So they should hire 5000 workers for their cafeteria or 5000 broom-jockeys so they could get 1 or more German, French, Italian, Indian, Chinese, Hungarian, Japanese... Martian IT specialist?
Say what? Are you suggesting that different people in an organization do different jobs? Like, no way! ROFLMA!!!!
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Cutting costs by deploying Linux is a well-established strategy on the server and even the desktop, but what effect could it have on the cost of mobile computing? Very few people lie awake at night fretting over their choice of mobile operating system. In fact, very few people even know what operating system their handset uses.
Yet, despite this (probably healthy) level of ignorance, a quiet revolution is taking place in the mobile industry. Linux, the platform of choice for servers and geekier desktops the world over, is slowly winding its way onto the high-end smartphone, although no-one is really certain what it will look like when it gets there.
Part of the problem -- although some would no doubt view it as a strength -- is the number of organisations pushing mobile Linux. There are two main industry groupings dedicated to the cause: the Linux Mobile (LiMo) Foundation and the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum. Some companies are members of both. Others belong to one of the groups, but are implementing their own flavours of mobile Linux. It is little wonder that mobile Linux's chances of making inroads in the enterprise space have been played down by some very vocal critics.
Symbian, which does have a foothold in enterprise, thanks largely to its work with Nokia, took aim at the open-source operating system in July, when its head of enterprise business market development, Andrew Moran, dubbed mobile Linux "fragmentation city" and claimed it was "completely unfeasible" for business use. But then, Symbian is hardly likely to welcome Linux with open arms.
Gartner analyst Nick Jones has a more objective stance but he agrees that the platform is not yet consistent or standardised enough to be a serious proposition. "I would advise IT managers not to have anything to do with mobile Linux at this point in time," says Jones. "Imagine I'm an IT manager contemplating standardising on a mobile platform. I want something rich enough to deliver applications, that's available from multiple manufacturers, offering a decent range of handsets with corporate features. Linux just falls down on all of those."
However, those who have thrown their weight behind the movement are confident that it will succeed in an analogous way to Windows Mobile. Bill Weinberg, general manager of business development at the LiPS Forum, certainly sees Microsoft's mobile play as the best point of comparison for mobile Linux as a development platform, although he suggests that "Linux does it with a single code base end to end, not five or six distinct code bases with their own histories and bugs".
"Microsoft has a dominant space because it is very easy to extend corporate applications onto mobile using Windows Mobile, but we're seeing Linux increasingly adopted as the operating system for use in corporate environments," says Adam Lawson, product director at Trolltech, the company behind the popular open-source development platforms Qt and Qtopia. "We would expect to see that trend extend into the mobile space in good time."
Lawson points out that governments in countries such as Brazil and China have officially backed the use of Linux in the public sector, and touts the security of open source as......a reason for this broad adoption. "Linux from the word go has been designed as a multi-user operating system," Lawson says. "It is easier to restrict access to particular data files and capabilities and prevent malicious access by third-party applications -- the raw materials for that are available in Linux."
Lawson also thinks that another key strength of Microsoft's -- Windows' ubiquity and the leagues of developers writing for the platform -- could in turn become a strength of the mobile Linux movement. "Microsoft skills are widely available, but Linux is increasingly taught in universities. There are generations of engineers coming out with the relevant skills," he says.
How does the eldest sibling being a girl effect this?
She'll have two lumps in her shirt and a front bottom for wee-wees instead of a tail. And she'll probably know the difference between "effect" and "affect".
First of all, they'll likely never use Pascal. It hasn't been used on the Mac in well over a decade.
Who said the target audience were all black sweater wearing faggots with me-dear jobs who'll save their faggot employers a fortune on pension payments because they'll all die of aids next year, which is too fucking up the butt late but better than never, because they're faggots? Nobody? Then i-shut the i-fuck i-up, i-faggotfanboi.
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Whhooooooo! Whoooooooooooooo!
Boo!
Hey, leave it out.
Kant wasn't a python programmer. But PHP programmers are cunts.
No, that's Roland Piquepaille's technology trends
Had her. Nothing special. Smells a bit, you know. There. No offence.
Jammie? I lade his marma.
One of those does not go with the other two.
It looks like you're trying to assassinate the president.
