I work for a major international bank, in application testing and deployment. At the moment 99.9% of our new computers run XP and still come with an XP licence. We have a number of Vista test machines but that's about it. As far as I know most of the banking industry has not moved to Vista, and is probably a long way from being ready to make the move. My GF works for a large law firm (2500 staff across the UK) and again, their platform is XP and will be for some time.
Just who is buying Vista?
We all have to vote here, so any problem you have with your own reality is entirely your problem.
Actually with Australia's unique political system most people end up voting for the party they hate the least, and people moving to Australia from other democratic countries often find the Australian system somewhat undemocratic.
In Australia all adults are required to vote. Australia uses the Single Transferable Vote system, and a candidate needs to get 50% of the vote to be elected. Using this voting sytstem, combined with no proportional representation in the lower house means the 2 party system is very entrenched.
To make matters even more interesting, once elected there is no way for voters to force an issue. There is no system of forcing issues to referendums and for decades people have grown used to this. Ideas such as proportional representation, coalitions forced to work together to govern, smaller parties being elected etc are not only unheard of in Australia, most people don't care as they tend to think this is how politics should work.
I have been trying to update the picture that google images has of me, but for at elast 8 month google will index the html page and ignore the image. This is a new image, with new name etc.
I spent 5 years working at a University in Australia. Zenworks ran most of the student labs there.
I have now moved to a University in London. Netware runs on many of most of our servers and Zenworks is used as well. In my experience Unis tend to run a mix of Unix/Linux and Netware.
"The Longhorn Client is the beginning of a product and technology wave that will define the Digital Decade."
Oh yeah. This is really going to define the Digital Decade. Lets see, if we assume the digital decade is 2000-2010 and Longhorn ships in 2006 or 2007 thats not really a decade is it?
Or will the Digital Decade be "defined" by DRM, content control, Microsoft only software etc?
Depends on the profit Sun want from it. If they raise their price to M$ levels then they might make a lot, but I doubt would people buy it at a high price.
Sun could spend some cash advertising their office products and see if that generates sales however the cost will probably be greater than the profits.
What they could do is give Star Office away, and use that to put the Sun logo on desktops around the world. That might improve their profile in the non IT world.
While I am glad to see he has finally gone I'm not sure what real effect it will have. Alston was by far the worst ever Alston communications minister Australia has ever had but his party did not seem to care. As long as they can sell Telstra off they will remain happy.
Assuming that the lib's do lose the next election it would take the new government some years to fix the damage caused by Alston.
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I work for a major international bank, in application testing and deployment. At the moment 99.9% of our new computers run XP and still come with an XP licence. We have a number of Vista test machines but that's about it. As far as I know most of the banking industry has not moved to Vista, and is probably a long way from being ready to make the move. My GF works for a large law firm (2500 staff across the UK) and again, their platform is XP and will be for some time. Just who is buying Vista?
In Australia all adults are required to vote. Australia uses the Single Transferable Vote system, and a candidate needs to get 50% of the vote to be elected. Using this voting sytstem, combined with no proportional representation in the lower house means the 2 party system is very entrenched.
To make matters even more interesting, once elected there is no way for voters to force an issue. There is no system of forcing issues to referendums and for decades people have grown used to this. Ideas such as proportional representation, coalitions forced to work together to govern, smaller parties being elected etc are not only unheard of in Australia, most people don't care as they tend to think this is how politics should work.
And whats wrong with a guy using a vibe? DOnt be so narrow minded!
When faced with a situation where the only beer is fosters I would just not drink that day.
MIT building heights, Miles It's all the same to most of the planet. How about KM? or Metres?
I have been trying to update the picture that google images has of me, but for at elast 8 month google will index the html page and ignore the image. This is a new image, with new name etc.
And I for one welcome our new dirigible flying overlords
I spent 5 years working at a University in Australia. Zenworks ran most of the student labs there. I have now moved to a University in London. Netware runs on many of most of our servers and Zenworks is used as well. In my experience Unis tend to run a mix of Unix/Linux and Netware.
"The Longhorn Client is the beginning of a product and technology wave that will define the Digital Decade."
Oh yeah. This is really going to define the Digital Decade. Lets see, if we assume the digital decade is 2000-2010 and Longhorn ships in 2006 or 2007 thats not really a decade is it?
Or will the Digital Decade be "defined" by DRM, content control, Microsoft only software etc?
How well could Roberto Carlos curve it?
Depends on the profit Sun want from it. If they raise their price to M$ levels then they might make a lot, but I doubt would people buy it at a high price.
Sun could spend some cash advertising their office products and see if that generates sales however the cost will probably be greater than the profits.
What they could do is give Star Office away, and use that to put the Sun logo on desktops around the world. That might improve their profile in the non IT world.
While I am glad to see he has finally gone I'm not sure what real effect it will have. Alston was by far the worst ever Alston communications minister Australia has ever had but his party did not seem to care. As long as they can sell Telstra off they will remain happy. Assuming that the lib's do lose the next election it would take the new government some years to fix the damage caused by Alston.