To make that work, you're then going to need some sort of built-in, federated intelligence that automatically discovers who's running what, when and where.
Every descent OS comes with one - it's called sys admin.
A huge company with tons of people in marketing, and they still have no clue.
They are not better than oss solutions. In some cases, they are more *convenient*. For instance, take AD/Kerberos/DNS integration. A brilliant combination (provided it's configured properly), especially if you need to support multiple Kerberos realms with cross-authentication between them. Works with Unix/Linux/Java like a charm. Unfortunately for MS, the same can be done with open source software.
Other apps from MS are not nearly as good or impressive. Can't speak about MS SQL, but Exchange has a half-assed integration with AD and badly documented API, which makes it hard to work with if you're not using MS tools (sorry, weak spot). Nothing to be proud about.
Their time and resources would be better spent on making MS stuff interoperate with OSS/Unix/whatever s/w, instead of promoting "OSS is un-american" idea. But that's just wishful thinking on my side.
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"The C++ Programming Language" by Stroustrup
"Effective C++: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Design" by Meyers
"More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs" by Meyers
"C++ Templates: The Complete Guide" by David Vandevoorde
What I don't understand is why people here think that "protecting capitalism" is a good thing.
If capitalism is such an efficient economic formation, why does it require such protectionist policies (such as employed by US)?
This situation is not unique to the software industry. US representatives actively protect IP rights of large multinational pharmaceutical companies, which is, without a doubt, a major factor in AIDS pandemic in Africa.
Another industry that will not make without the help of US politicians is biotech.
US, WTO and World Bank have been pushing similiar policies for many years and US policy on WSIS is just their logical continuation.
Actually Java server applications run quite well on different platforms; examples include Jetty, Tomcat, Struts, etc (I'm sure you can find tons more examples if you're curious).
On the desktop things are getting better too - look at the eclipse project, uses SWT (yeah, I know it's not a silver bullet, but it is a good example), runs on Windows and Linux (I haven't tried it on other platforms), and is a very cool piece of software (can't live without its refactoring module now).
As pointed out by one of the posters on the LawMeme site this is actually a spoof and a good one at that.
Look at the bottom of the page: No stereographs were harmed in the making of this website.
and another one: The author of this publication is CPRR.org, a pseudonym. The author, an individual scholar who is not a Counsellor at Law, asserts moral rights.
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To make that work, you're then going to need some sort of built-in, federated intelligence that automatically discovers who's running what, when and where.
Every descent OS comes with one - it's called sys admin.
They are not better than oss solutions. In some cases, they are more *convenient*. For instance, take AD/Kerberos/DNS integration. A brilliant combination (provided it's configured properly), especially if you need to support multiple Kerberos realms with cross-authentication between them. Works with Unix/Linux/Java like a charm. Unfortunately for MS, the same can be done with open source software.
Other apps from MS are not nearly as good or impressive. Can't speak about MS SQL, but Exchange has a half-assed integration with AD and badly documented API, which makes it hard to work with if you're not using MS tools (sorry, weak spot). Nothing to be proud about.
Their time and resources would be better spent on making MS stuff interoperate with OSS/Unix/whatever s/w, instead of promoting "OSS is un-american" idea. But that's just wishful thinking on my side.
"The C++ Programming Language" by Stroustrup
"Effective C++: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Design" by Meyers
"More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs" by Meyers
"C++ Templates: The Complete Guide" by David Vandevoorde
What I don't understand is why people here think that "protecting capitalism" is a good thing.
If capitalism is such an efficient economic formation, why does it require such protectionist policies (such as employed by US)?
This situation is not unique to the software industry. US representatives actively protect IP rights of large multinational pharmaceutical companies, which is, without a doubt, a major factor in AIDS pandemic in Africa. Another industry that will not make without the help of US politicians is biotech.
US, WTO and World Bank have been pushing similiar policies for many years and US policy on WSIS is just their logical continuation.
Actually Java server applications run quite well on different platforms; examples include Jetty, Tomcat, Struts, etc (I'm sure you can find tons more examples if you're curious).
On the desktop things are getting better too - look at the eclipse project, uses SWT (yeah, I know it's not a silver bullet, but it is a good example), runs on Windows and Linux (I haven't tried it on other platforms), and is a very cool piece of software (can't live without its refactoring module now).
From my personal experience (I use JUnit and PyUnit on a daily basis):
Unit tests save a *lot* of time compared to manual testing (that is not to say that they are a complete replacement)
Unit tests are a must for daily automatic build process
Unit tests are indespensible for code refactoring, as there is no way to know if you broke anything in the process without them
Unit tests help to design API (that is if you start with tests)
As pointed out by one of the posters on the LawMeme site this is actually a spoof and a good one at that.
Look at the bottom of the page: No stereographs were harmed in the making of this website.
and another one: The author of this publication is CPRR.org, a pseudonym. The author, an individual scholar who is not a Counsellor at Law, asserts moral rights.