Except this year, they changed how they book those sales. In the past, they would spread 1/3 of the profits out over 3yrs. This year, they changed that to booking 100% of the profit at the time of the sale. Time will tell how this pans out, but it does not look like the moves of a strong company that is comfortable in its profit potential.
I somehow doubt that the same idiots in our government who don't understand that you cannot police the internet effectively will understand this. They will pass more laws and feel all warm and fuzzy, all the while, doing absolutely nothing effective.
I mean, look how good laws against being able to own and carry firearms work. I mean, it has made Washington D.C. the safe place that it is today.
Easily. If they compromise my Citibank account, they don't have access to my tax records, or to my school records, or to ANYTHING else. This is as bad as having 1 password to every system you touch, but not encrypting it. You hand it out to everyone who asks. I would rather have it managed in a more sane way and have it be different at MY choosing.
The Gov't sees me as 1 entity, my bank(s) as another, schools as another.
SSNs should NEVER be used as primary identification numbers. They are legally only allowed to be used for distribution of benefits and collection of "tax" towards paying out those benefits.
They are essentially a pyramid scheme to keep old people happy. You have to put them on everything, because they have become a national ID number. People are to complacent with that.
Definitely agree with Juniper, especially on VPNs. Cisco VPN clients are suckass. Juniper VPNs, especially their SSL VPN (Formerly Netscreen, nee Neoteris) are excellent.
Your skills at understanding logic seem lacking, not mine. That is to be expected, as there was an article not too long ago regarding how those who don't know something have a hard time grasping that don't know.
Just because Novell does not assert something to be true does not mean it cannot bite you on the ass in the future.
The point being made was that Novell are not the bad guys. They are actively FIGHTING for your ability to go about your life as you see fit. You don't have to use Novell's branded products, but realize this (or don't, for that matter) that they are the good guys.
Novell took Microsoft's money, and gave Microsoft money for an exchange to protect their corporate customers who invariably asked for this or something similar. If you don't like it, that is your prerogative. Realize Redhat was very close to the same deal and had they come out first, Novell would likely have seen the backlash and backed off. They were the first, so hindsight is not something they have the benefit of, in their defense.
By the way, if there were a company that might very well sue you for accessing their Djinni or Geists, regardless of how ludicrous those claims are, would you not want protection so that you did not have to have a costly legal battle for some ridiculous claims? When sued, you have to defend yourself. That takes resources in the form of time and money. They chose to protect their customers, flat out.
I am flattered you think I work for Novell, but I do not. I just actually support a company that has done right by me. I think their support is 2nd to none and makes RedHat look downright poor in that department.
I like their products.
I have used SLES 9, SLES 10 and use OpenSUSE 10.2 at home, INSTEAD of Ubuntu, which I have tried. I work with Linux and UNIX, plus many other things and have for years. Since Novell has bought SUSE, things like yast, Open Exchange, etc have been made open source.
This is the law and this is grownup land. If you don't know the new rules of the playground, take your ball and go home. Customers don't care about philosophy or who is right. They want to know that using Linux will not get them sued. Business is very averse to taking unnecessary risks. Novell made sure their customers felt all warm and fuzzy about using their products.
This does not add any more legitimacy to the fact that MS is full of FUD. How much more do you want than them saying "No, Microsoft is wrong" ?
Novell disagreed with Microsoft's assertions that this proved Linux violated their patents.
By the way, about me not knowing your reasons, I don't have to know your reasons. If you have them based on misinformation YOU are the one who is wrong. Your circular logic does not work here.
OK, they made a deal with MS. What was this deal regarding? If you don't know, then shut up. If you DO know then you realize that Novell made money by indemnifying their customers.
They promised to give up nothing regarding the openness of their software. They did not compromise their software and have not injected MS code to poison the Linux base.
And what is it that you despise? Damn those ebeel Novell types for trying to make Linux work well with MS products (that the world + dog still uses). That will show them..... Why make Linux work well with MS, so that it exposes more people who would otherwise never use Linux?
Why try and protect their customers while also making MS distribute Linux, perhaps exposing them to the detriment they might face via GPLv3? HMM? I wonder.
What about their deal do you despise? It can't be the fact that they didn't bow to MS FUD and still insists Linux does not infringe on anything. What can it be, then?
Get over the stupidity that Novell somehow is in bed with MS. They made an agreement to indemnify their users. They are not shills for MS and told MS and Linux users explicitly that MS is full of crap (OK, figuratively) and that Linux is not infringing on any MS patents.
If you want to be a troll, be a smarter one. Otherwise, stop using Gnome, KDE, SAMBA, the kernel and a shitload of other products that Novell contributes PILES of money and development to or be considered a hypocrite.
