Recall that the primary objective of most corporations is only to make money. Everything else is secondary, including you and me.
at work we recieved the new mission statement of the company, the first line now has a part that actualy goes like this -...please the shareholders... - nowhere did i find anything anymore about the customer, which was still pretented to be the primary target to be pleased at the time i started working there. well at least now they are honest enough...
When you're looking for a good overall performer, and speed is more important than overall efficiency, Linux is GREAT, especially for webservers and other similar tasks. When you're talking about applications such as Oracle, you need the big iron that Sun can deliver pushing the envelope of performance on more robust systems.
Except Oracle doesn't seem to think that anymore. As they are converting slowly but surely to linux. with their argument you don't need highly available hardware as RAC can handle failing servers. Also what is anybody holding back building a high quality box running on cheaper intel/amd (even 64bit) machines? Combine that with the 2.6 kernel based distributions comming in the next 6 months or so and gone are all the SUN advantages. No, don't even give me that crap about support because you can get the same level of support from HP for example for Itanium machines as for their HP9000 pieces of crap. (those Itanium machines from HP are in fact identical for Linux or HPUX, same build quality&features)
I used to run a BBS years back, the computer was located next to my bed, and i had the same problem when at some nights the machine was down. I couldn't stand the silence! and btw, at that time it were mostly 386/486's. the only noise you would get were HD's and PSU fans (no worries, i was not that of a nutcase to leave the volume of the modems on)
...that there is nothing going on. nobody has something new. But to look interesting (you have to look like you have something, that is good!) they just throw some expensive words around the place hoping they can impress the right people (people in charge, most of the time they know nothing but make all the calls anyway). worst thing is, it works. i've seen it in person, didn't know if i have should laughed or should have cried (think i did both).
I guess MS is scared about a lot of people making the switch to linux. These people are probably running 98 on some old hardware (if it was new hardware it would have another more recent OS pre-installed, right?), now they wanted to eol win98 but figured that linux on the desktop is just as good for these people and on top of that, they would not have to upgrade their pc's. So MS rather wants to continue the support a bit longer and not lose these users to linux (counting on the fact that most people will have bought a new pc by 2006 and the new windows will out then too, what a coinsidence!).
So, can anybody tell me why this is called a 'java desktop'? is there anything java about it? according to the review the 5 (?) included java programs are hidden away in some 'extras' menu. Oh, yeah, the java logo is all over the place and hue.. that is about it! looking at the screenshots Java is mentioned everywhere but used nowhere, in the meantime no mention of Linux anywhere. almost as if Sun does not want people to know this is linux/gnome based. btw: the java/gtk integration sux judging by the screenshots, as it seems to be based on gtk1.
we are not using veritas at my place fo work, but i've heard the sales and tech guys give presentations on their product several times already. they told us they use a modified version of the GNU TAR, and the source should be included. like i said, we are not using netbackup at work, but if it is true what they told me, it should not be that proprietary at all.
shouldn't microsoft be fixing this instead of others 'fixing' it for them instead. how difficult can it be to add this to a patch or something. perhaps they were paid by companies to put in this advertising 'hole':)
Now, when a hard drive fails, what're you going to do?
simple, I pull out the hot swap raid protected drive and insert a new one. What is the problem again?
you are right about the archiving, that is one are where tapes still have an advantage (and also power consumption)
I don't know about you, but where i work, we don't move the computer room every x months, even so, i don't see why you could not move a disk cabinet around.
Better to put the money into a DLTtape solution than to rely on what's bundled with the server.
too bad DLT is not exactly a good tape technology. well, depending on what you use it for ofcourse, but _I_ wouldn't use it for anything else except a simple fileserver with 'unimportant' data on it.
All this is valid for all other OS' out there. Meet the Windows zealot, the Mac zealot, the Amiga Zealot, the BSD Zealot, the Unix Zealot. and then it get worse, because there are programming zealots; the C zealot, the Java zealot, the Perl zealot, the Cobol zealot (the do exist). Or best of all, the editor zealots; Vi zealots, Emacs zealots, Notepad zeahuemmm.. (ok, maybe not that last one)
I've had it up to here with those french and their stupied laws. What the hell is wrong with those people, every time they out-perform their previous stupidity, enough already!
before you know it they will be demandig google to change their name into something like - le premier cherseur des mots dans la resaux de monde - and let them translate all results in french by default.
The reviewer rated the part of the installation 10/10 (at the end of the review), although at the beginning of the review he tells us, he could only do a 'fresh install', while 'upgrade' would not work and produce some error.
yeah, sure, perfect 10, i like to be rated in the same way on my next PR.
bill gates will drag some linux company to court because there is stolen NT code in the linux source. It was probably snugged in by some chinees programmer that worked on the NT source code review, the plans are already layed out! by that time the SCO battle will just be finished, and MS will launch the second attack wave.
Sorry, I had to take your package aside for... huemmm, inspection, yeah that's it, inspection. I can asure you I'll be done inspecting after the next announcment from apple/jobs.
Last time I checked Toronto was in Canada, not in Europe. You know, the thing on top of the USA?
