So if Oracle buys BEA, does that set the scene for Oracle/BEA to buy SAP in two year's time?
Does this mean companies need to become an international monopoly in order to survive? Because something that was a mere buzzword for a long time finally shows some effect on the market: SOA.
There are basically three big companies that started marketing SOA and laying the foundation with some standards: Microsoft, IBM and BEA. And they had good reasons for that. Currently "enterprise software" is graced with vendor-lockins that make Microsoft look like innocent angels.
To do anything with SAP you need a SAP consultant that will milk you until you are dry like dust. Same for ECM systems. SOA might change that, because it allows systems like Sharepoint/Windows Workflow enter the market or allows the migration away from "heritage" applications.
So anything that isnt as huge as IBM or Microsoft (or maybe Google) are crushed between the offerings of those giant (the solutions of the huge companies have two big advantages: integration and network effects) and upcoming open source solutions like jBoss, Compiere and Alfresco. All this while their old vendor-lockin vanishes.
So yes, most company need to become part of an international monopoly to survive. Or go open source - but that would require to do a lot of restructuring in companies with a market cap bigger that 1B USD (hell, it took Sun seven years).
I'm happy with this decision, i planned to buy a new machine next year, but only if i could get it without Vista. http://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/refund
Good to hear. This is why i bought Quake4 even though as a casual gamer, I dont own the hardware that really gets the most out of it (Notebooks and Mac mini). What I would be interested in would be a versions of id software games that allow me to flag my interest in an continued effort on alternative platforms. Something like a "Quake Linux support limited edition". No additional garanties or limux support, maybe just something like a t-shirt or a poster. Call it donorware and let me vote with my money;-).
Well, "Microsoft Office" includes the "Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server". Thats not the same as Zimbra (the closest OSS product is Alfresco), but there are quite some overlaps.
I've been tempted to buy a Mac, but I game - and for the cost of a 17" Imac with pretty crappy video, I recently built a Core2 Quad 2.4ghz, 2gb ram, 500gb disk, Geforce 8800GTS, etc.
How about buying a mac mini for work and multimedia and the game system of your choice for gaming? Wouldnt be more expensive and is way more fun.
This "OpenXML" stunt is just a smokescreen covering Microsofts controlled retreat in the office format battle. It only needs to keep parties distracted until Microsoft has reclaimed the control over business content by means of vendor lockin v2.0 aka Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server.
What that data seems to projects is that FF may overtake IE6... whose numbers seem to be dropping mostly because of the people switching to IE7 . IE6/7 still has a comfortable lead over FF.
Doesnt matter because IE6 and IE7 are very different - webpages have to render correct in IE6, FF and IE7. Big win for standards.
But is there a famous face to associate with this golem? I don't know the name of their CEO, I don't know how he looks, and I'm not even sure he knows what they are doing on the Linux front. Some third-level R&D boss, maybe?
Neither Sun nor IBM are really important for the desktop. But an earlier post is right: Bring in Mark Shuttleworth.
Where will we get our schadenfreude after the SCO thing has been laughed out of court?
Novell - when they start the same thing all over again six months later...
Actually those names arent too bad (see the other posts). And compared to "Word" or "Access" they are really good - just try to google for help/advice on those...
Microsoft can be rather compared to Goebbels speech in the Berliner Sportpalast on 18. Februar 1943: "... Wäre die deutsche Wehrmacht nicht in der Lage, die Gefahr aus dem Osten zu brechen, so wäre damit das Reich und in kurzer Folge ganz Europa dem Bolschewismus verfallen...." "... The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. [...] Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works...."
The random-out-of-context-quote-game - isnt it always fun? I even brought along a Godwin!
You don't know what's going on You've been away for far too long You can't come back and think you are still mine You're out of touch, my baby My poor discarded baby I said, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
Well, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time I said, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time You are all left out Out of there without a doubt 'Cause baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
You thought you were a clever girl Giving up your social whirl But you can't come back and be the first in line, oh no You're obsolete my baby My poor old-fashioned baby I said baby, baby, baby you're out of time
Well, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time I said, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time Yes, you are left out Out of there without a doubt 'Cause baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
How is this different from having a Outlook Web Access on unencrypted http, sending mails without encryption, exchanging almost all documents via email - oh and let users forward their incoming messages to almost any email address, used by many employees to forward to their private address (on google, msn or yahoo)?
Aka the "situation normal, all fucked up" found in most companies?
Customer: XYZ doesnt work. Help me! Oracle: MySQLs XYZ is crap - you better buy a real DBMS. As a support customer we can offer you Oracle 10g Enterprise at a reasonable prize!
How many of you people making fun of the poor windows weenies whose machines are on botnets, are currently running your own mailservers at home on your dynamic broadband connection and would subsequently cause your ISP all sorts of grief if they suddenly blocked outbound port 25 ? There is absolutely nothing wrong with running a smtpserver on a dynamic broadband connection. Receiving mail on port 25 is not a problem. Sending mail directly from a dynamic broadband connection is not a problem either - and is blocked on the receiving side anyway, but that is a problem for the guy sending without relaying through the ISP because he is the one who is not getting rid of his mails.
There are only problems, if:
- The ISP mixes dynamic client IPs and mailserver IPs, which would be so dump that the ISP deserves the trouble.
- The box on the dynamic IP is an open relay. This is not the standard config on any distro or mailserver, and even the dumpest fanboy wont activate it by accident.
How did the old "version 2 or later" cause a problem then? All this does is restrict people from applying GPLv3 terms if they want to. It doesn't help anyone. Well, if MySQL should be usable with GPL2, the "or later clause" may cause problems. For example a GPLv3-only-licensed patch would force MySQL to the new license.