Novell does support the F/OSS community. They fought SCO and were doing what they thought was a good idea for their user base. I frankly don't think they deserve the backlash they are getting. Get over it.
I was in the same spot and I have to agree. Trying to scatter-gun this approach will leave you wanting. You should really try and pick the parts you like to work with, as well as those that have a high presence in your area, or where you would like to work. That way you expose yourself to more things you like, while making yourself more specialized
I chose to focus on UNIX/Linux and Enterprise Storage. I gave up on Networking/VPNs and Windows side administration. I think the focus helped my career path.
You are erroneously assuming that clock frequency matters across different designs. If I were to tell you I could sell you a working chip at 10Ghz would you want it? What if I told you all it had was an And gate and an OR gate and nothing else? How would that help you?
IPC (instruction per clock), Bandwidth, Interprocessor latency, Thermal efficiency and Power draw all matter in the enterprise space.
Of course!! Why would somebody want to buy big hardware like a Sunfire X4600 M2 with 16 cores, 256GB RAM, 4GbE and multiple I/O slots to run multiple instances of Linux and/or Windows and/or BSD, and/or Solaris x86 when they could just run 1 instance and let the computing power of their server be use damn inefficiently?
Nobody wants to make their data center streamlined and efficient for use of power and cooling, which in many ways costs more than the initial hardware purchase over a 4yr refresh cycle....
The benefit are enterprise level features that exist right now that Xen does not have in the F/OSS version. The "Commercial" version will have those features very soon, if not already. Many large companies WILL NOT allow modified kernels or modified guests in general to be released into production. The lack of support for older CPUs that do not have built-in virtualization is the reason I cannot use Virtual Iron just yet for my company, but I am pushing them towards different machines for the future. I see that as an uphill battle because they are on a blade vendor that does not support those chips right now. I wish we could just dump that in general and just go to Sunfire X4600s.
Virtual Iron uses Xen but does not do para virtualization. It supports 8 CPUs per guest and is a "bare metal" VM hypervisor (does not require a host OS).
It also comes with the ability to move virtual machines from host to host (based on pools of resources) either by some threshold being met (say, 75% CPU utilization on a Dell PowerEdge server moves it to an HP Proliant which is only 45% utilized ) without the virtual guest OS ever skipping a beat. Vmware does this with VMotion, but that is an add on package.
Virtual Iron also supports raw devices presented from a SAN and can boot the "Hypervisor OS" from SAN as well. It supports Microsoft's disk format and there are free tools that can convert VMware disk images into that format so any Virtual Appliance built for VMware can be used in Virtual Iron (and no, I don't work for them).
However, because it uses Xen and does not do para virtualization, AMD-V or Intel VT must be available on the CPU being used. My plan was to use VI on Sunfire X4600 M2s with 16 cores available and the capacity to have 256GB RAM and 4 built in GigE (with slots enough for more GigE and Fibre Channel).
Just Adding that while Novell gave Microsoft money, Microsoft gave Novell a LOT MORE money in exchange. Novell did not "Pay" extortion charges, they traded a $5 for a $10.
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Except this year, they changed how they book those sales. In the past, they would spread 1/3 of the profits out over 3yrs. This year, they changed that to booking 100% of the profit at the time of the sale. Time will tell how this pans out, but it does not look like the moves of a strong company that is comfortable in its profit potential.
I mean, look how good laws against being able to own and carry firearms work. I mean, it has made Washington D.C. the safe place that it is today.
This is a moral issue as well as a technical issue. I hate a number, foisted upon me by the gov't being used as "WHO" I am. I am not my number.
The Gov't sees me as 1 entity, my bank(s) as another, schools as another.
We should have NO national ID system. This "Ver are yor Papers!" crap disgusts me.
In a free society, there would be no national ID, not "A different one."
SSNs should NEVER be used as primary identification numbers. They are legally only allowed to be used for distribution of benefits and collection of "tax" towards paying out those benefits.
They are essentially a pyramid scheme to keep old people happy. You have to put them on everything, because they have become a national ID number. People are to complacent with that.
Definitely agree with Juniper, especially on VPNs. Cisco VPN clients are suckass. Juniper VPNs, especially their SSL VPN (Formerly Netscreen, nee Neoteris) are excellent.
So that explains VISTA problems, but we're talking Gnu/Linux here....
Just because Novell does not assert something to be true does not mean it cannot bite you on the ass in the future.
The point being made was that Novell are not the bad guys. They are actively FIGHTING for your ability to go about your life as you see fit. You don't have to use Novell's branded products, but realize this (or don't, for that matter) that they are the good guys.
