You can bet that MS is probably involved. Kind of like how they gave some money to SCO via VC company. MS cannot stop OSS because a lot of MS partners are already starting to use OSS. I belong to a few MS UG's and they are actually demonstrating Linux and OSS software at their meetings. Microsoft's only real strength is on the client OS.
It's amazing that Microsoft has not learned from the Vista fiasco. Having multiple versions of Vista infuriated users almost as much as the functionality of Vista itself.
Microsoft needs to get rid of basic and have only premium and business. Ultimate is a waste of money most of the advanced features such as bit locker are available as open source. It's almost as if the licensing division was dictating how the product was packaged. The licensing schemes could prove to be Microsoft's downfall. They are so greedy to try and extract every dollar from licensing that they don't recognize much infuriation it creates with their customers. This will drive more customers over to Linux and open source.
One thing to remember is that there is various iterations of the cell processor. The Xbox is a 3 core version The Playstation. I believe the Playstation is a 6 core processor. The roadrunner will use a 8 core processor. IBM originally discussed having a 16 core processor. There was not much talk about it afterwards. My guess is that there was significant bus contention issues. The original Power4's shut down one of their cores while running at full speed to avoid contention. The Power6 was designed to overcome these issues.
I think this is a great idea as well. Personally I don't understand why the coffee houses did not adopt this type of demand pull marketing years ago. it's ridiculous to think that people are going to pay another $30 a month for wifi.
For Starbucks ATT service makes a lot of sense because they cater to a wide range of customers. For ATT it makes a lot of sense, because it gives users incentive to sign up DSL/U-verse service since it is provided free with the service.
The Starbucks model is supplanting city wide wifi, because they have so many locations.
I am very surprised that there has not been more contributors to the Samba4 project. There would be a real benefit for Novell, Redhat and IBM to help finish Samba4
The whole argument is misleading. Nuclear weapons have a limited shelf life. This is why the US is re-manufacturing it's whole nuclear arsenal. Let's also remember that the triggers require secure codes.
Trying to put nuclear weapons and reactors is also misleading. The notion of mutually assured destruction is quickly diminishing since the US and other countries are developing and deploying ABM technologies.
Google's alliance with Verizon will give them time to seed the market and build mind share while they build their own infrastructure if this comes to fruition. I think the cell phone carrier is foolish to give them time to do this.
I am 100% in favor of a insurance surcharge for people that have blatantly unhealthy habbits. Today people that are unhealthy drive up the costs for us all. If a person smokes or is a alcholic we should have a 70% insurance surcharge or more. If a person is overweight they should take steps to reduce their weight or face fines. For many people weight is problem, but for others it is just laziness and bad eating habbits.
Now that AMD is delivering it's new chip it should be able to raise sufficient capital to develop it's next generation of chips. It's very logical that AMD's announcement conincided with the issuance of new a new bond offering...
I believe we are going to see a accelerated time schedule for IBM and AMD's transition to 45nm chip technology.
You are making the assumption that all energy is produced from combustion...!!
In the short term nuclear is probably the only energy source that is capable of ramping up quickly.. Solar is a good technology, but I am not sure if there is sufficient energy production from a long ROI. The question then becomes is what price will drop cells drop to if they are produced in mass quantities. It will be hard to get consumers to adopt solar cells on a large scale when there is still a 20-30 year payback. So the government would have to step in and subsidize them until they dropped significantly in price. Another factor to consider is that a lot of home owners have borrowed to the hilt so they are unlikely to take out big loans. Another factor to consider is that interest rates are likely to rise.
The more likely scenario is that corporations will adopt green energy. Personally I don't understand why natural lighting has not caught on more. The Timkin museum in San Diegohas used a skylight for years and the natural light is simply beautiful.
As much as I dislike Microsoft it's unfair to publish some unreadable graph that gives no indication what data there is. The graph needs to at least identify what API calls are being made to have any credibility.
