I posted an article here about the real reason Microsoft settled with AOL/Netscape. Microsoft wants AOL to use its server software for serving TIME-Warner media content. Microsoft is getting into the media business in a big way. This could explain why they are still pouring money down the hole that is MSNBC.
the requirement of open-source licences for software funded by the government
If the UK government is required to buy open source, it can't buy WebSphere/WebLogic etc. Without such a requirement, they can continue to buy linux and IBM can sell them WebSphere.
IBM also sells WebSphere. In fact, the linux push is aimed at getting more people to buy WebSphere. This way, IBM makes money from hardware and software. If you pass a law mandating GPL software, you can't buy WebSphere. Without a law mandating GPL software, nothing stops the government from buying linux servers from IBM AND buying WebSphere.
A simple IM message saying "Did you get my message on the results for company X" may not be critical when the message is actually being sent. It may assume importance later but you wont know it when you send it.
5.5 Billion in cash? Ok, this is a nice incentive:^)
The price will be (value of sun as a company) + 5.5 billion$..effectively around 8 billion $(assumming sun is valued at around 8 billion for their technology). I don't think IBM will shell out 8billion$.
It makes more sense for Sun to buy out RedHat. Time to put the 5.5 billion in cash to good use.
Its been less than 10 years since a large number of people have started using computers everyday. It's too early to predict the long term health effects. Someone i know had real bad back pains because of her posture when she used a computer. 20 years from now, a significant percentage of us could suffer from things like back aches and bad eyesight...It's just too early to say.
"We know from industry figures and our own sales figures that about a third of all households in the U.S. have DVD players. And that number is growing," Severson said
This could work for WalMart. As DVD players get cheaper, the number of households owning DVD players will go up. Walmart can sell the cheap DVD players AND rent out the DVDs.
Carriers will first have to lobby for A US-wide standard and then lobby for their choice(3G/4G). What's the point of lobbying for a 4G standard if other carriers are not obligated to support it.
Iden is contrary to everything that most of the Slashdot crowd cries for: it's a closed proprietary standard owned and developed by Motorola.
Since there is no US standard(GSM/CDMA etc), each carrier is free to choose the technology it needs. IDEN is important to Nextel for their walkie talkie feature. The walkie talkie feature, used by small business workers and public safety officials, is Nextel's USP. They need to go with IDEN for that reason. Without IDEN and the walkie talkie feature that works well on iden, nextel would be struggling like the other mobile carriers.
They are going to charge for it. EVERYONE will pay an additional WNP charge on their bill. Verizon doesn't oppose WNP per se. They oppose the rule requiring land lines to be transferred to wireless carriers. Verizon stands to loose the most because they are the LECs. Cingular, Nextel and T-mobile would gain for people substituting their land lines for cell phones and retaining their numbers. Many small businesses now have the option of retaining their phone numbers and going wireless.
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After college, Stephen spent almost 7 years in the US Navy, working as a Russian linguist before becoming a SEAL in SEAL Team 2, the Navy's Special Operations branch.
If consumers see a web site that says, "Sorry, you need Windows 2005 to view this site,"
If this is a website for a paid online service like online banking, customers will call customer service to complain. This mean HUGE costs for the bank offering the service. I don't think companies offering online services would like that.
This is something mozilla/opera users should know. If they are paying for an online service and the service requires you to use IE, just call customer service to complain. The cost of the customer service calls will force the service to support all browsers.
Why? Online banking works just fine today. The banks will cater to the lowest common denominator. If even 10% of their users have problems accessing their online banking accounts, the cost of customer service calls will by HUGE. Most features and services are designed to cut down on customer service calls.
According to scientific studies, telecommuting actually lowers productivity. My companies allows telecommuting infrequently(depends on the manager). Telecommuting is an advantage when you are working long hours. Work in the office for 10 hrs, come home, go to the gym, work for a couple of hours more.
British start-up CacheLogic estimates the global cost of file sharing to ISPs will top $1.3 billion in 2003, an expense that will nearly triple next year.
So? If i pay for the bandwidth, dont i have the right to use it? How about some balance? How about listing the revenue from broadband customers?
How does a country where the per capita annual income is $390-$420 (depending on whose number you use) expect people other than the elite to afford mobile phone service, even if the handsets and service charges are heavily subsidized?
The same way people in a country with an average income of 36,000 $ can afford to buy BMWs, Mercs and Feraris..Hint: Its average per capita..
The upside is that if you try to insert something that's not a string, you find out at compile time and fix the problem. Without generics, you discover such a bug when your most important customer calls your VP to tell him that the program on which his business depends just crashed with a ClassCastException.
Is this really the number one problem for most projects? ClassCastExceptions in production code?
