"The Internet is powered by open source."
Yep. And Cisco, Microsoft and Solaris are fine examples of this.
"The Internet is the carrier for open source."
Yessir. And you've done a fine job of making open source sound like an infectious disease. Thanks Marc!
"The Internet is also the platform through which open source is developed."
Nah. Compilers and code managers are. The internet facilitates open source development because of #2.
"It's simply going to be more secure than proprietary software."
Yes, and you've just lost another 2 credibility points with me.
"Open source benefits from anti-American sentiments."
I'd think anti-American sentiments would equally incent foreign companies to form and develop software products...?
"Incentives around open source include the respect of one's peers."
True enough.
"Open source means standing on the shoulders of giants."
Proof that his Top Ten could have been done in 94 words.
"Servers have always been expensive and proprietary, but Linux runs on Intel."
Can't dispute this, but buy Linux from IBM and it's not necessarily inexpensive.
"Embedded devices are making greater use of open source."
Yessir.
"There are an increasing number of companies developing software that aren't software companies."
True enough.
"Companies are increasingly supporting Linux."
True enough.
"It's free." ...but procurement cost is only 20-25% of the TCO model. "It helps reduce TCO" may be a better way to phrase this but that statement could also be disputed (training costs, admin costs, etc.)
You've failed to recognize one thing: Those kids on the commercial have now read the website and will be using this l33t haxor to find the winning bottles. They will then remove and pocket the caps from aforementioned bottles thus receive the song for free.
Pepsi without lids. Sounds like some sort of bad funk band.
Fact is, mom is going to call Aunt Mabel and chat about what she does on her computer and how she does it. Marketshare, marketshare, knowledgebase. No, not technical knowledgebase, but general knowledge. Ever watch a 65 year old try to fathom the concept of a web page?
You completely and utterly missed my point. When mom talks to Aunt Helen who, in turn, says "Right-click on that icon and select "Sent to email", a Mac user would be utterly lost. This argument is about marketshare and knowledgebase, not about the ability to perform something like attaching a 2-button mouse to the computer.
Recommending a Mac to your mother to reduce your job as a "support" entity is somewhat selfish. When I purchased a PC for my mother for Christmas, I gave her the option of a Mac or a Dell. While the Mac would be easier to use, she would not be able to offer help to her blue-haired buddies, get help from them, or use something as simple as YIM. "Okay Thelma, right-click on that icon thingy. What? You don't have a right mouse button? Jeez Thelma, your kid bought you a one-buttoned mouse?
That sentence is a complete waste of energy and bandwidth. Have you ever priced a Sun support agreement? These contracts can run into the millions of dollars. Ever price out having them simply add an HBA to an E10k or E15k? Tens of thousands of dollars.
Many companies simply cannot afford Sun or their support -- whether its worth it or not. I'd also be surprised if Sun's own tech support didn't read "an script in the other side of the phone" as well.
And, sadly, they probably have CallerID and are collecting all our phone numbers for future harrassment. Damn, I called from my cellular, too...:-o.xyd
Well it's been a much-argued fact that the GUI and mouse were not Apple originals, but copies shamelessly stolen from Xerox @ PARC. But, I suppose this will open yet more debate.
As to "a bunch of other things", well I hope that on their R&D list is profitability, increasing marketshare and increasing shareholder value. Because without those three things (okay, two of three) inventing becomes an an irrelevant activity.
Don't get me wrong -- I have an iMac on my desk and a ton of AAPL that I can't afford to sell -- I hope Apple succeeds.
"quality and impact of the things Apple has brought into the world"
Heh. Then you cite "The first mainstream PC. First mainstream mouse. Laser printer. Desktop GUI. Multimedia" Clearly you need a clue but then I'd be willing to bet your paycheck has a piece of fruit on it.
The marketplace needs the likes of Dell otherwise PC users would pay the price of a Mac for a PC. Further, your comparison and comments in the second-to-last paragraph just reduced all automakers excepting Ford to the likes of Dell -- they didn't invent the car, they just copy the original. Does that make them useless? Hmm... what kind of car do you drive?
So, to your original point: Is Apple successful? Ask my eTrade account -- my holdings of AAPL are down 59.21% (over 20 months) just behind COMS (-66.46%) and PALM (just too damned dreary to even post).
RAID0 has NO form of data protection. Frankly, RAID0 should not even be termed "RAID" since the commonly accepted definition of RAID implies redundancy. So you lost data with RAID0? Surprise. Do your homework before attempting to "trust" your data to a scheme you know little about!
Be wary of blanket statements that RAID5 performs poorly for writes. While this is probably true for the RAID cards mentioned here, some storage systems (e.g. EMC Clariion, Dell Clariion) have two mechanisms for increasing performance.
First, write cache. When performing a write, the storage enclosure fills the cache (i.e. 8GB) and ACKs the write back to the host before it even touches a disk. So, unless the write is huge there is no performance loss for RAID5. However, for huge writes....
Some storage enclosures (again, Clariion -- that's what I know:P)use enhanced writing algorithms that perform the parity and write to all disks virtually simultaneously. (Yeah, that's open to flame.) There's a good whitepaper on this at EMC's site.
