Forgive me for singling out your report and making an example of it, but this is precisely what's wrong with the information about SCO. There are two types of analysis available--financial and technical--and it seems that never the twain shall meet. Most financial reports seem to acknowledge that SCO will profit enormously if it wins this case, but they make no comment on their chances of winning. Heck, I could sue IBM, too (and theoretically make huge profits), but my chances of winning are zero. Technical analysts on the other hand, allege that SCO's claims are specious, and seem to make their point quite convincingly. Unfortunately, this detailed analysis of the history of Unix and Linux is lost on most of the financial analysts. A more meaningful analysis of the company would include information about how much SCO stood to gain if it won its lawsuit *and* an in-depth discussion of its chances of winning. Your paper, for example, should have first cited more than Brian Skiba in its analysis of SCO's IP claims and secondly drawn some high-level conclusions about the validity of SCO's lawsuit.
I was going to make the same recommendation. I set up gallery as a module in PostNuke. I had some problems setting it up as the start page, but it looks like the problem's been corrected in the latest CVS version. (Read more here). I must say I'm impressed with both Gallery and PostNuke, and with a bit of instruction, a non-technical person should be able to administer a website built on a combination of the two.
My experience parallels yours. Although my exposure is limited and my evidence is anecdotal, I do believe Microsoft is losing mindshare. I would be interested in knowing whether anyone has more concrete evidence about whether this is in fact occurring.
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Hear, hear, brother (or sister). That's the real beauty of Linux--"free as in freedom." "Free as in beer" isn't bad either, though.
Forgive me for singling out your report and making an example of it, but this is precisely what's wrong with the information about SCO. There are two types of analysis available--financial and technical--and it seems that never the twain shall meet. Most financial reports seem to acknowledge that SCO will profit enormously if it wins this case, but they make no comment on their chances of winning. Heck, I could sue IBM, too (and theoretically make huge profits), but my chances of winning are zero. Technical analysts on the other hand, allege that SCO's claims are specious, and seem to make their point quite convincingly. Unfortunately, this detailed analysis of the history of Unix and Linux is lost on most of the financial analysts.
A more meaningful analysis of the company would include information about how much SCO stood to gain if it won its lawsuit *and* an in-depth discussion of its chances of winning. Your paper, for example, should have first cited more than Brian Skiba in its analysis of SCO's IP claims and secondly drawn some high-level conclusions about the validity of SCO's lawsuit.
I was going to make the same recommendation. I set up gallery as a module in PostNuke. I had some problems setting it up as the start page, but it looks like the problem's been corrected in the latest CVS version. (Read more here). I must say I'm impressed with both Gallery and PostNuke, and with a bit of instruction, a non-technical person should be able to administer a website built on a combination of the two.
My experience parallels yours. Although my exposure is limited and my evidence is anecdotal, I do believe Microsoft is losing mindshare. I would be interested in knowing whether anyone has more concrete evidence about whether this is in fact occurring.