It wasn't Google's idea to analyze hyperlink structures in general as the primary determinant of page relevance, so it will be interesting to see how the Patent Office and the lawyers determine if their ideas are too incremental to patent. In fact, scholars have been using something called "citation analysis" long before the Web to determine the significance of legal briefs, academic and scientific papers.
As an historical note, there was a clear-cased demo model of the original Compaq luggable gracing the cover of one of the PC magazines circa '84. It attracted a lot of interest, which merely prompted Compaq to announce it was a one-off and that it had no plans to put clear cases into production. Kind of funny since Apple is always claiming the PC world is ripping it off....
Basic system admin and light development are pretty much the same.
The/etc startup script arrangements are different.
BSD filesystems all fit into one fdisk partition. I like this much better than Linux as I try to multiboot several OS' on my single-drive home systems.
The superior popularity of Linux is really largely due to a feedback. A larger critical mass of users mean more application availability (like Oracle and WordPerfect. Hence more popularity and a larger mass of users.
Sure, head-to-head benchmarks have been done. But they don't often matter in the IT world.
For example, www.intel.com was originally started, guerilla-fashion, by an Intel CAD group using BSDi. They had numerous benchmarks showing BSDi and Apache blowing away NT and IIS. However, when Intel IT finally jumped on the Internet bandwagon and took over the site it was quickly force-marched to IT-standard NT despite the test data. There followed an intensive six-month collaboration process with Microsoft to deal with the resulting reliability/performance issues....
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It wasn't Google's idea to analyze hyperlink structures in general as the primary determinant of page relevance, so it will be
interesting to see how the Patent Office and the lawyers determine if their ideas are too incremental to patent. In fact, scholars have
been using something called "citation analysis" long before the Web to determine the significance of legal briefs, academic and scientific papers.
As an historical note, there was a
clear-cased demo model of the original
Compaq luggable gracing the cover of
one of the PC magazines circa '84.
It attracted a lot of interest, which
merely prompted Compaq to announce it
was a one-off and that it had no plans
to put clear cases into production. Kind
of funny since Apple is always claiming the
PC world is ripping it off....
Basic system admin and light development
/etc startup script arrangements are
are pretty much the same.
The
different.
BSD filesystems all fit into one fdisk partition.
I like this much better than Linux as I try to
multiboot several OS' on my single-drive home
systems.
The superior popularity of Linux is really largely due to a feedback.
A larger critical mass of users mean more
application availability (like Oracle and WordPerfect. Hence more popularity and a
larger mass of users.
Sure, head-to-head benchmarks have been done. But
they don't often matter in the IT world.
For example, www.intel.com was originally started,
guerilla-fashion, by an Intel CAD group using BSDi. They had numerous benchmarks showing BSDi and Apache blowing away NT and IIS. However, when
Intel IT finally jumped on the Internet bandwagon and took over the site it was quickly
force-marched to IT-standard NT despite the test data. There followed an intensive six-month collaboration process with Microsoft to deal with the resulting reliability/performance issues....