Per CPU cycle you may be correct, but there are many other power consumers in a computer: fans and hard drives come to mind. There might be more seeking on the drives with VMs, but there won't be more spinning. Fan speed would probably increase, but not require n times the number of fans.
Apparently they do care, or they'd be using generated power for the pools as well. Or, would it better to use solar for the necessities and generated for the luxuries. Sure, ideally it'd all be solar or otherwise "green", but your statements are contradictory. They *are* doing something about their consumption.
And how much business have you given Microsoft relating to your Win 98 laptop? I don't think that they don't want your business, I'd say they don't want to spend money where they're not getting any business.
I think current computers are irrelevant to the Vista rollout. Anybody know how many people actually run out and buy an upgraded OS? I expect that the push to Vista will be with new computers, so that's where Microsoft's main Vista sales will come from.
"Linux is a hard OS to administer without training. It's not something you can just dive into, and a lot of admins get it shoved on them because upper management decides on a software package that requires it. The result? Downtime because the admin is unfamiliar with Linux and doesn't know where to find the answers."
Substitute "Linux" with *any* other OS and the statement remains true. These surveys aren't very meaningful because it's hard to get truly equal input from all sides. You'd need to include experienced Linux admins who also run Windows.
Also, your experience at your last job directly contradicts the study- RHEL was up much more than Windows. This might have changed, for better or worse, if the same type of regular maintenance was performed on it as was done on Windows.
You're right, but for the wrong reason. There's far too much use of "should" in this and similar threads.
In a free and open market, each person has the same chance to pay a price that they're willing to pay for a product. Likewise, each seller has the same chance to sell their product at a price that's satisfactory to them.
If someone wants a DVD for $1.50, then they shoule (there's that word again) be able to go to China and get one. Here in the US, thankfully, the seller can charge what the market will bear. As soon as the market doesn't bear $20 per DVD, the price will fall.
There are probably too many regulations on free trade here as it is, but fortunately the government isn't getting into every industry and setting prices. Imagine a law that *every* camera store in the nation must set the same price for a given model. No competition allowed.
The price for a product *should* be what a) the seller is willing to take and b) the consumer is willing to pay.
"They SO had it with NWadmin."
I'd say they had it better with NetAdmin. I had so much trouble with NWadmin snapins that I felt like I was being penalized by Novell for using many of their products. If you stick with NW and *maybe* GW, it was ok. Throw in NDS4NT, BorderManger, Zenworks, Managewise and you're lucky if NWAdmin even runs.
"...appease the Windows people by being able to administer the server from the server."
Imagine that. Managing a server from the server. What a concept! I'll have to see if that can be done on Linux, Solaris, AS400 and OSX servers. I never thought of that.
Seriously, the implementation of the server GUI was terrible, mostly because C1 on the server couldn't admin everything that C1 on the PC could do. Java "run anywhere"? I don't think so.
I think the NW's inability to be managed at the server was a symptom of a greater problem. Novell forced us to buy products from their competitor in order to use NW. Imaging going to a Chevy dealer to buy a car, only to find it comes with no seats. "You'll have to buy those from the Ford dealer down the street", they say, "and make sure you get one that fits your Chevy". When you get to the Ford dealer, you find out that they not only sell seats, they sell whole cars with the compatible seats installed.
The parent is correct. "Mission critical" is something that will cause severe damage to the business if it should fail. Of course, the definition of "severe" may be open to interpretation.
Having worked for several years for a stock brokerage and clearing firm, I remember the difference between "mission critical" systems (NASDAQ, TDW) and "non-mission critical" (email, file & print, web).
For Amazon.com, web servers are mission-critical. For IBM, I suspect not as an outage probably won't translate directly to a severe loss of revenue and reputation. As your last paragraph states, the term is often used to simply mean "important". I've heard corporate e-mail called "mission critical", simply because the CEO would get upset if it didn't work. This is incorrect usage, but doesn't change the meaning of the term.
