Per my nick, I actually work for the U.S. military as a intranet web services programmer, and the DOD has no plans of this type on any scale that even remotely follows what you are suggesting. The branch I work for, has just finished up moving all workstations to XP Professional within the last year. In addition, they are finally upgrading all their NT 4 servers to Windows 2003-with Microsoft Active Directory. When the next desktop OS comes out, they won't upgrade again until at least 2008, although 2010 is certainly a possibility.
Right now, until June, you can spend $500 and get sirius on one device for LIFE.
It's actually an excellent deal, especially after you hear just how good Sirius is.
Of course I'm a Sirius customer, but my only gripe is that they stream their audio with a Microsoft Windows Media format ONLY. They could do it with Flash Communication Server, which would be more universal (you could then hear the streamed audio with the Linux Flash player), but unfortunately, that's not their goal...
You know, there are a lot of decision makers in the I.T. world who simply go with the defaults and won't budge unless forced to.
I do part time work for the San Lorenzo Adult School as a teacher, and I've been to "technology education" meetings. The director of I.T. is completely clueless on technology and can't mentally wrap his brain around something other than Microsoft Internet Explorer. I tried to explain to him a little about ActiveX at a meeting once and he got flustered (this particular decision maker was not promoted to this position based on his actual skill, but tenure with the district) and suddenly told me he had some fictional meeting to suddenly run off to.
Of course I have my students install Mozilla in the classes I teach (no Firefox or Opera though).
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I therefore, call your bluff.
Right now, until June, you can spend $500 and get sirius on one device for LIFE. It's actually an excellent deal, especially after you hear just how good Sirius is. Of course I'm a Sirius customer, but my only gripe is that they stream their audio with a Microsoft Windows Media format ONLY. They could do it with Flash Communication Server, which would be more universal (you could then hear the streamed audio with the Linux Flash player), but unfortunately, that's not their goal...
Of course, if there were no software patents, then Microsoft wouldn't need to do this.
It works fine on my (Mandrake) Linux laptop with Mozilla 1.7.3 and the Linux Flash Player 7...
Of course I have my students install Mozilla in the classes I teach (no Firefox or Opera though).