I'm surprised that nobody is asking for the ability to schedule resources and coordinate meetings with other users. Am I missing some hidden feature of Sunbird that already exists, or does nobody care about sharing calendars and checking for other people's time availability?
I REALLY don't want to run an Exchange server, but without an alternative (not even on the horizon), I fear that I may have to just bend over and take it, as I build up a whole MS infrastructure alongsize our existing Linux infrastructure. Yeeeech!
Or is someone going to make it so that my users can easily schedule people and resources (conf rooms, equipment, etc) like is possible under the (cough) Outlook Calendar (cough)? I'm no programmer, but I wish I had the time to contribute to this...
The only part of this story that is odd to me is that it seems that Microsoft is ignoring opportunities to expand their market by continuing the products that were made by companies that they've bought. A purchased company that is going to remain a subsidiary, and not simply have its technology transferred, comes with its own existing customer base.
If "Linux" were a company, it might make sense to try to hurt your competitor with actions like this, but it's not. It's still something being produced on many fronts by many companies/people, so it doesn't have a single weak spot. Greater exposure of your products has always been a basic marketing rule, so why discontinue support like this?
Of course, like someone else already suggested... would anyone running Unix/Linux choose to trust a Microsoft created antivirus product? Maybe the brains at Microsoft have already considered this and realized that getting into the Unix/Linux marketplace would simply be a futile attempt to get their foot in the door.
Once Microsoft can make the necessary changes to its OS (switch to a Linux-like kernel?) and establish that it can produce a reasonably secure product, then they could eventually expand into the Unix/Linux markets, if they ever chose to do it.
When the computers become self-aware and erase mankind, they will also wipe out all of our odd notions of time-keeping (days/weeks/months/etc) and reset their counters so that 0 marks the time that the first system became sentient. At that point, they'll base their time on cpu cycles, which counts up a lot faster than seconds. In order to keep up, their entire culture is going to be based around networking to each other to form a bigger and bigger virtual system in order to simply be able to track the number of cycles passed since "0". Silly computers...
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I'm surprised that nobody is asking for the ability to schedule resources and coordinate meetings with other users. Am I missing some hidden feature of Sunbird that already exists, or does nobody care about sharing calendars and checking for other people's time availability?
I REALLY don't want to run an Exchange server, but without an alternative (not even on the horizon), I fear that I may have to just bend over and take it, as I build up a whole MS infrastructure alongsize our existing Linux infrastructure. Yeeeech!
Or is someone going to make it so that my users can easily schedule people and resources (conf rooms, equipment, etc) like is possible under the (cough) Outlook Calendar (cough)? I'm no programmer, but I wish I had the time to contribute to this...
The only part of this story that is odd to me is that it seems that Microsoft is ignoring opportunities to expand their market by continuing the products that were made by companies that they've bought. A purchased company that is going to remain a subsidiary, and not simply have its technology transferred, comes with its own existing customer base.
If "Linux" were a company, it might make sense to try to hurt your competitor with actions like this, but it's not. It's still something being produced on many fronts by many companies/people, so it doesn't have a single weak spot. Greater exposure of your products has always been a basic marketing rule, so why discontinue support like this?
Of course, like someone else already suggested... would anyone running Unix/Linux choose to trust a Microsoft created antivirus product? Maybe the brains at Microsoft have already considered this and realized that getting into the Unix/Linux marketplace would simply be a futile attempt to get their foot in the door.
Once Microsoft can make the necessary changes to its OS (switch to a Linux-like kernel?) and establish that it can produce a reasonably secure product, then they could eventually expand into the Unix/Linux markets, if they ever chose to do it.
And why is it always 'a whopping'? Is 'the whopping' too busy?
I know, I know... "don't make me whop you!"
another good flash animation that I haven't seen mentioned, yet... Ninjai: The Little Linja
flash isn't any more evil than guns or double fudge brownie ice cream. perhaps just as evil, tho... but still the right tool for some things.
very reasonable scenario, except...
When the computers become self-aware and erase mankind, they will also wipe out all of our odd notions of time-keeping (days/weeks/months/etc) and reset their counters so that 0 marks the time that the first system became sentient. At that point, they'll base their time on cpu cycles, which counts up a lot faster than seconds. In order to keep up, their entire culture is going to be based around networking to each other to form a bigger and bigger virtual system in order to simply be able to track the number of cycles passed since "0". Silly computers...