I thought of that as I was writing but gave up attempting to write out that cognitive dissonance...
I still argue that the product had better merits than Tivo did at the time and that the merit did not lead to sales. Just like the Betamax/VHS argument where one was better but did not win.
Good point on your part, though.
I respectfully disagree. Back in the day (2001?) I had a Microsoft UltimateTV for our satellite service. I felt the technology was considerably more sophisticated and easier to use than Tivo. IIRC, the user interface was much quicker and effective and it also had dual tuners. I believe MS stopped selling it less than a year after release for whatever reason. I kept using it as my preferred DVR until DirecTV released their HD DVR.
Granted, these patents appear amazingly broad and I have personal issue with software patents like this, but saying MS cannot compete on merits is not true, at least in this case, IMHO.
the analogue ones worked in either a 27mhz or 41mhz range, if memory serves. There may have been others later, but i clearly remember the interference they caused in these frequencies with Soviet military transmitters. I could make so many jokes right now about babies saving us from a Soviet invasion (when there were still soviets...) but won't out of respect for common decency...
To paraphrase the comedian, Greg Proopes, "I thought Australia would be this great, cool progressive place but it's really just Arkansas with beaches"
or something to that effect...
How in God's name can an application crash the most secure operating system on the market?
All joking aside, how can Vista crash based on one application?
well... IBM is a 170 billion dollar company that earns a hell of a lot more money with their Global Services division than Apple does.
As a fanboi, I appreciate the joke, but seriously, IBM has done a good job of transforming their company to services rather than hardware. Heck, the PC division was always a spec to them in the first place.
I completely agree. However, I manage mobile software deployments for a living and can say that my biggest problem is explaining to users what the purpose of disconnected handhelds really is. It's a complex topic for some workers and PHBs to wrap their heads around, at least in the pharma and nuclear environments I work with.
OTOH, this is a freaking census with a number of sequential, perhaps relational, questions to be asked. It's not an inventory management system. I suspect that the failure is with leadership.
i don't have a beef. just pointing out that these weren't purchased by google, they were borrowed from libraries (for the most part).
personally, i'm all for fair use, since it is the law. i'm curious to see how this plays out.
No, the difference is that the bookstore purchased the book for you to peruse (although bookstore purchasing is really weird with their return to publisher policies) and that Google paid no one a cent for their copy. This is more akin to you taking the book from the bookstore, letting someone else peruse it and then taking the money back into the bookstore to pay for what you took.
There is a DB2 version already. The application is quite server agnostic, so I don't fear IBM pushing Weblogic out of the picture anymore than I would expect them to cease supporting the app on windows infrastructure.
As far as why it's in the Tivoli group: the Tivoli group supports IT asset management, something that is an emerging market for Maximo. My only fear is that MRO loses focus on their bread and butter, which is serious maintenance management from asset intensive verticals, like utilities and facilities. I welcome our new IT Asset Management Overlords, but only so far as they don't neglect my power plant people...
IBM paid just over 700mm for MRO Software last week. It's the best-of-breed maintenance management sytem in the market. I am very curious to see IBM buying up all these companies but their consulting wing does do a fair amount of work deploying Maximo and Filenet, so I see some synergy (to use a horrific cliche' from the 90s).
ANyhoo, I'm hoping IBM increases the marketing exposure for MRO Software and their Maximo product. More sales means more value for my consulting services.
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I thought of that as I was writing but gave up attempting to write out that cognitive dissonance... I still argue that the product had better merits than Tivo did at the time and that the merit did not lead to sales. Just like the Betamax/VHS argument where one was better but did not win. Good point on your part, though.
I respectfully disagree. Back in the day (2001?) I had a Microsoft UltimateTV for our satellite service. I felt the technology was considerably more sophisticated and easier to use than Tivo. IIRC, the user interface was much quicker and effective and it also had dual tuners. I believe MS stopped selling it less than a year after release for whatever reason. I kept using it as my preferred DVR until DirecTV released their HD DVR. Granted, these patents appear amazingly broad and I have personal issue with software patents like this, but saying MS cannot compete on merits is not true, at least in this case, IMHO.
the analogue ones worked in either a 27mhz or 41mhz range, if memory serves. There may have been others later, but i clearly remember the interference they caused in these frequencies with Soviet military transmitters. I could make so many jokes right now about babies saving us from a Soviet invasion (when there were still soviets...) but won't out of respect for common decency...
To paraphrase the comedian, Greg Proopes, "I thought Australia would be this great, cool progressive place but it's really just Arkansas with beaches" or something to that effect...
How in God's name can an application crash the most secure operating system on the market? All joking aside, how can Vista crash based on one application?
Each one comes with a free leisure suit.
That's a SPEED suit, my friend...
well... IBM is a 170 billion dollar company that earns a hell of a lot more money with their Global Services division than Apple does. As a fanboi, I appreciate the joke, but seriously, IBM has done a good job of transforming their company to services rather than hardware. Heck, the PC division was always a spec to them in the first place.
I completely agree. However, I manage mobile software deployments for a living and can say that my biggest problem is explaining to users what the purpose of disconnected handhelds really is. It's a complex topic for some workers and PHBs to wrap their heads around, at least in the pharma and nuclear environments I work with.
OTOH, this is a freaking census with a number of sequential, perhaps relational, questions to be asked. It's not an inventory management system. I suspect that the failure is with leadership.
Wow, that was an articulate post there...
Yes, you are quite a "genious."
i don't have a beef. just pointing out that these weren't purchased by google, they were borrowed from libraries (for the most part). personally, i'm all for fair use, since it is the law. i'm curious to see how this plays out.
And how do you think the library got the book? It was purchased from the copywright holder. Your tax dollars paid for that, along with mine.
No, the difference is that the bookstore purchased the book for you to peruse (although bookstore purchasing is really weird with their return to publisher policies) and that Google paid no one a cent for their copy. This is more akin to you taking the book from the bookstore, letting someone else peruse it and then taking the money back into the bookstore to pay for what you took.
i was a listener for a number of years and got a chuckle, albeit a grim one, at your post. probably very accurate...
There is a DB2 version already. The application is quite server agnostic, so I don't fear IBM pushing Weblogic out of the picture anymore than I would expect them to cease supporting the app on windows infrastructure. As far as why it's in the Tivoli group: the Tivoli group supports IT asset management, something that is an emerging market for Maximo. My only fear is that MRO loses focus on their bread and butter, which is serious maintenance management from asset intensive verticals, like utilities and facilities. I welcome our new IT Asset Management Overlords, but only so far as they don't neglect my power plant people...
IBM paid just over 700mm for MRO Software last week. It's the best-of-breed maintenance management sytem in the market. I am very curious to see IBM buying up all these companies but their consulting wing does do a fair amount of work deploying Maximo and Filenet, so I see some synergy (to use a horrific cliche' from the 90s). ANyhoo, I'm hoping IBM increases the marketing exposure for MRO Software and their Maximo product. More sales means more value for my consulting services.