I was refering to my own situation here, not yours. What I was saying is - these stories about vendor engineers flying over with parts etc never happened to me (and i'm located in europe) but they seem to happen 'all' the time in the US (and canada;) )
I can't see how it is worth every penny at all. Like you said, the application was not clustered, did you not make it clear to your client that they are not protected in that situation and they should accept the risk or else cough up some money. In case your application ever gets clustered, you could perhaps lower the cost of the contract by taking something less critical like 'same day' repear instead of '2 hours' or something.
secondly, I have been dealing with sun support and it is nothing special compared to IBM or HP. I don't think it is 100% worth the money. although you almost have no other choice then to pay, going without support is impossible for serious businesses.
perhaps these things just don't happen in europe? i never saw a sun engineer that had to fly over some part from i don't know where. these guys get stuck in trafic jams and sometimes screw up the outage window.
So it is a polished gnome, that has been renamed and has a 'big' company behind it and suddenly it is all tops and ready to replace XP and all the problems that were there ever before with a gnome desktop have suddenly disappeared. Ximian is no good because 'it did not show windows shares as well'.
I can't believe it, this review is worthless beyond anything in existence.
I'm all for the Linux Desktop, I even pay for my XD2. but this review is just stupied.
I never thought much about it, until I witnessed it for real once. In the weekend I was wandering through the games section in one of the stores in town. This little kid (really, he couldn't have been older then 8 years) was jumping up and down shouting 'mommy, can i have this game, pretty please!?'. The game in question was GTA Vice City. So the mother was looking at the box, front and back, and the only thing she said was like - 'are you sure you want this game? did you save some money?'
At that time, I was stunned, basicly, I don't always agree with the rating on the box (or movies etc), but this time, I got almost to the point to step up to that mother. How could you _not_ notice the age warning on this game? This kid was way to young to be playing that kind of game.
In fact, these are probably the same parents that will be shocked when they accidently watch their kids playing this game while they pick up a hooker and beat her to death afterwards, duh! I'm sure their kids are allowed to watch porn too at that age...
What I always wonder about is what will happen to all those managers of the different departments in IT.
They are announcing with great pooha that work will be outsourced; that there is no other way, the company needs to stay competitive and what ever other excuses they can come up with.
But what about their own jobs? when there is nobody left in their department, what will they do? manage the indian workers, i doubt it. They will be out of a job too.
I don't think they will have it any easier then the techs who are losing their jobs right now to find anything new (maybe even less so).
Managers will lose their jobs, even if not all jobs are outsourced. departments will shrink to such small sizes they can be integrated into other departments. It is only a matter of time before it is their turn.
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...ever wanted was an XBOX! (and free MS training)
at work we recieved the new mission statement of the company, the first line now has a part that actualy goes like this - ...please the shareholders... - nowhere did i find anything anymore about the customer, which was still pretented to be the primary target to be pleased at the time i started working there. well at least now they are honest enough...
can't wait until people start running windows programs with wine through colinux to prevent reboots of windows after installation of programs :P
Except Oracle doesn't seem to think that anymore. As they are converting slowly but surely to linux. with their argument you don't need highly available hardware as RAC can handle failing servers.
Also what is anybody holding back building a high quality box running on cheaper intel/amd (even 64bit) machines? Combine that with the 2.6 kernel based distributions comming in the next 6 months or so and gone are all the SUN advantages. No, don't even give me that crap about support because you can get the same level of support from HP for example for Itanium machines as for their HP9000 pieces of crap. (those Itanium machines from HP are in fact identical for Linux or HPUX, same build quality&features)
I used to run a BBS years back, the computer was located next to my bed, and i had the same problem when at some nights the machine was down. I couldn't stand the silence!
and btw, at that time it were mostly 386/486's. the only noise you would get were HD's and PSU fans (no worries, i was not that of a nutcase to leave the volume of the modems on)
...that there is nothing going on. nobody has something new. But to look interesting (you have to look like you have something, that is good!) they just throw some expensive words around the place hoping they can impress the right people (people in charge, most of the time they know nothing but make all the calls anyway).
worst thing is, it works. i've seen it in person, didn't know if i have should laughed or should have cried (think i did both).
I guess MS is scared about a lot of people making the switch to linux.
These people are probably running 98 on some old hardware (if it was new hardware it would have another more recent OS pre-installed, right?), now they wanted to eol win98 but figured that linux on the desktop is just as good for these people and on top of that, they would not have to upgrade their pc's. So MS rather wants to continue the support a bit longer and not lose these users to linux (counting on the fact that most people will have bought a new pc by 2006 and the new windows will out then too, what a coinsidence!).
So, can anybody tell me why this is called a 'java desktop'? is there anything java about it? according to the review the 5 (?) included java programs are hidden away in some 'extras' menu.
Oh, yeah, the java logo is all over the place and hue.. that is about it! looking at the screenshots Java is mentioned everywhere but used nowhere, in the meantime no mention of Linux anywhere. almost as if Sun does not want people to know this is linux/gnome based.
btw: the java/gtk integration sux judging by the screenshots, as it seems to be based on gtk1.
