I have sales guys that work out of their homes. If they can run a soft phone on their laptop and do conference calls on my VoIP PBX, and not use a conference call service, that can almost pay for the cost of a VoIP pbx on a 3 year lease.
My developers' desk phones have dust on them. They already have headsets to use skype to talk to [insert native country here]. Who cares what a VoIP desk phone costs if a huge chunk of my user base does not need or want them.
Blanket statements are bad. VoIP offers a variety of benefits - a good number of which translate into cost savings, but there is no one, great solution for everyone. The important thing is that VoIP has hit critical mass, and you need to assess its place if you are looking at buying / replacing a PBX.
There is no 2GB mailbox limit in Exchange. Versions of Outlook pre 2003 had a 2GB.PST (mail archive) limit - I am not sure if that was also true for.OST - the offline file, so if it was, perhaps people thought Exchange had a 2GB mailbox limit if mailboxes > 2GB could not be used in offline mode (think laptops on a plane).
The 32 bit problem for exchange is its one database process, store.exe, that was limited to 3GB address space. Even though Exchange (ent. edition) has supported multiple mailbox stores (databases) since exchange 2000, it is all run by this one process that would like as much ram as you could throw at it. Going all 64 bit in the future makes it easier to address this without having to support multiple versions of exchange 2006 (or whatever the next version will be).
The US is different, not good or bad. While Verizon Wireless generally does try to corner the market on anti consumer behavior (crippling phones, etc), its broadband cellular data service EVDO is pretty amazing. Basically, if Verizon Wireless did not have such a broad coverage map, they probably could not do such things. Sprint is now trying to compete with 3G data rates as well. Using GPRS on my blackberry is painful, and cannot be used for anything serious. Is there any pan-European 3G GSM data service?
GSM is not all that is claimed to be - when I rented a local SIM card in NZ, I lost blackberry functionality after 7 or so days, and got conflicting answers as to whose fault it was (Vodafone NZ, T-Mobile USA, Blackberry, God, etc
Not a Sun bigot - I am a MCSE holding Windows sysadmin. This morning, on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (below the fold), was an article about the trend of increasing wattage densities per square foot in server rooms, and the problems they cause. Right now, the Sun marketing guys that came up with the tree comparison are THRILLED with themselves because it is exactly in tune with an article that was in 2 million+ newspapers today.
Expect to see more marketing about power utilization and the resulting heat generation. Sun is doing it, and AMD should be much more aggressive about it.
... in the US, at least. Look at how Verizon Wireless cripples phones' feature sets. Was the ROKR's 100 song limitation resulting from Apple's desire to not have it compete with its Ipods, or was it the desire of the wireless carriers to not impact their ringtone business, or a little of both? I would not be surprised to see embedded linux being used to drive down device costs, but as a platform to provide new wireless features, it seems that time and time again, the U.S wireless carriers expect to extract fees.
The standardization on GSM in Europe and other places would seem to invite the possibility of a market where you bring your own phone (versus having it generally tied to a provider via a protocol), and this could foster new apps running on linux phones, but GPRS does not provide a lot of bandwidth to do interesting things.
I guess syncing PIM and email stuff is all well and good, but for new and inventive applications, I would not be too optimistic
My experience running debian under vpc2004 was painful - the clock for the debian system would leap forwards and backward constantly. Was worthless for anything where time needed to be consistent.
... would seem to be a key problem for the NSA. Blackberry servers allow admins to erase lost devices remotely, but I tend to think that "erase" is similar to a MS DOS format - i.e, barely touch the actual filesystem. To scrub a PDA's flash disk with numerous overwrites of random data would seem to be a good trick. Similarly, having a PDA render its flash permanently unreadable would also be a good trick, given the battery constraints.
currently, afaik. So this is not a real walkabout wireless VoIP solution. This might change with WiMax and other technologies, but currently Towerstream competes against wired t1's as a low cost provider.
If the problem is with the standard, how else should they proceed? It isnt specific to one manufacturor - the industry has learned NOTHING from the 802.11 mess (wep, etc), and keeps making CRAP
That is 6 lbs unit. The nc6230 weighs 5 even. That is the unit that HP europe supposedly cooked up a special suse distribution for, but is apparently unavailable outside of Europe.
There is - thursday in the WSJ Walter Mossberg reviewed a EVDO/Wifi phone. This being a Verizon product, there naturally is no enabled functionality to use this phone as a modem. As always, Verizon is evil.
I have a gmail account for a variety of mailing lists. I am getting a bit fatigued with its interface. Yes, I can label all the mailing list stuff, but the oddball stuff is a pain to deal with. I wish I could route to folders instead of labeling the mailing list stuff, so the regular view is strictly stuff that is unlabeled.
no kidding - our desktops were hp d330s. they were end of lifed. The d5000 is the same machine, same minitower case, but with the intel chipset having a V on it - for value? The *only* difference is that lack of a agp slot.
a year ago, we stuck with hp while deciding upon a new standard laptop as the nc6000's had 5400 rpm drives vs a couple ibm units we were evaluating which had 4200rpm's. I wonder if anyone could ever decommoditize themselves as a pc maker by promising to sell quicker machines at a minor price premium - how much more would it cost to install 512MB and a 7200rpm drive instead of 256MB and 5400rpm?
