IBM is trying to get back in the game in a big way.
Federal: for years Sun, SGI, MS and select other companies (including IBM) have had a hold on the federal sector. IBM wants a much bigger piece of that pie as they see $$$$ there. They see their WebSphere and DB2 pillars as major ROI in this sector to the point that they are practically giving the HW away for free if you go the WAS/DB2
Commericial/Corp: MS on the desktop and probably a heterogeous backend network. Does IBM think they can surplant MS on the corporate desktop? Not if they continue to use Lotus notes, et. al. IMHO. MS has them beat there, but could there be a major rework or even junking of those tools with existing OSS projects? I don't know the answer here, but by at least getting Linux in the backend, they protect themselves against a full corporate MS monopoly.
Plus there has always been an uneasy interaction between some of the IBM products and the MS OS. I remember that patching Windows 2000 with a hotfix actually did something to the Windows kernel that prevented IHS (IBM's repackaging of apache) server from running smoothly. IBM would them have to patch IHS to get it working again. I suspect that they didn't really care for those types of tug-a-wars, intentional or not.
That's the real reason for the Windows supercomputer...to achieve 300+fps in Doom III and let's not forget DNF; it might even bring the swiftest supercomputer to its knees.
RIAA claims that higher gas prices are resulting in lower CD/album sales. As a a result, the RIAA has targetted gas stations which allow car owner to upload fuel. They claim that forcing the drivers to pay >$2.00 a gallon is stealing from music artists which they, the RIAA, serve to protect.
Windows to trademark NT
When I was working at Nortel (hadn't merged with Bay Networks at this point), this causes a little stir since Nortel trades under the symbol 'NT'. Now I know company initials are different from trademarks (except for maybe for IBM), but Nortel felt they "owned" NT as a trademark IIRC. There was also the watercooler MS bashing of shareholders in Nortel would lose money everytime "NT" crashed. Well since then to-date, both 'NTs' have crashed many times
1kg of fusion fuel would produce the same amount of energy as 10,000,000kg of fossil fuels
I bet there are some dinosaurs turning over in their graves right now.
know as JackAss Boss if you ask me. Did he really mean to say "I won't admit we've done it (even if I may have condoned it), but I won't allow us to do it anymore...."
The app server market is becoming a tight space and it's been hard[er] to make inroads in the enterprise space against the likes of IBM (I'll say BEA as well, but I suspect that Oracle will consume them if they don't do peoplesoft...and being that peoplesoft is ibm friendly, I'd still suspect them [Oracle] to make a bid for BEA, just a thought). Where as IBM can sell the appserver, the iron, and support as a turn key solution, JBoss relies mostly on selling its support and any noise they can make in any forum helps to put them on the radar (however small a blip at this time).
Perhaps it is more imminent today since Friday is that much more imminently closer....
No matter, just submit the same article tomorrow, it will be even more imminent and since/.'ers love duplicate stories, it's sure to make it this time.
I was thinking the same thing...these are.plan files for the "masses". That's the why I see blogs in general....just "mass enabled".plan files. I don't think there is anything wrong with that, easier access to information is a nice thing, but I don't see a difference other than the presentation format.
When it is released, make sure to visit amazon, bn, et al and rate this book for what it's worth
Mixed results on upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1
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I had Suse 9.0 installed and had been using apt to maintain my updates. I recently upgraded that machine to 9.1 and had many problems with kdm and even gnome. Every time I tried a gui login, the xserver would just restart. Since it was a test machine, I just nuked it and installed 9.1 from scratch and I really like it. Not sure if me using apt to keep my system on the bleeding edge was the cause or not, but it's the first thing that came to the top of my head.
The basic server stuff can be setup via the UIs, but you still need to hand edit configs for anything non-trivial (DDNS, ldap pam with samba pdc, etc.)
My wife (what, a/.er who is married?) is a 7th and 8th grade teacher and the focus is on standardized testing (in her district, poor std scores == less money). Memorize this, memorize that, and if we have time, then we'll try to teach you how to think. There are high school graduates you can't even tell time on a on non-digital clock. When I went to school, they even tried to teach us how to tell time on a sun dial. Maybe metric time would solve part of the problem:)
He used the methane from the pig manure to heat the pig shelters in the winter. This was some 20 years ago. I loved to visit that place (ride the tractors and bobcats), but it did smell something aweful and there were so many flies--this was in Iowa in the summer....great vacation spot:)
Maybe it's a future CYA clause that will allow them to move to a cpu based licensing model like many of the commerical app servers and databases use. Just one possible explanation....
So does the ship have to dock monthly to get windows updates? If it's stealth, it can't be using standard wireless 802.11 technology to get updates. Imagine all the new game for all those bored fishermen (fisherpersons?)---warfishing.
Maybe the USS MS Dingy will ferry out updates to the cruiser.
Seems like the type of behavior we're become accustom to with MS apps...for all we know, it was working as MS intended...perhaps it is payback for Apple getting a patent on the iTunes interface
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IBM is trying to get back in the game in a big way.
Federal: for years Sun, SGI, MS and select other companies (including IBM) have had a hold on the federal sector. IBM wants a much bigger piece of that pie as they see $$$$ there. They see their WebSphere and DB2 pillars as major ROI in this sector to the point that they are practically giving the HW away for free if you go the WAS/DB2
Commericial/Corp: MS on the desktop and probably a heterogeous backend network. Does IBM think they can surplant MS on the corporate desktop? Not if they continue to use Lotus notes, et. al. IMHO. MS has them beat there, but could there be a major rework or even junking of those tools with existing OSS projects? I don't know the answer here, but by at least getting Linux in the backend, they protect themselves against a full corporate MS monopoly.
