Quite a few shops would stop or drastically decrease use of MS products without MS Exchange. Zimbra is currently not GPL. Buying Yahoo would allow Zimbra to be put on ice as MS did with FoxPro
Again you got proof? You are making allegations because MS did something with one product. I could prove you wrong when Microsoft takes over companies with two notable examples being FrontPage and Visio. Both of these products were purchased and they were anything but buried in the Microsoft hierarchy.
When I read your post I read the complete lunacy of the paranoid.
Presumably you can tell me what Microsoft products were canned in favour of the newly acquired FrontPage and Visio as would have to happen for Zimbra to replace Exch...
I can't even finish that sentence, it's too ridiculous. When I read your post I read the complete lunacy of the apologist.
Why hire more than one accountant/lawyer/secretary/etc for your company? Just hire one and let them handle it all, that way you avoid all of that nasty overhead.
Perhaps someone would like to snipe that it says something about my level of education but I find reading slashdot is educational not only in the things I find out by reading the stories (well not always... ) and comments but also in the way posters interact. Not all of this has a direct benefit to my employer but I would happily contend that it has a positive influence and if I were constantly "on the clock" and "contributing to the bottom line" I'd just about go insane and start picking people off from the nearest tower. How productive would I be then?
Of course I spend much more time on football, which I admit has no positive influence for my employer whatsoever.
It seems we have here 2 points of view. Yours as an employer and several others as employees. Both sides make valid (to me at least) points but the question really is where to draw the line.
If one of your employees put a picture of themselves at a party having a drink on his MySpace page would you have a problem with that? If so, why.
Say you were OK with it but one of your customers was one of those "the evil of alcohol shall not touch my lips and I choose not to shake the hand of anyone whose lips do" types and he saw it and demanded you fire them.
I assume you'd have no qualms about doing just that, but I think that is wrong. Unless you somehow made it clear that taking a job at your company means no posting pictures of yourself online, and if that were the case it would be a long list of don'ts for any prospective employee. Possibly the kind of list ensuring you get only the most desperate employment seekers
The employee did nothing illegal and I'm going to assume their employment terms didn't include anything about drinking, MySpace and online photos. It's quite possible the picture predates their time at your company.
Yes you risked much to start the company, and continue to with every day. Once you cannot manage the running of it yourself and employ others to help you then have an agreement that they get whatever money for their time and effort. If you firmly believe that you also have just cause to fire them for any reason you choose then what do you make of the anti-discrimination laws preventing you from firing people because you (or your clients) don't like their race, religion, chances of getting pregnant and so on?
Reap what you sow I guess...
If an employee had his face unswirled by Interpol, sure. If they're a member of some Free Tibet organisation and one of your customers was the government of the Peoples Republic of China... that would require some management but I don't think warrants dismissal. If they like posting happysnaps to their social networking site, no, I don't think you are within your rights to fire them.
Maybe postmortem is the anonymous reader who submitted the article and feels the discussion is moving away from where s/he was hoping it would go... sort of firing literary maneuvering (sp?) thrusters.
Hmm.. so they pissed on the carpet and then lived in the house? It's an amusing story but somehow it doesn't ring true. People will resort to exaggeration to make a point, and thereby dilute it instead. (geddit... dilute... piss... come on!)
The story about the incubators was a total fabrication and while I've no doubt the Iraqi troops didn't say "please" and "thank you" suddenly all the other claims of what they supposedly did are thrown into a much more rigorous bullshit filter.
As for taking things from people's houses... well that's part of the whole war thing isn't it? I wonder how much of the stuff in Saddam's palaces is still where he left it.
Yesterday there was a picture of a bomb squad officer in full outfit defusing a sleeping bag published in the daily tabloid. There's been several stories of media officers being told to pick up credentials to access the restricted zone inside the restricted zone, which they can't get into because they don't have their passes, which they're trying to pick up, which they can't... etc. Example
On the one hand I can see that the police and the millions of rent-a-cop types have to take everything ultra seriously just incase one of the leaders (though according to most of the news George "Nucular" Bush and some Chinese guy nobody knows the name of are the only ones in town) does end up karking it in Sydney... it would look bad. On the other hand it's all a big farce.
The police bought a truck mounted water cannon (but NSW rents a water crane to battle bushfires every summer, priorities eh) for this event and cleared jails to make room for the protesters the police plan to arrest. I guess if they can boast they managed to jail a guy that looks like Osama Bin Laden they'll get the merit badge they were after.
Let's say you got a really special machine inside a case designed by Fisher Price. You take your presentation to new-important-client and deliver a sterling presentation.
Now... everything you said and showed was fine, the machine worked without a hitch... the question is what did you wear?
It shouldn't matter what things look like but it does. You can have a functional laptop that an industrial designer hit viciously with the ugly stick, or you can have a functional laptop that looks good too. You can wear the suit you bought at Target or the one you bought at Armani. You can buy a solid, reliable Toyota or you can buy a solid, reliable Mercedes.