Correct. The WSJ has the second highest print sub in the country, around or over 2 million, IIRC. USA today and its 16 trillion hotel subscriptions is #1.
There have been some patches were if you do not reboot immediately, the box will start behaving erratically at best. This can occur because some files are immediately replaced, and others queued for later replacement as they are locked open.
How do you explain away the access time difference between 15k and 10k rpm drives? They probably want one big array with lots of 15k rpm drives to get a lot of fast spindles to achieve fast random IO.
You cannot say that the wireless card industry has done a bang up job of standardizing external antennae connections. I haven't been much in the market recently, but I recall lucent and cisco cards having wildly different connections.
Apple takes care of this, the way pc laptop manufacturers do. I imagine if I could buy my hp nc6000 without wireless (I don't recall if that is an option), it would still have the internal antennae stuff, but good luck finding the right mini PCI card in the aftermarket *cheaply* (although with centrino, it is probably on the motherboard, but the sentiment holds true for non centrino systems that use mini PCI).
We were buying hp d330's - 2.x ghz, 800mhz FSB, etc, etc. We were happy. We didn't have to pay stupid money for a "workstation" class machine, because after all, we were dropping an extra 1GB of crucial into them.
They got discontinued.
HP is now offering the dc5000. Identical case, identical mobo... wait! It is a "v" edition of the intel chipset, v for value, because apparently there is value add in AGP less computers. Same 3 pci slots, no agp.
The only think I can think of is that Dell and HP wanted a way to (&$$ people to try to push them towards 1200-1500ish desktops^H^H^H^H WORKSTATIONS as opposed to 800-1000ish desktops.
That said, paying for ram from the factory generally brutal.
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I have sales guys that work out of their homes. If they can run a soft phone on their laptop and do conference calls on my VoIP PBX, and not use a conference call service, that can almost pay for the cost of a VoIP pbx on a 3 year lease.
My developers' desk phones have dust on them. They already have headsets to use skype to talk to [insert native country here]. Who cares what a VoIP desk phone costs if a huge chunk of my user base does not need or want them.
Blanket statements are bad. VoIP offers a variety of benefits - a good number of which translate into cost savings, but there is no one, great solution for everyone. The important thing is that VoIP has hit critical mass, and you need to assess its place if you are looking at buying / replacing a PBX.
ostiguy
There is no 2GB mailbox limit in Exchange. Versions of Outlook pre 2003 had a 2GB .PST (mail archive) limit - I am not sure if that was also true for .OST - the offline file, so if it was, perhaps people thought Exchange had a 2GB mailbox limit if mailboxes > 2GB could not be used in offline mode (think laptops on a plane).
The 32 bit problem for exchange is its one database process, store.exe, that was limited to 3GB address space. Even though Exchange (ent. edition) has supported multiple mailbox stores (databases) since exchange 2000, it is all run by this one process that would like as much ram as you could throw at it. Going all 64 bit in the future makes it easier to address this without having to support multiple versions of exchange 2006 (or whatever the next version will be).
The US is different, not good or bad. While Verizon Wireless generally does try to corner the market on anti consumer behavior (crippling phones, etc), its broadband cellular data service EVDO is pretty amazing. Basically, if Verizon Wireless did not have such a broad coverage map, they probably could not do such things. Sprint is now trying to compete with 3G data rates as well. Using GPRS on my blackberry is painful, and cannot be used for anything serious. Is there any pan-European 3G GSM data service?
GSM is not all that is claimed to be - when I rented a local SIM card in NZ, I lost blackberry functionality after 7 or so days, and got conflicting answers as to whose fault it was (Vodafone NZ, T-Mobile USA, Blackberry, God, etc
ostiguy
Not a Sun bigot - I am a MCSE holding Windows sysadmin. This morning, on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (below the fold), was an article about the trend of increasing wattage densities per square foot in server rooms, and the problems they cause. Right now, the Sun marketing guys that came up with the tree comparison are THRILLED with themselves because it is exactly in tune with an article that was in 2 million+ newspapers today.
Expect to see more marketing about power utilization and the resulting heat generation. Sun is doing it, and AMD should be much more aggressive about it.
ostiguy
WSSI (Web side story) is currently down $2 to 15.99.
ostiguy
... in the US, at least. Look at how Verizon Wireless cripples phones' feature sets. Was the ROKR's 100 song limitation resulting from Apple's desire to not have it compete with its Ipods, or was it the desire of the wireless carriers to not impact their ringtone business, or a little of both? I would not be surprised to see embedded linux being used to drive down device costs, but as a platform to provide new wireless features, it seems that time and time again, the U.S wireless carriers expect to extract fees.
