The interface of OSS and business is going to be a turbulent intersection for some time to come. It's like a guy and girl who are dating and attracted to each other for various reasons but both want the other one to change before getting married.
How OSS has changed big business has been a big topic of discussion, but how business affects OSS is a topic that has not been widely researched or discussed. I take a shot at it in a research piece here: Business Factors in OSS Database Companieshttp://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13823
Having increased OpenGL support for Linux and gathering development support for advanced graphics toolkits will be a big win for Linux desktop. Having a sexy and slick interface has helped make OSX very popular. Sexy graphics for Linux will open new possibilities for interfaces, data display, games, and more.
Let us pay homage to Silicon Graphics, the originators of OpenGL. They may not live out the year.
I think you and everyone else here has the business strategy wrong. If people want a substitute for SleepyCat, well, Berkeley DB is still free. And there are several other open source substitutes for SleepyCat should the need arise. Which it won't.
That's not correct. Symantec has the realtime file protection which monitors filesystem access and profiles against its list of known "pathogens". Symantec successfully diagnosed and prevented a rootkit installation. It prevented the installation.
I administer a network with about 50 workstations. We run Windows2000 with Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate (aka Norton). Symantec registered an internal attack by a root kit only two weeks ago. This stuff is in the wild now!
http://www.genezzo.com/ is a a unique and innovative open source database that may be useful to ambitious bio-infomaticians. It's goal is to handle extremely large information stores and yet provide extremely flexible schemas. It's developers include some fairly seasoned database professionals.
This is a very sad little article. The very first article after Solaris open source is released and it's not about Solaris at all. It's about some silly GRUB comments. Talk about gross sensationalism.
Whoever posted this article really could do much, much better.
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I installed BeOS about 6 months ago as part of a open source dataabase testing project. See www.genezzo.com. It was really cool. BeOS is worth spending time on. It's is a very different database philosophy, and it's one that should have a future.
I vowed to spend more time with it on a newer PC, maybe using Zeta or Haiku implementations.
The Zeta people have been hard at work now for years. It's great to see a golden master from these guys. I'll be buying a copy.
What you are talking about is a task perfectly suited for Microsoft Project. Easy to set up, easy to maintain. Runs under WINE if you don't have a Win box available.
If Nobel lareat Smalley and his lab can build a proof of concept of the Carbon nanotube superwire, it would be worth far more than a few million $. This kind of technology would seriously revolutionize Western society. With a super wire you can build electic motors that are both many times stronger at the same power, and are much more efficient. The resulting stepping motors would revolutionize robotics. The wires would change how we deliver power, and even possibly, basic electrical circuitry. Imagine high current density superconductor wires at room temperature.
Carbon nanotubules, when properly, manufactured could also have very high tensile strength. Many times stronger than stranded steel cable and weighing less as well. This is the technology people what it use to build the space elevator.
Of course, after proof of concept there are still many challenges to cost effective manufacturing.
There are a dozen revolutionary uses for super wires. But first we need a proof of concept. FYI - I'm looking for a job at a well-funded nanotech startup. Many qualificiations, inquire within!
Whosoever put this up should be spanked. This really smacks of a strawman argument. Consider where we would be if we suddenly dumped spreadsheets and went back to calculators. Consider that spreadsheet errors might really just be the poor implementation of lackluster business practices by poorly trained or less than motivated workers? But wait, isn't that just called 'business'?
This reminds me of how big a buzzword Business-to-business was some 5 years ago. And then people started to realize how redundant this was. Afterall, B2B is really just business afterall.
So why blame spreadsheets? I blame President Bush.
Let's face the sad truth that the original Kirk/Spock/Bones/Scotty Star Trek was the only cool Trek series. With the exception of 7/9 and that sexy Vulcan it's been totally downhill since then. Only Shatner can save the series from extinction, Berman certainly hasn't helped any.
More space karate, more sexy aliens.
"Captain, teh series can't take much more of this!"
Serious scientific computing falls into one of two implementations: Either a tried and true "dusty deck" implementation, or a coding to some new fangled architecture. If Microsoft is really peddling C# as a distributed high performance distributed computing environment, they probably won't win the hearts of the dusty deck people.
