At a rather large tech company. A small cadre of top honchos had their own groupware server(s!), their own email server(s!) and their own dedicated VPN. They also had instant 24/7 unlimited support wherever they were for any of the multiple home or office machines they used. Their support ratio headcount was 1:1, e.g. each supported person had one FTE dedicated to them.
They simply did not acknowledge that anyone in the organization had any sort of technical problems at all and chalked it up to nerdy whining. Our budgets were routinely slashed, hardware and software was left running long past end of life, capacity planning was a joke and the internal costs for help desk calls and deskside visits were jacked up to absurdly high levels so that no managers would permit their own people to use them. Complaints to senior management were met with not so vague threats of termination, STFU, GBTW!
So if Mike Dell uses uBuntu it's probably because he's imperially disconnected from the realities in his own company. To him, I'm sure he feels that everyone has 5 PC's and full time free dedicated support from the best brains in the industry and what on earth are these peons complaining about now for God's sake?
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At least not here in North America. So far it's been more of the same old Soviet agitprop of "Comrades! This is the Greatest Year Ever - We must continue to sacrifice for the Greater Good and compensation of our Dear Leaders !!!"
Take two companies in the same market using what turns out to be the same technology in the same way and low and behold it's the shitty company who comes out on top.
Replacing Exchange for which reasons, exactly? Because it it's just in terms of features, security and stability why not Lotus Notes + iCal? Of course you have to pay for Lotus code. By in terms of shared calendars with email and application integration, there aren't many better products I can think of. The iCal piece is for web publishing if you want to go that route.
Let the Monks on Mt. Redmond PUBLISH a compendium of all the devices that are logo'd and Redmond will refund your money if they are wrong. And let the hippies in Commune Linux publish a list of all their supported devices too and let the pimp hand of Libertarian Commerce decide. MS shouldn't get a pass for lying, no matter how much they tell you sucking their dick is a virtue.
If they want to do this fine as long as they tell me. Otherwise it's a breach of their 'contract'. Then all their customers can decide whether to pay for something they never get.
If Vonage customers think that Verizon is going to simply send you a card to become a Verizon customer you are wrong. Verizon doesn't want those Vonage customers, they want their own. And even if they did they wouldn't make it any easier to switch than any other shmoe off the street. THAT's the point of oligopoly. IF Vonage dies than most of those customers will switch to old style copper wire phone. Phone companies don't care who DOESN'T have service, they only care about the service people have from other carriers.
Like console admin, ID admin, help desk, etc. If you have 50,000 ID's to manage why not send that job to South America. It's not a high skill job and doesn't require any personal interaction.
I don't understand the defenders here who point out that it's a 1.0-ish product. It's more than 5 YEARS in the making. It's YEARS LATE. It's radically stripped down from its original promises. In any other venue that would be called
FAILURE
Sorry, fanboys but that's what it would be called if it were anything else by any other company.
Imagine if you will that Gigantic Car Company announces they will have a hydrogen fuel cell car in late 2008. But they don't actually get it out the door until 2013. And it's only a hybrid that gets 20% of its power from hydrogen. And it costs $50,000 and seats 2. And sales projections are off by 85%. That is what we call FAILURE.
Now you are certainly free to embrace it and chat up it's virtues and go to club meetings and go online and tell everyone how great it is, will be. But it's still a FAILURE.
The 'Greatest Artists' of the year are those who sell the most shit. Ergo and by definition and to the delight of the fanboys, Windows can never be considered a flop. Oh sure BoB and Clippy are 'flops' in the sense that Bill pushed them and we pushed back. But true to form, the haters crawl out of the slime to bash all things Apple whether or not they were good or bad but merely whether sheep and crustaceans bought a ton of it.
Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket are we STILL laughing at PCjr 23 years later? Most of you were still being conceived in the back of some nerd's mommy's car.
They want almost $380 just for 1GB RAM for your average IBM or HP blade server. In this realm, parts and upgrades have little to do with cheapo desktop components or pricing.
Yes Yes John Dvorak is 100% right (about just about anything) and everyone is wrong. A Cassandra in the wilderness. Of course. Thanks for clearing that up.
None of the retailers have any incentives to cause anyone to run out and plunk down new cash for a new machine, just because it runs Vista. Here is it the beginning of April and the sales cycle is going to be flat until at least mid August when the kiddies go back to school. At that point, unless there are new incentives in place I think a combination of school discounts on XP/Hardware, schools becoming more software agnostic and competitive pricing from Apple will be a real threat to that segment too.
But I am always called insane here at/. when I say things like this. So don't listen to me. Just keep being fanboys.
So all those people who prefer Apple for reasons a little deeper than fanboy reasons are somehow completely wrong and should be ignored. Ok - maybe that's a significant flaw in MS's own business model.
Every time I hear an outsider attack a business plan without really knowing of anything about it, based solely on their own gut feelings about it I wonder why pundits have the clout that they do. There are for example, a million pre orders of iPhone thusfar. Even if 50% of those turn out to be real that's a $150 million business day one. Considering that cell phone companies are cutting their own throats with model differentiation to the point where few of them are actually making a profit (how many phones can you 'buy' for free?) maybe iPhone gets it right.
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At a rather large tech company. A small cadre of top honchos had their own groupware server(s!), their own email server(s!) and their own dedicated VPN. They also had instant 24/7 unlimited support wherever they were for any of the multiple home or office machines they used. Their support ratio headcount was 1:1, e.g. each supported person had one FTE dedicated to them.