The standardization on GSM in Europe and other places would seem to invite the possibility of a market where you bring your own phone (versus having it generally tied to a provider via a protocol), and this could foster new apps running on linux phones, but GPRS does not provide a lot of bandwidth to do interesting things.
I guess syncing PIM and email stuff is all well and good, but for new and inventive applications, I would not be too optimistic
ostiguy
My experience running debian under vpc2004 was painful - the clock for the debian system would leap forwards and backward constantly. Was worthless for anything where time needed to be consistent.
ostiguy
... would seem to be a key problem for the NSA. Blackberry servers allow admins to erase lost devices remotely, but I tend to think that "erase" is similar to a MS DOS format - i.e, barely touch the actual filesystem. To scrub a PDA's flash disk with numerous overwrites of random data would seem to be a good trick. Similarly, having a PDA render its flash permanently unreadable would also be a good trick, given the battery constraints.
ostiguy
currently, afaik. So this is not a real walkabout wireless VoIP solution. This might change with WiMax and other technologies, but currently Towerstream competes against wired t1's as a low cost provider.
If the problem is with the standard, how else should they proceed? It isnt specific to one manufacturor - the industry has learned NOTHING from the 802.11 mess (wep, etc), and keeps making CRAP
ostiguy
That is 6 lbs unit. The nc6230 weighs 5 even. That is the unit that HP europe supposedly cooked up a special suse distribution for, but is apparently unavailable outside of Europe.
ostiguy
closes at 27.07, now at 25.50
ostiguy
it does huge traffic with the teenage set, so its value to someone who wants to sell alternative lifestyles to them is likely huge.
ostiguy
There is - thursday in the WSJ Walter Mossberg reviewed a EVDO/Wifi phone. This being a Verizon product, there naturally is no enabled functionality to use this phone as a modem. As always, Verizon is evil.
I have a gmail account for a variety of mailing lists. I am getting a bit fatigued with its interface. Yes, I can label all the mailing list stuff, but the oddball stuff is a pain to deal with. I wish I could route to folders instead of labeling the mailing list stuff, so the regular view is strictly stuff that is unlabeled.
ostiguy
HP ships a windows SSH service with some of its management software. Of course, have we seen HP donate to OpenBSD?
no kidding - our desktops were hp d330s. they were end of lifed. The d5000 is the same machine, same minitower case, but with the intel chipset having a V on it - for value? The *only* difference is that lack of a agp slot.
ostiguy
a year ago, we stuck with hp while deciding upon a new standard laptop as the nc6000's had 5400 rpm drives vs a couple ibm units we were evaluating which had 4200rpm's. I wonder if anyone could ever decommoditize themselves as a pc maker by promising to sell quicker machines at a minor price premium - how much more would it cost to install 512MB and a 7200rpm drive instead of 256MB and 5400rpm?
ostiguy
Correct. The WSJ has the second highest print sub in the country, around or over 2 million, IIRC. USA today and its 16 trillion hotel subscriptions is #1.
ostiguy
There have been some patches were if you do not reboot immediately, the box will start behaving erratically at best. This can occur because some files are immediately replaced, and others queued for later replacement as they are locked open.
ostiguy
How do you explain away the access time difference between 15k and 10k rpm drives? They probably want one big array with lots of 15k rpm drives to get a lot of fast spindles to achieve fast random IO.
ostiguy
No, Apple sucks. Well, os x's finder, and its lack of support for ssl enabled webdav sites sucks.
http://www.webdav.org/goliath/
Seems to be cool. Have not tried the os 9 version.
What problems did you have with os x to 2003's webdav?
ostiguy
What is interesting is that Intel's problem in its business (getting single core cpus to run > 4 ghz) should somehow be oracle's problem.
ostiguy
You cannot say that the wireless card industry has done a bang up job of standardizing external antennae connections. I haven't been much in the market recently, but I recall lucent and cisco cards having wildly different connections.
Apple takes care of this, the way pc laptop manufacturers do. I imagine if I could buy my hp nc6000 without wireless (I don't recall if that is an option), it would still have the internal antennae stuff, but good luck finding the right mini PCI card in the aftermarket *cheaply* (although with centrino, it is probably on the motherboard, but the sentiment holds true for non centrino systems that use mini PCI).
ostiguy
We were buying hp d330's - 2.x ghz, 800mhz FSB, etc, etc. We were happy. We didn't have to pay stupid money for a "workstation" class machine, because after all, we were dropping an extra 1GB of crucial into them.
They got discontinued.
HP is now offering the dc5000. Identical case, identical mobo... wait! It is a "v" edition of the intel chipset, v for value, because apparently there is value add in AGP less computers. Same 3 pci slots, no agp.
The only think I can think of is that Dell and HP wanted a way to (&$$ people to try to push them towards 1200-1500ish desktops^H^H^H^H WORKSTATIONS as opposed to 800-1000ish desktops.
That said, paying for ram from the factory generally brutal.
ostiguy