"an innate fear of snakes is one of the very few visible human instincts"
I recall seeing a documentary where they introduced snakes into a cage full of very young primates. They showed no fear until shown adults reacting in fear. A clear case of learned reaction. It would be difficult to perform such an experiment with babies, I would imagine.
As a side issue, why do dogs, as they bed down, curl their rear to the side while rotating and settling lower on their haunches. Is it to displace any creepy crawlies that might be lurking there.
"Our (very small) business recently migrated *away* from Open Office"
What was the name of this business?
Why did it migrate to OpenOffice in the first place?
What did you use before migrating to Open Office?
"Since changing to office our productivity on certain tasks such as collaboratively authoring"
Neither msOffice nor OpenOffice are suitable for such a purpose. What you need is some kind of CVS system only in this case to handle rich text files.
"We just send the latest version and they send it back with the edits marked in track changes"
Reminds me of an architects office I did some work for. 'A' emailed a doc to 'B' who worked on it and emailed it to 'C' who emailed it back to 'A'. Meanwhile 'D' worked on the 'C' version and emailed it to 'F' who emailed it in turn to back to 'A'. Question: which one is the 'current' version?
"Openoffice has to be really, really easy for someone to use who is familiar with office (its getting closer, but a long way to go)"
I've tried a few msOffice users on OpenOffice and they can't tell the difference!
"its ability to save to and read from office formats needs to be a lot better than it currently is"
Oh, I forgot: A, B, C, D, E and F all have different versions of msOffice. B can only read files sent from A etc..
"Openoffice is slow, awkward to use and lacks a lot of features"
On this computer, Open Office opens and runs just as fast as msOffice under Windows. Most people stick to open/spellcheck/save/print. It doesn't matter how many feetures, you still have to pay someone to work the computer.
In what context and to whom did he 'admit' things?
How did SCO come across this 'evidence'?
"written for Linux while referring to Dynix code on his computer"
If SCO has at least one IBM developer who 'admits' to copying Dynix code into Linux then why not produce him.
"Weeks after SCO filed its lawsuit, IBM directed 'dozens' of its Linux developers...to delete the AIX and/or Dynix source code from their computers," SCO's objection claims.
"One IBM Linux developer has admitted to destroying source code and tests, as well as pre-March 2003 drafts of source code he had written for Linux while referring to Dynix code on his computer,"
"Credit and debit card firms will find it easier to cancel the cards ofonline paedophiles under a planned new law"
Like what was stopping them up to now?
"The move has long been urged by charities and card issuers"
Like who exactly?
""The amendment will allow card issuers to receive information on card usage from the police."
Why do the card issuers need to contact the police to read their own records?
"The issuers said this will free them to terminate the contract with the cardholder and cancel the cards"
What prevents the card issuers from terminating such contracts?
"With this change in the law our members will have the information they need to remove offenders' cards"
What information do you not already posess, to know who is accessing kiddie porn sites using your cards? The kiddie porn sites are advertising on the net, they have a contract with your company, your customers are transfering funds to such sites. What do you not know already?
So that's money launderers, terrorists and paedophiles all given a mention. Where's mention of hackors?
ROTHERO Do you believe this crap, Dascombe?
DASCOMBE It's not our job to believe it, Lewis. Our job is to tell the people.
"As financial transactions are completed ever more quickly.. this problem should be largely addressed by the ID cards programme."
"a person.. can be liable if he.. is capable of encouraging or assisting another person.. in relation to [an] offence he believes will be committed"
"would be liable where his conduct has the capacity to provide..encouragement.. and.. believes.. offences.. will be committed.. but he is unclear which offence it will be [and] he is indifferent as to whether it is committed"
"we also need to ensure that those.. could not escape prosecution by arguing that they were not absolutely certain that the offence would take place."
"The decision as to what level of belief should be required for this offence will need to be carefully thought through."
"the powers provided by the.. Act, should.. lead to a greater number of convictions.. as.. those on the periphery should be persuaded to testify against their bosses in return for discounted sentences"
"will the code virus's evolution be something benign like the common cold"
To continue this analogy how about innoculating the system against future atacks. Create a processor that scrambles the microcode table. It has a run mode and an install mode. At install mode it scrambles the OP codes in the program to match the table. Any forign code attempting to run is stoped dead in its tracks.
