It's strange how most slahdotters are fundamentally Luddites. Controlling for genes that are linked to alcoholism or schizophrenia are no-brainer ways of employing technology. Parents already make decisions on a wide range of items that will affect their children well into adulthood from their diet to whether they will be sexually mutilated (circumcised) and society has no problems with it.
watch the D8 conference with ozzie and monkeyboy being interviews...very ackward.... ballmer was clueless about the cloud and amazon... and ozzie actually made some sense... ozzie then gets sacked
Wasn't Vista supposed to have some amazing new file system as well? At least one year it out when all the cool new features of the OS were announced. In the end nothing shipped and it took another 3 years after that to clean up the mess with Win 7.
Win 8 smells like a disaster in the making.
Oh yes poor Intel got really screwed and abused by Microsoft...and those suckers at Dell and HP as well. And of course the smart hardware providers like Sun and SGI who would never compromise their moral compass by using inferior MS software - they did really swell.
your statements are fatuous...if you have one ounce of business sense you can make a killing as a hardware partner with the evil empire..
how many macs do you have? If you have 5000+ Macs how are you going to do AV management, configuratin management, configuration drift and all the other operations management service lines you need in an enteprise to be ITIL and CoBIT compliant?
it takes 5-10 years to get your foot in the enterprise.. assuming you have decent product out there...so we're not going to see mac's in the enterprise any time soon.
I think the majority was willing to give Ballmer a chance on this deal and prove himself...of course there were vocal critics who were against it all along....but overall he did a good job standing his ground and when push came to shove didn't get suckered into overpaying.
Unfortunately, Yang freaked out and really blew his chance to be a statesman and make the big deal.
End result: Yahoo! will tank big time and retreat into oblivion. And I for one am glad that Microsoft still has it!
This happened to my boss as well... I don't want to be dismissive but I think this disillusionment has little to do with IT and would likely happen if you were in any other profession.
SCOM is similar to HP Openview, TEC and BMC Patrol.... tools that happen to have a visual representation of your environment and limited management...nothing to do with a Linux distro.
Notes has pretty much been dead since Ray Ozzie left IBM. This is fairly typical of IBM...buy an innovative product and milk it for 3-5-10 years.
This last "refresh" is merely a way of decreasing the attrition rate to Exchange rather than a honest attempt at competing. Now IT managers have an excuse for hanging on to Notes for a couple more years..,
The dramatic price drop is the ultimate last gasp - similar to selling the Corel suite for $79 instead of $399. I really don't see any sub 1000 person enteprise doing a Greenfield Notes install let alone a conversion from Exchange.
Shared mail - you mean Single Instante Storage?
Most of the DBs now are in the 100-200GB range with 4-8 storage groups so SIS does have it's limits but still works quite well. Anyone who's serious about "shared storage" will start using an archiving and data de-duping solution instead of relying on the native capabilities of the application anyway.
Exactly...if the art department uses Macs that's doable...once you get into enterprise and back end apps like Exchange, SCOM, and AD you soon see the limitations of rolling out the Mac company wide.
The difference between Entourage 2008 and Outlook 2007 is a good example from the client en. On a superficial level they both do the same thing but if you're in Outlook 10+ hours a day you'll soon notice Entourage is no substitute.
Ya...pissing off our closest ally and the de-facto protector of our "sovergnty" is a really good idea.
So once we actually spot US warships in our arctic with our fancy satellite what will we do about it? Send our 4 WWII submarines to intercept and destroy them? Stop trading with the US to punish them? Or ooohh..how about we send a diplomatic note and withdrawing our ambassador from Washington.
The reality is is that the US-Canadian relationship is so lopsided that it's escaped our attention. Canadians that are actually making "sovereignty" arguments are so removed from reality they might as well be launched out to outer space.
that's the whole point...there is no money from the canadian government in space...even the canadarm and dextre piggyback on US missions because on their own they these investments would not make sense.
Canada can't even support it's puny military let alone a space program. The investment in RADARSAT 2 was about 400 million over 5+ years...and NASA can barely function on 13 billion a year.
the Brampton office has slowly been downsized and this looks like their only chance to prevent an eventual shutdown
What is not mentioned in these discussions is that MDA was already sold to a US company before, Orbital. Eventually Orbital got rid of MDA and it ended up with the Ontario Teachers Pensions as the largest investor.
There have been rumblings of a sale to a US defense firms for months... and the company has been sending out trial balloons with the most likely candidates to buy the company....with absolutely no protest.
But with a minority government this could be used a as political hot potato...hence the use of the jingoistic "sovereignty" card by the current administration...gets points with the voters but makes no business sense.
Even the unionized employees at the Brampton plant realize they are doomed if this sale doesn't go through and they've been lobbying for the sale.
I really loved it when Steve Jobs was pontificating how amazingly advanced the PowerPC chip was one month and then the following month switched to Intel because the x86 was so much superior.... Mac users just swallowed it whole.
It's the same reason that the VP of Facilities or Chief Counsel doesn't become CEO... these are roles that are fundamentally not core to most businesses. Marketing and financial shenanigans are 80% of what a corporate entity is about.
That's the worst demographics you can get - your product is loved by geriatrics. The marketing folks won't be putting granny in the commercials anytime soon and hope this news doesn't spread.
Hands down Exchange SP2 w/ Mobile 5 kicks Blackberry's ass but convincing crackberry users to switch is another matter. Convincing the C-level execs to go from Blackberry to iPaqs will be harder than it was getting them to switch from Eudora to Outlook.