"To be sure it isn't a rapidly growing market but it isn't shrinking so fast either"
It is shrinking. There are few, if any, shops converting to NetWare from another NOS, but there are a lot moving away. The only increases are likely to be within organizations which alreary have NetWare and need to expand.
"with the latest Netware you can run either the Netware or SuSE kernel"
That's OES that people are talking about. Novell can change it's name to NetWare if they like, but when discussing R&D and product lines, remember NetWare is a different animal than Linux.
"My guess is that eventually Netware will ship with a Linux core by default but a number of people will continue to buy it for all the value add features."
Exactly. Then, you have an OS with all the good parts of NetWare and without all the technical shortcomings.
"Novell simply can't move out of Netware quickly, many infrastructure systems rely on it"
True, and they should continue to provide paid support for some time, but that doesn't mean that they need to devote R&D resources to improving NetWare. Leverage those resources to getting Linux (OES) up to speed so it can be a drop-in replacement for NW. I don't expect support for Win95 these days, and at some point I won't expect it for NetWare.
"IBM made a huge mistake in abandoning OS/2"
Unless that line was losing money, as I suspect it was at the end.
Yes, personally. I've experimented with OO since it was StarOffice 5, and used it exclusively on my laptop since 1.1.0 or so.
My only real gripe is load time. It's better on Windows, only due to the quickstarter. On Linux you can go grab a cup of coffee while it's loading the document that you clicked.
Once it's loaded, it works just fine.
I'm currently playing with 2.0 beta, especially Base. It looks like a good start, but crashes regularly.
I gather that the poster is an employee and isn't allowed to park in the customer lot. Still, it's bs. But if he's just a member of the public, that private guard's ticket isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Are you sending documents for a business purpose, or for fun? You need to ensure that the recipient can read the doc, and sending it in a little-used format doesn't help.
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"and you are responsible in part"... Being a stockholder is akin to being a limited partner, not a general one.
Per CPU cycle you may be correct, but there are many other power consumers in a computer: fans and hard drives come to mind. There might be more seeking on the drives with VMs, but there won't be more spinning. Fan speed would probably increase, but not require n times the number of fans.
Apparently they do care, or they'd be using generated power for the pools as well. Or, would it better to use solar for the necessities and generated for the luxuries. Sure, ideally it'd all be solar or otherwise "green", but your statements are contradictory. They *are* doing something about their consumption.
And how much business have you given Microsoft relating to your Win 98 laptop? I don't think that they don't want your business, I'd say they don't want to spend money where they're not getting any business.
I think current computers are irrelevant to the Vista rollout. Anybody know how many people actually run out and buy an upgraded OS? I expect that the push to Vista will be with new computers, so that's where Microsoft's main Vista sales will come from.
Great. Then we'll have eminent domain for intellectual as well as physical property. That'll encourage the inventors.
"Linux is a hard OS to administer without training. It's not something you can just dive into, and a lot of admins get it shoved on them because upper management decides on a software package that requires it. The result? Downtime because the admin is unfamiliar with Linux and doesn't know where to find the answers." Substitute "Linux" with *any* other OS and the statement remains true. These surveys aren't very meaningful because it's hard to get truly equal input from all sides. You'd need to include experienced Linux admins who also run Windows. Also, your experience at your last job directly contradicts the study- RHEL was up much more than Windows. This might have changed, for better or worse, if the same type of regular maintenance was performed on it as was done on Windows.
You're right, but for the wrong reason. There's far too much use of "should" in this and similar threads.
In a free and open market, each person has the same chance to pay a price that they're willing to pay for a product. Likewise, each seller has the same chance to sell their product at a price that's satisfactory to them.
If someone wants a DVD for $1.50, then they shoule (there's that word again) be able to go to China and get one. Here in the US, thankfully, the seller can charge what the market will bear. As soon as the market doesn't bear $20 per DVD, the price will fall.