I wonder if Google is contemplating using Voip WIMAX for cell phones...???. My guess is that the cell phone companies would be opposed to it since it competes directly with them. So Google would be forced to use a alternative method such as Wimax or Wifi for voice. Earlier this year a employee at Google, said they were investigating Wimax for city wifi deployments. The one hurdle is gaining access to the higher end frequencies. This is needed to increase the the distance.
I seriously doubt Novell would have signed agreement if this were true. Novell has good lawyers as well. So one bet that there is a stipulation in the agreement to prevent MS from using it's patents to control the code.
The real question is how long would it take the US to harden deploy laser resistant satelites. The US has considered developing ground based atomic powered laser weapons. This program needs to be accelerated.
We are probably going to see ISP's start to deploy fixed point Wimax if the telco's start kicking competitors off their networks and driving up prices. So in other words broadband speed is going to increase like crazy and so will the competition.
This is really great for consumers. The cable companies are now forced to compete against the telco's. I predicted awhile back that IPTV is going to be a catalyst for greater competition and more bandwidth. Now Rupert Murdoch 's Direct TV is going to compete by deploying Wimax over satellite to deliver IPTV. So we will probably see reduced rates for TV.
Trademark clarifications
UNIX is a trademarked name that is owned by the Open Group. In order for a OS to call itself UNIX it must meet the Unix 03 standard (http://www.unix.org/unix03.html ). Linux does comply with the Unix 98 standard, but I am uncertain about the Unix 03 standard.
Both Oracle and SAP have their own inherent propietary problems.
Oracle believes in the don't touch Oracle the Java code let us do it all for you. Some Java people have commented that Oracle's Java implementation is a sloppy non oop code. Besides all this Oracle refuses to certify it's code as j2EE compliant.
SAP on the otherhand claims to be more modern by implementing SOA and Netweaver. So supposedly this will ease development for SAP. The problem still remains that SAP want's you to let them do it.
Personally I think the industry will migrate over to OSS ERP.
Possible, but not probable in all likelyhood. The web has gotten so large that it would be very hard for any one company to create a alternative web. Just think of all the major ISP's that Google would be forced to invest in. The mgmt headaches alone would overwhelm Google. The web is so dynamic and free spirited that any hint of monopolitic tendencies would compel many people to avoid their intranet.
Google news is really great it allows to get a overview of the news that I am interested in. My only wish is that Google would incorporate the same search functions that is built into the Google search engine. Personally I don't understand why they left them out to begin with. Would be great to have site search functionality.
Novell is a great company with a lot of good management products. Novell's biggest problem is tha they don't have a well defined and well marketed problem.
Their other big problem is that some products like Zenworks are still clunky products. I am really suprised that IBM did not acquire them years ago. There has been 3 different negotiations over the years. IBM IBM had acquired Novell back in the 1997 timeframe Microsoft would have come under a lot of pressure. At the time OS/2 Warpserver was number 3 and still had a lot of marketshare. IBM could have migrated Netware users and run it under Warpserver until a migration was completed. Today IBM has a lot invested in directory services and Novell would make a good fit.
I could sse a scenario where CA or HP would acquire Novell. Novells focus on directory services would help HP become more of a software company and CA a enterprise streingth directory service products.
This alliance and Google Wifi is premptive strike on Microsoft to secure and expand Google's market and mindshare. Google Wifi gives them a direct connection to the consumer. Google office secures this.
Perhaps Google will use the Open office eclipse productivity editors.
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You can bet that MS is probably involved. Kind of like how they gave some money to SCO via VC company. MS cannot stop OSS because a lot of MS partners are already starting to use OSS. I belong to a few MS UG's and they are actually demonstrating Linux and OSS software at their meetings. Microsoft's only real strength is on the client OS.