Jeffrey M. Birnbaum, 37, is managing director for computing at brokerage giant Morgan Stanley's Institutional Securities Div. He's so buttoned-down that he wears a suit on Casual Friday. You would think this cog in the capitalist machine would have nothing in common with young Walker. But Birnbaum is betting Morgan Stanley's (MWD ) technology future on the kinds of software projects, called "open source," that Walker participates in.
Birnbaum has fallen hard for Linux, a penny-pinching open-source alternative to computer operating systems such as Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT ) Windows and Sun Microsystems Inc.'s (SUNW ) Solaris. He's busy replacing 4,000 high-powered servers running traditional software with much cheaper machines running Linux. Projected five-year savings: up to $100 million. Does it bother him that counterculture kids like Walker have a hand in Linux? Not a bit. "We see their work, and it's good," he says.
This guy IS Mr Upper Management. Maybe we could ask him? I am sure there are/.ers who work at MSDW. I am sure he would be glad to be featured on slashdot....It's every geeks dream come true.
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Not a single SCO article on the /. main page. That's a welcome change.
I posted an article here about the real reason Microsoft settled with AOL/Netscape. Microsoft wants AOL to use its server software for serving TIME-Warner media content. Microsoft is getting into the media business in a big way. This could explain why they are still pouring money down the hole that is MSNBC.
If the UK government is required to buy open source, it can't buy WebSphere/WebLogic etc. Without such a requirement, they can continue to buy linux and IBM can sell them WebSphere.
GPL doesn't always mean linux.
You can continue to hate microsoft and get modded up on /.. Nothing's changed there..
A simple IM message saying "Did you get my message on the results for company X" may not be critical when the message is actually being sent. It may assume importance later but you wont know it when you send it.
My first thought on reading this was: The Chinese government is going to take steps to stop the spread of diseases.
The price will be (value of sun as a company) + 5.5 billion$..effectively around 8 billion $(assumming sun is valued at around 8 billion for their technology). I don't think IBM will shell out 8billion$.
It makes more sense for Sun to buy out RedHat. Time to put the 5.5 billion in cash to good use.
Its been less than 10 years since a large number of people have started using computers everyday. It's too early to predict the long term health effects. Someone i know had real bad back pains because of her posture when she used a computer. 20 years from now, a significant percentage of us could suffer from things like back aches and bad eyesight...It's just too early to say.
This could work for WalMart. As DVD players get cheaper, the number of households owning DVD players will go up. Walmart can sell the cheap DVD players AND rent out the DVDs.
Carriers will first have to lobby for A US-wide standard and then lobby for their choice(3G/4G). What's the point of lobbying for a 4G standard if other carriers are not obligated to support it.
Since there is no US standard(GSM/CDMA etc), each carrier is free to choose the technology it needs. IDEN is important to Nextel for their walkie talkie feature. The walkie talkie feature, used by small business workers and public safety officials, is Nextel's USP. They need to go with IDEN for that reason. Without IDEN and the walkie talkie feature that works well on iden, nextel would be struggling like the other mobile carriers.
They are going to charge for it. EVERYONE will pay an additional WNP charge on their bill. Verizon doesn't oppose WNP per se. They oppose the rule requiring land lines to be transferred to wireless carriers. Verizon stands to loose the most because they are the LECs. Cingular, Nextel and T-mobile would gain for people substituting their land lines for cell phones and retaining their numbers. Many small businesses now have the option of retaining their phone numbers and going wireless.
Stephen Hobbs, USA
CFO/Controller
After college, Stephen spent almost 7 years in the US Navy, working as a Russian linguist before becoming a SEAL in SEAL Team 2, the Navy's Special Operations branch.
If this is a website for a paid online service like online banking, customers will call customer service to complain. This mean HUGE costs for the bank offering the service. I don't think companies offering online services would like that.
This is something mozilla/opera users should know. If they are paying for an online service and the service requires you to use IE, just call customer service to complain. The cost of the customer service calls will force the service to support all browsers.
Why? Online banking works just fine today. The banks will cater to the lowest common denominator. If even 10% of their users have problems accessing their online banking accounts, the cost of customer service calls will by HUGE. Most features and services are designed to cut down on customer service calls.
The system is implemented in .NET. Shouldn't be too difficult to change the administrator password.
Improved productivity
According to scientific studies, telecommuting actually lowers productivity. My companies allows telecommuting infrequently(depends on the manager). Telecommuting is an advantage when you are working long hours. Work in the office for 10 hrs, come home, go to the gym, work for a couple of hours more.
Life is good.
The same way people in a country with an average income of 36,000 $ can afford to buy BMWs, Mercs and Feraris..Hint: Its average per capita..
Sun-One as in Sun and their stock price a year from now...
One of the links in the sponsored content box on the left is "buy viagara online".
Is this really the number one problem for most projects? ClassCastExceptions in production code?
This guy IS Mr Upper Management. Maybe we could ask him? I am sure there are /.ers who work at MSDW. I am sure he would be glad to be featured on slashdot....It's every geeks dream come true.