Electric cars are still just too expensive for most buyers and don't come in the right options. No EV minivans, full size SUVs or pick-ups means a lot of buyers can't find an electric version of the type of car they want. I think the Model S is an awesome car but it's effectively a luxury sedan and the market for luxury sedans isn't that big. To get "butts in seats" someone has to come up with an EV pickup and sedan which get comparable range to their gas counterparts at the same price point.
Hopefully battery prices will fall significantly with the new technologies being developed, but until they do I think we'll continue to see more gas powered cars than hybrids, and more hybrids than full EVs.
Dealerships are car retailers, they purchase the car form the manufacturer and resell to you. Tesla is eliminating the middleman and operating it's own stores, so purchasing a Tesla is always direct from the manufacturer purchase.
Free markets work when the markets are truly free, which the US telecom market is not. Service is broken into local monopolies, so before declaring that the market economy has failed, remember that in this area we aren't working with one.
We have exactly three options regarding the future of broadband in the US: do nothing, regulate or deregulate. The telecoms want us to do nothing since it lets them maintain the status quo with local monopolies and move at their own pace with very little pressure. If we want things to move faster than the pace the providers set for us we have to regulate more (remember, we're already regulating!) and force providers to do more, or deregulate and hope that competition forces things to move faster from the bottom up. My opinion is that the only thing the providers fight harder than regulations on what services they have to provide is a move to truly deregulate the markets, look at the fight between Comcast and AT&T in Illinois over U-Verse service as an interesting case study of that.
Keep in mind that free market forces are not truly in play in the US since our telecom system has evolved as a series of local monopolies. While much more competition is present today than in the past, in large part because of the way competing technologies now blur the lines between phone and cable companies, it's still not a true free marketplace today since local monopoly agreements are already in place.
Thanks for pointing out that LotusLive is not standard iNotes, I missed that when I checked the site and was trying to figure out why the LotusLive iNotes didn't include scheduling.
I have to wonder which braniac at IBM decided to dilute their branding even more by marketing a product as iNotes that doesn't do everything that Domino iNotes can do, its as if the whole iNotes, DWA, iNotes renaming wasn't bad enough in confusing customers so they decided to add this to the mix. I have to say that the M$ marketing dept runs circles around IBMs, at least with OWA you know what OWA means.
That command rebuilds all view indexes in a database and will take more or less time based on how big the database (presumably your mailbox in this example) is. Dropping all the indexes off a mysql db and rebuilding them won't happen instantly either.
The Notes 8.5 Basic client is always included, it's the standard Windows code when it's not run within the Eclipse Framework. There are a couple ways to invoke it, an easy one is to create a short cut to notes.exe and add -sa at the end of the target line.
Just keep in mind that Eclipse is what ties in the widgets, activities, etc, so don't be surprised when you just get Notes when you launch as Basic.
That's another good example of why you need training, but it's not a problem with Notes. Google uses labels the same way Notes uses Folders and so you can make the exact same mistake there. You just don't see as many people hating on GMail because a) it's free and b) their employer didn't tell them to use it (though both of those are syarting to change).
There's nothing wrong with the approach with views and tags, just something with the not educating your staff in how to safely save their messages.
I doubt this will greatly impact the reach of the product further into the enterprise
True, but the reason to do this would be to get it back into education (at least in the US where Outlook/Exchange has become dominant), and into small and medium businesses. Right now Notes/Domino is a great tool for SMBs who are interested in running some home grown apps that SMBs don't generally go for.
IBM's reason to pursue outsourcing Notes and Domino would be to pick up more consulting business, while at the same time trying to knock off Microsoft's Small Business Server which comes preloaded with Exchange, IIS, SQL Server and SharePoint.
There's extremely good compatibility between Outlook and a Domino mail server owing to the connectors available from either IBM or Microsoft (Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Office Outlook Connector for Domino, respectively).
DavidTC knows what he's talking about, though I'd through in a caveat that Fannie and Freddie bought mortgages that they knew they shouldn't have thus enabling, indirectly, the real malfeasance being perpetrated by the Investment banking industry.
Not having a loud voice with which to speak is entirely different from being given no voice at all. It's up to you to decide if you really want to stay silent, but think hard about whether your silence will actually have more impact than voting would.
If I vote and you don't, I wouldn't say I'm morally superior to you, but I would say that I'm more empowered than you. Furthermore, if my guy gets elected and starts screwing up, you bet I'll be complaining about those screw-ups, because they deserve to be complained about, and I'm always entitled to complain.
