Well, MS hasn't responded (you know that if they thought they had a chance in this challenge, they're PR people would be filling up the papers w/ BS), So...
we can conclude that SQL Server is not worthy of competing with Oracle - HEEHEE
I really don't even think that one of their employees would be stupid enough to identify themselves as a MS employee, and also go so far as to state they were doing Linux usability studies. This was probably just some kiddie who thought it would be cool to make MS/employees look stupid, and get a story posted on./ HAAHAA, that was worth a couple chuckles
I am also a student at Purdue. Word is, that Microsoft approached Purdue a couple times before the current agreement was reached. Microsoft kept insisting that the University migrate to all Microsoft products, but Purdue faculty/administrators firmly stated that it was of utmost importance to give students experience in a multitude of operating systems, be it UNIXes, MacOS, or Microsoft Win's. Microsoft finally came around and agreed that it would be Ok for Purdue to also have non-Microsoft products and operating systems. Unfortunatley for the students of IU, it seems IU's administrators couldn't pull clout on Microsoft and caved in to Microsoft's demands. I have heard that there is intense pressure to migrate to Microsoft products
What I wanted out of switching to BSD is a more secure machine, so I decided to look into OpenBSD. The unsupported hardware I was talking about was multiprocessor i386 support in OpenBSD. (It really sucks not to be able to use the added processing power of a second CPU). I did not look into the other BSD's, cause the only reason I was looking at BSD as an alternative was security.
because it is a PITA to start up a machine again, wouldn't it be really convenient to leave the machine on, and not have to worry about turning it back on once you get wherever you have to go
I want to try BSD, but I have run into problems with support for my hardware. It seems that linux has a wider hardware support base than BSD. But I do like the fact that there is a flavor of BSD that has undergone a line by line security audit.
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Well, MS hasn't responded (you know that if they thought they had a chance in this challenge, they're PR people would be filling up the papers w/ BS), So ...
we can conclude that SQL Server is not worthy of competing with Oracle - HEEHEE
I really don't even think that one of their employees would be ./
stupid enough to identify themselves as a MS employee, and also go so far as to state they were doing Linux usability studies.
This was probably just some kiddie who thought it would be cool to make MS/employees look stupid, and get a story posted on
HAAHAA, that was worth a couple chuckles
I am also a student at Purdue. Word is, that Microsoft approached Purdue a couple times before the current agreement was reached. Microsoft kept insisting that the University migrate to all Microsoft products, but Purdue faculty/administrators firmly stated that it was of utmost importance to give students experience in a multitude of operating systems, be it UNIXes, MacOS, or Microsoft Win's. Microsoft finally came around and agreed that it would be Ok for Purdue to also have non-Microsoft products and operating systems. Unfortunatley for the students of IU, it seems IU's administrators couldn't pull clout on Microsoft and caved in to Microsoft's demands. I have heard that there is intense pressure to migrate to Microsoft products
thats $30 for an ADSL connection, NOT $3.00 (give it another 5 years)
- HEEHEE
I remember how it was, I'm sure you all do too
..
I thought I was so cool bumming a 14.4 K free "Internet connection" of a shell account from school.
Oh well, those were the days...
Now we have 56K ISP connections at ~ $5 - $10, decent ADSL connections ~ $3.0
Reminiscing
What I wanted out of switching to BSD is a more secure machine, so I decided to look into OpenBSD. The unsupported hardware I was talking about was multiprocessor i386 support in OpenBSD.
(It really sucks not to be able to use the added processing power of a second CPU).
I did not look into the other BSD's, cause the only reason I was looking at BSD as an alternative was security.
because it is a PITA to start up a machine again, wouldn't it be really convenient to leave the machine on, and not have to worry about turning it back on once you get wherever you have to go
I want to try BSD, but I have run into problems with support for my hardware. It seems that linux has a wider hardware support base than BSD.
But I do like the fact that there is a flavor of BSD that has undergone a line by line security audit.