During the Boston Tea Party, the USA asserted its independence from Britain. It seems that some law makers have forgotten that independence works both ways.
Ehem, no.
The Boston Tea party was about taxes sneaked in as tariffs. Independance came a few years (and stupid british laws) later...
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There are basically three big companies that started marketing SOA and laying the foundation with some standards: Microsoft, IBM and BEA. And they had good reasons for that. Currently "enterprise software" is graced with vendor-lockins that make Microsoft look like innocent angels.
To do anything with SAP you need a SAP consultant that will milk you until you are dry like dust. Same for ECM systems. SOA might change that, because it allows systems like Sharepoint/Windows Workflow enter the market or allows the migration away from "heritage" applications.
So anything that isnt as huge as IBM or Microsoft (or maybe Google) are crushed between the offerings of those giant (the solutions of the huge companies have two big advantages: integration and network effects) and upcoming open source solutions like jBoss, Compiere and Alfresco. All this while their old vendor-lockin vanishes.
So yes, most company need to become part of an international monopoly to survive. Or go open source - but that would require to do a lot of restructuring in companies with a market cap bigger that 1B USD (hell, it took Sun seven years).
IANAL, YMMV and all that jazz.
Good to hear. This is why i bought Quake4 even though as a casual gamer, I dont own the hardware that really gets the most out of it (Notebooks and Mac mini). What I would be interested in would be a versions of id software games that allow me to flag my interest in an continued effort on alternative platforms. Something like a "Quake Linux support limited edition". No additional garanties or limux support, maybe just something like a t-shirt or a poster. Call it donorware and let me vote with my money ;-).
Well, "Microsoft Office" includes the "Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server". Thats not the same as Zimbra (the closest OSS product is Alfresco), but there are quite some overlaps.
see my answer above for those folks ...
Maintainance of a mac is easy. Maintainance of of a Wii, PS3 or XBox360 is an nonissue.
How about buying a mac mini for work and multimedia and the game system of your choice for gaming? Wouldnt be more expensive and is way more fun.
Yours,
Somebody happy with a mac mini and a wii... if you have no intention of using it. Get your money back! http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/refund
That means there's no OSS equivalent or competitor to Sharepoint?
http://www.alfresco.com/
http://www.nuxeo.com/en/
Yeah, that mails explains want Sharepoint is really for - and why it is part of the Office line.
This "OpenXML" stunt is just a smokescreen covering Microsofts controlled retreat in the office format battle. It only needs to keep parties distracted until Microsoft has reclaimed the control over business content by means of vendor lockin v2.0 aka Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server.
/ 2007/04/while_you_were.html
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/mia/?p=198
Doesnt matter because IE6 and IE7 are very different - webpages have to render correct in IE6, FF and IE7. Big win for standards.
Isnt it nice to be the squirrel with cement shoes when the 800 lbs. gorilla behind you starts to stumble?
But is there a famous face to associate with this golem? I don't know the name of their CEO, I don't know how he looks, and I'm not even sure he knows what they are doing on the Linux front. Some third-level R&D boss, maybe?
Neither Sun nor IBM are really important for the desktop. But an earlier post is right: Bring in Mark Shuttleworth.
Where will we get our schadenfreude after the SCO thing has been laughed out of court? ...
Novell - when they start the same thing all over again six months later
yeah, and start with the developers of the shiny new "PowerShell" ...
Actually those names arent too bad (see the other posts). And compared to "Word" or "Access" they are really good - just try to google for help/advice on those ...
Microsoft can be rather compared to Goebbels speech in the Berliner Sportpalast on 18. Februar 1943: ..." ..."
"... Wäre die deutsche Wehrmacht nicht in der Lage, die Gefahr aus dem Osten zu brechen, so wäre damit das Reich und in kurzer Folge ganz Europa dem Bolschewismus verfallen.
"... The way the license is written, if you use any open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open source. [...] Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works.
The random-out-of-context-quote-game - isnt it always fun? I even brought along a Godwin!
You don't know what's going on
You've been away for far too long
You can't come back and think you are still mine
You're out of touch, my baby
My poor discarded baby
I said, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
Well, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
I said, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
You are all left out
Out of there without a doubt
'Cause baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
You thought you were a clever girl
Giving up your social whirl
But you can't come back and be the first in line, oh no
You're obsolete my baby
My poor old-fashioned baby
I said baby, baby, baby you're out of time
Well, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
I said, baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
Yes, you are left out
Out of there without a doubt
'Cause baby, baby, baby, you're out of time
I said, baby, baby, you're out of time
How is this different from having a Outlook Web Access on unencrypted http, sending mails without encryption, exchanging almost all documents via email - oh and let users forward their incoming messages to almost any email address, used by many employees to forward to their private address (on google, msn or yahoo)?
Aka the "situation normal, all fucked up" found in most companies?
Customer: XYZ doesnt work. Help me!
Oracle: MySQLs XYZ is crap - you better buy a real DBMS. As a support customer we can offer you Oracle 10g Enterprise at a reasonable prize!
There are only problems, if:
- The ISP mixes dynamic client IPs and mailserver IPs, which would be so dump that the ISP deserves the trouble.
- The box on the dynamic IP is an open relay. This is not the standard config on any distro or mailserver, and even the dumpest fanboy wont activate it by accident.
During the Boston Tea Party, the USA asserted its independence from Britain. It seems that some law makers have forgotten that independence works both ways. ...
Ehem, no.
The Boston Tea party was about taxes sneaked in as tariffs. Independance came a few years (and stupid british laws) later
If the rumour is truee, I hope AMD care about open drivers..
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well corporations are shizophrenic, but: http://www.amd-jobs.de/de/einstieg/freiestellen_o