Granted, none of us have these enclosures at home but making a general statement that RAID5 performs poorly is short-sighted and a poor generalization.
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"The Internet is powered by open source."
Yep. And Cisco, Microsoft and Solaris are fine examples of this.
"The Internet is the carrier for open source."
Yessir. And you've done a fine job of making open source sound like an infectious disease. Thanks Marc!
"The Internet is also the platform through which open source is developed."
Nah. Compilers and code managers are. The internet facilitates open source development because of #2.
"It's simply going to be more secure than proprietary software."
Yes, and you've just lost another 2 credibility points with me.
"Open source benefits from anti-American sentiments."
I'd think anti-American sentiments would equally incent foreign companies to form and develop software products...?
"Incentives around open source include the respect of one's peers."
True enough.
"Open source means standing on the shoulders of giants."
Proof that his Top Ten could have been done in 94 words.
"Servers have always been expensive and proprietary, but Linux runs on Intel."
Can't dispute this, but buy Linux from IBM and it's not necessarily inexpensive.
"Embedded devices are making greater use of open source."
Yessir.
"There are an increasing number of companies developing software that aren't software companies."
True enough.
"Companies are increasingly supporting Linux."
True enough.
"It's free."
...but procurement cost is only 20-25% of the TCO model. "It helps reduce TCO" may be a better way to phrase this but that statement could also be disputed (training costs, admin costs, etc.)
The internet is also not capitalized. :-)
You've failed to recognize one thing: Those kids on the commercial have now read the website and will be using this l33t haxor to find the winning bottles. They will then remove and pocket the caps from aforementioned bottles thus receive the song for free. Pepsi without lids. Sounds like some sort of bad funk band.
Fact is, mom is going to call Aunt Mabel and chat about what she does on her computer and how she does it. Marketshare, marketshare, knowledgebase. No, not technical knowledgebase, but general knowledge. Ever watch a 65 year old try to fathom the concept of a web page?
You completely and utterly missed my point. When mom talks to Aunt Helen who, in turn, says "Right-click on that icon and select "Sent to email", a Mac user would be utterly lost. This argument is about marketshare and knowledgebase, not about the ability to perform something like attaching a 2-button mouse to the computer.
Recommending a Mac to your mother to reduce your job as a "support" entity is somewhat selfish. When I purchased a PC for my mother for Christmas, I gave her the option of a Mac or a Dell. While the Mac would be easier to use, she would not be able to offer help to her blue-haired buddies, get help from them, or use something as simple as YIM. "Okay Thelma, right-click on that icon thingy. What? You don't have a right mouse button? Jeez Thelma, your kid bought you a one-buttoned mouse?
Many companies simply cannot afford Sun or their support -- whether its worth it or not. I'd also be surprised if Sun's own tech support didn't read "an script in the other side of the phone" as well.
*whistle*
And, sadly, they probably have CallerID and are collecting all our phone numbers for future harrassment. Damn, I called from my cellular, too... :-o .xyd
As to "a bunch of other things", well I hope that on their R&D list is profitability, increasing marketshare and increasing shareholder value. Because without those three things (okay, two of three) inventing becomes an an irrelevant activity.
Don't get me wrong -- I have an iMac on my desk and a ton of AAPL that I can't afford to sell -- I hope Apple succeeds.
Sincerely,
Mr. Brilliant
Heh. Then you cite "The first mainstream PC. First mainstream mouse. Laser printer. Desktop GUI. Multimedia" Clearly you need a clue but then I'd be willing to bet your paycheck has a piece of fruit on it.
The marketplace needs the likes of Dell otherwise PC users would pay the price of a Mac for a PC. Further, your comparison and comments in the second-to-last paragraph just reduced all automakers excepting Ford to the likes of Dell -- they didn't invent the car, they just copy the original. Does that make them useless? Hmm... what kind of car do you drive?
So, to your original point: Is Apple successful? Ask my eTrade account -- my holdings of AAPL are down 59.21% (over 20 months) just behind COMS (-66.46%) and PALM (just too damned dreary to even post).
RAID0 has NO form of data protection. Frankly, RAID0 should not even be termed "RAID" since the commonly accepted definition of RAID implies redundancy. So you lost data with RAID0? Surprise. Do your homework before attempting to "trust" your data to a scheme you know little about!
Be wary of blanket statements that RAID5 performs poorly for writes. While this is probably true for the RAID cards mentioned here, some storage systems (e.g. EMC Clariion, Dell Clariion) have two mechanisms for increasing performance.
:P)use enhanced writing algorithms that perform the parity and write to all disks virtually simultaneously. (Yeah, that's open to flame.) There's a good whitepaper on this at EMC's site.
First, write cache. When performing a write, the storage enclosure fills the cache (i.e. 8GB) and ACKs the write back to the host before it even touches a disk. So, unless the write is huge there is no performance loss for RAID5. However, for huge writes....
Some storage enclosures (again, Clariion -- that's what I know
Granted, none of us have these enclosures at home but making a general statement that RAID5 performs poorly is short-sighted and a poor generalization.