There are probably too many regulations on free trade here as it is, but fortunately the government isn't getting into every industry and setting prices. Imagine a law that *every* camera store in the nation must set the same price for a given model. No competition allowed.
The price for a product *should* be what a) the seller is willing to take and b) the consumer is willing to pay.
"They SO had it with NWadmin." I'd say they had it better with NetAdmin. I had so much trouble with NWadmin snapins that I felt like I was being penalized by Novell for using many of their products. If you stick with NW and *maybe* GW, it was ok. Throw in NDS4NT, BorderManger, Zenworks, Managewise and you're lucky if NWAdmin even runs. "...appease the Windows people by being able to administer the server from the server." Imagine that. Managing a server from the server. What a concept! I'll have to see if that can be done on Linux, Solaris, AS400 and OSX servers. I never thought of that. Seriously, the implementation of the server GUI was terrible, mostly because C1 on the server couldn't admin everything that C1 on the PC could do. Java "run anywhere"? I don't think so. I think the NW's inability to be managed at the server was a symptom of a greater problem. Novell forced us to buy products from their competitor in order to use NW. Imaging going to a Chevy dealer to buy a car, only to find it comes with no seats. "You'll have to buy those from the Ford dealer down the street", they say, "and make sure you get one that fits your Chevy". When you get to the Ford dealer, you find out that they not only sell seats, they sell whole cars with the compatible seats installed.
The parent is correct. "Mission critical" is something that will cause severe damage to the business if it should fail. Of course, the definition of "severe" may be open to interpretation. Having worked for several years for a stock brokerage and clearing firm, I remember the difference between "mission critical" systems (NASDAQ, TDW) and "non-mission critical" (email, file & print, web). For Amazon.com, web servers are mission-critical. For IBM, I suspect not as an outage probably won't translate directly to a severe loss of revenue and reputation. As your last paragraph states, the term is often used to simply mean "important". I've heard corporate e-mail called "mission critical", simply because the CEO would get upset if it didn't work. This is incorrect usage, but doesn't change the meaning of the term.
If I sold it at a gain, I'd be perfectly happy.
They didn't when they owned Netscape, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
"To be sure it isn't a rapidly growing market but it isn't shrinking so fast either"
It is shrinking. There are few, if any, shops converting to NetWare from another NOS, but there are a lot moving away. The only increases are likely to be within organizations which alreary have NetWare and need to expand.
"with the latest Netware you can run either the Netware or SuSE kernel"
That's OES that people are talking about. Novell can change it's name to NetWare if they like, but when discussing R&D and product lines, remember NetWare is a different animal than Linux.
"My guess is that eventually Netware will ship with a Linux core by default but a number of people will continue to buy it for all the value add features."
Exactly. Then, you have an OS with all the good parts of NetWare and without all the technical shortcomings.
"Novell simply can't move out of Netware quickly, many infrastructure systems rely on it"
True, and they should continue to provide paid support for some time, but that doesn't mean that they need to devote R&D resources to improving NetWare. Leverage those resources to getting Linux (OES) up to speed so it can be a drop-in replacement for NW. I don't expect support for Win95 these days, and at some point I won't expect it for NetWare.
"IBM made a huge mistake in abandoning OS/2"
Unless that line was losing money, as I suspect it was at the end.
Yes, personally. I've experimented with OO since it was StarOffice 5, and used it exclusively on my laptop since 1.1.0 or so. My only real gripe is load time. It's better on Windows, only due to the quickstarter. On Linux you can go grab a cup of coffee while it's loading the document that you clicked. Once it's loaded, it works just fine. I'm currently playing with 2.0 beta, especially Base. It looks like a good start, but crashes regularly.
I gather that the poster is an employee and isn't allowed to park in the customer lot. Still, it's bs. But if he's just a member of the public, that private guard's ticket isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Are you sending documents for a business purpose, or for fun? You need to ensure that the recipient can read the doc, and sending it in a little-used format doesn't help.
Send it as PDF if you must.