I agree, everyone can always complain, whether they voted for a given candidate or not.
But if you think not voting is a protest, keep in mind that you're protesting by sitting silently in the back of a theater while you allow others to decide which movie to watch, who gets the popcorn and where everyone will get to sit.
Neither Democrats or Republicans are worried by non-voters. Both are worried by independent voters who might vote for their opponents, a fact I think is worth keeping in mind as you decide how best to make your statement.
I agree with you that the summary was inaccurate, that the search of the home appears to have been perfectly fair and legal and that the community has the right to determine whether the lab work being done presented a danger. But something you don't discuss was that Victor Deebs and his wife were forced out of their house for three days and that there appears to have been no due process followed before depriving the Deebs of their home.
The article never shows that he actually broke any laws or ordinances, it just passes along the assertion of the investigator with the caveat "I think Mr. Deeb has crossed a line somewhere." Are you so sure that a law was actually broken?
First, we don't know from the article whether he actually broke a zoning law or not. The investigator claims he broke a zoning law, but goes on to say she doesn't know that he actually did.
Second, unless any of the items or their quantities were specifically prohibited there was absolutely nothing wrong with his having "1,500 vials, jars, cans, bottles and boxes in the basement." Again, the story never establishes that he broke a single ordinance, and even opens with the information that everything tested that came out of the basement was safe.
Third, "what I hate more is idiots that spread half-truths" - careful there, you might not like where that lands
Agreed, Apple gets what some other companies don't, which is that the form matters. I've got a Mini in my living room hooked up to my TV for specifically the reasons you mention.
I second the parent comment - know exactly what you're getting and take nothing for granted. I worked for a large outsourcing company where the "original" company offered premium benefits in all areas from healthcare to time off to retirement. The outsourcing company offered middling to poor benefits across the board. That may not be important to you, but if (for example) you have a family and your total health care costs will double as a result of being bumped to a different provider with less comprehensive coverage, make sure you take that into account.
I agree that EAS systems are expensive. One way you might be able to make some progress at your company is by looking at Symantec or HP and selling an e-mail archiving solution as one component of a larger initiative such as file server archiving and management or backup infrastructure (move more off to the archive solution and have less to backup).
I agree with Danse's response below about security. IBM definitely has security clearance to work with the government even if none of the other vendors do, so CommonStore for Exchange could have been implemented at the same time as the mail system migration.
There are multiple Enterprise Archiving Solutions available now: IBM CommonStore, Symantec Enterprise Vault, HP Integrated Archive Platform, EMC EmailXTender, AXS-One AXS-Link, Mimosa Nearpoint, Message Solution Enterprise Email Archive and at least a few others I'm forgetting.
I'm not necessarily endorsing any of the products above, just pointing out they exist and are specifically developed to manage large volumes of mail and apply real retention rules.
David Gewirtz of the Outlook Power and Domino Power magazines has published a book on the subject titled Where Have All the Emails Gone?
It's written to be read by a non-technical crowd, so if you pick it up be prepared to skip some chapters which go over networking and e-mail application basics. It's still a very interesting read in that provides some fascinating history going back to the first e-mail system used in the White House and works forward to the current controversy. None of the administrations is blameless in their handling of information.
There are some other options you could investigate to workaround the problem such as:
Have your ERP system output the attachments to a path that's accessible by the Domino server. Then setup a Notes DB with an agent scheduled to run daily that looks for waiting files and if it finds them mails them out and cleans up the directory. That might be easy if the files go to a static group, or might be hard if each file needs to go to a different recipient with no set pattern, but it should be doable.
Another option would be to set up a Notes agent to query your ERP system (via ODBC or similar). Pull the data you need in the PDF file into Notes and have the PDF created and mailed from there.
I'm running R8 from several different machines. You can run the full version with only 512 MB RAM on XP without seeing any problems, I'm pretty sure that Lotus took the stand of listing 1 GB as the requirement because once you've loaded in various widgets into your Activities menu the memory usage goes up from when you're using Notes alone.
Most often I've run Notes R8 from a WinXP desktop using 1 GB RAM. It runs great and very quickly, even with plenty of other applications running including MS Office 2K3. After a day of work, when I check application memory usage, it's always FireFox topping out the list, Notes is often below MS Word as well.
