There is way too much bullshit required to write cool web pages. If someone was designing a decent solution from the start, a "page" would be meaningful data (xml tagged, probably, to allow for decent data mining and Googlification) and real code married together reasonably in a non-suckhole language. Requiring eight-billion different pieces to make cool stuff is just retarded, although inevitable considering how this whole thing evolved in the first place.
That said, even if Curl was the mutt's nutts and solved every one of these problems, there would still be a better chance of Rosie O'Donnel giving Charlton Heston a blowjob than getting the world en-masse to adopt and pay to use proprietary web protocols.
I hope today's announcement will cause those members of the Slashdot community who view VA Linux as the Borg of the Linux world to think differently. VA are showing that the open source business model does work, despite what their detractors on Slashdot say.
I would hesitate to say the open source business model works until open source companies like VA and Red Hat become profitable. All these licensing shenanigans are good for improving the quality of free software, but a working business model? Too early to tell.
VA's got a bloody ludicrous market cap. VA's got wicked competition from Dell, Compaq, IBM, and in fact just about everybody. (It's hard to say who exactly the competition is because your plans for the future of VA are not yet clear.) VA's gonna have to have more on its plate than selling and supporting Linux servers or it's gonna lose another half of its value.
Sooo - does VA have any plans in the directions of ID's or in the embedded market? RTOS initiatives? Anything to differentiate it from other computer builders/linux consultants?
Put another way - Dell will, before too damn long - be able to put Linux on one of their systems in a sensible cojnfiguration. IBM, among others, can do consulting services/Linux support. What can you do that they can't?
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There is way too much bullshit required to write cool web pages. If someone was designing a decent solution from the start, a "page" would be meaningful data (xml tagged, probably, to allow for decent data mining and Googlification) and real code married together reasonably in a non-suckhole language. Requiring eight-billion different pieces to make cool stuff is just retarded, although inevitable considering how this whole thing evolved in the first place.
That said, even if Curl was the mutt's nutts and solved every one of these problems, there would still be a better chance of Rosie O'Donnel giving Charlton Heston a blowjob than getting the world en-masse to adopt and pay to use proprietary web protocols.
I hope today's announcement will cause those members of the Slashdot community who view VA Linux as the Borg of the Linux world to think differently. VA are showing that the open source business model does work, despite what their detractors on Slashdot say.
I would hesitate to say the open source business model works until open source companies like VA and Red Hat become profitable. All these licensing shenanigans are good for improving the quality of free software, but a working business model? Too early to tell.
VA's got a bloody ludicrous market cap. VA's got wicked competition from Dell, Compaq, IBM, and in fact just about everybody. (It's hard to say who exactly the competition is because your plans for the future of VA are not yet clear.) VA's gonna have to have more on its plate than selling and supporting Linux servers or it's gonna lose another half of its value.
Sooo - does VA have any plans in the directions of ID's or in the embedded market? RTOS initiatives? Anything to differentiate it from other computer builders/linux consultants?
Put another way - Dell will, before too damn long - be able to put Linux on one of their systems in a sensible cojnfiguration. IBM, among others, can do consulting services/Linux support. What can you do that they can't?