It's amazing that Microsoft has not learned from the Vista fiasco. Having multiple versions of Vista infuriated users almost as much as the functionality of Vista itself. Microsoft needs to get rid of basic and have only premium and business. Ultimate is a waste of money most of the advanced features such as bit locker are available as open source. It's almost as if the licensing division was dictating how the product was packaged. The licensing schemes could prove to be Microsoft's downfall. They are so greedy to try and extract every dollar from licensing that they don't recognize much infuriation it creates with their customers. This will drive more customers over to Linux and open source.
One thing to remember is that there is various iterations of the cell processor. The Xbox is a 3 core version The Playstation. I believe the Playstation is a 6 core processor. The roadrunner will use a 8 core processor. IBM originally discussed having a 16 core processor. There was not much talk about it afterwards. My guess is that there was significant bus contention issues. The original Power4's shut down one of their cores while running at full speed to avoid contention. The Power6 was designed to overcome these issues.
I think this is a great idea as well. Personally I don't understand why the coffee houses did not adopt this type of demand pull marketing years ago. it's ridiculous to think that people are going to pay another $30 a month for wifi. For Starbucks ATT service makes a lot of sense because they cater to a wide range of customers. For ATT it makes a lot of sense, because it gives users incentive to sign up DSL/U-verse service since it is provided free with the service. The Starbucks model is supplanting city wide wifi, because they have so many locations.
I am very surprised that there has not been more contributors to the Samba4 project. There would be a real benefit for Novell, Redhat and IBM to help finish Samba4
The whole argument is misleading. Nuclear weapons have a limited shelf life. This is why the US is re-manufacturing it's whole nuclear arsenal. Let's also remember that the triggers require secure codes. Trying to put nuclear weapons and reactors is also misleading. The notion of mutually assured destruction is quickly diminishing since the US and other countries are developing and deploying ABM technologies.
Google's alliance with Verizon will give them time to seed the market and build mind share while they build their own infrastructure if this comes to fruition. I think the cell phone carrier is foolish to give them time to do this.
I am 100% in favor of a insurance surcharge for people that have blatantly unhealthy habbits. Today people that are unhealthy drive up the costs for us all. If a person smokes or is a alcholic we should have a 70% insurance surcharge or more. If a person is overweight they should take steps to reduce their weight or face fines. For many people weight is problem, but for others it is just laziness and bad eating habbits.
Now that AMD is delivering it's new chip it should be able to raise sufficient capital to develop it's next generation of chips. It's very logical that AMD's announcement conincided with the issuance of new a new bond offering... I believe we are going to see a accelerated time schedule for IBM and AMD's transition to 45nm chip technology.
I am just really surprised that there has not been rumors of a AMD takeover.
You are making the assumption that all energy is produced from combustion...!! In the short term nuclear is probably the only energy source that is capable of ramping up quickly.. Solar is a good technology, but I am not sure if there is sufficient energy production from a long ROI. The question then becomes is what price will drop cells drop to if they are produced in mass quantities. It will be hard to get consumers to adopt solar cells on a large scale when there is still a 20-30 year payback. So the government would have to step in and subsidize them until they dropped significantly in price. Another factor to consider is that a lot of home owners have borrowed to the hilt so they are unlikely to take out big loans. Another factor to consider is that interest rates are likely to rise. The more likely scenario is that corporations will adopt green energy. Personally I don't understand why natural lighting has not caught on more. The Timkin museum in San Diegohas used a skylight for years and the natural light is simply beautiful.
As much as I dislike Microsoft it's unfair to publish some unreadable graph that gives no indication what data there is. The graph needs to at least identify what API calls are being made to have any credibility.
I wonder if Google is contemplating using Voip WIMAX for cell phones...???. My guess is that the cell phone companies would be opposed to it since it competes directly with them. So Google would be forced to use a alternative method such as Wimax or Wifi for voice. Earlier this year a employee at Google, said they were investigating Wimax for city wifi deployments. The one hurdle is gaining access to the higher end frequencies. This is needed to increase the the distance.