Or how to fix Windows. Create an embedded OS that runs an emulator that provides API functions to the applications. That way dot.NET would still be able to run without the security lapses. Oh, I just remembered with Embedded Java we would have had a safe and secure Internet years ago if his billness hadn't sabotaged it on the PC.
"Because you and most other dummies are using a highly insecure operating system",hritcu
Not I, its SuSE Linux. Personally I don't see Linux making the huge impact it deserves until the average dummy can walk into the high street shop and buy one.
The real story is why are we still getting 'Internet viruses' in the latter half of 2006 and why don't these 'security vendors' produce a soluton to the problem.
I once worked for a 'business' manager and spent two month collating accounts data into a spreadsheet. He couldn't understand the concept of backups and stored the one copy of the file in the C:\progra~1\excell directory and was in the habit of deleting the entire directory once a week.
"they will use outside vendors to gain those skills"
What he means is when they want to appear 'managerial' they hire in a systems analyst to tell them what their own staff already know. You get the work done in spite of them. And usually better when they are out of the office.
"business analysts in business units answer to business executives, with a dotted line to the CIO"
And the PHB gets to pretend to know what he is doing to earn ten time your salary. That article is just so much self congradulatory wishfull thinking. 'Oh, for the day when us PHB don't need the IT dept'.
When they start making up bogus cod technological tets you know it's just so much hot air.
'You can't sit a child in front of a computer and expect him to learn things he needs to succeed in society,'
Not much different than sitting at a desk as some teacher reads a book outloud while simultaneously writing it out on a blackboard. You write what's on the board into a jotter. At the end of the 'lesson' he walks out without ever making eye contact.
The only skill I ever learned in education was how to stand up or sit down at the sound of a bell.
Actually, it wasn't the human operators but the AEGIS System itself that failed. As the ship was engaged in violent maneuvering at over 30 knots it mistakenly flaged an aircraft climbing as one in descent. At the time it was considered political to blame the operators rather than admit a multi-dollar system was defective. I recently remember a documentry on UK television as sugesting that while the display actually showed a 'safe' reading the fatigued operator saw 'danger'.
I don't want to fly into any airport with an automated laser capable of shooting holes in aircraft. There is no system devised by man that will work perfectly all the time. For instance the Patriot missle defence failed on a number of occasions in the Gulf. The hit rate being from zero to ten percent. Remember the so called stealth aircraft that's been hit on a number of occasions by ground fire. You should be very sceptic of claims promising unrealistic hitech solutions.
Assuming they actually hit a live missile with the laser, isn't it going to explode and crash on a highly populated area. Personally I would like to live in a country where they didn't fire missiles at passenger aircraft. Who made and sold the missles to the terrorists in the first place.
What they are selling is so much snake oil. Yet another huge contract funded by the endless coffers of the US tax payer. The real headline should be 'Northrop makes a bundle out of bogus ballistic missiles threats'.
"The reason the fine is less than what had been threatened in the press"
Can you provide any citation from the commision to a reduction in fine for good behavour. There is a December reference to a $2m per day from the Commision. Which if my arithmetic is correct, is one million less then the current fine.
"Microsoft met with the EU Trustee Neil Barrett, who "clarified the requirements for the documents"."
Microsoft were compelled to 'meet' Barrett as they failed to comply with its ruling. What he actually said was the documents were "totally unfit for its intended purpose".
You put that as if MS was the concerned party somehow trying to play honest broker to the nasty Commision. In fact MS were compelled to 'meet' Neil Barrett after they first tried to have him removed. You see the Commision is a legally conviened body in judgement of Microsofts' misconduct. It's not as if the guilty party gets to 'meet' the Judge and 'clarify' things for him.
"Barrett also provided Microsoft with "aggressive series of deadlines" for providing the documentation in accordance with the clarified requirements."
So its the Commision who's at fault for not clarifying requirments. Instead of what is really happening, MS wilfully ignoring the instruction to open the protocols to third party developers.