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Electric cars are still just too expensive for most buyers and don't come in the right options. No EV minivans, full size SUVs or pick-ups means a lot of buyers can't find an electric version of the type of car they want. I think the Model S is an awesome car but it's effectively a luxury sedan and the market for luxury sedans isn't that big. To get "butts in seats" someone has to come up with an EV pickup and sedan which get comparable range to their gas counterparts at the same price point.
Hopefully battery prices will fall significantly with the new technologies being developed, but until they do I think we'll continue to see more gas powered cars than hybrids, and more hybrids than full EVs.
Dealerships are car retailers, they purchase the car form the manufacturer and resell to you. Tesla is eliminating the middleman and operating it's own stores, so purchasing a Tesla is always direct from the manufacturer purchase.
Free markets work when the markets are truly free, which the US telecom market is not. Service is broken into local monopolies, so before declaring that the market economy has failed, remember that in this area we aren't working with one.
We have exactly three options regarding the future of broadband in the US: do nothing, regulate or deregulate. The telecoms want us to do nothing since it lets them maintain the status quo with local monopolies and move at their own pace with very little pressure. If we want things to move faster than the pace the providers set for us we have to regulate more (remember, we're already regulating!) and force providers to do more, or deregulate and hope that competition forces things to move faster from the bottom up. My opinion is that the only thing the providers fight harder than regulations on what services they have to provide is a move to truly deregulate the markets, look at the fight between Comcast and AT&T in Illinois over U-Verse service as an interesting case study of that.
Keep in mind that free market forces are not truly in play in the US since our telecom system has evolved as a series of local monopolies. While much more competition is present today than in the past, in large part because of the way competing technologies now blur the lines between phone and cable companies, it's still not a true free marketplace today since local monopoly agreements are already in place.
Thanks for pointing out that LotusLive is not standard iNotes, I missed that when I checked the site and was trying to figure out why the LotusLive iNotes didn't include scheduling.
I have to wonder which braniac at IBM decided to dilute their branding even more by marketing a product as iNotes that doesn't do everything that Domino iNotes can do, its as if the whole iNotes, DWA, iNotes renaming wasn't bad enough in confusing customers so they decided to add this to the mix. I have to say that the M$ marketing dept runs circles around IBMs, at least with OWA you know what OWA means.
That command rebuilds all view indexes in a database and will take more or less time based on how big the database (presumably your mailbox in this example) is. Dropping all the indexes off a mysql db and rebuilding them won't happen instantly either.
The Notes 8.5 Basic client is always included, it's the standard Windows code when it's not run within the Eclipse Framework. There are a couple ways to invoke it, an easy one is to create a short cut to notes.exe and add -sa at the end of the target line.
Just keep in mind that Eclipse is what ties in the widgets, activities, etc, so don't be surprised when you just get Notes when you launch as Basic.
That's another good example of why you need training, but it's not a problem with Notes. Google uses labels the same way Notes uses Folders and so you can make the exact same mistake there. You just don't see as many people hating on GMail because a) it's free and b) their employer didn't tell them to use it (though both of those are syarting to change).
There's nothing wrong with the approach with views and tags, just something with the not educating your staff in how to safely save their messages.
I doubt this will greatly impact the reach of the product further into the enterprise
True, but the reason to do this would be to get it back into education (at least in the US where Outlook/Exchange has become dominant), and into small and medium businesses. Right now Notes/Domino is a great tool for SMBs who are interested in running some home grown apps that SMBs don't generally go for.
IBM's reason to pursue outsourcing Notes and Domino would be to pick up more consulting business, while at the same time trying to knock off Microsoft's Small Business Server which comes preloaded with Exchange, IIS, SQL Server and SharePoint.
There's extremely good compatibility between Outlook and a Domino mail server owing to the connectors available from either IBM or Microsoft (Domino Access for Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Office Outlook Connector for Domino, respectively).
DavidTC knows what he's talking about, though I'd through in a caveat that Fannie and Freddie bought mortgages that they knew they shouldn't have thus enabling, indirectly, the real malfeasance being perpetrated by the Investment banking industry.
Here's a link to get you started on your research: http://www.thislife.org/extras/radio/355_transcript.pdf
Not having a loud voice with which to speak is entirely different from being given no voice at all. It's up to you to decide if you really want to stay silent, but think hard about whether your silence will actually have more impact than voting would.
