Well, it is obviously way off-topic, but looking at this I can't help but wonder how soon it will be that Google become so powerful we'll be glad Microsoft is still around?
I've been using both Linux and Windows for a long time, and both have strength and weaknesses.
This hasn't been the poit of the article as I see it. The point is, given current windows security, any computer running any windows OS connected to the internet is a disaster waiting to happen. It is no longer a choice which file browser looks prettier, Windows, KDE or GNOME. My doughter spent a few months in another location with a computer of her own, but with extremely poorly working dial-up access. Sure enough, when she came back a few months later computer was totally unusable.
Now, if Microsoft manages to fix their problems for good, we can start talking about UI design again. Now, it is almost meaningless
And BTW, if they don't support 64-bit, they are finished anyway. No serious business needs 32-bit unix these days.
Our company (makes CAD-related software for Unix and Windows) dropped all 32-bit Unix platforms for new development about a year ago (with some exception for RH Linux)
No C++ compiler? That means one will have to install g++ first to be able to re-compile many free software... a lot depends then on how well gcc supports SCO
While NeTraverse Merge 5.3.26c allows the UnixWare server to run Windows application all the way back to Windows for Workgroups 3.11, I found that Windows NT applications did not run in three out of four cases...
Hmm, never heard of NeTraverse Merge... who develops it ? How does it compare with WINE?
Anyway, I guess the conclusion from the review is that UnixWare + LKP is not bad, but too expensive, though this extra cost can be justified in some narrow curcumstances?
Does not sound too optimistic for someone who claims to own UNIX, IMHO.
Mine is working fine. I had to wait for about a week after signing up before it started working. The server is slow, but it works and you also have free POP3 and SMTP.
There are number of problems, such as:
WebDav still does not work for me;
Incoming SMTP is a bit too picky (insists on RDNS)
Rich-text Web Mail composer only sends out HTML, not Text + HTML.
Not trying to defend M$oft here, but Outlook is more tha a merely "e-mail client", it is a groupware client (calendar etc.) Evolution supposedly has all that, but it isn't available for Windows.
So IT managers trying to relpace M$ Office with OOo will have problems what to replace Outlook with - not that this problem is unsolvable, but it does exist.
In our company, when I want to send out some confidential document, I copy it to a special document server which has all restriction access built it, and send out a link. However, many people are too lazy to do so, as it is much easier to simply drag and drop a document to Outlook window.
Granted, i cannot restrict what people do with my document once they download it from the server, though if need to, I can create PDF document with cut/paste and print restricted. But you can still send it out for other people to see, and it can't expire.
What this new feature supposedly does it merges these two systems - regular e-mail and central server-based document management - into one.
Therefore, I think this is a good feature in a corporate environment, that is.
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Well, it is obviously way off-topic, but looking at this I can't help but wonder how soon it will be that Google become so powerful we'll be glad Microsoft is still around?
Just a thought...
This hasn't been the poit of the article as I see it. The point is, given current windows security, any computer running any windows OS connected to the internet is a disaster waiting to happen. It is no longer a choice which file browser looks prettier, Windows, KDE or GNOME. My doughter spent a few months in another location with a computer of her own, but with extremely poorly working dial-up access. Sure enough, when she came back a few months later computer was totally unusable.
Now, if Microsoft manages to fix their problems for good, we can start talking about UI design again. Now, it is almost meaningless
And BTW, if they don't support 64-bit, they are finished anyway. No serious business needs 32-bit unix these days.
Our company (makes CAD-related software for Unix and Windows) dropped all 32-bit Unix platforms for new development about a year ago (with some exception for RH Linux)
UnixWare comes with a C compiler
No C++ compiler? That means one will have to install g++ first to be able to re-compile many free software... a lot depends then on how well gcc supports SCO
While NeTraverse Merge 5.3.26c allows the UnixWare server to run Windows application all the way back to Windows for Workgroups 3.11, I found that Windows NT applications did not run in three out of four cases...
Hmm, never heard of NeTraverse Merge... who develops it ? How does it compare with WINE?
Anyway, I guess the conclusion from the review is that UnixWare + LKP is not bad, but too expensive, though this extra cost can be justified in some narrow curcumstances?
Does not sound too optimistic for someone who claims to own UNIX, IMHO.
Mine is working fine. I had to wait for about a week after signing up before it started working. The server is slow, but it works and you also have free POP3 and SMTP.
There are number of problems, such as:
WebDav still does not work for me;
Incoming SMTP is a bit too picky (insists on RDNS)
Rich-text Web Mail composer only sends out HTML, not Text + HTML.
etc.
Not trying to defend M$oft here, but Outlook is more tha a merely "e-mail client", it is a groupware client (calendar etc.) Evolution supposedly has all that, but it isn't available for Windows.
So IT managers trying to relpace M$ Office with OOo will have problems what to replace Outlook with - not that this problem is unsolvable, but it does exist.
This is what this new feature really is.
In our company, when I want to send out some confidential document, I copy it to a special document server which has all restriction access built it, and send out a link. However, many people are too lazy to do so, as it is much easier to simply drag and drop a document to Outlook window.
Granted, i cannot restrict what people do with my document once they download it from the server, though if need to, I can create PDF document with cut/paste and print restricted. But you can still send it out for other people to see, and it can't expire.
What this new feature supposedly does it merges these two systems - regular e-mail and central server-based document management - into one.
Therefore, I think this is a good feature in a corporate environment, that is.
Gray Davis has an approval rating of 22% or so. That's the lowest rating OF ANY POLITICIAN IN THIS COUNTRY'S HISTORY
But not the world history - Russian president Boris Yeltsin had a rating ~ 3% at the end of '95, half a year before he was re-elected :-)
So Davis supporters should not be tooo upset - it might have been worse