"Since that time, Microsoft has been working overtime to provide the documentation,"
If they are complient why are they being fined $357m and a further $3m euros per day?
"Microsoft has met all milestones in the "series of deadlines" laid down by Barret"
If they are complient why are they being fined $357m and a further $3m euros per day?
"the EU knows that Microsoft provided the new documentation in good faith, and they'll just work with Microsoft to address any further deficiencies."
If Microsoft provided the new documentation in good faith why are they being fined $3 million per day.
Why does the Commision need to 'work with Microsoft'? Did Leona Helmsley get to 'work' with the Judge when she was caught cheeting on taxes?
In real life, are you a PR hack for Microsoft?
Is slashdot becoming totally overrun with MS.Astroturfers?
"The problem with windows security is primarily one of legacy support."
Noncense, backward compatibility should not break security. Windows was sold as suitable for secure use in a networked environment. It was even given C2 security certification. The problem is the WinNT memory management unit running under the x86 processor. Something that was first tackled under Linux with Exec Shield. The Windows version called NX can be bypassed as otherwise JIT bytecode won't work.
"inter-processes communication was flawed lacking any authentication method, kernel / userland seperation was virtually nonexistant,"
Wait a minute WinNT was touted as being more secure because of it's use of operating modes. Ring 0 had full access while user apps were restricted to Ring 3, the highest restriction. At least that was the theory.
"these issues persisted right up till XP when microsoft started to take security seriously with SP2."
"Microsoft just like the rest of us is new to the whole OS design thing."
When Microsoft hired on the Digital VAX/VMS team they had an oppurtunity to design a secure OS. Most of the defects in the OS can be traced to managment decisions to favor features over security. Embedding Internet Explorer in the OS was one such decision.
"What needs to be done is.. implement a version of windows that incorporates everything we've learned over the last 20 years or so"
If by "We" you mean Microsoft, "We" haven't learned anything since 1988, 18 years ago. Why wait, why not upgrade to SuSE, all the eye candy of Vista without the security vulnerabilities.
I see a lot of this kind of revisionist history on the Internet and in the media. Is there a whole department that does nothing all day but pollute the athmosphere with self serving distortions such as this. How anyone say this with a straight face is beyond me.
'the security kernel of the Windows NT server software was written before the Internet,
and the Windows Server 2003 software was written
before buffer overflows became a frequent target of recent attacks'
A curious mix of flawed logic, marketing waffle and technical language.
"Probably most surprising was the solid performance that came from the.. mix of a Windows server and open-source components.. businesses should seriously consider the combo for their enterprise applications."
fud.alert: LAMP runs better on Windows.
Why would anyone move to Windows to use Open Source? Don't you still have to pay per simultaneous connection.
"Microsoft's.Net stack performed very well in our tests, clearly showing the benefits of the tight integration among each of the stack components"
How does 'tight integration', which is a function of how easy the sysop maintains the system, affect the efficiency of a running 'stack'. Does the stack know it is better 'integrated' and therefore runs like a happy bunny?
"JBoss Portal is relatively immature.. JBoss Portal on Windows performed considerably better than JBoss on.. CentOS"
fud.injection: JBoss on CentOS is immature. JBoss on Windows is better.
"we credit this strong showing to the high level of integration that exists among the components of this stack. While most of the open-source and Java systems are developed independently of each other, each of the.Net components is designed specifically to integrate and perform well together"
fud.injection: open-source and Java don't perform well together. Open Source runs better under Windows. Oh please Mr. Manager don't move off that Windows boxen.
"Neither the open-source nor the Windows communities seem to be able to accept a marriage of open-source server components and Windows operating systems"
What licensing restriction do the current ms.EULA put on Open Source projects developed with\and for Windows? Name any possible benefit that would be obtained by running Open Source on Windows? And don't mention the ease of use GUI. A proper sysop writes scripts to maintain the system.
"there are many IT managers attempting to run open-source.. on Windows.., no doubt, to the benefits and efficiencies of using open source without having to become Linux administrators"
How by any logic is it easier on Windows? This totally fails the logic test. Apache on Windows requires the same kind of config as Linux. Name any Open Source app that is easier to maintain under Windows. Provide concrete examples not opinion.