They simply did not acknowledge that anyone in the organization had any sort of technical problems at all and chalked it up to nerdy whining. Our budgets were routinely slashed, hardware and software was left running long past end of life, capacity planning was a joke and the internal costs for help desk calls and deskside visits were jacked up to absurdly high levels so that no managers would permit their own people to use them. Complaints to senior management were met with not so vague threats of termination, STFU, GBTW!
So if Mike Dell uses uBuntu it's probably because he's imperially disconnected from the realities in his own company. To him, I'm sure he feels that everyone has 5 PC's and full time free dedicated support from the best brains in the industry and what on earth are these peons complaining about now for God's sake?
At least not here in North America. So far it's been more of the same old Soviet agitprop of "Comrades! This is the Greatest Year Ever - We must continue to sacrifice for the Greater Good and compensation of our Dear Leaders !!!"
Now that's a special kind of irony.
Take two companies in the same market using what turns out to be the same technology in the same way and low and behold it's the shitty company who comes out on top.
All Hail Our Shitty Overlords.
Wow you can't hang that on a wall, unless you have a wall that can hang a refrigerator.
Also, my 46" throws off a noticeable amount of heat. This unit might need some custom ventilation.
I have an ancient player, probably 6 years old and Casino Royale and Stranger than Fiction (from Blockbuster) work 100%.
Replacing Exchange for which reasons, exactly? Because it it's just in terms of features, security and stability why not Lotus Notes + iCal? Of course you have to pay for Lotus code. By in terms of shared calendars with email and application integration, there aren't many better products I can think of. The iCal piece is for web publishing if you want to go that route.
Let the Monks on Mt. Redmond PUBLISH a compendium of all the devices that are logo'd and Redmond will refund your money if they are wrong. And let the hippies in Commune Linux publish a list of all their supported devices too and let the pimp hand of Libertarian Commerce decide. MS shouldn't get a pass for lying, no matter how much they tell you sucking their dick is a virtue.
If they want to do this fine as long as they tell me. Otherwise it's a breach of their 'contract'. Then all their customers can decide whether to pay for something they never get.
Lynch of few of these motherfuckers. Seriously. If they are above the law then so am I. Let's kill a few of them and see where that goes.
I can't wait for the fanboys to creep out and tell us that not every device in the world works with Linux.
If Vonage customers think that Verizon is going to simply send you a card to become a Verizon customer you are wrong. Verizon doesn't want those Vonage customers, they want their own. And even if they did they wouldn't make it any easier to switch than any other shmoe off the street. THAT's the point of oligopoly. IF Vonage dies than most of those customers will switch to old style copper wire phone. Phone companies don't care who DOESN'T have service, they only care about the service people have from other carriers.
Nah, Injya's much worse. Argentina's pretty good, they try. Cut some tickets keep everything up to date. No problem-o.
Like console admin, ID admin, help desk, etc. If you have 50,000 ID's to manage why not send that job to South America. It's not a high skill job and doesn't require any personal interaction.
I don't understand the defenders here who point out that it's a 1.0-ish product. It's more than 5 YEARS in the making. It's YEARS LATE. It's radically stripped down from its original promises. In any other venue that would be called
FAILURE
Sorry, fanboys but that's what it would be called if it were anything else by any other company.
Imagine if you will that Gigantic Car Company announces they will have a hydrogen fuel cell car in late 2008. But they don't actually get it out the door until 2013. And it's only a hybrid that gets 20% of its power from hydrogen. And it costs $50,000 and seats 2. And sales projections are off by 85%. That is what we call FAILURE.
Now you are certainly free to embrace it and chat up it's virtues and go to club meetings and go online and tell everyone how great it is, will be. But it's still a FAILURE.
The 'Greatest Artists' of the year are those who sell the most shit. Ergo and by definition and to the delight of the fanboys, Windows can never be considered a flop. Oh sure BoB and Clippy are 'flops' in the sense that Bill pushed them and we pushed back. But true to form, the haters crawl out of the slime to bash all things Apple whether or not they were good or bad but merely whether sheep and crustaceans bought a ton of it.
Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket are we STILL laughing at PCjr 23 years later? Most of you were still being conceived in the back of some nerd's mommy's car.
AT&T Callvantage caps unlimited VoIP at 5000 minutes a month. Just sayin......
Audio/Video mastering, analog to digital conversion, large format image processing.
They want almost $380 just for 1GB RAM for your average IBM or HP blade server. In this realm, parts and upgrades have little to do with cheapo desktop components or pricing.
MS fanboys the world over chime in "It's the worst possible thing Apple could evah do!!!! Kill it before it multiplies!!!!!"
Yes Yes John Dvorak is 100% right (about just about anything) and everyone is wrong. A Cassandra in the wilderness. Of course. Thanks for clearing that up.
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None of the retailers have any incentives to cause anyone to run out and plunk down new cash for a new machine, just because it runs Vista. Here is it the beginning of April and the sales cycle is going to be flat until at least mid August when the kiddies go back to school. At that point, unless there are new incentives in place I think a combination of school discounts on XP/Hardware, schools becoming more software agnostic and competitive pricing from Apple will be a real threat to that segment too.
/. when I say things like this. So don't listen to me. Just keep being fanboys.
But I am always called insane here at
So all those people who prefer Apple for reasons a little deeper than fanboy reasons are somehow completely wrong and should be ignored. Ok - maybe that's a significant flaw in MS's own business model.
Every time I hear an outsider attack a business plan without really knowing of anything about it, based solely on their own gut feelings about it I wonder why pundits have the clout that they do. There are for example, a million pre orders of iPhone thusfar. Even if 50% of those turn out to be real that's a $150 million business day one. Considering that cell phone companies are cutting their own throats with model differentiation to the point where few of them are actually making a profit (how many phones can you 'buy' for free?) maybe iPhone gets it right.