Would you like to use:
* An atom bomb hidden in a vending machine ...
* A sniper's rifle
*
BRB - somebody at the do&@G-)(9 NO CARRIER
It's all relative. On the subject of bad tastes, yo mama.
Say what? Are you suggesting that different people in an organization do different jobs? Like, no way! ROFLMA!!!!
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"Why did it take him so long to stop using Netscape and make the switch?"
A) He's silly
B) He's old
C) He's a cunt.
And he's a realtor, which is as cloe to "D) all of the above" as makes a hoot of difference.
I just want to say one word to you - just one word.
Yes sir.
Are you listening?
Yes I am.
Nun Pr0n.
Isn't that two words?
Let me be the first to say: what a silly, pretentions little cockend this guy is.
Jesus fucking H gold-plated Christ with diamond knobs on, what a daft cunt you are. And gay.
Fuck off. Fuck directly off. Do not fuck off past "go". Do not collect £200.
I am a karma whore.
...a reason for this broad adoption. "Linux from the word go has been designed as a multi-user operating system," Lawson says. "It is easier to restrict access to particular data files and capabilities and prevent malicious access by third-party applications -- the raw materials for that are available in Linux."
Linux crashes the mobile party
24 Sep 2007 10:44
Cutting costs by deploying Linux is a well-established strategy on the server and even the desktop, but what effect could it have on the cost of mobile computing?
Very few people lie awake at night fretting over their choice of mobile operating system. In fact, very few people even know what operating system their handset uses.
Yet, despite this (probably healthy) level of ignorance, a quiet revolution is taking place in the mobile industry. Linux, the platform of choice for servers and geekier desktops the world over, is slowly winding its way onto the high-end smartphone, although no-one is really certain what it will look like when it gets there.
Part of the problem -- although some would no doubt view it as a strength -- is the number of organisations pushing mobile Linux. There are two main industry groupings dedicated to the cause: the Linux Mobile (LiMo) Foundation and the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum. Some companies are members of both. Others belong to one of the groups, but are implementing their own flavours of mobile Linux. It is little wonder that mobile Linux's chances of making inroads in the enterprise space have been played down by some very vocal critics.
Symbian, which does have a foothold in enterprise, thanks largely to its work with Nokia, took aim at the open-source operating system in July, when its head of enterprise business market development, Andrew Moran, dubbed mobile Linux "fragmentation city" and claimed it was "completely unfeasible" for business use. But then, Symbian is hardly likely to welcome Linux with open arms.
Gartner analyst Nick Jones has a more objective stance but he agrees that the platform is not yet consistent or standardised enough to be a serious proposition. "I would advise IT managers not to have anything to do with mobile Linux at this point in time," says Jones. "Imagine I'm an IT manager contemplating standardising on a mobile platform. I want something rich enough to deliver applications, that's available from multiple manufacturers, offering a decent range of handsets with corporate features. Linux just falls down on all of those."
However, those who have thrown their weight behind the movement are confident that it will succeed in an analogous way to Windows Mobile. Bill Weinberg, general manager of business development at the LiPS Forum, certainly sees Microsoft's mobile play as the best point of comparison for mobile Linux as a development platform, although he suggests that "Linux does it with a single code base end to end, not five or six distinct code bases with their own histories and bugs".
"Microsoft has a dominant space because it is very easy to extend corporate applications onto mobile using Windows Mobile, but we're seeing Linux increasingly adopted as the operating system for use in corporate environments," says Adam Lawson, product director at Trolltech, the company behind the popular open-source development platforms Qt and Qtopia. "We would expect to see that trend extend into the mobile space in good time."
Lawson points out that governments in countries such as Brazil and China have officially backed the use of Linux in the public sector, and touts the security of open source as...
Lawson also thinks that another key strength of Microsoft's -- Windows' ubiquity and the leagues of developers writing for the platform -- could in turn become a strength of the mobile Linux movement. "Microsoft skills are widely available, but Linux is increasingly taught in universities. There are generations of engineers coming out with the relevant skills," he says.
Trolltech's Qtopia
In Soviet Russia, the fuck shuts up YOU, N00BZELEVEN!!!!!
30% overrated
20% smug twat
40% faggot
I thought a ladyboy was a kind of armchair until I went to Thailand.