"JBoss on Windows far outpacing its Linux brethren"
I'm sure Marc Fleury would be interested in how Microsoft managed to get JBoss running faster on Windows.
"Enterprise IT managers shouldn't hesitate to look into the option of deploying open-source stacks on a Windows Server platform."
Yea, remember you still have your yearly tithe to pay Redmond. That's five seperate times in that article that you advised people to stick to 'open-source' on Windows. I do believe we have now all fully gotten the sub.text.
"I switched from Windows ME a few months ago after having saved enough money to get Windows XP.. there isn't much to worry about from getting spyware, adware, and computer virii."
Why the wait, download and burn a copy of SuSE Linux and you won't have to worry about 'computer virii'.
"I had the notion.. the Linux community was too arrogant to help out any new people with basic problems"
Not my experience, for instance I posted to the Mpeg4IP forum and got a polite and helpfull reply from one of the developers.
It's ironic that a 'commercial' software house is being patent trolled especially after recent statements from Oracle regarding taking other peoples intellectual property.
"We can just take Red Hat's intellectual property and make it ours, they just don't have it."
Slashdot Mirror
"OSS fanboy alert..."
...
If praising OSS makes me a 'fanboy' what exactly does that make you?
"MS Office starts up in a couple of seconds, OO can take up to a minute. Anyone but the most hardened of zealots can admit this."
With the quickstart applet and increasing cache memory, it open up as fast as msOffice. After the first use it's slightly faster.
troll alert: mod -9
keywords: fanboy, hardened, zealots
"an innate fear of snakes is one of the very few visible human instincts"
I recall seeing a documentary where they introduced snakes into a cage full of very young primates. They showed no fear until shown adults reacting in fear. A clear case of learned reaction. It would be difficult to perform such an experiment with babies, I would imagine.
As a side issue, why do dogs, as they bed down, curl their rear to the side while rotating and settling lower on their haunches. Is it to displace any creepy crawlies that might be lurking there.
Wouldn't a data centre have a number of UPS and a standby generator? I figure they did an 'upgrade' that didn't take.
"Our (very small) business recently migrated *away* from Open Office"
..
What was the name of this business?
Why did it migrate to OpenOffice in the first place?
What did you use before migrating to Open Office?
"Since changing to office our productivity on certain tasks such as collaboratively authoring"
Neither msOffice nor OpenOffice are suitable for such a purpose. What you need is some kind of CVS system only in this case to handle rich text files.
"We just send the latest version and they send it back with the edits marked in track changes"
Reminds me of an architects office I did some work for. 'A' emailed a doc to 'B' who worked on it and emailed it to 'C' who emailed it back to 'A'. Meanwhile 'D' worked on the 'C' version and emailed it to 'F' who emailed it in turn to back to 'A'. Question: which one is the 'current' version?
"Openoffice has to be really, really easy for someone to use who is familiar with office (its getting closer, but a long way to go)"
I've tried a few msOffice users on OpenOffice and they can't tell the difference!
"its ability to save to and read from office formats needs to be a lot better than it currently is"
Oh, I forgot: A, B, C, D, E and F all have different versions of msOffice. B can only read files sent from A etc
"Openoffice is slow, awkward to use and lacks a lot of features"
...
On this computer, Open Office opens and runs just as fast as msOffice under Windows. Most people stick to open/spellcheck/save/print. It doesn't matter how many feetures, you still have to pay someone to work the computer.
"after all time is not worthless"
fud injection alert
A customized home page, 2005 + a Blog, 1993 + Usenet 1979, + IRC, 1993 + E-mail, 1970 + a pile of adverts ...
Who at IBM did the directing?
What are the names of these LTC developers?
What are the names of the outside developers?
What is the name of tne one IBM Linux developer?
In what context and to whom did he 'admit' things?
How did SCO come across this 'evidence'?
"written for Linux while referring to Dynix code on his computer"
If SCO has at least one IBM developer who 'admits' to copying Dynix code into Linux then why not produce him.
