While I may disagree with some of the details of the strategic analysis, I know exactly what the author is talking about. I use linux at work and prefer it, but the browser is not just a tool to view the outside world, it's a tool for communicating and collaborating in the work environment. To keep up, I have to struggle and tweak my workstation and that's not what I'm paid to do.
Unfortunately, it's not the browser weakness, it's the Java weakness that sinks interaction with the web. This in turn affects ecommerce which is just as important in business to business transactions as consumer ones.
If the desktop role is important, browsing has to become solid, reliable and fluent.
The concept is great. There are lots of organizations that want office suites, collaborative software and centralized databases, but they don't have the resources and expertise to run a serious network.
If you were say, a gov't office, you could buy a ton of thin clients and contract out the operations. If a thin client breaks, buy a new one.
There are lots of issues about security and the appropriateness of the architecture model to the organization, but on the whole it's the way to go.
The journalist tries to hype up the result as somehow overturning a "universal truth", that is, ubiquity of the gaussian bell curve.
First, the bell curve is ubiquitous because so many random processes satisfy the assumptions of the Central Limit Theorem. (finiteness...)
However, there are lots of natural phenomena that don't meet those requirements and so we use lots of probability distributions in science. Lorentzian and Poisson distributions come to mind.
It's fascinating, but unsurprising that self-similarity leads to a different kind of probability distribution.
The journalist heads into "Golly Gee" territory once he starts calling it a "Universal Curve".
When I bought RH 5.2 from the Yahoo online merchant, what was labeled "Red Hat Linux" turned out to be Macmillan's repackaged version. Macmillian adds stuff and provides support but I DID think I was buying the official RH Linux. The price was about right so I didn't think twice about pushing the "Buy" button.
I for one want what I buy to be spelled out clearly. So not only to the resellers have to say that this is their version of what RH is publishing but vendors need to make sure it's labeled correctly on their site.
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While I may disagree with some of the details
of the strategic analysis, I know exactly what
the author is talking about. I use linux at
work and prefer it, but the browser is not just
a tool to view the outside world, it's a tool
for communicating and collaborating in the work
environment. To keep up, I have to struggle and
tweak my workstation and that's not what I'm paid
to do.
Unfortunately, it's not the browser weakness, it's
the Java weakness that sinks interaction with
the web. This in turn affects ecommerce which is
just as important in business to business transactions as consumer ones.
If the desktop role is important, browsing has
to become solid, reliable and fluent.
DK
If you were say, a gov't office, you could buy a ton of thin clients and contract out the operations. If a thin client breaks, buy a new one.
There are lots of issues about security and the appropriateness of the architecture model to
the organization, but on the whole it's the way to go.
First, the bell curve is ubiquitous because so many random processes satisfy the assumptions of the Central Limit Theorem. (finiteness...)
However, there are lots of natural phenomena that don't meet those requirements and so we use lots of probability distributions in science. Lorentzian and Poisson distributions come to mind.
It's fascinating, but unsurprising that self-similarity leads to a different kind of probability distribution.
The journalist heads into "Golly Gee" territory once he starts calling it a "Universal Curve".
DK
I for one want what I buy to be spelled out clearly. So not only to the resellers have to say that this is their version of what RH is publishing but vendors need to make sure it's labeled correctly on their site.
DK