I'm fine with switching my own VPNs to Linux 2.6 or Openswan, but corporate users like to pick a vendor and stick with it, so that they don't need to pay to switch to something else and pay to train people how to use it, and so that they can count on help if needed. That's why Linux is scary to these people. To those people, stuff like this hurts Linux's credibility as an alternative system. The company I was refering to (Verano, if anyone is intersted) can probably manage a switch, expecially if Openswan is fully compatible. The people they sell to, being in the manufacturing and utilities sectors, are even more conservative. If they find out that support for some stuff they bought has been discontinued, they tend to come down pretty hard on the people they bought it from. Which can affect the bottom line.
This is rather bad news for the not insignificant FreeS/WAN install base out there. The company I worked for last year, for instance, poured a significant quantity of time and money into a corporate VPN based on FreeS/WAN, and even bundled it into products. They don't have the resources or experience to support FreeS/WAN in house themselves, so they'll be in for an intersting ride if problems are discovered. AFAIK, they were hoping not to have to upgrade to Linux 2.6 for at least a year, but that may have to change now.
Who all out there is getting left in the lurch by this?
What do you mean? I quite liked WP5.1's function key assignment. Granted, there were a few commonly used things in weird places (print, underline), but it was consistent and make good use of the keyboard. Now, since no one bothers trying to make word processors easy to use with the keyboard only now, everyone just reaches for the mouse. How many end users these days ever use alt or any of the function keys (except to play games)?
Isn't there some treaty banning that?
But then, the Bush administration doesn't seem to mind breaking arms-control treaties. (ABM treaty, anyone?)
Enough about prank calls - how about prank bids?
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Remember what happened when the world picked up on the MikeRoweSoft auction? People prank bid up to $200,000. How high do you think the prank bids will go on this one, now that it's got some publicity?
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I'm fine with switching my own VPNs to Linux 2.6 or Openswan, but corporate users like to pick a vendor and stick with it, so that they don't need to pay to switch to something else and pay to train people how to use it, and so that they can count on help if needed. That's why Linux is scary to these people. To those people, stuff like this hurts Linux's credibility as an alternative system. The company I was refering to (Verano, if anyone is intersted) can probably manage a switch, expecially if Openswan is fully compatible. The people they sell to, being in the manufacturing and utilities sectors, are even more conservative. If they find out that support for some stuff they bought has been discontinued, they tend to come down pretty hard on the people they bought it from. Which can affect the bottom line.
This is rather bad news for the not insignificant FreeS/WAN install base out there. The company I worked for last year, for instance, poured a significant quantity of time and money into a corporate VPN based on FreeS/WAN, and even bundled it into products. They don't have the resources or experience to support FreeS/WAN in house themselves, so they'll be in for an intersting ride if problems are discovered. AFAIK, they were hoping not to have to upgrade to Linux 2.6 for at least a year, but that may have to change now. Who all out there is getting left in the lurch by this?
What do you mean? I quite liked WP5.1's function key assignment. Granted, there were a few commonly used things in weird places (print, underline), but it was consistent and make good use of the keyboard. Now, since no one bothers trying to make word processors easy to use with the keyboard only now, everyone just reaches for the mouse. How many end users these days ever use alt or any of the function keys (except to play games)?
Isn't there some treaty banning that? But then, the Bush administration doesn't seem to mind breaking arms-control treaties. (ABM treaty, anyone?)
Remember what happened when the world picked up on the MikeRoweSoft auction? People prank bid up to $200,000. How high do you think the prank bids will go on this one, now that it's got some publicity?
That could mean they have 25,000 people. Counting helldesk staff, 140 people in IT isn't really all that much. And it's much closer to your average.
Now at $10,000 USD. No, sorry; $10,100. Who's bidding, anyway? Bill Gates? Looks like Mike Rowe's going to get his 10 G's after all.
No, the important question is... how much OF Natalie Portman does it show?