"Weeks after SCO filed its lawsuit, IBM directed 'dozens' of its Linux developers...to delete the AIX and/or Dynix source code from their computers," SCO's objection claims.
"One IBM Linux developer has admitted to destroying source code and tests, as well as pre-March 2003 drafts of source code he had written for Linux while referring to Dynix code on his computer,"
"allowing other search engines like Google to be set by default"
I see, Microsoft allows me to set the default search engine on my own computer and that's enough for a whole article.
"Credit and debit card firms will find it easier to cancel the cards of online paedophiles under a planned new law"
Like what was stopping them up to now?
"The move has long been urged by charities and card issuers"
Like who exactly?
""The amendment will allow card issuers to receive information on card usage from the police."
Why do the card issuers need to contact the police to read their own records?
"The issuers said this will free them to terminate the contract with the cardholder and cancel the cards"
What prevents the card issuers from terminating such contracts?
"With this change in the law our members will have the information they need to remove offenders' cards"
What information do you not already posess, to know who is accessing kiddie porn sites using your cards? The kiddie porn sites are advertising on the net, they have a contract with your company, your customers are transfering funds to such sites. What do you not know already?
So that's money launderers, terrorists and paedophiles all given a mention. Where's mention of hackors?
ROTHERO Do you believe this crap, Dascombe?
DASCOMBE It's not our job to believe it, Lewis. Our job is to tell the people.
"Locksmith .. has been incorporated into .. you may purchase the emergency-download version of ERD Commander 2005"
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"As financial transactions are completed ever more quickly .. this problem should be largely addressed by the ID cards programme."
.. can be liable if he .. is capable of encouraging or assisting another person .. in relation to [an] offence he believes will be committed"
..encouragement .. and .. believes .. offences .. will be committed .. but he is unclear which offence it will be [and] he is indifferent as to whether it is committed"
.. could not escape prosecution by arguing that they were not absolutely certain that the offence would take place."
.. Act, should .. lead to a greater number of convictions .. as .. those on the periphery should be persuaded to testify against their bosses in return for discounted sentences"
"a person
"would be liable where his conduct has the capacity to provide
"we also need to ensure that those
"The decision as to what level of belief should be required for this offence will need to be carefully thought through."
"the powers provided by the
"will the code virus's evolution be something benign like the common cold"
,hritcu
To continue this analogy how about innoculating the system against future atacks. Create a processor that scrambles the microcode table. It has a run mode and an install mode. At install mode it scrambles the OP codes in the program to match the table. Any forign code attempting to run is stoped dead in its tracks.
Or how to fix Windows. Create an embedded OS that runs an emulator that provides API functions to the applications. That way dot.NET would still be able to run without the security lapses. Oh, I just remembered with Embedded Java we would have had a safe and secure Internet years ago if his billness hadn't sabotaged it on the PC.
"Because you and most other dummies are using a highly insecure operating system"
Not I, its SuSE Linux. Personally I don't see Linux making the huge impact it deserves until the average dummy can walk into the high street shop and buy one.
The real story is why are we still getting 'Internet viruses' in the latter half of 2006 and why don't these 'security vendors' produce a soluton to the problem.
I once worked for a 'business' manager and spent two month collating accounts data into a spreadsheet. He couldn't understand the concept of backups and stored the one copy of the file in the C:\progra~1\excell directory and was in the habit of deleting the entire directory once a week.
"they will use outside vendors to gain those skills"
What he means is when they want to appear 'managerial' they hire in a systems analyst to tell them what their own staff already know. You get the work done in spite of them. And usually better when they are out of the office.
"business analysts in business units answer to business executives, with a dotted line to the CIO"
And the PHB gets to pretend to know what he is doing to earn ten time your salary. That article is just so much self congradulatory wishfull thinking. 'Oh, for the day when us PHB don't need the IT dept'.
When they start making up bogus cod technological tets you know it's just so much hot air.
See here for a software application masquerading as Business Intelligence
Now excuse me while I go upstairs and show some idiot how to email an attachment - for the tenth time.
"the tapes were taken by MIB in order to conceal alien spacecraft"
The photographic evidence is irrefutable.