Plus there has always been an uneasy interaction between some of the IBM products and the MS OS. I remember that patching Windows 2000 with a hotfix actually did something to the Windows kernel that prevented IHS (IBM's repackaging of apache) server from running smoothly. IBM would them have to patch IHS to get it working again. I suspect that they didn't really care for those types of tug-a-wars, intentional or not.
That's the real reason for the Windows supercomputer...to achieve 300+fps in Doom III and let's not forget DNF; it might even bring the swiftest supercomputer to its knees.
RIAA claims that higher gas prices are resulting in lower CD/album sales. As a a result, the RIAA has targetted gas stations which allow car owner to upload fuel. They claim that forcing the drivers to pay >$2.00 a gallon is stealing from music artists which they, the RIAA, serve to protect.
Windows to trademark NT
When I was working at Nortel (hadn't merged with Bay Networks at this point), this causes a little stir since Nortel trades under the symbol 'NT'. Now I know company initials are different from trademarks (except for maybe for IBM), but Nortel felt they "owned" NT as a trademark IIRC. There was also the watercooler MS bashing of shareholders in Nortel would lose money everytime "NT" crashed. Well since then to-date, both 'NTs' have crashed many times
1kg of fusion fuel would produce the same amount of energy as 10,000,000kg of fossil fuels
I bet there are some dinosaurs turning over in their graves right now.
know as JackAss Boss if you ask me. Did he really mean to say "I won't admit we've done it (even if I may have condoned it), but I won't allow us to do it anymore...."
The app server market is becoming a tight space and it's been hard[er] to make inroads in the enterprise space against the likes of IBM (I'll say BEA as well, but I suspect that Oracle will consume them if they don't do peoplesoft...and being that peoplesoft is ibm friendly, I'd still suspect them [Oracle] to make a bid for BEA, just a thought). Where as IBM can sell the appserver, the iron, and support as a turn key solution, JBoss relies mostly on selling its support and any noise they can make in any forum helps to put them on the radar (however small a blip at this time).
Perhaps it is more imminent today since Friday is that much more imminently closer....
/.'ers love duplicate stories, it's sure to make it this time.
No matter, just submit the same article tomorrow, it will be even more imminent and since
"High Integrity Software, High Integrity Companies"
It's called "my wife"
couldn't resist...
On the serious side it is nice to see something like this addressed for those are handicapped/challenged.
will cause some admin log watching heads to turn..."boycall....org?" "Wonder what they are in to?"
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coming (naughty, don't go there) to a theater near you, staring Pee-Wee Herman has LSL
needs its fix 3 times day.
Actually, I've seen less of them on the roads in the past few weeks.
I was thinking the same thing...these are .plan files for the "masses". That's the why I see blogs in general....just "mass enabled" .plan files. I don't think there is anything wrong with that, easier access to information is a nice thing, but I don't see a difference other than the presentation format.
When it is released, make sure to visit amazon, bn, et al and rate this book for what it's worth
I had Suse 9.0 installed and had been using apt to maintain my updates. I recently upgraded that machine to 9.1 and had many problems with kdm and even gnome. Every time I tried a gui login, the xserver would just restart. Since it was a test machine, I just nuked it and installed 9.1 from scratch and I really like it. Not sure if me using apt to keep my system on the bleeding edge was the cause or not, but it's the first thing that came to the top of my head. The basic server stuff can be setup via the UIs, but you still need to hand edit configs for anything non-trivial (DDNS, ldap pam with samba pdc, etc.)
lawsuit come out of last year's "NextFest"....well a year later and it's still not quite there
Highway cones that are able to run out of your way would be really cool
My wife (what, a /.er who is married?) is a 7th and 8th grade teacher and the focus is on standardized testing (in her district, poor std scores == less money). Memorize this, memorize that, and if we have time, then we'll try to teach you how to think. There are high school graduates you can't even tell time on a on non-digital clock. When I went to school, they even tried to teach us how to tell time on a sun dial. Maybe metric time would solve part of the problem :)
He used the methane from the pig manure to heat the pig shelters in the winter. This was some 20 years ago. I loved to visit that place (ride the tractors and bobcats), but it did smell something aweful and there were so many flies--this was in Iowa in the summer....great vacation spot :)
Maybe it's a future CYA clause that will allow them to move to a cpu based licensing model like many of the commerical app servers and databases use. Just one possible explanation....
Music: check
Pictures: check
DVDs: check
Divx: check
Samba support: check
and the check list goes on.
I love the inclusion of smb support since I can access audio/video files from my linux boxes. If really does provode the most bang for the buck IMO.
So does the ship have to dock monthly to get windows updates? If it's stealth, it can't be using standard wireless 802.11 technology to get updates. Imagine all the new game for all those bored fishermen (fisherpersons?)---warfishing.
Maybe the USS MS Dingy will ferry out updates to the cruiser.
Seems like the type of behavior we're become accustom to with MS apps...for all we know, it was working as MS intended...perhaps it is payback for Apple getting a patent on the iTunes interface
Yes, however the "back door" could be improved to allow only uni-directional communication