No more windows for Antigua in general. Maybe that will teach them to try and steal stuff legally as if software makers would just put up with it. Oh, man, that would be so sweet. Just imagine - the caribbean climate, as much online gambling as you could handle and no MS Windows! I'm there.
To quote Michael Ironside
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... or at least his character (Richter) in Total Recall:
It's about Goddamn time!
Excel was used in voting systems in the Scottish and local elections in the UK this year Look how well that went. This really is one of the scariest things about having non-technical people decide on a technological solution. I doubt they will even learn once there has been a directly attributable fatality.
Bank: Hello, this is ${BANK}, how can I help you? Customer: Yes, I appear to have a transaction for £3000 leaving my account which I don't know anything about. Bank: OK, I see you use our Internet banking service. Do you have antispyware software on your computer? Customer: Yes, it's called ${PROPER_OS} Bank: Thank you. I see you have a clue - please wait while I pass you on to our technical team.
Relativity - 1905 (which was the date picked, of course. Can't you read?) Strangely enough, yes I can. That's why I specifically mentioned general relativity as first published by A. Einstein in 1915.
Quantum mechanics, general relativity, electroweak unification, superfluidity, COBE and the inflationary model, antimatter, black holes, etc. Some of which have allowed: transistors, moon landings, the web, lasers and now teleportation.
Read Phys Rev A once in a while and you'll see that we have achieved quite a bit in the last hundred years.
(completion of the lists above is left as an exercise to the reader:-)
I have discovered a fantastic, accurate way to predict future trends in information technology. The basic principle is to find a Gartner quote on the subject matter in question and then take the opposite viewpoint. You will find that you are correct on average 98.724% of the time, which in such a fast-moving industry is a pretty good score.
On the flip side, you have to (grudgingly) admire them for making a successful enterprise funded exclusively by PHBs.
... and it isn't the internet.
One can only assume that there's some grand plot being hatched by the SCO board to get themselves all sectioned in order to avoid the resulting lawsuits when their shell of a company finally implodes.
CGSM. Changing the engine is akin to changing the motherboard - of course they would would object. Changing the OS is more like changing the oil - an objection would be petty at best.
I think just about everything is now covered in LedgerSMB or the project from which it was forked - SQL-Ledger. My business has been using these systems for the last four years and has found them to be stable, flexible and reliable.
The back end runs on an Apache server with PostgreSQL underneath. The client side can be just about any browser platform (including Lynx). There are online demos where you can test most of the functionality before deploying in your own network.
We do not use Microsoft Word at my place of business. This is therefore no longer a concern. If any sysadmin thinks this is a problem, it's clearly time to approach the PHB with it in terms that they will understand. Something along the lines of, "Yes, I'd love to tackle that super-urgent issue of yours, but I'm too busy fighting these n MS Word vulnerabilities" where n is greater than zero. That ought to do it.
Actually, no. Not all businesses operate for-profit, not even all tech businesses do. Consider, for example, Nominet.
That's not to detract from your assertion that just because a particular business operates for-profit does not necessarily make it a good investment. Businesses that operate(d) in this way include Enron, Boo.com, SCO, etc.
Don't be so quick to knock it. The GP is saying that it is the brave who deploy open source software in business environments. By implication he is saying that only the cowards buy proprietary solutions. In business cowardice gets you nowhere. QED.
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I hate to be the one to have to tell you, but that is not where your cummerbund should be.
Bank: Hello, this is ${BANK}, how can I help you?
... and then I woke up.
Customer: Yes, I appear to have a transaction for £3000 leaving my account which I don't know anything about.
Bank: OK, I see you use our Internet banking service. Do you have antispyware software on your computer?
Customer: Yes, it's called ${PROPER_OS}
Bank: Thank you. I see you have a clue - please wait while I pass you on to our technical team.
<hutz>I rest my case</hutz>
Solution: Swish-e.
Yes, it is open source.
Ahem:
Quantum mechanics, general relativity, electroweak unification, superfluidity, COBE and the inflationary model, antimatter, black holes, etc. Some of which have allowed: transistors, moon landings, the web, lasers and now teleportation.
Read Phys Rev A once in a while and you'll see that we have achieved quite a bit in the last hundred years.
(completion of the lists above is left as an exercise to the reader
Presumably you meant to say
grep -c hegemonic
as otherwise you'd be wasting a pipe and a process.
I have discovered a fantastic, accurate way to predict future trends in information technology. The basic principle is to find a Gartner quote on the subject matter in question and then take the opposite viewpoint. You will find that you are correct on average 98.724% of the time, which in such a fast-moving industry is a pretty good score.
On the flip side, you have to (grudgingly) admire them for making a successful enterprise funded exclusively by PHBs.
That's OK - there are plenty here in the UK who also assume that John Reid is part of (or at least in the pay of) the USA government.
(in case any of the boys from 5 are reading this, it's just a joke, fellas)
Everything should be made clear here. HTH.
You and Spandau Ballet.
... and it isn't the internet. One can only assume that there's some grand plot being hatched by the SCO board to get themselves all sectioned in order to avoid the resulting lawsuits when their shell of a company finally implodes.
The survey includes figures for Switzerland and Ukraine, which are not members of the EU.
CGSM. Changing the engine is akin to changing the motherboard - of course they would would object. Changing the OS is more like changing the oil - an objection would be petty at best.
I think just about everything is now covered in LedgerSMB or the project from which it was forked - SQL-Ledger. My business has been using these systems for the last four years and has found them to be stable, flexible and reliable.
The back end runs on an Apache server with PostgreSQL underneath. The client side can be just about any browser platform (including Lynx). There are online demos where you can test most of the functionality before deploying in your own network.
HTH.
This would be a concern were it not for the IBM suit. If Novell somehow doesn't finish SCO off, then IBM will certainly do the job.
I think you're missing the fact that Exxon, like IBM, is the defendant. IBM is not short of money either.
We do not use Microsoft Word at my place of business. This is therefore no longer a concern. If any sysadmin thinks this is a problem, it's clearly time to approach the PHB with it in terms that they will understand. Something along the lines of, "Yes, I'd love to tackle that super-urgent issue of yours, but I'm too busy fighting these n MS Word vulnerabilities" where n is greater than zero. That ought to do it.
Nor are they top for restaurant or dining (I got bored after two. Further testing is left as an exercise for the reader.).
Actually, no. Not all businesses operate for-profit, not even all tech businesses do. Consider, for example, Nominet.
That's not to detract from your assertion that just because a particular business operates for-profit does not necessarily make it a good investment. Businesses that operate(d) in this way include Enron, Boo.com, SCO, etc.
Don't be so quick to knock it. The GP is saying that it is the brave who deploy open source software in business environments. By implication he is saying that only the cowards buy proprietary solutions. In business cowardice gets you nowhere. QED.
I and many others in the EU would like to see such a thing too. Unfortunately that is just a utopian ideal at the moment.