'You can't sit a child in front of a computer and expect him to learn things he needs to succeed in society,'
Not much different than sitting at a desk as some teacher reads a book outloud while simultaneously writing it out on a blackboard. You write what's on the board into a jotter. At the end of the 'lesson' he walks out without ever making eye contact.
The only skill I ever learned in education was how to stand up or sit down at the sound of a bell.
Actually, it wasn't the human operators but the AEGIS System itself that failed. As the ship was engaged in violent maneuvering at over 30 knots it mistakenly flaged an aircraft climbing as one in descent. At the time it was considered political to blame the operators rather than admit a multi-dollar system was defective. I recently remember a documentry on UK television as sugesting that while the display actually showed a 'safe' reading the fatigued operator saw 'danger'.
I don't want to fly into any airport with an automated laser capable of shooting holes in aircraft. There is no system devised by man that will work perfectly all the time. For instance the Patriot missle defence failed on a number of occasions in the Gulf. The hit rate being from zero to ten percent. Remember the so called stealth aircraft that's been hit on a number of occasions by ground fire. You should be very sceptic of claims promising unrealistic hitech solutions.
Assuming they actually hit a live missile with the laser, isn't it going to explode and crash on a highly populated area. Personally I would like to live in a country where they didn't fire missiles at passenger aircraft. Who made and sold the missles to the terrorists in the first place.
What they are selling is so much snake oil. Yet another huge contract funded by the endless coffers of the US tax payer. The real headline should be 'Northrop makes a bundle out of bogus ballistic missiles threats'.
LyX ... forgot the link
"you .. write .. using LaTeX's markup language and 'compile'.. look at it in xpdf, find the layout/grammar bugs, and repeat."
.. or watch out MS.Astroturfers on board ..
"The reason the fine is less than what had been threatened in the press"
Can you provide any citation from the commision to a reduction in fine for good behavour. There is a December reference to a $2m per day from the Commision. Which if my arithmetic is correct, is one million less then the current fine.
"Microsoft met with the EU Trustee Neil Barrett, who "clarified the requirements for the documents"."
Microsoft were compelled to 'meet' Barrett as they failed to comply with its ruling. What he actually said was the documents were "totally unfit for its intended purpose".
You put that as if MS was the concerned party somehow trying to play honest broker to the nasty Commision. In fact MS were compelled to 'meet' Neil Barrett after they first tried to have him removed. You see the Commision is a legally conviened body in judgement of Microsofts' misconduct. It's not as if the guilty party gets to 'meet' the Judge and 'clarify' things for him.
"Barrett also provided Microsoft with "aggressive series of deadlines" for providing the documentation in accordance with the clarified requirements."
So its the Commision who's at fault for not clarifying requirments. Instead of what is really happening, MS wilfully ignoring the instruction to open the protocols to third party developers.
"Since that time, Microsoft has been working overtime to provide the documentation,"
If they are complient why are they being fined $357m and a further $3m euros per day?
"Microsoft has met all milestones in the "series of deadlines" laid down by Barret"
If they are complient why are they being fined $357m and a further $3m euros per day?
"the EU knows that Microsoft provided the new documentation in good faith, and they'll just work with Microsoft to address any further deficiencies."
If Microsoft provided the new documentation in good faith why are they being fined $3 million per day.
Why does the Commision need to 'work with Microsoft'? Did Leona Helmsley get to 'work' with the Judge when she was caught cheeting on taxes?
In real life, are you a PR hack for Microsoft?
Is slashdot becoming totally overrun with MS.Astroturfers?
"The problem with windows security is primarily one of legacy support."
.. implement a version of windows that incorporates everything we've learned over the last 20 years or so"
Noncense, backward compatibility should not break security. Windows was sold as suitable for secure use in a networked environment. It was even given C2 security certification. The problem is the WinNT memory management unit running under the x86 processor. Something that was first tackled under Linux with Exec Shield. The Windows version called NX can be bypassed as otherwise JIT bytecode won't work.
"inter-processes communication was flawed lacking any authentication method, kernel / userland seperation was virtually nonexistant,"
Wait a minute WinNT was touted as being more secure because of it's use of operating modes. Ring 0 had full access while user apps were restricted to Ring 3, the highest restriction. At least that was the theory.