I seriously doubt Novell would have signed agreement if this were true. Novell has good lawyers as well. So one bet that there is a stipulation in the agreement to prevent MS from using it's patents to control the code.
The real question is how long would it take the US to harden deploy laser resistant satelites. The US has considered developing ground based atomic powered laser weapons. This program needs to be accelerated.
We are probably going to see ISP's start to deploy fixed point Wimax if the telco's start kicking competitors off their networks and driving up prices. So in other words broadband speed is going to increase like crazy and so will the competition.
This is really great for consumers. The cable companies are now forced to compete against the telco's. I predicted awhile back that IPTV is going to be a catalyst for greater competition and more bandwidth. Now Rupert Murdoch 's Direct TV is going to compete by deploying Wimax over satellite to deliver IPTV. So we will probably see reduced rates for TV.
Trademark clarifications UNIX is a trademarked name that is owned by the Open Group. In order for a OS to call itself UNIX it must meet the Unix 03 standard (http://www.unix.org/unix03.html ). Linux does comply with the Unix 98 standard, but I am uncertain about the Unix 03 standard.
Compiere (http://www.compiere.com/ ) comes to mind as the one of leading contenders. This is because it is Java based thus allowing components. Here is some other OSS ERP projects (http://erp5.org/ ) (http://community.igalia.com/twiki/bin/view/Fister ra/WebHome )
(http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=6&url=ht tp%3A//www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb022106-story01.html &ei=cT0NRO3oH4KAqwLc2rxa&sig2=5uLzyeFbC38zn2tar4EL jw )
(http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=7&url=ht tp%3A//www.ofbiz.org/&ei=cT0NRO3oH4KAqwLc2rxa&sig2 =vrPeV4du9fR0FCBlgci8xg )
OSS ERP article
(http://searchsap.techtarget.com/originalContent/0 ,289142,sid21_gci1102271,00.html )
There does seem to a be a lot of projects suprisingly enough.
Both Oracle and SAP have their own inherent propietary problems. Oracle believes in the don't touch Oracle the Java code let us do it all for you. Some Java people have commented that Oracle's Java implementation is a sloppy non oop code. Besides all this Oracle refuses to certify it's code as j2EE compliant. SAP on the otherhand claims to be more modern by implementing SOA and Netweaver. So supposedly this will ease development for SAP. The problem still remains that SAP want's you to let them do it. Personally I think the industry will migrate over to OSS ERP.
Possible, but not probable in all likelyhood. The web has gotten so large that it would be very hard for any one company to create a alternative web. Just think of all the major ISP's that Google would be forced to invest in. The mgmt headaches alone would overwhelm Google. The web is so dynamic and free spirited that any hint of monopolitic tendencies would compel many people to avoid their intranet.
Google news is really great it allows to get a overview of the news that I am interested in. My only wish is that Google would incorporate the same search functions that is built into the Google search engine. Personally I don't understand why they left them out to begin with. Would be great to have site search functionality.
I wonder what video card can produce this....? Perhaps some sort of dual graphics card solution.
Novell is a great company with a lot of good management products. Novell's biggest problem is tha they don't have a well defined and well marketed problem.
Their other big problem is that some products like Zenworks are still clunky products. I am really suprised that IBM did not acquire them years ago. There has been 3 different negotiations over the years. IBM IBM had acquired Novell back in the 1997 timeframe Microsoft would have come under a lot of pressure. At the time OS/2 Warpserver was number 3 and still had a lot of marketshare. IBM could have migrated Netware users and run it under Warpserver until a migration was completed. Today IBM has a lot invested in directory services and Novell would make a good fit.
I could sse a scenario where CA or HP would acquire Novell. Novells focus on directory services would help HP become more of a software company and CA a enterprise streingth directory service products.
This alliance and Google Wifi is premptive strike on Microsoft to secure and expand Google's market and mindshare. Google Wifi gives them a direct connection to the consumer. Google office secures this. Perhaps Google will use the Open office eclipse productivity editors.