamic enterpise right now, you don't care whether the Linux philosophy is better than some particular companies product... but if you take one of the BEST development environments around and set it on top of Linux, then you know that no matter WHAT happens in the computer world in the next 5 years, you will be guaranteed to be position to pick and choose the best-of-breed options, whether they are open source, gnu, or proprietary.
To specifically answer the original post: I've installed and run the Linux version of Domino, and if you know anything about Domino, its EXACTLY the same on every platform it runs on (OS/400, NT, Solaris, AIX, etc...) By Q#2 2000, Linux Domino will be stable and ready to starting crushing Exchange/SQL Server setups... and don't forget about DB2 for Linux when Domino needs extra horsepower. This combo could be the smartest path an IS manager could make next year.
Like it's been said so far -- a very nice shopping list for our community. Of course it is a marvelous of corporate whoring for the archtitectonically deprived: ie I love the repetitive phrase "from the ground up"... make me think of the article on bloatware we noticed yesterday over at www.shift.com. Only new and bright and right from the shiny-shoed guys will work, of course... everything else is cobwebby. "Only this publicly ridiculed and blatantly sophmoric security model _built_from_the_ground_up will outdo a tried and tested 30 year old, honed, battle-fortress security model."
Oh yeah... but back at my first thought:
1. SMP
2. paging file 1. Where are we at on SMP in people's opinions? And where is a good place to go to get into the thick of this discussion/development?
--> 2. Isn't the 128 M paging limit a feature, not a limit, in Linux? If you need to page that much, you need more RAM anyway.... so I gues that makes me wonder about the RAM limitations...