I remember attending an introduction to Pascal, the lecturer told us a bit about Niklaus Wirth and then telling us that in his opinion other languages were 'wirthless'.
After road pricing was introduced in London average bus speeds moved from 5 mph to 15 mph. Because speeds have gone up more people are now using them, reducing traffic even more.
The lots more benefits too, like the police and fire brigade are now able to attend calls in a reasonable time.
Okay this could have been achieved with a massive increase petrol tax but that would have hit lots of areas where we don't have a traffic problem. Also it would be pretty unfair on motorists, car taxes in the UK (and most of Europe) are already more than the cost of maintaining the road networks.
A fuel tax is a very unfair way to tax cars, especially in Europe
In rural areas we have no traffic problems, very poor public transport. In urban area we have severe traffic problems and excellent public transport.
Our present system tends to car users in rural areas more than car owners in urban areas because the distances they have to drive tend to be larger. As well as being unfair this is economically inefficient as we should be charging more for the use of the scarce resources (congested urban roads) than for the plentiful resource (empty rural roads).
I would very strongly recommend Zope/Plone. They come with a pretty good object based workflow but there is also a really powerful process based workflow with branching, etc available if you need it.
It's really easy to make it e-GIF (a UK government standard) compliant too.
We've installed it in two UK government departments and four French government departments have standardised on it too.
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t IBM's revenue from our Edinburgh, Scotland (our local office) are higher than SCO's global revenues and given that these cases are won by the company with the bigger financial muscle my guess is that IBM will win the legal action.
There's very little chance that SCO will be able to pay the costs which will bankrupt them and result in all of their assets being passed to IBM (unless they owe secured creditors but I don't think they do).
There is something about the aircraft/airline business that just makes governments and investors throw money at them. The investor, Warren Buffet famously said that if he'd been around in Wilbur Wright's time he would have shot him before his first flight as a service to capitalism.
I agree with the general comments on world trade and subsidies but:
Most of the money paid by European governments isn't subsidy, they are loans
The total amount is $4b over a few years
The US Senate has approve $10b in one year for loan guarantees for airlines
The production has not scattered around entirely for political reasons, unless China is now part of the European Union?
Military spending distorts the aircraft market more than anything else.
Enough economics. Can we go back to talking about computers & toys now?
I've just been looking at case studies. The main thing I saw is that the TCO is different for every organisation as pointed out by so many people already.
Main benefits are:
Staff. You'll often find you need fewer to manage Linux boxes v. Microsoft. Staff is normally about 80% of TCO. Linux staff are cheaper than other Unix admins but about the same as Windows admins.
Hardware. If you're moving from a system like Solaris that needs expensive hardware to Linux there can be a big saving. Amazon said they saved $50K per box.
"soft" benefits. The hard to cost things like the benefit of better security, stability, benefits of having access to the source code, etc.
Licence costs. Particularly a benefit on bigger desktop deployments.
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I remember attending an introduction to Pascal, the lecturer told us a bit about Niklaus Wirth and then telling us that in his opinion other languages were 'wirthless'.
I can feel my Karma plummeting afer this post...
Here's an example of what I'm talking about:
After road pricing was introduced in London average bus speeds moved from 5 mph to 15 mph. Because speeds have gone up more people are now using them, reducing traffic even more.
The lots more benefits too, like the police and fire brigade are now able to attend calls in a reasonable time.
Okay this could have been achieved with a massive increase petrol tax but that would have hit lots of areas where we don't have a traffic problem. Also it would be pretty unfair on motorists, car taxes in the UK (and most of Europe) are already more than the cost of maintaining the road networks.
A fuel tax is a very unfair way to tax cars, especially in Europe
In rural areas we have no traffic problems, very poor public transport. In urban area we have severe traffic problems and excellent public transport.
Our present system tends to car users in rural areas more than car owners in urban areas because the distances they have to drive tend to be larger. As well as being unfair this is economically inefficient as we should be charging more for the use of the scarce resources (congested urban roads) than for the plentiful resource (empty rural roads).
I would very strongly recommend Zope/Plone. They come with a pretty good object based workflow but there is also a really powerful process based workflow with branching, etc available if you need it.
It's really easy to make it e-GIF (a UK government standard) compliant too.
We've installed it in two UK government departments and four French government departments have standardised on it too.
This is Dan "Qmail" Bernstein's Internet Mail 2000.
There's very little chance that SCO will be able to pay the costs which will bankrupt them and result in all of their assets being passed to IBM (unless they owe secured creditors but I don't think they do).
I bet Boies demanded his fee up front...
There is something about the aircraft/airline business that just makes governments and investors throw money at them. The investor, Warren Buffet famously said that if he'd been around in Wilbur Wright's time he would have shot him before his first flight as a service to capitalism.
I agree with the general comments on world trade and subsidies but:
Enough economics. Can we go back to talking about computers & toys now?
Agree. And Space Corps Directive 2505, sorry RFC2505 says you shouldn't run open relays, he gets round this by citing obsolete RFCs.
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I've just been looking at case studies. The main thing I saw is that the TCO is different for every organisation as pointed out by so many people already.
Main benefits are:
I'll stop now, I'm boring myself...