Here's a link that leads to a company that sells a program that pops up subliminal messages to help people stop smoking, lose weight, learn math facts: http://sublimx.com/
Kim
Not true. We didn't pay CRN anything for this review. And we don't advertise (yet) in their magazine. They had our FileEngine product for about a month. During my interview (which lasted about 2 hours,) they asked lots of questions. The words in the article are theirs, not ours.
My team developed FileEngine. Getting on CRN's TOP TEN LIST is a *Major Win* for Linux! It attacks the traditional argument in the SMB reseller business that _you can't make money selling FREE software_ We've got LOTS of customers (mostly Attorneys and Not-For-Profits) that love the Open Source PROMISE: Understandable License, Reliability, Security, Freedom.
We've simply added a business model that allows us to deliver the server hardware for free and provide SERVICE like installation, support, monitoring, remote administration, maintainenance and disaster recovery for less than $8/day!
PLEASE SPEAD THE WORD that there's an alternative to Microsoft Windows SBS for small businesses!
Thanks,
Kim Brand Managing Partner Server Partners, LLC www.FileEngine.com
we use debian linux from Progeny in our FileEngine. we paid the LMI for our use of "linux" in one of our service marks: "Driven by Linux - Non-Stop File Power"
why not? i'd pay samba too for the use of their trademark. they provide the foundation of our systems. i don't mind paying...shouldn't they both reap some benefits for their contributions to our success?
copernic is going to charge for their desktop search...does this mean they're toast? or are the products sufficiently differenciated to leave room for a free one and a for-fee one?
1. good question. my advice is to ask good questions - they are much more important than answers.
2. this is an old question and there have been many answers. seek them in addition to those here. despite what you think, (based on feedback from the educational system you rely on for 'facts',) you are not unique. two i like are by emerson & tr roosevelt:
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man that points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
3. traditional college may no longer the investment it once was. gov't influence has raised prices. seek alternative forms of education: job, mentor, entrepreneurship. buy the education you need when you need it.
4. marry young and have children. at the end of the day: children are what we are here to do.
...doesn't seem to have any facts or arguments to back it up besides emotional ones.
yes, it doesn't have any facts to back it up. i believe that some clever MBA student could build a well reasoned defense of the proposition though. if i was still doing that, i'd give it a shot. right now my time is devoted to building linux servers and competing with MS...rather successfully if i do say so myself:)
...If Microsoft were to release a version of Linux what is in it for them?
MS needs to defend their flank against a sure assault from a product they can't buy or ignore. i think that they will hire a LINUX evangelist, devote a cadre of programmers to projects near and dear to the LINUX community to offset the hew and cry from the purists, and compete with RED HAT and SUSE.
if RED HAT and SUSE think they can make money doing that, why shouldn't MS?
the interesting thing will be watching MS spin an involvement with LINUX as a customer service. (they've accomplished similar paradigm shifts before.) IBM and HP did it. but they hadn't spread the vitriol MS had. maybe MS will just fire those responsible for those 'outdated' views...or send them to 're-education' camps:)
somewhat less interesting theatre would be watching MS differentiate their products from LINUX...but apple did it and doesn't MS have to do that anyway? and as a bonus, they'll be able to port MS Office to the their LINUX platform with a clear conscience!
why wouldn't MS used BSD? i believe they understand the power of the momentum building in the LINUX brand. it's not about technology. LINUX (as a brand) is (or soon will be) identified as the useful, reliable, satisfactory, cool OS that won't have the DRM/LICENSE baggage that MS-WINDOWS has.
MS will simply be segmenting their market, (like they have with HOME/PRO versions) and co-opting their only serious competetor.
Large forces and trends ultimately win; like the desire to be free. MS has simply begun to recognize that the inputs required to overcome the market's natural forces will soon exceed the outputs. this is partly due to an increasing realization that consumers have become satisfied with existing technology.
what will MS do? they have hundreds of very talented programmers, incredible distribution & support capacity, not to mention $30 billion in cash. after all, customers simply want the outputs of all that technology.
if MS would embrace OpenSource as another input to its products and add credibility and customer service they would have an incredible value proposition.
used this when i thought it offered outlook public folders - it didn't.
when i tried to call and ask for help, the lady was almost laughing. try a few hundred dollars an incident and 72 hour turnaround.
i bought ms exchange after having a similar, disasterous, experience with sco's product. it's not ready for prime time and who knows how much longer they're going to be around.
customers want to use outlook and outlook wants to use exchange. we need another client, but the client that comes with office is all they know.
meanwhile, i'm the proud owner of nfr copies of both products and a valued member of SuSE and SCO's reseller communities:(
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Here's a link that leads to a company that sells a program that pops up subliminal messages to help people stop smoking, lose weight, learn math facts: http://sublimx.com/ Kim
Thanks for noticing... Kim Brand FileEngine
Not true. We didn't pay CRN anything for this review. And we don't advertise (yet) in their magazine. They had our FileEngine product for about a month. During my interview (which lasted about 2 hours,) they asked lots of questions. The words in the article are theirs, not ours.
