Microsoft would be stupid to release a version of Linux. I've been using Linux at different jobs for about six years now and there is no way that Microsoft will hurt it's customers buy throwing a complicated/hard to install OS on them. It just isn't going to happen. They know that ease of use and support for every piece of hardware under the sun is what matters to most of their customers. I graduated with honors at UCLA with a double major in physics and computer science and I find Linux to be too time consuming to learn/install. If it's that way for me then I know that Microsoft will not thrust this upon their customers.
The biggest problem with Linux is not what distro is used or what GUI is on top of X but the Kernel itself. This is what will really matter in the end. You can have a GUI that blows win* away but if your kernel can't support tons of hardware with auto configure then you will not get the market. I can't think of any PC hardware that win98/2000 can't use. I can't even come close to saying the same for the Linux kernel. Example: my damn SBLive sound card. (And developer.soundblaster.com does not have a driver with full support like the windows drivers do). This is where it really matters. Look at how poorly USB is coming along. Very slow. My ULTRA DMA hds are still not being used to the full performance level of the ULTRA DMA technology. I know that this will change but it's how long it will take is the issue.
We just got a copy of NT 5 server edition and it rocks. We loaded several applications on it and then we did a lot of things to corrupt over 85% of the system and application files and the system did what is called self-repairing. The application binaries were repaired from the corrupted state. We used HEX editors to screw up binaries all over the system and as soon as we would screw on up the system would detect the screwed up file/binary and it would repair it. That is awesome. Can't beat that.
The question is how usefull is a 4 minute install of any OS. Name 50 usefull things. I have a 44X SCS cdrom connected to a dual PIII 500Mhz box and RH Linux takes at least 15-20 minutes to install. That's installing enough for it to be usefull.
You have not read Bill Gate's book. He's going to buy all the cable companies and stick satalites in space ( several hundreds of them ) to creat a hybrid network mesh grid. He has already bought several cable companies now. I say good for him. He knows how to make money and he knows how to invest money.
I would love to be able to: "The future of the Internet is not computer-based," said Jay Udani, vice president and founder of the company. "I can access the Net from a Palm Pilot on the road, or a kiosk in the airport, or at a friend's home, and that data is always available. I can move around and have a service that follows me wherever I go in the world." This is way better than the current way of software distribution. And "All upgrades and new features are added automatically, without having to download and install updates," he said. "You never have an out-of-date product." is also much better than downloading upgrades to free software and doing rpm -Uvh package.rpm
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Microsoft SMS services are turned on. It's using NetBIOS over TCP/IP. IIS's remote administration utility is open to the public. So yes there are services running on that box. Y2K is just not crackable. Face it!
There are many remote administration tools. Remotely possible, PC Anywere for NT, Microsoft SMS ( can even flash the bios remotley ) telnetd. The list is verry long. Over 100 commercial remote admin tools.
I know that setting up a rebust Linux fax server is a total bitch and a half. We tryed hylafax but the time it spent on setting it up was not worth the effort. We paid less than 100.00 for ZetaFax server software for NT and clients for win9x boxes and it all worked right out of the box. There are about 35 different Fax server software packages for NT that does not cost that much. but will save you money in the time spent to set everything up. But that is if your time is worth something.
I work for Enterprise Rent A Car and we have 3,500 store locations that have over 35,000 employees and one Central Corporate Office in St. Louis MO that has another 3,000 eimployees. We used to use the UNIX pop servers ( pop3.ibm.net, pop4.ibm.net....pop6.ibm.net) and we had a terrible problem with attachments currupting the users pop3 inbox. And a host of other problems with IBM's servers being overloaded from our pop requests. 1.5 years ago we went to MS Excange server ( one server ) to handle the 38,000 employees and it worked greate. Not only were they able to send Internet email but the groupware stuff was awsome. It was seamless with the other products like those that ran on our 27 AS400 computers. We've never had any exchange server problems. It delivers at a minimum of 1,000,000 email messages a day. Some our Internal Excange messages and some are Internet email messages. What's cool about it is that it automatically builds address books for all the users so they can lookup any employee in thier address book. A user is automatically added to everyone's address book when they get added as a user on the NT domain. Also the pop connections to the server are all encypted ( check the secure authentication option in Outlook ) so that password sniffers do not work. We could not emplament this on the UNIX pop servers for some reason. IBM said that they didn't support that option. I thought that was lame.