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft ports something like a parallel Fortran. C# may provide access to a lot of system internals and the.NET framework, but scientists will have to spend more time porting their code then they might want.
In theory, since this is most likely based on a.NET framework and will be a variation of either WindowsXP or Windows Server 2003, and development language supported by the.NET CLR would work for parallel distributed computation.
As someone who has run code on a Cray and who has 45K SETI@home units I say that choice in the clustered supercomputer OS market is good.
Face recognition has been tried in various places for law enforcement, Tampa Florida in particular. The cameras and recognition software failed to assist in a single crimimal being identified from 10'000's of images. This was a multi-year trial.
This crap might work under ideal conditions but it fails utterly under any real world conditions.
By all accounts it looks like Cycorp is ailing. The OpenCyc project hasn't gone anywhere in 2 years. There are dead links on their web site. They haven't added any new events for 2 years. There appears to be some research done by the CIO, but that's about it.
My guess is they are on life support and working on a showstring budget.
- AndrewZ
This price is actually very attractive compared to other SA servives. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think multicast packets route very well, if at all.
- AndrewZ
I provide IT support for a community radio station that provides streaming audio through www.live365.com. First of all let me say that Live365 provides excellent service and hosts many, many wonderful radio stations. We pay something like $1500 for 150 simultaneous listeners at 20 kps. Which is roughly FM quality. It sounds different than FM, but roughly equivalent.
The radio station used to archive all its programming for people who wanted to do time shifting. This was put to an end by the RIAA and the record industry. We came to a settlement with the RIAA and agreed not to their terms in order to provide any streaming at all.
There are a lot of great radio stations streaming programming now but the RIAA put 90% of them off the air with the threat of litigation. There used to be thousands of home/hobby stations broadcasting from homes and dorms. The RIAA theatened them with litigation regarding royalties and poof they were gone. This included a lot of great college radio stations unfortunately.
For anyone who wants to record streaming audio I highly recommend the Windows shareware program TotalRecorder. Don't know if a Linux version is in the works or not.
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Better check the spelling on "loser", bucko!
The interface of OSS and business is going to be a turbulent intersection for some time to come. It's like a guy and girl who are dating and attracted to each other for various reasons but both want the other one to change before getting married. How OSS has changed big business has been a big topic of discussion, but how business affects OSS is a topic that has not been widely researched or discussed. I take a shot at it in a research piece here: Business Factors in OSS Database Companies http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=13823
Having increased OpenGL support for Linux and gathering development support for advanced graphics toolkits will be a big win for Linux desktop. Having a sexy and slick interface has helped make OSX very popular. Sexy graphics for Linux will open new possibilities for interfaces, data display, games, and more.
Let us pay homage to Silicon Graphics, the originators of OpenGL. They may not live out the year.
Thanks for the info, this has been corrected.
Here's a research piece I recently authored which details the business aspects of OSS database companies like MySQL, SleepyCat, DB4Objects, InterBase, Genezzo, and several others: http://www.tampatech.com/services/business_factors _in_oss_database_companies.htm
- Andrew
I think you and everyone else here has the business strategy wrong. If people want a substitute for SleepyCat, well, Berkeley DB is still free. And there are several other open source substitutes for SleepyCat should the need arise. Which it won't.
SleepyCat is an embedded database that doesn't even process SQL. It doesn't compete with any Oracle products. This is about diversification.
Read the friendly book, my friend, that is why it was written!
That's not correct. Symantec has the realtime file protection which monitors filesystem access and profiles against its list of known "pathogens". Symantec successfully diagnosed and prevented a rootkit installation. It prevented the installation.
I administer a network with about 50 workstations. We run Windows2000 with Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate (aka Norton). Symantec registered an internal attack by a root kit only two weeks ago. This stuff is in the wild now!
http://www.genezzo.com/ is a a unique and innovative open source database that may be useful to ambitious bio-infomaticians. It's goal is to handle extremely large information stores and yet provide extremely flexible schemas. It's developers include some fairly seasoned database professionals.
