MySQL only indirectly competes with Microsoft. But MySQL is directly competing with Oracle.
I don't personally believe you're correct on either account.
Have you ever actually tried converting a MySQL app (written by any Joe-Schmoe) to either MSQL or Oracle? It's a damn near Herculean effort. MySQL is so non-standard WRT the rest of the SQL world most orgs would consider it not worth their time.
A complete re-write is in most cases necessary. On the other hand, Any other reasonably SQL compliant DB wuld be at least doable. Granted, there are always going to be optimizations, but standard SQL gets you a fair bit along the way. Something the MySQL lacks. Really.
I don't know how MS did it, but I've never had a registry get corrupted.
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You've never installed more than one version of certain "enterprise database software", then. Damn near impossible. Or how about when you do get multiple homes working (there's the givaway) you find out you need different ODBC drivers for each different home. That will mess badly with the registry.
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AFAIK, AMD doesn't have much mindshare in the moneymaking enterprise market (although to be fair they are trying to push that at the moment)
Actually, I think Enterprise marketshare, particulary in the 64bit arena, is quite strong. I know we're replacing all our older HPs and Dells with Opterons from HP.
If the device is networked, there's no reason you can't get news content now. I haven't seen much from US news networks, but BBC and RAI (in Italy) offer streaming news. The only cost involved is your connection. But this is probably more along the lines of IPTV.
If you're resourceful enough, you can always capture the stream to your hard drive for later viewing. MPlayer handles that nicely.
The US created the internet. The EU and others jumped on later. Now they want to control it. Typical. We should have only allowed english on the net, ensuring that people could actually use it to communicate
This is such an ignorant way to look at it. Do you know why the internet was created? It certainly isn't being used today in the manner it was designed. But that's OK by me. It allows me to *gasp* consume things from other countries with little to no hassle. I also have gotten a substantial number of clients in other countries using the internet. And likewise people in other countries can do the same.
Like it or not, we need to do business with people all over the planet.
Also consider that the U.S. (or any other industrialized country, for that matter) has a rather sizeable population that still maintains some sort of family relationship(s) from all over the world. Suddenly it's not so easy to keep in touch with overseas family members. Unless you want to go back to expensive telephone calls.
But then again I'm a Mac person, and I value things that just work.
This is off-topic, but... Macs are great, provided you do what Apple says you can do with them. The second you go outside the Mac "norm" you'll run into just as many problems as you would on Windows or Linux. Or BSD. Or Solaris.
Didn't really miss the point. Perhaps you missed mine though: Dell (the company we're talking about) doesn't sell in retail stores. Hence the people that buy them might actualy take advantage of the offering.
If they pre-loaded a bunch of them with Linux in a few months they'd be sitting in the far corner of the store collecting dust next to all the Apple stuff.
What store would that be? I've never seen any Dells for sale in any retail store.
There are several huge gaps in the Linux APIs for stuff such as heavy professional audio and video applications.
I'm curious as to what you believe to be missing as far as APIs go. They're there. That you believe noone has taken advantage of them is another matter, I suppose.
Have you actually installed a modern Linux distro lately? They fair better than Win XP in most cases when it comes to hardware. Really. Check out the latest releases from SUSE or Ubuntu. They both do a pretty incredible job at detecting and configuring recent hardware.
I'm waiting for the day when I can change my colour scheme without changing the theme...
Oh good grief. It's dead easy to change the color scheme in gnome. Go to gnome control center, then theme. All themes have the same color scheme choices.
You get at least as many, if not more, color choices per theme than you do with Windows.
I can't imagine VOIP over 802.11x. It brings new meaning to, "Can you hear me now?"
Actually, G.711u (or "a" for that matter) only use 64k, so, unless you're running torrents all the time, you shouldn't have a problem. It's the up speed that really counts, not so much the down speed.
I have a "first generation" WiFi VoIP hpone - the WiSIP that is great at home, but fairly useless anywhere else. Why? Most public access points want a userid/password to get on their network. There no way to enter that info from the phone itself.
Maybe this next gen phone has a way. The article didn't mention.
But for home wireless usage, absolutely. Quality is great.
Actually, if you llook at most of the apps mentioned in the article, they all use MySQL and Apache, where applicable.
