It's because there aren't enough personal users around to pay for their costs.
Possibly, but personal users have NEVER been the ones to pay for costs. It's always been the corporate users. So, keeping support around for all users, personal or corporate should have at least been put on the table for consideration. MS even does per incident support for Regular Joe users, fergodssakes. The difference now is Regular Joe user is now going to pay $179 for his OS, instead of $49 to get the same level of support.
They are assuming that enterprise will simply fork over more and more money but they may not enjoy the same rooted admin and developer support as they did in the beginning (even with their many screw-ups). This effect may not show in the short term but will definitely be a factor after some time.
I manage a small 16 node cluster where I work which currently has RH7.3 installed. You can bet I'm looking at other distros right now. There's NO way we're going to pay the support costs RH is trying to get for all our nodes. I'm quite sure I'm not alone in looking to dump RH because of this. Luckily, there are at least two other distros that will work for us without much hassle (Mandrake and SuSE). I know Mandrake offers reasonable support, either per incident or corproate and checking out SuSE's home page I see that they offer a lot of support even in their basic support package (including third party apps - Oracle, DB2, Lotus Notes, etc).
As I'm sure has been noted elsewhere, just because it's on someone's resume doesn't mean they're an expert. We just hired a (primarily Windows) guy, who, in his interview praised Linux up and down and all about how he was going for his RHCE. All fine and good, but (and this is why they pulled me into the interview process) calling him on some of his priases we found out fairly quick that it's just a bullet item on his resume. At this point, it's not a problem, since he's being hired as a Windows person.
My point I guess is people put buzzwords and hot techs on their resume to get through the filtering process. We've all done it at some point in our careers.
The company I was working for in 1999-2000 rode this excuse BIG time to populate the place with new machines, big and small.
I suspect many other companies did the same.
'Make money over the internet by accepting ads in your email!!!'.
Sorry, but all that's going to do is create another way to propogate your email address out to yet more spammers, while doing nothing to reduce traffic.
I know there are those that say we've got more badwidth than we need, but frankly, just becuase the bandwidth is there, do we have to saturate it?
Do you honestly think MS is threatened by Apple? I mean, really? When was the last time you saw medium-to-large businesses considering the switch? On the desktop? How about in the server room? Now, for home users, you may have a valid point, but not for businesses.
I really think this (or something like it) will come to Linux. I use CrossOver Office (and Plugin) from time to time, but much less so than I used to. I originally got it to run Office apps (and occasionally IE because of the way we have an Oracle web app coded). Not so any more. Now I'm much more comfortable with OpenOffice 1.1 (and love that I can export to PDF). And mozilla 1.4 now does everytnig I need it to. No more inconsistencies to worry about, not to mention the added benefits such as pop-up blocking that you don't get with IE.
My point, I guess, is that it probably won't be Dreamweaver, but eventually there will be something that will be quite usable.
I wonder what Codeweavers' business plan will be when everyone decides they don't need Office or Photoshop.
Really. Please point us to a link or something that talks about IBM's own distro. I'm sincerely interested (but, likewise, sincerely think you're misinformed).
IBM doesn't compete with RedHat. Where'd you get that idea? I have and IBM X series cluster that I administer and theY LOADED RedHat for me.
As far as I know, IBM does not, nor has ever had, their own distribution.
Market - as in doing business in the same arena (the server/enterprise OS market in this example) SuSE and Red Hat are certainely competitors there.
In the US, at least, SuSE and RH are most definitely NOT in the same market. When it comes to marketing toward businesses and enterprise, RH pretty much owns the market. You don't find ads (or anything else, for that matter) from SuSE targeting businesses. SuSE is, however, quite popular outside that market. I don't know about Europe, but I suspect that the positions are reversed there, with SuSE having the lead.
You really have to keep in mind how 'patching' differs between the two systems. When one program in Windows has a vulnerability and is patched, the patch probably includes 'fixed' versions of libraries that are most likely shared among more than one program. Hence the possibility of breaking another program/utility. This usually doesn't happen in Linux. When a patch is issued for a pgm running on Linux (and, let's face it, ALL the vulerabilities listed for any of the Linux distros are for programs, not the kernel), it only affects the vulnerable pgm, not the OS as a whole. So, yeah, you'll probably see more vulnerabilities for Linux, but they are for individual programs that can usually be excluded altogether from an OS install. Raw numbers really mean nothing here.
Tapes are still here, and will be here for archival purposes for a long time to come. No enterprise class business or Data Center is going to back up to ATA-only.
Agreed, tapes will be around for some time, but do you seriously think businesses are using IDE drives for anything, other than on desktops? Any serious data center is going to be using SCSI with RAID, or some sort of NAS/SAN (also SCSI/Fiber).
I expect sales will climb for Mac users, but not for Windows users. I had a chance to load the software on a Win machine here at work, and it's crap. All sorts of problems logging in to the store (although radio worked). I expect Windows users will remain separated as usual from Mac users.
I would consider him reformed when there is actual proof that steps have been taken to reform his behaviour, either court ordered or otherwise. Are you going to just blindly accept his words - saying 'I don't/won't do that anymore'? In my opinion, once you've done crime or otherwise acted as a criminal, I will look at you as such until you are proven to be otherwise.
Sorry. That's just the way I operate.
The financial drain is in great part Sun's own fault. They could have given standards control over to ISO, instead of fighting it tooth and nail.
They could have also considered open-sourcing it. Bottom line, they could have done something about it if they really wanted to save some money.