Novell took Microsoft's money, and gave Microsoft money for an exchange to protect their corporate customers who invariably asked for this or something similar. If you don't like it, that is your prerogative. Realize Redhat was very close to the same deal and had they come out first, Novell would likely have seen the backlash and backed off. They were the first, so hindsight is not something they have the benefit of, in their defense.
By the way, if there were a company that might very well sue you for accessing their Djinni or Geists, regardless of how ludicrous those claims are, would you not want protection so that you did not have to have a costly legal battle for some ridiculous claims? When sued, you have to defend yourself. That takes resources in the form of time and money. They chose to protect their customers, flat out.
I like their products.
I have used SLES 9, SLES 10 and use OpenSUSE 10.2 at home, INSTEAD of Ubuntu, which I have tried. I work with Linux and UNIX, plus many other things and have for years. Since Novell has bought SUSE, things like yast, Open Exchange, etc have been made open source.
This does not add any more legitimacy to the fact that MS is full of FUD. How much more do you want than them saying "No, Microsoft is wrong" ? Novell disagreed with Microsoft's assertions that this proved Linux violated their patents.
Btw, Novell has stockpiles of cash and is a member of http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/about_license
Go read about them. They are protecting your ass.
By the way, about me not knowing your reasons, I don't have to know your reasons. If you have them based on misinformation YOU are the one who is wrong. Your circular logic does not work here.
They promised to give up nothing regarding the openness of their software. They did not compromise their software and have not injected MS code to poison the Linux base.
Why try and protect their customers while also making MS distribute Linux, perhaps exposing them to the detriment they might face via GPLv3? HMM? I wonder.
What about their deal do you despise? It can't be the fact that they didn't bow to MS FUD and still insists Linux does not infringe on anything. What can it be, then?
If you want to be a troll, be a smarter one. Otherwise, stop using Gnome, KDE, SAMBA, the kernel and a shitload of other products that Novell contributes PILES of money and development to or be considered a hypocrite.
Novell does support the F/OSS community. They fought SCO and were doing what they thought was a good idea for their user base. I frankly don't think they deserve the backlash they are getting. Get over it.
this finds its way into MREs given to soldiers?
I chose to focus on UNIX/Linux and Enterprise Storage. I gave up on Networking/VPNs and Windows side administration. I think the focus helped my career path.
I prefer the term "Underprivileged User." It makes people want to send you money :).
but when scaling out to 4+ sockets Intel's memory bandwidth and latency goes to shit
You are erroneously assuming that clock frequency matters across different designs. If I were to tell you I could sell you a working chip at 10Ghz would you want it? What if I told you all it had was an And gate and an OR gate and nothing else? How would that help you? IPC (instruction per clock), Bandwidth, Interprocessor latency, Thermal efficiency and Power draw all matter in the enterprise space.
Nobody wants to make their data center streamlined and efficient for use of power and cooling, which in many ways costs more than the initial hardware purchase over a 4yr refresh cycle....
The benefit are enterprise level features that exist right now that Xen does not have in the F/OSS version. The "Commercial" version will have those features very soon, if not already. Many large companies WILL NOT allow modified kernels or modified guests in general to be released into production. The lack of support for older CPUs that do not have built-in virtualization is the reason I cannot use Virtual Iron just yet for my company, but I am pushing them towards different machines for the future. I see that as an uphill battle because they are on a blade vendor that does not support those chips right now. I wish we could just dump that in general and just go to Sunfire X4600s.
It also comes with the ability to move virtual machines from host to host (based on pools of resources) either by some threshold being met (say, 75% CPU utilization on a Dell PowerEdge server moves it to an HP Proliant which is only 45% utilized ) without the virtual guest OS ever skipping a beat. Vmware does this with VMotion, but that is an add on package. Virtual Iron also supports raw devices presented from a SAN and can boot the "Hypervisor OS" from SAN as well. It supports Microsoft's disk format and there are free tools that can convert VMware disk images into that format so any Virtual Appliance built for VMware can be used in Virtual Iron (and no, I don't work for them).
However, because it uses Xen and does not do para virtualization, AMD-V or Intel VT must be available on the CPU being used. My plan was to use VI on Sunfire X4600 M2s with 16 cores available and the capacity to have 256GB RAM and 4 built in GigE (with slots enough for more GigE and Fibre Channel).
Check out their demo on their website
Virtual Iron has some features,that are important that VMware does not :)
Just Adding that while Novell gave Microsoft money, Microsoft gave Novell a LOT MORE money in exchange. Novell did not "Pay" extortion charges, they traded a $5 for a $10.
Confuse them again at your own peril.