1. There is definately alot more EMC storage running under enterprise class OSes than Microsoft. How do I know? Because I implement EMC hardware/software every day for our largest customers. 80% of my arrays attach to Solaris, HPUX, and AIX. On top of that, EMC has a bigger storage marketshare on those OSes than the OS vendor. That says alot. Our customers buy EMC not because of price, or space requirements. Our customers buy EMC because of its functionality and rock solid support.
2. Check this out. "EMC said the acquisition will play a key role in its strategy to lower customers' costs and simplify their operations by providing technology that enable organizations to dynamically configure and reconfigure their computer and storage environments with no downtime.
Upon completion of the acquisition, EMC expects to take a charge of approximately $15 million to $20 million in the first quarter of 2004 for the value of VMware's in-process research and development costs and other integration expenses. "
This says something to me.
EMC isnt buying this company to kill it for microsoft. EMC is buying this currently cash losing company because its products play into a larger strategy.
Now, think of this...........
A disaster recovery site is an expensive insurance policy. If I can integrate storage replication, and vmware, then i can build a virtual data center on a symmetrix and five X440's for about 1/100th the cost of a full remote disaster recovery site.
It's called VMotion. A project in joint development by EMC and VMWare for about a year, which was announced the same day as the acquisition.
Radio-based telephone technology was invented in Chicago (actually Schaumburg, the suburb of chicago) by Dr. Martin Cooper, of Motorola. The patent date was 9/16/1975
BTW...This is in the middle of the US.
We did have a lead...since we actually invented it. We just suffer from the oldest implemented cell network in the world. One effect of blazing trails with technology rollout, is that you don't get to standback and study competetion from an established industry, implementing the best solution.
I do not support Arafat. I do not support the use of terrorism (Real terrorism, not this thing in the US where EVERYTHING is terrorism). I think that both parties in the Middle-east are wrong, and need to stop acting like children with this tit-for-tat bullshit.
Arafat is documented as supporting the use of terrorism for his purposes. That much is certain. The problem is that the PLO is the only semi-credible goverment for it's people. The alternatives are Islamic Jihad, Fatah, Hezbollah, etc.. Additionally, until Israel stops killing people in refugee camps with American made Apaches, Tanks, F16s, and Caterpillar equipment, these people will never see the wrongs that have been commited them by Arafat and his regime.
While Israel in the past has be many orders of magnitude more peaceful than the Palestinians, Sharon and his group have thrown that away, and escalated violence, and insurgency by using the IDF with extreme prejudice to go after members of these movements. I do endorse this kind of actions, but not in the middle of a marketplace with women and children standing by. This is just as low as what the suicide bombers do, because they are non-discriminatory in their military operations.
As an american, I would think that if we went to Israel and said "We are cutting military aid, until you can come to a peaceful solution with the Palestinians" that we would have a peaceful solution rather quickly. Isreal has nuclear weapons, so I don't think we'd have to worry much about an invasion.
I could rant forever about this...but both sides are wrong. The US is wrong for not taking a more proactive role in this conflict as well.
I would usually be the first to jump on the bandwagon here, especially since the US Govt/Bureaucracy is notoriously stupid/slow/inefficient. However, I do know a few things.
1. Information which has military and security significance is not kept on Microsoft based computers. And before you go off and say that this VISA system contains top secret information, or whatever....first, this system isnt internet connected. Second, this worm was probably introduced via poor security practices. Third... BIG F*CKIN DEAL...so your cousin cant get his visa issued for a few days. Like I said, this is not a critical system, and they just send everyone back home, and new visas are able to be issued in a few days. If nothing else, we should be happy this happened, as it reiterates the security problems in Microsoft's OS. The high level thinkers here aren't idiots, far from it. Remember, the government employees you interact with on a daily basis aren't necessarily representative of the intellect on high.
2. There is a good general practice of not connecting these networks together. Not only that, but anyone slightly familiar with places like the NSA and CIA will tell you that there are separate networks for classified, secret, and top secret. Even when these computers all sit on the same desk, they are not allowed to move information between them, since there is theoretical possibility of data leakage.
3. Anything deemed secret or higher is run on things like virtual vault, trusted HPUX or Solaris. NSA has some stuff with Linux, but this isnt widespread yet.
Remember, the big thinkers in the Govt, arent in the fucking post office, VA, IRS, etc...
Geez people, do you think we got this far by being a nation of morons. Why do most wealthy foreign nationals send their kids here to the US to be educated?
Yes, you'd need to buy the licenses. Since this is a consolidation effort, the licenses are transferred from existing NT boxes. Most places doing this kind of consolidation effort are covered by an ELA anyway.
One of my clients, a large insurance firm in the New England area, is in the process of consolidating their NT environment onto VMWare ESX server, which is linux based. This is an IBM X440, running about 30 consolidated NT VMs. Since it's VMWare it can also run linux VMs. They are saving about 500k annually on this setup in associated costs for hardware/support/environmentals. This was a pilot, and they are going to be moving forward with more consolidation based on this.
This really isnt a new concept, most of us know of the IBM P-series, Sun E-10ks and 15ks, and the HP Superdome. All use virtualization in one form or another to provide this kind of setup. Z/series is kind of novel, because....hey...its a Mainframe.
So Microsoft has been declared a monopoly, by the way of their market penetration on the desktop. So they bundle the IM client in, which through the monopoly gains marketshare artificially. (Think IE) Then they close off the system to kill competetors (think proprietary extensions, and all the other crap in IE)
Is this legal? Yes. But I would think this would be something the DOJ would pick up on.
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Well two comments here.