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Possibly, but personal users have NEVER been the ones to pay for costs. It's always been the corporate users. So, keeping support around for all users, personal or corporate should have at least been put on the table for consideration. MS even does per incident support for Regular Joe users, fergodssakes. The difference now is Regular Joe user is now going to pay $179 for his OS, instead of $49 to get the same level of support.
They are assuming that enterprise will simply fork over more and more money but they may not enjoy the same rooted admin and developer support as they did in the beginning (even with their many screw-ups). This effect may not show in the short term but will definitely be a factor after some time.
I manage a small 16 node cluster where I work which currently has RH7.3 installed. You can bet I'm looking at other distros right now. There's NO way we're going to pay the support costs RH is trying to get for all our nodes. I'm quite sure I'm not alone in looking to dump RH because of this. Luckily, there are at least two other distros that will work for us without much hassle (Mandrake and SuSE). I know Mandrake offers reasonable support, either per incident or corproate and checking out SuSE's home page I see that they offer a lot of support even in their basic support package (including third party apps - Oracle, DB2, Lotus Notes, etc).
Isn't Suse privately owned? If so, I doubt very much any EU body can do anything to prevent it.
Not always true. Otherwise we'd all still be listening to audio in realaudio format.
As I'm sure has been noted elsewhere, just because it's on someone's resume doesn't mean they're an expert. We just hired a (primarily Windows) guy, who, in his interview praised Linux up and down and all about how he was going for his RHCE. All fine and good, but (and this is why they pulled me into the interview process) calling him on some of his priases we found out fairly quick that it's just a bullet item on his resume. At this point, it's not a problem, since he's being hired as a Windows person. My point I guess is people put buzzwords and hot techs on their resume to get through the filtering process. We've all done it at some point in our careers.
The company I was working for in 1999-2000 rode this excuse BIG time to populate the place with new machines, big and small. I suspect many other companies did the same.
It's because you called SF 'Frisco'. We automatically overcharge people that refer to our town as 'Frisco' *shudder*.
Invoices. Plain and simple, some things you just don't want to send out that can be altered by anyone.
We often use 'strong' words to convey basic likes/dislikes. Don't get so worked up over it. Me personally? I love OpenOffice.
And Pizza.
'Make money over the internet by accepting ads in your email!!!'.
Sorry, but all that's going to do is create another way to propogate your email address out to yet more spammers, while doing nothing to reduce traffic.
I know there are those that say we've got more badwidth than we need, but frankly, just becuase the bandwidth is there, do we have to saturate it?
Who the hell modded this as INFORMATIVE?!?
Drunken fools.
They look really nice, but very difficult to find in the US (Europe is the primary target for sales).
Do you honestly think MS is threatened by Apple? I mean, really? When was the last time you saw medium-to-large businesses considering the switch? On the desktop? How about in the server room? Now, for home users, you may have a valid point, but not for businesses.
I really think this (or something like it) will come to Linux. I use CrossOver Office (and Plugin) from time to time, but much less so than I used to. I originally got it to run Office apps (and occasionally IE because of the way we have an Oracle web app coded). Not so any more. Now I'm much more comfortable with OpenOffice 1.1 (and love that I can export to PDF). And mozilla 1.4 now does everytnig I need it to. No more inconsistencies to worry about, not to mention the added benefits such as pop-up blocking that you don't get with IE. My point, I guess, is that it probably won't be Dreamweaver, but eventually there will be something that will be quite usable. I wonder what Codeweavers' business plan will be when everyone decides they don't need Office or Photoshop.
Really. Please point us to a link or something that talks about IBM's own distro. I'm sincerely interested (but, likewise, sincerely think you're misinformed).
IBM doesn't compete with RedHat. Where'd you get that idea? I have and IBM X series cluster that I administer and theY LOADED RedHat for me. As far as I know, IBM does not, nor has ever had, their own distribution.
In the US, at least, SuSE and RH are most definitely NOT in the same market. When it comes to marketing toward businesses and enterprise, RH pretty much owns the market. You don't find ads (or anything else, for that matter) from SuSE targeting businesses. SuSE is, however, quite popular outside that market. I don't know about Europe, but I suspect that the positions are reversed there, with SuSE having the lead.
Probably because the article itself rightly criticizes him.
Pity it doesn't run on anything but Apple hardware.
It out to, considering what they're charging.
You really have to keep in mind how 'patching' differs between the two systems. When one program in Windows has a vulnerability and is patched, the patch probably includes 'fixed' versions of libraries that are most likely shared among more than one program. Hence the possibility of breaking another program/utility. This usually doesn't happen in Linux. When a patch is issued for a pgm running on Linux (and, let's face it, ALL the vulerabilities listed for any of the Linux distros are for programs, not the kernel), it only affects the vulnerable pgm, not the OS as a whole. So, yeah, you'll probably see more vulnerabilities for Linux, but they are for individual programs that can usually be excluded altogether from an OS install. Raw numbers really mean nothing here.
I expect sales will climb for Mac users, but not for Windows users. I had a chance to load the software on a Win machine here at work, and it's crap. All sorts of problems logging in to the store (although radio worked). I expect Windows users will remain separated as usual from Mac users.
I would consider him reformed when there is actual proof that steps have been taken to reform his behaviour, either court ordered or otherwise. Are you going to just blindly accept his words - saying 'I don't/won't do that anymore'? In my opinion, once you've done crime or otherwise acted as a criminal, I will look at you as such until you are proven to be otherwise.
Sorry. That's just the way I operate.
The financial drain is in great part Sun's own fault. They could have given standards control over to ISO, instead of fighting it tooth and nail. They could have also considered open-sourcing it. Bottom line, they could have done something about it if they really wanted to save some money.