"these issues persisted right up till XP when microsoft started to take security seriously with SP2."
Er, They still persist. See here, much of this code is included in Windows Server 2003 and will be included in Longhorn
"Microsoft just like the rest of us is new to the whole OS design thing."
When Microsoft hired on the Digital VAX/VMS team they had an oppurtunity to design a secure OS. Most of the defects in the OS can be traced to managment decisions to favor features over security. Embedding Internet Explorer in the OS was one such decision.
"What needs to be done is
If by "We" you mean Microsoft, "We" haven't learned anything since 1988, 18 years ago. Why wait, why not upgrade to SuSE, all the eye candy of Vista without the security vulnerabilities.
I see a lot of this kind of revisionist history on the Internet and in the media. Is there a whole department that does nothing all day but pollute the athmosphere with self serving distortions such as this. How anyone say this with a straight face is beyond me.
'the security kernel of the Windows NT server software was written before the Internet,
and the Windows Server 2003 software was written
before buffer overflows became a frequent target of recent attacks'
David Aucsmith, Security Architect, Microsoft.
A curious mix of flawed logic, marketing waffle and technical language.
.. mix of a Windows server and open-source components .. businesses should seriously consider the combo for their enterprise applications."
.Net stack performed very well in our tests, clearly showing the benefits of the tight integration among each of the stack components"
.. JBoss Portal on Windows performed considerably better than JBoss on .. CentOS"
.Net components is designed specifically to integrate and perform well together"
.. on Windows .., no doubt, to the benefits and efficiencies of using open source without having to become Linux administrators"
"Probably most surprising was the solid performance that came from the
fud.alert: LAMP runs better on Windows.
Why would anyone move to Windows to use Open Source? Don't you still have to pay per simultaneous connection.
"Microsoft's
How does 'tight integration', which is a function of how easy the sysop maintains the system, affect the efficiency of a running 'stack'. Does the stack know it is better 'integrated' and therefore runs like a happy bunny?
"JBoss Portal is relatively immature
fud.injection: JBoss on CentOS is immature. JBoss on Windows is better.
"we credit this strong showing to the high level of integration that exists among the components of this stack. While most of the open-source and Java systems are developed independently of each other, each of the
fud.injection: open-source and Java don't perform well together. Open Source runs better under Windows. Oh please Mr. Manager don't move off that Windows boxen.
"Neither the open-source nor the Windows communities seem to be able to accept a marriage of open-source server components and Windows operating systems"
What licensing restriction do the current ms.EULA put on Open Source projects developed with\and for Windows? Name any possible benefit that would be obtained by running Open Source on Windows? And don't mention the ease of use GUI. A proper sysop writes scripts to maintain the system.
"there are many IT managers attempting to run open-source
How by any logic is it easier on Windows? This totally fails the logic test. Apache on Windows requires the same kind of config as Linux. Name any Open Source app that is easier to maintain under Windows. Provide concrete examples not opinion.
"JBoss on Windows far outpacing its Linux brethren"
I'm sure Marc Fleury would be interested in how Microsoft managed to get JBoss running faster on Windows.
"Enterprise IT managers shouldn't hesitate to look into the option of deploying open-source stacks on a Windows Server platform."
Yea, remember you still have your yearly tithe to pay Redmond. That's five seperate times in that article that you advised people to stick to 'open-source' on Windows. I do believe we have now all fully gotten the sub.text.
"I switched from Windows ME a few months ago after having saved enough money to get Windows XP .. there isn't much to worry about from getting spyware, adware, and computer virii."
.. the Linux community was too arrogant to help out any new people with basic problems"
Why the wait, download and burn a copy of SuSE Linux and you won't have to worry about 'computer virii'.
"I had the notion
Not my experience, for instance I posted to the Mpeg4IP forum and got a polite and helpfull reply from one of the developers.
It's ironic that a 'commercial' software house is being patent trolled especially after recent statements from Oracle regarding taking other peoples intellectual property.
"We can just take Red Hat's intellectual property and make it ours, they just don't have it."
Larry Ellison