Steve Ballmer spoke at a recent Air Force conference that I attended. He let us know that the U.S. Air Force is the single largest customer of Microsoft.
You do know that the US Government is the largest customer for just about EVERY vendor. Right?
If you want to see how the government is looking at non-MS solutions you should attend eGovOS next year. www.egovos.org
You forget that Sun got this land from the city of Santa Clara.
The city required Sun to support development for the community.
Keeping the old Agnews buildings spending tons of money remodeling.
Keeping a portion of the property as a public park and other landscaping. (i.e. that tree was part of it.}
Providing subsidies for the housing/marketplace development on the adjacent land.....
Many parents also have this nasty habit of riding the educators long and hard, basically dictating what and how the school will teach. Nevermind the fact that the educators have spent years studying How To Educate -- the parents always know how to teach their kids better.
Nevermind that a lot of these 'educators' are just flash card babies who can memorize anything, reguritate it back out on a quiz-test and thought it would be fun to be a teacher and make quizes-tests of ther own...
I've met some GREAT educators who love what they do and are truely good at it. Unfortunately, they are few....
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Yup. It will be contracted out to Haliburton Space Janitorial Division.
What about running Solaris on that same cheap x86 hardware?
How about 50 engineers working on Mozilla?
Not to mention Gnome, Linux, etc.
www.sunsource.net
Don't forget about copyrights, mp3 files, and other 'bad' things the corporation backed government doesn't want us to have access to.
hmmm.
better tell that to my bluetooth cell phone
and my bluetooth headset
And my bluetooth Macintosh
It looks like any other mouse.
But it has a racing stripe which makes everything look cool!
Right?
Nobody is going to make much money by trying to sell something that users can get for free.
Then why do I pay for Mac OS X which includes Apache, Samba, etc.???
I also bought my New Beetle from Volkswagen. I didn't really feel the need to buy all the individual components and build the car myself.
The newspaper isn't the source silly.
The articles are the source. And they fork all the time from different news sources.
did you even bother to read this commentary?
Definitely not a proper female.
More like the perfect female.
Always remember, as a female Chinese geekette you'll always have a percentage of us males groveling to be your mate. ;-)
Did all of these employees go to training classes on MS Office?
Probably not.
So saying that switching to OOo always requires training is a bit of FUD.
Yeah. We don't want it to start anal probing the local population.
I guess you guys were asleep earlier this year.
http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/html/products/mobil e/talin15/
We did this in Afghanistan.
We outsourced the fight with Russia to Al Queda.
Look what that got us.
FYI, OpenOffice.org is LGPL and SISSL. Not GPL.
Steve Ballmer spoke at a recent Air Force conference that I attended. He let us know that the U.S. Air Force is the single largest customer of Microsoft.
You do know that the US Government is the largest customer for just about EVERY vendor. Right?
If you want to see how the government is looking at non-MS solutions you should attend eGovOS next year. www.egovos.org
" how do you protect your populace versus terrorist who don't play by normal rules?"
Simple.
You just invade Iraq again.....
Actually the US is NOT a democracy.
It's a republic where there is a lot of buffer between the voters and the representatives......
After all, do you really want a popular vote of Bart Simpson for president?
What about the CS departments out there changing their courses in order to pump out more students who can program video games?
Is that engineering? science? other?
You forget that Sun got this land from the city of Santa Clara. The city required Sun to support development for the community. Keeping the old Agnews buildings spending tons of money remodeling. Keeping a portion of the property as a public park and other landscaping. (i.e. that tree was part of it.} Providing subsidies for the housing/marketplace development on the adjacent land.....
Just like Babylong 5, right?
Many parents also have this nasty habit of riding the educators long and hard, basically dictating what and how the school will teach. Nevermind the fact that the educators have spent years studying How To Educate -- the parents always know how to teach their kids better.
Nevermind that a lot of these 'educators' are just flash card babies who can memorize anything, reguritate it back out on a quiz-test and thought it would be fun to be a teacher and make quizes-tests of ther own...
I've met some GREAT educators who love what they do and are truely good at it. Unfortunately, they are few....
*Cough* PAID their UNIX license fee to SCO *Cough*
Chorus OS is dead code from an old acquisition that sun abandoned.
That's not exactly a committment to open source.
Any address that I register a domain name with seems to get added to *ALL* the spam lists....