1. There is definately alot more EMC storage running under enterprise class OSes than Microsoft. How do I know? Because I implement EMC hardware/software every day for our largest customers. 80% of my arrays attach to Solaris, HPUX, and AIX. On top of that, EMC has a bigger storage marketshare on those OSes than the OS vendor. That says alot. Our customers buy EMC not because of price, or space requirements. Our customers buy EMC because of its functionality and rock solid support.
2. Check this out.
"EMC said the acquisition will play a key role in its strategy to lower customers' costs and simplify their operations by providing technology that enable organizations to dynamically configure and reconfigure their computer and storage environments with no downtime.
Upon completion of the acquisition, EMC expects to take a charge of approximately $15 million to $20 million in the first quarter of 2004 for the value of VMware's in-process research and development costs and other integration expenses. "
This says something to me.
EMC isnt buying this company to kill it for microsoft. EMC is buying this currently cash losing company because its products play into a larger strategy.
Now, think of this...........
A disaster recovery site is an expensive insurance policy. If I can integrate storage replication, and vmware, then i can build a virtual data center on a symmetrix and five X440's for about 1/100th the cost of a full remote disaster recovery site.
It's called VMotion. A project in joint development by EMC and VMWare for about a year, which was announced the same day as the acquisition.
google it. it's a step toward virtual computing.
glad i own emc stock.
Radio-based telephone technology was invented in Chicago (actually Schaumburg, the suburb of chicago) by Dr. Martin Cooper, of Motorola. The patent date was 9/16/1975
BTW...This is in the middle of the US.
We did have a lead...since we actually invented it. We just suffer from the oldest implemented cell network in the world. One effect of blazing trails with technology rollout, is that you don't get to standback and study competetion from an established industry, implementing the best solution.
I do not support Arafat. I do not support the use of terrorism (Real terrorism, not this thing in the US where EVERYTHING is terrorism). I think that both parties in the Middle-east are wrong, and need to stop acting like children with this tit-for-tat bullshit.
Arafat is documented as supporting the use of terrorism for his purposes. That much is certain. The problem is that the PLO is the only semi-credible goverment for it's people. The alternatives are Islamic Jihad, Fatah, Hezbollah, etc.. Additionally, until Israel stops killing people in refugee camps with American made Apaches, Tanks, F16s, and Caterpillar equipment, these people will never see the wrongs that have been commited them by Arafat and his regime.
While Israel in the past has be many orders of magnitude more peaceful than the Palestinians, Sharon and his group have thrown that away, and escalated violence, and insurgency by using the IDF with extreme prejudice to go after members of these movements. I do endorse this kind of actions, but not in the middle of a marketplace with women and children standing by. This is just as low as what the suicide bombers do, because they are non-discriminatory in their military operations.
As an american, I would think that if we went to Israel and said "We are cutting military aid, until you can come to a peaceful solution with the Palestinians" that we would have a peaceful solution rather quickly. Isreal has nuclear weapons, so I don't think we'd have to worry much about an invasion.
I could rant forever about this...but both sides are wrong. The US is wrong for not taking a more proactive role in this conflict as well.
Did you just read that and think to yourself...WOW?
I would usually be the first to jump on the bandwagon here, especially since the US Govt/Bureaucracy is notoriously stupid/slow/inefficient. However, I do know a few things.
1. Information which has military and security significance is not kept on Microsoft based computers. And before you go off and say that this VISA system contains top secret information, or whatever....first, this system isnt internet connected. Second, this worm was probably introduced via poor security practices. Third... BIG F*CKIN DEAL...so your cousin cant get his visa issued for a few days. Like I said, this is not a critical system, and they just send everyone back home, and new visas are able to be issued in a few days. If nothing else, we should be happy this happened, as it reiterates the security problems in Microsoft's OS. The high level thinkers here aren't idiots, far from it. Remember, the government employees you interact with on a daily basis aren't necessarily representative of the intellect on high.
2. There is a good general practice of not connecting these networks together. Not only that, but anyone slightly familiar with places like the NSA and CIA will tell you that there are separate networks for classified, secret, and top secret. Even when these computers all sit on the same desk, they are not allowed to move information between them, since there is theoretical possibility of data leakage.
3. Anything deemed secret or higher is run on things like virtual vault, trusted HPUX or Solaris. NSA has some stuff with Linux, but this isnt widespread yet.
Remember, the big thinkers in the Govt, arent in the fucking post office, VA, IRS, etc...
Geez people, do you think we got this far by being a nation of morons. Why do most wealthy foreign nationals send their kids here to the US to be educated?
Yes, you'd need to buy the licenses. Since this is a consolidation effort, the licenses are transferred from existing NT boxes. Most places doing this kind of consolidation effort are covered by an ELA anyway.
One of my clients, a large insurance firm in the New England area, is in the process of consolidating their NT environment onto VMWare ESX server, which is linux based. This is an IBM X440, running about 30 consolidated NT VMs. Since it's VMWare it can also run linux VMs. They are saving about 500k annually on this setup in associated costs for hardware/support/environmentals. This was a pilot, and they are going to be moving forward with more consolidation based on this.
This really isnt a new concept, most of us know of the IBM P-series, Sun E-10ks and 15ks, and the HP Superdome. All use virtualization in one form or another to provide this kind of setup. Z/series is kind of novel, because....hey...its a Mainframe.
So Microsoft has been declared a monopoly, by the way of their market penetration on the desktop. So they bundle the IM client in, which through the monopoly gains marketshare artificially. (Think IE) Then they close off the system to kill competetors (think proprietary extensions, and all the other crap in IE)
Is this legal? Yes. But I would think this would be something the DOJ would pick up on.