This is a very sad little article. The very first article after Solaris open source is released and it's not about Solaris at all. It's about some silly GRUB comments. Talk about gross sensationalism. Whoever posted this article really could do much, much better.
I installed BeOS about 6 months ago as part of a open source dataabase testing project. See www.genezzo.com. It was really cool. BeOS is worth spending time on. It's is a very different database philosophy, and it's one that should have a future. I vowed to spend more time with it on a newer PC, maybe using Zeta or Haiku implementations. The Zeta people have been hard at work now for years. It's great to see a golden master from these guys. I'll be buying a copy.
What you are talking about is a task perfectly suited for Microsoft Project. Easy to set up, easy to maintain. Runs under WINE if you don't have a Win box available.
I would pay $20 a month NOT to read most of the comments on Slashdot. But I guess that's another story completely...
Their web page states the space elevator will need a tether of 62,000 miles. I wonder how much carbon will be required for that much cable?
Carbon nanotubules, when properly, manufactured could also have very high tensile strength. Many times stronger than stranded steel cable and weighing less as well. This is the technology people what it use to build the space elevator.
Of course, after proof of concept there are still many challenges to cost effective manufacturing.
There are a dozen revolutionary uses for super wires. But first we need a proof of concept. FYI - I'm looking for a job at a well-funded nanotech startup. Many qualificiations, inquire within!
Whosoever put this up should be spanked. This really smacks of a strawman argument. Consider where we would be if we suddenly dumped spreadsheets and went back to calculators. Consider that spreadsheet errors might really just be the poor implementation of lackluster business practices by poorly trained or less than motivated workers? But wait, isn't that just called 'business'? This reminds me of how big a buzzword Business-to-business was some 5 years ago. And then people started to realize how redundant this was. Afterall, B2B is really just business afterall. So why blame spreadsheets? I blame President Bush.
Let's face the sad truth that the original Kirk/Spock/Bones/Scotty Star Trek was the only cool Trek series. With the exception of 7/9 and that sexy Vulcan it's been totally downhill since then. Only Shatner can save the series from extinction, Berman certainly hasn't helped any. More space karate, more sexy aliens. "Captain, teh series can't take much more of this!"
Guess its back to Solaris and Windows Server. Oh well.
Serious scientific computing falls into one of two implementations: Either a tried and true "dusty deck" implementation, or a coding to some new fangled architecture. If Microsoft is really peddling C# as a distributed high performance distributed computing environment, they probably won't win the hearts of the dusty deck people. It will be interesting to see if Microsoft ports something like a parallel Fortran. C# may provide access to a lot of system internals and the .NET framework, but scientists will have to spend more time porting their code then they might want.
In theory, since this is most likely based on a .NET framework and will be a variation of either WindowsXP or Windows Server 2003, and development language supported by the .NET CLR would work for parallel distributed computation.
As someone who has run code on a Cray and who has 45K SETI@home units I say that choice in the clustered supercomputer OS market is good.
Face recognition has been tried in various places for law enforcement, Tampa Florida in particular. The cameras and recognition software failed to assist in a single crimimal being identified from 10'000's of images. This was a multi-year trial. This crap might work under ideal conditions but it fails utterly under any real world conditions.
By all accounts it looks like Cycorp is ailing. The OpenCyc project hasn't gone anywhere in 2 years. There are dead links on their web site. They haven't added any new events for 2 years. There appears to be some research done by the CIO, but that's about it. My guess is they are on life support and working on a showstring budget. - AndrewZ
This price is actually very attractive compared to other SA servives. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think multicast packets route very well, if at all. - AndrewZ
The radio station used to archive all its programming for people who wanted to do time shifting. This was put to an end by the RIAA and the record industry. We came to a settlement with the RIAA and agreed not to their terms in order to provide any streaming at all.
There are a lot of great radio stations streaming programming now but the RIAA put 90% of them off the air with the threat of litigation. There used to be thousands of home/hobby stations broadcasting from homes and dorms. The RIAA theatened them with litigation regarding royalties and poof they were gone. This included a lot of great college radio stations unfortunately.
For anyone who wants to record streaming audio I highly recommend the Windows shareware program TotalRecorder. Don't know if a Linux version is in the works or not.
- AndrewZ