In *your* corporate environment this might be true but not mine.
NT on the desktop, file/print servers and Exchange, Sun and HP in the datacentre (including the webservers).
From my contacts in other companies in my industry (Finance and Banking) we are not doing anything different than a large chunk of our industry.
And yes, Linux is starting to make inroads, but not because it is now expensive but because all costs have been more closely studied over the last few years.
"Personally I will never use a bank that uses Windows on its ATMs"
And how are you going to identify the ATM's are running Windows? And what are you going to do when *all* the major banks are using Windows? Hide your money under the mattress?
Microsoft are pushing banks hard to utilise Windows - a few people here and there chosing not to use the ATM's will not stop the steamroller (unfortunately).
I love SpamBayes and it is reasonably fast - I get about 100 spams a day.
My biggest hassle with it is that we use a lot of Outlook Forms in our organisation and a lot of times SpamBayes will stop with a dialog box saying that it can't open the form and stops parsing my inbox until I click ok. This can mean that I come in to work in the morning to find my inbox has not been parsed since a couple of minutes after I left the office the night before.
except financial organisations have a requirement to keep their back office data for up to 10 years. For a large organisation that is a lot of data and tape is the best way to store it for the long term.
I have been required to recall data from a specific month several years later for the auditors so you can't just fudge the requirement - you may well get asked for it at some point and there are significant penalties if you can't.
"If those phones have the capabilites that people are currently using PDAs for, then why not just ditch the PDA."
I'm still not ready for convergence since I have to travel between Europe, US and Japan where my phone doesn't work. I don't want to cart 2 phones around in those locations and my palm has better battery life than the phone.
It's not a significant increase in managment supervision. I work at a company that uses websense to manage Internet access for ~1000 brokers and IT staff. Works just fine and I seldom find a work related site blocked. Occasionally I hit a site which is blocked which doesn't deserve to be, but then, it's not work related so there is no obligation for the company to allow me access to it anyway. And it requires very little work to manage - a couple of people look after it amongst all their other tasks.
How many/.er's complain to their Congressperson or Senate representative when they see an example of Prior Art? It's all very well complaining that the Patent System is broken but if you don't (repeatedly) bring it to the attention of the Law Makers then nothing will change.
Even a letter to the editor of your local newspaper is better than nothing.
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NT on the desktop, file/print servers and Exchange, Sun and HP in the datacentre (including the webservers).
From my contacts in other companies in my industry (Finance and Banking) we are not doing anything different than a large chunk of our industry.
And yes, Linux is starting to make inroads, but not because it is now expensive but because all costs have been more closely studied over the last few years.
And how are you going to identify the ATM's are running Windows? And what are you going to do when *all* the major banks are using Windows? Hide your money under the mattress?
Microsoft are pushing banks hard to utilise Windows - a few people here and there chosing not to use the ATM's will not stop the steamroller (unfortunately).
My biggest hassle with it is that we use a lot of Outlook Forms in our organisation and a lot of times SpamBayes will stop with a dialog box saying that it can't open the form and stops parsing my inbox until I click ok. This can mean that I come in to work in the morning to find my inbox has not been parsed since a couple of minutes after I left the office the night before.
And if we have any geek cops reading /.
Reducting our reliance of oil, improving our efficency and reducing our polution levels are a process - it doesn't happen overnight.
Please remember that you are suppose to at least pretend to be intelligent.
I have been required to recall data from a specific month several years later for the auditors so you can't just fudge the requirement - you may well get asked for it at some point and there are significant penalties if you can't.
I'm still not ready for convergence since I have to travel between Europe, US and Japan where my phone doesn't work. I don't want to cart 2 phones around in those locations and my palm has better battery life than the phone.
I tend to think of it as Lookout since it seems to regularly do something non-intutitive.
Guess what, Oxygen kills too. Just because it is deadly in pure form does not mean that it doesn't have a benefit.
It's not a significant increase in managment supervision. I work at a company that uses websense to manage Internet access for ~1000 brokers and IT staff. Works just fine and I seldom find a work related site blocked. Occasionally I hit a site which is blocked which doesn't deserve to be, but then, it's not work related so there is no obligation for the company to allow me access to it anyway. And it requires very little work to manage - a couple of people look after it amongst all their other tasks.
the cellphone battery causes alarm because of the density it looks like explosives to the scanner.
Even a letter to the editor of your local newspaper is better than nothing.