Well done, clean and simple with no condemnation for Windows users. You are helping the cause by exposing proprietary captives to the world of benign open source. Carry on!
In the grand equation, our champions must, by definition, be absurd. Over time, this is the only possible way to nudge the median. RMS catches a lot of flack for his "purist" views, but stop and think how our shared mindspace would look without his a-priori input.
If all people are endowed with an inalienable right to benefit from, and particapate in, our shared human technology, then the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. We have been choked, screwed, and robbed by a greedy marketing monster, and are sorely in need of champions.
"If no one tilts at windmills, the damn things will take over the world!"- christian simpleman
Last summer we developed a case management system from scratch for hospital admissions pre-qualifications and tracking. Our client serves the medical insurance industry, therefore HIPPA was a factor. We used LAMP all the way, finished the project in three weeks (no brag, just focus and swinging elbows), and they have fifteen nurses banging away 24/7, client access via https, and 100% uptime. All of their money went to us instead of software licensing, they paid less anyhow, and they are smiling ear to ear.
If the PHP is not elegant enough, for the love of sanity please use Java. If we don't feed the monster that is choking, screwing, and robbing us, it may weaken and we can get on with an unshackled future. We do the entire world a favor whenever we choose sane engineering.
"If no one tilts at windmills, the damn things will take over the world!"- Christian Simpleman
Short story: HP ze5385 notebook took much time/sweat to get RH9 tweaked for onboard wireless, firewire, video, Ethernet, sound, etc. Have run it for 8 months co-partitioned with WinXP. The Win partition melted, I was going to devote the whole drive to RH9 when someone brought a Lindows Desktop Edition CD to our LUG meeting, almost as a joke. For laughs I popped it in the laptop. Twenty minutes later we were not laughing, I was surfing the net on the auto-detected onboard wireless, listening to streaming audio through the auto-detected sound card, etc. you get the picture. It is Debian under the hood, with serious attention focused on installation, a large database of supported hardware, and many concessions (?) to the MS-entranced user base.
Aside from perpmo in general, using stored compressed air to power the compressors to gather more compressed air? That was iterated at least twice. The Engineer in me would not tolerate a second audition for an exact count of banal pseudo-scientific nuggets...that one is a deal killer all by itself.
True if logic applies. I question what it was that Ballmer discounted. I've never heard of MS quoting pricing on installation, migration, re-installation, time spent staring at BSOD, etc.
This is just the type of base level fundamental pre-assumption that often colors this type of issue. All news items that I've seen were specific and detailed regarding the monumental efforts required by IBM/SUSE, yet NO mention has been made of IT costs associated with the massive Microsoft upgrade.
You and I, as sensible people, would infer that something so simple as total cost must have been factored in, funny it's never been mentioned...
Are we comparing apples and apples? The Microsoft figure was just for the licensing (from all indications), not counting the pain and agony of migrating 14,000 PCs to XP and 2003, a process that I promise would not be painless. Not to mention the four or five (or more) "critical updates" and patches in mid-project. The IBM SUSE figure was a guesstimate at the whole project. Wouldn't you have to add a huge deployment chunk to the MS figure for a fair comparison?
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Well done, clean and simple with no condemnation for Windows users. You are helping the cause by exposing proprietary captives to the world of benign open source. Carry on!
In the grand equation, our champions must, by definition, be absurd. Over time, this is the only possible way to nudge the median. RMS catches a lot of flack for his "purist" views, but stop and think how our shared mindspace would look without his a-priori input. If all people are endowed with an inalienable right to benefit from, and particapate in, our shared human technology, then the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. We have been choked, screwed, and robbed by a greedy marketing monster, and are sorely in need of champions. "If no one tilts at windmills, the damn things will take over the world!"- christian simpleman
Does she have any sisters?
Last summer we developed a case management system from scratch for hospital admissions pre-qualifications and tracking. Our client serves the medical insurance industry, therefore HIPPA was a factor. We used LAMP all the way, finished the project in three weeks (no brag, just focus and swinging elbows), and they have fifteen nurses banging away 24/7, client access via https, and 100% uptime. All of their money went to us instead of software licensing, they paid less anyhow, and they are smiling ear to ear.
If the PHP is not elegant enough, for the love of sanity please use Java. If we don't feed the monster that is choking, screwing, and robbing us, it may weaken and we can get on with an unshackled future. We do the entire world a favor whenever we choose sane engineering.
"If no one tilts at windmills, the damn things will take over the world!"- Christian Simpleman
Short story: HP ze5385 notebook took much time/sweat to get RH9 tweaked for onboard wireless, firewire, video, Ethernet, sound, etc. Have run it for 8 months co-partitioned with WinXP. The Win partition melted, I was going to devote the whole drive to RH9 when someone brought a Lindows Desktop Edition CD to our LUG meeting, almost as a joke. For laughs I popped it in the laptop. Twenty minutes later we were not laughing, I was surfing the net on the auto-detected onboard wireless, listening to streaming audio through the auto-detected sound card, etc. you get the picture. It is Debian under the hood, with serious attention focused on installation, a large database of supported hardware, and many concessions (?) to the MS-entranced user base.
Aside from perpmo in general, using stored compressed air to power the compressors to gather more compressed air? That was iterated at least twice. The Engineer in me would not tolerate a second audition for an exact count of banal pseudo-scientific nuggets...that one is a deal killer all by itself.
True if logic applies. I question what it was that Ballmer discounted. I've never heard of MS quoting pricing on installation, migration, re-installation, time spent staring at BSOD, etc. This is just the type of base level fundamental pre-assumption that often colors this type of issue. All news items that I've seen were specific and detailed regarding the monumental efforts required by IBM/SUSE, yet NO mention has been made of IT costs associated with the massive Microsoft upgrade. You and I, as sensible people, would infer that something so simple as total cost must have been factored in, funny it's never been mentioned...
Are we comparing apples and apples? The Microsoft figure was just for the licensing (from all indications), not counting the pain and agony of migrating 14,000 PCs to XP and 2003, a process that I promise would not be painless. Not to mention the four or five (or more) "critical updates" and patches in mid-project. The IBM SUSE figure was a guesstimate at the whole project. Wouldn't you have to add a huge deployment chunk to the MS figure for a fair comparison?