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Windows 2012 has built-in post processes duping so just upgrade your system: http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2012/05/21/introduction-to-data-deduplication-in-windows-server-2012.aspx
It's strange how most slahdotters are fundamentally Luddites. Controlling for genes that are linked to alcoholism or schizophrenia are no-brainer ways of employing technology. Parents already make decisions on a wide range of items that will affect their children well into adulthood from their diet to whether they will be sexually mutilated (circumcised) and society has no problems with it.
You should always have a local copy... like with dropbox...
watch the D8 conference with ozzie and monkeyboy being interviews...very ackward.... ballmer was clueless about the cloud and amazon... and ozzie actually made some sense... ozzie then gets sacked
Socrates made this argument in the Meno a couple thousand years ago.
really... does anyone use CDs anymore? Especiallly CDs filled up with a bunch of crap?
Wasn't Vista supposed to have some amazing new file system as well? At least one year it out when all the cool new features of the OS were announced. In the end nothing shipped and it took another 3 years after that to clean up the mess with Win 7. Win 8 smells like a disaster in the making.
Oh yes poor Intel got really screwed and abused by Microsoft...and those suckers at Dell and HP as well. And of course the smart hardware providers like Sun and SGI who would never compromise their moral compass by using inferior MS software - they did really swell. your statements are fatuous ...if you have one ounce of business sense you can make a killing as a hardware partner with the evil empire..
how many macs do you have? If you have 5000+ Macs how are you going to do AV management, configuratin management, configuration drift and all the other operations management service lines you need in an enteprise to be ITIL and CoBIT compliant?
it takes 5-10 years to get your foot in the enterprise.. assuming you have decent product out there...so we're not going to see mac's in the enterprise any time soon.
I think the majority was willing to give Ballmer a chance on this deal and prove himself...of course there were vocal critics who were against it all along....but overall he did a good job standing his ground and when push came to shove didn't get suckered into overpaying. Unfortunately, Yang freaked out and really blew his chance to be a statesman and make the big deal. End result: Yahoo! will tank big time and retreat into oblivion. And I for one am glad that Microsoft still has it!
This happened to my boss as well... I don't want to be dismissive but I think this disillusionment has little to do with IT and would likely happen if you were in any other profession.
SCOM is similar to HP Openview, TEC and BMC Patrol.... tools that happen to have a visual representation of your environment and limited management...nothing to do with a Linux distro.
Notes has pretty much been dead since Ray Ozzie left IBM. This is fairly typical of IBM...buy an innovative product and milk it for 3-5-10 years. This last "refresh" is merely a way of decreasing the attrition rate to Exchange rather than a honest attempt at competing. Now IT managers have an excuse for hanging on to Notes for a couple more years.., The dramatic price drop is the ultimate last gasp - similar to selling the Corel suite for $79 instead of $399. I really don't see any sub 1000 person enteprise doing a Greenfield Notes install let alone a conversion from Exchange.
Shared mail - you mean Single Instante Storage? Most of the DBs now are in the 100-200GB range with 4-8 storage groups so SIS does have it's limits but still works quite well. Anyone who's serious about "shared storage" will start using an archiving and data de-duping solution instead of relying on the native capabilities of the application anyway.
Exactly...if the art department uses Macs that's doable...once you get into enterprise and back end apps like Exchange, SCOM, and AD you soon see the limitations of rolling out the Mac company wide. The difference between Entourage 2008 and Outlook 2007 is a good example from the client en. On a superficial level they both do the same thing but if you're in Outlook 10+ hours a day you'll soon notice Entourage is no substitute.
So once we actually spot US warships in our arctic with our fancy satellite what will we do about it? Send our 4 WWII submarines to intercept and destroy them? Stop trading with the US to punish them? Or ooohh..how about we send a diplomatic note and withdrawing our ambassador from Washington.
The reality is is that the US-Canadian relationship is so lopsided that it's escaped our attention. Canadians that are actually making "sovereignty" arguments are so removed from reality they might as well be launched out to outer space.
Here's a contrarian article on the subject: http://www.thestar.com/Canada/Columnist/article/413736
the Brampton office has slowly been downsized and this looks like their only chance to prevent an eventual shutdown
There have been rumblings of a sale to a US defense firms for months... and the company has been sending out trial balloons with the most likely candidates to buy the company....with absolutely no protest.
But with a minority government this could be used a as political hot potato...hence the use of the jingoistic "sovereignty" card by the current administration...gets points with the voters but makes no business sense.
Even the unionized employees at the Brampton plant realize they are doomed if this sale doesn't go through and they've been lobbying for the sale.
I really loved it when Steve Jobs was pontificating how amazingly advanced the PowerPC chip was one month and then the following month switched to Intel because the x86 was so much superior.... Mac users just swallowed it whole.
It's the same reason that the VP of Facilities or Chief Counsel doesn't become CEO... these are roles that are fundamentally not core to most businesses. Marketing and financial shenanigans are 80% of what a corporate entity is about.
That's the worst demographics you can get - your product is loved by geriatrics. The marketing folks won't be putting granny in the commercials anytime soon and hope this news doesn't spread.
the ASUS is seriously FUGLY. The Xerox at least looks much more refined. The lack of taste among the slahsdot crowd never ceases to amaze me.
And I thought Harry S. Dent Jr. was full of crap.
Hands down Exchange SP2 w/ Mobile 5 kicks Blackberry's ass but convincing crackberry users to switch is another matter. Convincing the C-level execs to go from Blackberry to iPaqs will be harder than it was getting them to switch from Eudora to Outlook.