Solaris surely represents a couple of billion dollars worth of intellectual property. Sun's preparedness to give this away at the click of a mouse makes you ask "what is the value of a technology company"?
To me, Sun are saying that source code is worthless without the ability to support that code, to evolve it and to use it to provide value to their customers.
So the value in buying Solaris is not in Solaris per-se, but in the people at Sun.
Or maybe I'm just up myself and they want to sell more hardware. It's important to know whether the x86 version will be available.
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StarOffice would be attractive to a cashed-up Red Hat. Not an option now.
If they do it right, Corel is going to cream Red Hat in the desktop space. Red Hat need to find _something_ to generate revenues. It ain't gonna be software sales...
Linux, gcc and apache all had clearly visible targets
You got it. Cloning exercises are easy in this regard because the requirements are already defined.
Some advice from an old dog: if it's not a clone project then a clear, agreed description of the requirements is the single most important piece of documentation. It'll be a living document so you'll need an agreed proces for churning the requirements, too.
The next most important doc is the HLD. It should point at the requirements and show how the propose d design will satisfy the requirements.
The actual design documentation is relatively unimportant. One of the tools which generates it from the source comments would be appropriate.
As more and more organizations come to depend upon the platform they will be less and less willing to accept churn such as the libc cutover.
Someone will have to concentrate upon bugfixing, consolidation, standards compliance, documentation, automated regression testing, etc, etc. This isn't glamorous but there's a market need and it must happen.
So the fragmentation will be in versioning: people who rely upon the platform to support mission critical services and commercial software will be running two or three year old distributions, while the hackers will be running bleeding-edge stuff on their desktops.
This intertia will upset the kernel developers and kernel development will become less glamorous. The focus of innovation will move even further toward end-user applications.
"MICROSOFT co-founder Bill Gates has denied media reports that he is close to giving away his estimated $US90 billion fortune, Bloomberg reported today"
Ken Thompson modified the C compiler to recognize when it was compiling login - it added a trojan.
He then modified the compiler to recognize when it was compiling the compiler so it inserted the login trojan _and_ the code to modify the compiler when it was compiling the compiler.
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Solaris surely represents a couple of billion dollars worth of intellectual property. Sun's preparedness to give this away at the click of a mouse makes you ask "what is the value of a technology company"?
To me, Sun are saying that source code is worthless without the ability to support that code, to evolve it and to use it to provide value to their customers.
So the value in buying Solaris is not in Solaris per-se, but in the people at Sun.
Or maybe I'm just up myself and they want to sell more hardware. It's important to know whether the x86 version will be available.
If I was one of the 150 people who participated
in the advertisements. These people DIDN'T KNOW
that they were being taken for a ride.
Now their reputations are in question. Who
should they sue?
PS: Have you visited www.windows2000test.com lately? It's up and down like a mad whore's drawers.
Every two years the speed of software halves.
So all this stuff makes not a damn bit of difference.
Now look - you've gone and made me grumpy.
She was a RedHat user a year or so ago. Then she experimented with Solaris, but now she's back.
I bet she got sick of recompiling KDE and just installs it from RPMs nowadays.
Freedom to imitate
Freedom to irritate
Freedom to immolate
Freedom to infiltrate
Freedom to impregnate
Freedom to indoctrinate
Freedom to inculcate
Freedom to incorporate
Freedom to isolate
Freedom to inflate
Freedom to infuriate
Freedom to intimidate
Freedom to inundate
and my fave:
Freedom to inseminate
Any more?
Is the number I saw mentioned by a France Telecom person on a mailing list.
There's a mountain of stuff outstanding from
6.0 and practically none of it is being addressed.
See the sad story at their bug page.
StarOffice would be attractive to a cashed-up Red Hat. Not an option now.
If they do it right, Corel is going to cream Red Hat in the desktop space. Red Hat need to find _something_ to generate revenues. It ain't gonna be software sales...
Sorta puts a dent in their IPO plans, no?
Linux, gcc and apache all had clearly visible targets
You got it. Cloning exercises are easy in this regard because the requirements are already defined.
Some advice from an old dog: if it's not a clone project then a clear, agreed description of the requirements is the single most important piece of documentation. It'll be a living document so you'll need an agreed proces for churning the requirements, too.
The next most important doc is the HLD. It should point at the requirements and show how the propose d design will satisfy the requirements.
The actual design documentation is relatively unimportant. One of the tools which generates it from the source comments would be appropriate.
Is it just me, or is linux.com boring?
It seems every time I go there it's just like the previous time.
I believe that more work should be going into stabilising 2.2.x. AFAIK Alan is still unhappy with the number of unexplained failures.
Linux's "legendary stability" must be top priority.
And what's this stuff about "kernel 2.4 will be after all at this fall"? Autumn is still nine months away.
Think global.
... I'm afraid.
As more and more organizations come to depend upon the platform they will be less and less willing to accept churn such as the libc cutover.
Someone will have to concentrate upon bugfixing, consolidation, standards compliance, documentation, automated regression testing, etc, etc. This isn't glamorous but there's a market need and it must happen.
So the fragmentation will be in versioning: people who rely upon the platform to support mission critical services and commercial software will be running two or three year old distributions, while the hackers will be running bleeding-edge stuff on their desktops.
This intertia will upset the kernel developers and kernel development will become less glamorous. The focus of innovation will move even further toward end-user applications.
This is all good.
According to http://www.netcraft.com/whats
Seems to be the platform of choice for serious stuff like this.
Breaking news....
1 999Aug2.html
"MICROSOFT co-founder Bill Gates has denied media reports that he is close to giving away his estimated $US90 billion fortune, Bloomberg reported today"
http://it.fairfax.com.au/breaking/19990803/A1664-
Sorry.
The "100 worst ideas" questions are irritatingly American. As are, to some extent, the "Person of the Century" nominations.
Don't they know that packets route across water?
But "definitely" is correct. Cancels out.
These sort of articles are usually breathless and ill-researched.
It's great to see appropriate credits go to RMS. We owe him.
Ken Thompson modified the C compiler to recognize when it was compiling login - it added a trojan.
/ thompson/hack.html
He then modified the compiler to recognize when it was compiling the compiler so it inserted the login trojan _and_ the code to modify the compiler when it was compiling the compiler.
Was it this version of the compiler?
http://www.cs.umsl.edu/~sanjiv/sys_sec/security
Not only that, but they're really, really small bits. Most unsatisfying.