The govt should not mandate open source purchases. No sir. They should just download the thing and use it.
Seriously though that's one advantage OSS has over other software right now. Let's say you work in some govt office and you need a presentation program. YOu could fill out a requisition, wait for it to be approved, wait for it to be ordered, wait for it to arrive and then install it and use it. OR you could download open office and start using it today! The best part? you don't have to miss your budget targets.
I have noticed that MS is pushing governents to put beuracratic hurdles to open source so they too recognize how powerful of an incentive this is.
By sending you a doc file your city is de-facto mandating that you buy MS office. When the deferal govt does something like this it's called an unfunded mandate.
Sure we defeated nazi germany but in doing so we empowered communist russia. We defeated japan and empowered communist china.
Look at all the purges in russia and china after WWII and tell me it was all worth it?
I honestly think WWII was a push. We traded one set of evil governments for another. In fact it could be argued that empowering russia and china triggered a chain of events which got us involved in vietnam.
" In other words, he should scrap what he knows or find a new intriguing way to convert it in management abilities ?"
In a nutshell yes. It may not be fair but people are not interested in hiring 30+ or 40+ programmers. At that age you are expected to be in management of some sort.
Every major CRM/ERP software has spectacular failures. SAP, Peoplesoft, Seibel etc. The company I worked for once spent millions of dollars for a seibel deployment and threw it away after three years of trying to make it work.
Buying something off the shelf does not guarantee you success.
Even if you buy you have to write tons of custom software. Applications like SAP, Seibel etc are not like a word processor where you just install and launch, they are more like application frameworks where you "script" using some proprietary language to make the application do what you want. Most corporations who have deployed these types of applications have a team of developers who do nothing but code in it all day long. Check monster.com for SAP or Seibel jobs and see.
Of course these "applications" give you a ton of functionality and maybe it's better to start with that then to roll your own but I think it's a tough call. They cost millions and take months if not years to implement.
Finally there is no shortage of companies which tried to implement a monolithic system and gave up after spending tens of millions of dollars. Spectacular failures are not uncommon.
Well you have to make a choice. Are you going to be a programmer or are you going to be a manager.
Just because you are a good programmer that does not mean you will make a good manager and vice versa.
It's good that you are looking at alternatives though. In this economy I don't think you are expected to stay a programmer all your life. People expect forward progress on your resume and your managers are expecting some sort of an initive.
Finally you might have to leave your company. In may companies the chances of upward movement depend on turnover and unless you expect people above you to be retiring or quitting soon you should start looking for other opportunities.
First of all you don't have to apply for the credit cards. Secondly applying for one card will not harm your credit. Granted if you are applying for a ton of cards then it might hurt your credit but you only have to apply for one.
If sony was smart they would aim this shot right at the PC/OS market. Put together PCs with the cell processor running linux and place them in every retailer with a sharp demo and see MS sweat bricks.
They pretty much had to make a product like this. You had mac cubes selling on ebay for four to five hundred dollars a piece. Obviously there was a pent up demand for a small, cheap mac with no monitor.
It's actually the ideal home server.
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Wait till it gets to the supreme court before celebrating.
I doubt the republicans on the supereme court will agree with this ruling. Expect to see it shot down along party lines.
if you subsituted the word "sex" for pr0n you'd be 100% correct.
The govt should not mandate open source purchases. No sir. They should just download the thing and use it.
Seriously though that's one advantage OSS has over other software right now. Let's say you work in some govt office and you need a presentation program. YOu could fill out a requisition, wait for it to be approved, wait for it to be ordered, wait for it to arrive and then install it and use it. OR you could download open office and start using it today! The best part? you don't have to miss your budget targets.
I have noticed that MS is pushing governents to put beuracratic hurdles to open source so they too recognize how powerful of an incentive this is.
By sending you a doc file your city is de-facto mandating that you buy MS office. When the deferal govt does something like this it's called an unfunded mandate.
It also involves reconfiguring your email client to use the proxy. For your average joe this is unacceptable.
1) they have to install a new software (presuming they have admin priv)
2) They have to reconfigure their email client.
Why is this easier then installing a pgp plug in to your email app? It's not.
Why not?
Sure we defeated nazi germany but in doing so we empowered communist russia. We defeated japan and empowered communist china.
Look at all the purges in russia and china after WWII and tell me it was all worth it?
I honestly think WWII was a push. We traded one set of evil governments for another. In fact it could be argued that empowering russia and china triggered a chain of events which got us involved in vietnam.
Yes sometimes it's better to let things be.
" In other words, he should scrap what he knows or find a new intriguing way to convert it in management abilities ?" In a nutshell yes. It may not be fair but people are not interested in hiring 30+ or 40+ programmers. At that age you are expected to be in management of some sort.
Every major CRM/ERP software has spectacular failures. SAP, Peoplesoft, Seibel etc. The company I worked for once spent millions of dollars for a seibel deployment and threw it away after three years of trying to make it work. Buying something off the shelf does not guarantee you success.
Even if you buy you have to write tons of custom software. Applications like SAP, Seibel etc are not like a word processor where you just install and launch, they are more like application frameworks where you "script" using some proprietary language to make the application do what you want. Most corporations who have deployed these types of applications have a team of developers who do nothing but code in it all day long. Check monster.com for SAP or Seibel jobs and see. Of course these "applications" give you a ton of functionality and maybe it's better to start with that then to roll your own but I think it's a tough call. They cost millions and take months if not years to implement. Finally there is no shortage of companies which tried to implement a monolithic system and gave up after spending tens of millions of dollars. Spectacular failures are not uncommon.
Well you have to make a choice. Are you going to be a programmer or are you going to be a manager. Just because you are a good programmer that does not mean you will make a good manager and vice versa. It's good that you are looking at alternatives though. In this economy I don't think you are expected to stay a programmer all your life. People expect forward progress on your resume and your managers are expecting some sort of an initive. Finally you might have to leave your company. In may companies the chances of upward movement depend on turnover and unless you expect people above you to be retiring or quitting soon you should start looking for other opportunities.
First of all you don't have to apply for the credit cards. Secondly applying for one card will not harm your credit. Granted if you are applying for a ton of cards then it might hurt your credit but you only have to apply for one.
If sony was smart they would aim this shot right at the PC/OS market. Put together PCs with the cell processor running linux and place them in every retailer with a sharp demo and see MS sweat bricks.
They pretty much had to make a product like this. You had mac cubes selling on ebay for four to five hundred dollars a piece. Obviously there was a pent up demand for a small, cheap mac with no monitor. It's actually the ideal home server.