Oops! FileEngine is built with Progeny Debian Linux!
My team developed FileEngine. Getting on CRN's TOP TEN LIST is a *Major Win* for Linux! It attacks the traditional argument in the SMB reseller business that _you can't make money selling FREE software_ We've got LOTS of customers (mostly Attorneys and Not-For-Profits) that love the Open Source PROMISE: Understandable License, Reliability, Security, Freedom.
We've simply added a business model that allows us to deliver the server hardware for free and provide SERVICE like installation, support, monitoring, remote administration, maintainenance and disaster recovery for less than $8/day!
PLEASE SPEAD THE WORD that there's an alternative to Microsoft Windows SBS for small businesses!
Thanks,
Kim Brand
Managing Partner
Server Partners, LLC
www.FileEngine.com
we use debian linux from Progeny in our FileEngine. we paid the LMI for our use of "linux" in one of our service marks: "Driven by Linux - Non-Stop File Power"
why not? i'd pay samba too for the use of their trademark. they provide the foundation of our systems. i don't mind paying...shouldn't they both reap some benefits for their contributions to our success?
copernic is going to charge for their desktop search...does this mean they're toast? or are the products sufficiently differenciated to leave room for a free one and a for-fee one?
meanwhile, copernic http://copernic.com/ has a server version too.
2. this is an old question and there have been many answers. seek them in addition to those here. despite what you think, (based on feedback from the educational system you rely on for 'facts',) you are not unique. two i like are by emerson & tr roosevelt:
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man that points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
3. traditional college may no longer the investment it once was. gov't influence has raised prices. seek alternative forms of education: job, mentor, entrepreneurship. buy the education you need when you need it.
4. marry young and have children. at the end of the day: children are what we are here to do.
5. people are polynomials, life is non-linear.
...It's MS-GNU/Linux, dammit!!
:(
yes, absolutely, sorry. i won't make that mistake again. novice poster
...doesn't seem to have any facts or arguments to back it up besides emotional ones.
:)
...If Microsoft were to release a version of Linux what is in it for them?
:)
yes, it doesn't have any facts to back it up. i believe that some clever MBA student could build a well reasoned defense of the proposition though. if i was still doing that, i'd give it a shot. right now my time is devoted to building linux servers and competing with MS...rather successfully if i do say so myself
MS needs to defend their flank against a sure assault from a product they can't buy or ignore. i think that they will hire a LINUX evangelist, devote a cadre of programmers to projects near and dear to the LINUX community to offset the hew and cry from the purists, and compete with RED HAT and SUSE.
if RED HAT and SUSE think they can make money doing that, why shouldn't MS?
the interesting thing will be watching MS spin an involvement with LINUX as a customer service. (they've accomplished similar paradigm shifts before.) IBM and HP did it. but they hadn't spread the vitriol MS had. maybe MS will just fire those responsible for those 'outdated' views...or send them to 're-education' camps
somewhat less interesting theatre would be watching MS differentiate their products from LINUX...but apple did it and doesn't MS have to do that anyway? and as a bonus, they'll be able to port MS Office to the their LINUX platform with a clear conscience!
why wouldn't MS used BSD? i believe they understand the power of the momentum building in the LINUX brand. it's not about technology. LINUX (as a brand) is (or soon will be) identified as the useful, reliable, satisfactory, cool OS that won't have the DRM/LICENSE baggage that MS-WINDOWS has.
MS will simply be segmenting their market, (like they have with HOME/PRO versions) and co-opting their only serious competetor.
Large forces and trends ultimately win; like the desire to be free. MS has simply begun to recognize that the inputs required to overcome the market's natural forces will soon exceed the outputs. this is partly due to an increasing realization that consumers have become satisfied with existing technology.
what will MS do? they have hundreds of very talented programmers, incredible distribution & support capacity, not to mention $30 billion in cash. after all, customers simply want the outputs of all that technology.
if MS would embrace OpenSource as another input to its products and add credibility and customer service they would have an incredible value proposition.
i predict an MS-Linux release in 2-3 years.
used this when i thought it offered outlook public folders - it didn't.
:(
when i tried to call and ask for help, the lady was almost laughing. try a few hundred dollars an incident and 72 hour turnaround.
i bought ms exchange after having a similar, disasterous, experience with sco's product. it's not ready for prime time and who knows how much longer they're going to be around.
customers want to use outlook and outlook wants to use exchange. we need another client, but the client that comes with office is all they know.
meanwhile, i'm the proud owner of nfr copies of both products and a valued member of SuSE and SCO's reseller communities