I use Free/Open Source Software because i believe in the model. It is like a religion :)
...ever got fired for choosing... oh wait.
we are not using veritas at my place fo work, but i've heard the sales and tech guys give presentations on their product several times already. they told us they use a modified version of the GNU TAR, and the source should be included. like i said, we are not using netbackup at work, but if it is true what they told me, it should not be that proprietary at all.
shouldn't microsoft be fixing this instead of others 'fixing' it for them instead. how difficult can it be to add this to a patch or something. perhaps they were paid by companies to put in this advertising 'hole' :)
simple, I pull out the hot swap raid protected drive and insert a new one. What is the problem again?
you are right about the archiving, that is one are where tapes still have an advantage (and also power consumption)
I don't know about you, but where i work, we don't move the computer room every x months, even so, i don't see why you could not move a disk cabinet around.
too bad DLT is not exactly a good tape technology. well, depending on what you use it for ofcourse, but _I_ wouldn't use it for anything else except a simple fileserver with 'unimportant' data on it.
All this is valid for all other OS' out there. Meet the Windows zealot, the Mac zealot, the Amiga Zealot, the BSD Zealot, the Unix Zealot. and then it get worse, because there are programming zealots; the C zealot, the Java zealot, the Perl zealot, the Cobol zealot (the do exist). Or best of all, the editor zealots; Vi zealots, Emacs zealots, Notepad zeahuemmm.. (ok, maybe not that last one)
I've had it up to here with those french and their stupied laws. What the hell is wrong with those people, every time they out-perform their previous stupidity, enough already!
before you know it they will be demandig google to change their name into something like - le premier cherseur des mots dans la resaux de monde - and let them translate all results in french by default.
The reviewer rated the part of the installation 10/10 (at the end of the review), although at the beginning of the review he tells us, he could only do a 'fresh install', while 'upgrade' would not work and produce some error.
yeah, sure, perfect 10, i like to be rated in the same way on my next PR.
SCO should make this guy a job offer, they could use him as another GPL specialist, as he clearly demonstrates he understands the GPL to the fullest.
bill gates will drag some linux company to court because there is stolen NT code in the linux source. It was probably snugged in by some chinees programmer that worked on the NT source code review, the plans are already layed out! by that time the SCO battle will just be finished, and MS will launch the second attack wave.
Sorry, I had to take your package aside for... huemmm, inspection, yeah that's it, inspection. I can asure you I'll be done inspecting after the next announcment from apple/jobs.
I was refering to my own situation here, not yours. What I was saying is - these stories about vendor engineers flying over with parts etc never happened to me (and i'm located in europe) but they seem to happen 'all' the time in the US (and canada ;) )
I can't see how it is worth every penny at all.
Like you said, the application was not clustered, did you not make it clear to your client that they are not protected in that situation and they should accept the risk or else cough up some money. In case your application ever gets clustered, you could perhaps lower the cost of the contract by taking something less critical like 'same day' repear instead of '2 hours' or something.
secondly, I have been dealing with sun support and it is nothing special compared to IBM or HP. I don't think it is 100% worth the money. although you almost have no other choice then to pay, going without support is impossible for serious businesses.
perhaps these things just don't happen in europe? i never saw a sun engineer that had to fly over some part from i don't know where. these guys get stuck in trafic jams and sometimes screw up the outage window.
So it is a polished gnome, that has been renamed and has a 'big' company behind it and suddenly it is all tops and ready to replace XP and all the problems that were there ever before with a gnome desktop have suddenly disappeared. Ximian is no good because 'it did not show windows shares as well'.
I can't believe it, this review is worthless beyond anything in existence.
I'm all for the Linux Desktop, I even pay for my XD2. but this review is just stupied.
I never thought much about it, until I witnessed it for real once. In the weekend I was wandering through the games section in one of the stores in town. This little kid (really, he couldn't have been older then 8 years) was jumping up and down shouting 'mommy, can i have this game, pretty please!?'. The game in question was GTA Vice City. So the mother was looking at the box, front and back, and the only thing she said was like - 'are you sure you want this game? did you save some money?'
At that time, I was stunned, basicly, I don't always agree with the rating on the box (or movies etc), but this time, I got almost to the point to step up to that mother. How could you _not_ notice the age warning on this game? This kid was way to young to be playing that kind of game.
In fact, these are probably the same parents that will be shocked when they accidently watch their kids playing this game while they pick up a hooker and beat her to death afterwards, duh! I'm sure their kids are allowed to watch porn too at that age...
What I always wonder about is what will happen to all those managers of the different departments in IT.
They are announcing with great pooha that work will be outsourced; that there is no other way, the company needs to stay competitive and what ever other excuses they can come up with.
But what about their own jobs? when there is nobody left in their department, what will they do? manage the indian workers, i doubt it. They will be out of a job too.
I don't think they will have it any easier then the techs who are losing their jobs right now to find anything new (maybe even less so).
Managers will lose their jobs, even if not all jobs are outsourced. departments will shrink to such small sizes they can be integrated into other departments. It is only a matter of time before it is their turn.