The Linux Installable CD offer has been discontinued. The DAC960 driver is now included in these commercial distributions: Red Hat 6.0 SuSE 6.1 Caldera Open Linux 2.2 All requests for CDs as of 5-12-99 have been received and will be shipped. For international orders, please allow 3-4 weeks for customs and delivery.
At Enterprise Rent A car we have 128X5.3Tb storage systems and they are powerd by SUn Solaris and NT. NT does just fine. The data never gets lost for any reason at all. If a disk goes down the system automatically picks up a spare and rebuilds the data with no problems. Our storage systems are made by SUN ( or that's what it says on the massive cabs ) Our Data warehouse is one of the largists in the USA and it runs on Solaris and NT just fine.
That's not even close to the performance he needs. Were I work we use SUN Solaris to do the same thing he is discribeing but our storage requirements are ( 128 X 5.3TB ). We use Sun RAID boxes that are connected via Fiber Optic to each other. What he needs is high end server software not low end PC software. I recommend that whatever he does do not use Linux for this task. NT has full support for mass storage and so does SUN Solaris. Go with SUN or MS NT solutions.
Linux sucks for most things. Apple knows that and that is why they don't waste their time developing Desktop/multimedia tools for Linux. I don't know anyone that does sale desktop multimedia tools for Linux that supports a huge range of Video formats. I put my Linux servers in a closet away from customers that can see it for fear that the ugliness of it will scare my customers away.
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I think Kdev kicks anything that's out for Linux in the ass if you are developing free software. See http://www.kdevelop.org/
Don't believe a thing that The Register reports. They lie so much.
uhhh microsoff.com? hahah good try. almost had me for about 0.001 seconds. That's a long time for me.
Microsoft would be stupid to release a version of Linux. I've been using Linux at different jobs for about six years now and there is no way that Microsoft will hurt it's customers buy throwing a complicated/hard to install OS on them. It just isn't going to happen. They know that ease of use and support for every piece of hardware under the sun is what matters to most of their customers. I graduated with honors at UCLA with a double major in physics and computer science and I find Linux to be too time consuming to learn/install. If it's that way for me then I know that Microsoft will not thrust this upon their customers.
Oppps I meant second largest rental company in the world.
If I'm right isn't hotmail.com running on UNIX? that figures. UNIX has more holes than an old womans underware.
The biggest problem with Linux is not what distro is used or what GUI is on top of X but the Kernel itself. This is what will really matter in the end. You can have a GUI that blows win* away but if your kernel can't support tons of hardware with auto configure then you will not get the market. I can't think of any PC hardware that win98/2000 can't use. I can't even come close to saying the same for the Linux kernel. Example: my damn SBLive sound card. (And developer.soundblaster.com does not have a driver with full support like the windows drivers do). This is where it really matters. Look at how poorly USB is coming along. Very slow. My ULTRA DMA hds are still not being used to the full performance level of the ULTRA DMA technology. I know that this will change but it's how long it will take is the issue.
He is smart. He knows were the money is. He also knows were the future is as well.
I love using an OS that has support for every PC technology in the world. Nice to be loved.
We just got a copy of NT 5 server edition and it rocks. We loaded several applications on it and then we did a lot of things to corrupt over 85% of the system and application files and the system did what is called self-repairing. The application binaries were repaired from the corrupted state. We used HEX editors to screw up binaries all over the system and as soon as we would screw on up the system would detect the screwed up file/binary and it would repair it. That is awesome. Can't beat that.
The question is how usefull is a 4 minute install of any OS. Name 50 usefull things. I have a 44X SCS cdrom connected to a dual PIII 500Mhz box and RH Linux takes at least 15-20 minutes to install. That's installing enough for it to be usefull.