There's never really been a shortage of MySQL/Apache apps out there, at least in the last few years.
Now if only we had as much enthusiasm for PostgreSQL/Apache. There's SQL-Ledger and Mambo that come to mind, but nowhere near the number of apps for PostgreSQL as there are for MySQL.
If by Windows intergration, you mean PDC and Active Directory authentication, then you are correct. A trial version of Crossover Ofice, however, is included in all their product line, which should let you at least try whatever Win pgms you need.
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I don't personally believe you're correct on either account.
Have you ever actually tried converting a MySQL app (written by any Joe-Schmoe) to either MSQL or Oracle? It's a damn near Herculean effort. MySQL is so non-standard WRT the rest of the SQL world most orgs would consider it not worth their time.
A complete re-write is in most cases necessary. On the other hand, Any other reasonably SQL compliant DB wuld be at least doable. Granted, there are always going to be optimizations, but standard SQL gets you a fair bit along the way. Something the MySQL lacks. Really.
What's with the back-ticks anyway?
I honestly don't know anyone who could actually say that with a straight face.
Actually, I think Enterprise marketshare, particulary in the 64bit arena, is quite strong. I know we're replacing all our older HPs and Dells with Opterons from HP.
If you're resourceful enough, you can always capture the stream to your hard drive for later viewing. MPlayer handles that nicely.
This is such an ignorant way to look at it. Do you know why the internet was created? It certainly isn't being used today in the manner it was designed. But that's OK by me. It allows me to *gasp* consume things from other countries with little to no hassle. I also have gotten a substantial number of clients in other countries using the internet. And likewise people in other countries can do the same.
Like it or not, we need to do business with people all over the planet.
Also consider that the U.S. (or any other industrialized country, for that matter) has a rather sizeable population that still maintains some sort of family relationship(s) from all over the world. Suddenly it's not so easy to keep in touch with overseas family members. Unless you want to go back to expensive telephone calls.
I'd be interested to know whether the state of NY actually increased its sales tax accordingly.
This is off-topic, but... Macs are great, provided you do what Apple says you can do with them. The second you go outside the Mac "norm" you'll run into just as many problems as you would on Windows or Linux. Or BSD. Or Solaris.
You're confusing the RIAA with organizations such as ASCAP or BMI, among others that do the actual protecting.
Didn't really miss the point. Perhaps you missed mine though: Dell (the company we're talking about) doesn't sell in retail stores. Hence the people that buy them might actualy take advantage of the offering.
What store would that be? I've never seen any Dells for sale in any retail store.
Well, he did say terminals. Perhaps a complete power cycle was happening.
I'm curious as to what you believe to be missing as far as APIs go. They're there. That you believe noone has taken advantage of them is another matter, I suppose.
Have you actually installed a modern Linux distro lately? They fair better than Win XP in most cases when it comes to hardware. Really. Check out the latest releases from SUSE or Ubuntu. They both do a pretty incredible job at detecting and configuring recent hardware.
That would be your opinion.
Maybe you should take a look at what is selling in Asia, not just for the PDA market but for the smartphone market.
Linux has been ready for the PDA for quite a while.
Oh good grief. It's dead easy to change the color scheme in gnome. Go to gnome control center, then theme. All themes have the same color scheme choices.
You get at least as many, if not more, color choices per theme than you do with Windows.
His first reaction, having never used Solaris before? "Hey, this is kinda like Linux!"
Actually, G.711u (or "a" for that matter) only use 64k, so, unless you're running torrents all the time, you shouldn't have a problem. It's the up speed that really counts, not so much the down speed.
Maybe this next gen phone has a way. The article didn't mention.
But for home wireless usage, absolutely. Quality is great.
There's never really been a shortage of MySQL/Apache apps out there, at least in the last few years.
Now if only we had as much enthusiasm for PostgreSQL/Apache. There's SQL-Ledger and Mambo that come to mind, but nowhere near the number of apps for PostgreSQL as there are for MySQL.
If by Windows intergration, you mean PDC and Active Directory authentication, then you are correct. A trial version of Crossover Ofice, however, is included in all their product line, which should let you at least try whatever Win pgms you need.
Nonsense.
If it runs OS X it gets posted too!
In review, we love Linux and OS X.
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"Tapas el sol con un dedo".