The choice is yours, and people will judge you accordingly. Branding is not something marketers alone do, you do it also, consciously or not all your actions and choices indicate who you are. Again, it's not ideal but it is human.
As for the screwdriver thing... I know a few tradesmen and they definitely have opinions on which brands make a good screwdriver and which ones are shit. They may not laugh at you, but they'll see which one you have and it becomes a part of the opinion they form of you.
That would cause a small thrust that changes the direction of the asteroid enough to miss the Earth.
Lets hope no-one gets confused and misreads inches for centimetres and somehow turns a near miss into a head on collision.
I'm just going to book the day off anyway..
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When asked (by himself) Fake Steve Jobs says If I owned Dell I'd shut the place down and give the money back to the shareholders.
I'm not sure that the 'Digital' in DMCA refers to fingers...
What we need now is for the 3.9TB HVD's to come to the party ;-)
Presumably you can tell me what Microsoft products were canned in favour of the newly acquired FrontPage and Visio as would have to happen for Zimbra to replace Exch...
I can't even finish that sentence, it's too ridiculous. When I read your post I read the complete lunacy of the apologist.
Why hire more than one accountant/lawyer/secretary/etc for your company? Just hire one and let them handle it all, that way you avoid all of that nasty overhead.
Of course I spend much more time on football, which I admit has no positive influence for my employer whatsoever.
Your insightful commentary has led me to re-evaluate my attitude to Apple and its products. DO you have a newsletter I could subscribe to?
If one of your employees put a picture of themselves at a party having a drink on his MySpace page would you have a problem with that? If so, why.
Say you were OK with it but one of your customers was one of those "the evil of alcohol shall not touch my lips and I choose not to shake the hand of anyone whose lips do" types and he saw it and demanded you fire them.
I assume you'd have no qualms about doing just that, but I think that is wrong. Unless you somehow made it clear that taking a job at your company means no posting pictures of yourself online, and if that were the case it would be a long list of don'ts for any prospective employee. Possibly the kind of list ensuring you get only the most desperate employment seekers
The employee did nothing illegal and I'm going to assume their employment terms didn't include anything about drinking, MySpace and online photos. It's quite possible the picture predates their time at your company.
Yes you risked much to start the company, and continue to with every day. Once you cannot manage the running of it yourself and employ others to help you then have an agreement that they get whatever money for their time and effort. If you firmly believe that you also have just cause to fire them for any reason you choose then what do you make of the anti-discrimination laws preventing you from firing people because you (or your clients) don't like their race, religion, chances of getting pregnant and so on?
Reap what you sow I guess...
If an employee had his face unswirled by Interpol, sure. If they're a member of some Free Tibet organisation and one of your customers was the government of the Peoples Republic of China... that would require some management but I don't think warrants dismissal. If they like posting happysnaps to their social networking site, no, I don't think you are within your rights to fire them.
Holden's are shit cars BTW ;-)
How much farther south can you get without crossing an international border?
At least Nigeria HAS social services :-)
Or postmortem's a moron.
The story about the incubators was a total fabrication and while I've no doubt the Iraqi troops didn't say "please" and "thank you" suddenly all the other claims of what they supposedly did are thrown into a much more rigorous bullshit filter.
As for taking things from people's houses... well that's part of the whole war thing isn't it? I wonder how much of the stuff in Saddam's palaces is still where he left it.
On the one hand I can see that the police and the millions of rent-a-cop types have to take everything ultra seriously just incase one of the leaders (though according to most of the news George "Nucular" Bush and some Chinese guy nobody knows the name of are the only ones in town) does end up karking it in Sydney... it would look bad. On the other hand it's all a big farce.
The police bought a truck mounted water cannon (but NSW rents a water crane to battle bushfires every summer, priorities eh) for this event and cleared jails to make room for the protesters the police plan to arrest. I guess if they can boast they managed to jail a guy that looks like Osama Bin Laden they'll get the merit badge they were after.
Troll or idiot... I'm having trouble deciding.
Actually looking at this it seems they're making a good fist of doing the same with hardware.
Now... everything you said and showed was fine, the machine worked without a hitch... the question is what did you wear?
It shouldn't matter what things look like but it does. You can have a functional laptop that an industrial designer hit viciously with the ugly stick, or you can have a functional laptop that looks good too. You can wear the suit you bought at Target or the one you bought at Armani. You can buy a solid, reliable Toyota or you can buy a solid, reliable Mercedes.
The choice is yours, and people will judge you accordingly. Branding is not something marketers alone do, you do it also, consciously or not all your actions and choices indicate who you are. Again, it's not ideal but it is human.
As for the screwdriver thing... I know a few tradesmen and they definitely have opinions on which brands make a good screwdriver and which ones are shit. They may not laugh at you, but they'll see which one you have and it becomes a part of the opinion they form of you.
There are, accoding to this document 160 planes on order from 14 customers as of May 2007.
Lets hope no-one gets confused and misreads inches for centimetres and somehow turns a near miss into a head on collision. I'm just going to book the day off anyway..
I have analysed your cat's gait and I'm a little concerned. You should take it to the vet immediately.
The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws. -Tacitus