You have not read Bill Gate's book. He's going to buy all the cable companies and stick satalites in space ( several hundreds of them ) to creat a hybrid network mesh grid. He has already bought several cable companies now. I say good for him. He knows how to make money and he knows how to invest money.
Uhh Could you say that again? This time make your sentence structure sound meaningful.
I would love to be able to: "The future of the Internet is not computer-based," said Jay Udani, vice president and founder of the company. "I can access the Net from a Palm Pilot on the road, or a kiosk in the airport, or at a friend's home, and that data is always available. I can move around and have a service that follows me wherever I go in the world." This is way better than the current way of software distribution. And "All upgrades and new features are added automatically, without having to download and install updates," he said. "You never have an out-of-date product." is also much better than downloading upgrades to free software and doing rpm -Uvh package.rpm
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Microsoft SMS services are turned on. It's using NetBIOS over TCP/IP. IIS's remote administration utility is open to the public. So yes there are services running on that box. Y2K is just not crackable. Face it!
There are many remote administration tools. Remotely possible, PC Anywere for NT, Microsoft SMS ( can even flash the bios remotley ) telnetd. The list is verry long. Over 100 commercial remote admin tools.
I know that setting up a rebust Linux fax server is a total bitch and a half. We tryed hylafax but the time it spent on setting it up was not worth the effort. We paid less than 100.00 for ZetaFax server software for NT and clients for win9x boxes and it all worked right out of the box. There are about 35 different Fax server software packages for NT that does not cost that much. but will save you money in the time spent to set everything up. But that is if your time is worth something.
I work for Enterprise Rent A Car and we have 3,500 store locations that have over 35,000 employees and one Central Corporate Office in St. Louis MO that has another 3,000 eimployees. We used to use the UNIX pop servers ( pop3.ibm.net, pop4.ibm.net....pop6.ibm.net) and we had a terrible problem with attachments currupting the users pop3 inbox. And a host of other problems with IBM's servers being overloaded from our pop requests. 1.5 years ago we went to MS Excange server ( one server ) to handle the 38,000 employees and it worked greate. Not only were they able to send Internet email but the groupware stuff was awsome. It was seamless with the other products like those that ran on our 27 AS400 computers. We've never had any exchange server problems. It delivers at a minimum of 1,000,000 email messages a day. Some our Internal Excange messages and some are Internet email messages. What's cool about it is that it automatically builds address books for all the users so they can lookup any employee in thier address book. A user is automatically added to everyone's address book when they get added as a user on the NT domain. Also the pop connections to the server are all encypted ( check the secure authentication option in Outlook ) so that password sniffers do not work. We could not emplament this on the UNIX pop servers for some reason. IBM said that they didn't support that option. I thought that was lame.
The Linux Installable CD offer has been discontinued. The DAC960 driver is now included in these commercial distributions: Red Hat 6.0 SuSE 6.1 Caldera Open Linux 2.2 All requests for CDs as of 5-12-99 have been received and will be shipped. For international orders, please allow 3-4 weeks for customs and delivery.
At Enterprise Rent A car we have 128X5.3Tb storage systems and they are powerd by SUn Solaris and NT. NT does just fine. The data never gets lost for any reason at all. If a disk goes down the system automatically picks up a spare and rebuilds the data with no problems. Our storage systems are made by SUN ( or that's what it says on the massive cabs ) Our Data warehouse is one of the largists in the USA and it runs on Solaris and NT just fine.
That's not even close to the performance he needs. Were I work we use SUN Solaris to do the same thing he is discribeing but our storage requirements are ( 128 X 5.3TB ). We use Sun RAID boxes that are connected via Fiber Optic to each other. What he needs is high end server software not low end PC software. I recommend that whatever he does do not use Linux for this task. NT has full support for mass storage and so does SUN Solaris. Go with SUN or MS NT solutions.
Linux sucks for most things. Apple knows that and that is why they don't waste their time developing Desktop/multimedia tools for Linux. I don't know anyone that does sale desktop multimedia tools for Linux that supports a huge range of Video formats. I put my Linux servers in a closet away from customers that can see it for fear that the ugliness of it will scare my customers away.