If I vote and you don't, I wouldn't say I'm morally superior to you, but I would say that I'm more empowered than you. Furthermore, if my guy gets elected and starts screwing up, you bet I'll be complaining about those screw-ups, because they deserve to be complained about, and I'm always entitled to complain.
I agree, everyone can always complain, whether they voted for a given candidate or not.
But if you think not voting is a protest, keep in mind that you're protesting by sitting silently in the back of a theater while you allow others to decide which movie to watch, who gets the popcorn and where everyone will get to sit.
Neither Democrats or Republicans are worried by non-voters. Both are worried by independent voters who might vote for their opponents, a fact I think is worth keeping in mind as you decide how best to make your statement.
I agree with you that the summary was inaccurate, that the search of the home appears to have been perfectly fair and legal and that the community has the right to determine whether the lab work being done presented a danger. But something you don't discuss was that Victor Deebs and his wife were forced out of their house for three days and that there appears to have been no due process followed before depriving the Deebs of their home.
The article never shows that he actually broke any laws or ordinances, it just passes along the assertion of the investigator with the caveat "I think Mr. Deeb has crossed a line somewhere." Are you so sure that a law was actually broken?
First, we don't know from the article whether he actually broke a zoning law or not. The investigator claims he broke a zoning law, but goes on to say she doesn't know that he actually did.
Second, unless any of the items or their quantities were specifically prohibited there was absolutely nothing wrong with his having "1,500 vials, jars, cans, bottles and boxes in the basement." Again, the story never establishes that he broke a single ordinance, and even opens with the information that everything tested that came out of the basement was safe.
Third, "what I hate more is idiots that spread half-truths" - careful there, you might not like where that lands
Agreed, Apple gets what some other companies don't, which is that the form matters. I've got a Mini in my living room hooked up to my TV for specifically the reasons you mention.
I second the parent comment - know exactly what you're getting and take nothing for granted. I worked for a large outsourcing company where the "original" company offered premium benefits in all areas from healthcare to time off to retirement. The outsourcing company offered middling to poor benefits across the board. That may not be important to you, but if (for example) you have a family and your total health care costs will double as a result of being bumped to a different provider with less comprehensive coverage, make sure you take that into account.
I agree that EAS systems are expensive. One way you might be able to make some progress at your company is by looking at Symantec or HP and selling an e-mail archiving solution as one component of a larger initiative such as file server archiving and management or backup infrastructure (move more off to the archive solution and have less to backup).
I agree with Danse's response below about security. IBM definitely has security clearance to work with the government even if none of the other vendors do, so CommonStore for Exchange could have been implemented at the same time as the mail system migration.
There are multiple Enterprise Archiving Solutions available now: IBM CommonStore, Symantec Enterprise Vault, HP Integrated Archive Platform, EMC EmailXTender, AXS-One AXS-Link, Mimosa Nearpoint, Message Solution Enterprise Email Archive and at least a few others I'm forgetting.
I'm not necessarily endorsing any of the products above, just pointing out they exist and are specifically developed to manage large volumes of mail and apply real retention rules.
David Gewirtz of the Outlook Power and Domino Power magazines has published a book on the subject titled Where Have All the Emails Gone?
It's written to be read by a non-technical crowd, so if you pick it up be prepared to skip some chapters which go over networking and e-mail application basics. It's still a very interesting read in that provides some fascinating history going back to the first e-mail system used in the White House and works forward to the current controversy. None of the administrations is blameless in their handling of information.
There are some other options you could investigate to workaround the problem such as:
Have your ERP system output the attachments to a path that's accessible by the Domino server. Then setup a Notes DB with an agent scheduled to run daily that looks for waiting files and if it finds them mails them out and cleans up the directory. That might be easy if the files go to a static group, or might be hard if each file needs to go to a different recipient with no set pattern, but it should be doable.
Another option would be to set up a Notes agent to query your ERP system (via ODBC or similar). Pull the data you need in the PDF file into Notes and have the PDF created and mailed from there.
Notes does work with Citrix.
I'm running R8 from several different machines. You can run the full version with only 512 MB RAM on XP without seeing any problems, I'm pretty sure that Lotus took the stand of listing 1 GB as the requirement because once you've loaded in various widgets into your Activities menu the memory usage goes up from when you're using Notes alone.
Most often I've run Notes R8 from a WinXP desktop using 1 GB RAM. It runs great and very quickly, even with plenty of other applications running including MS Office 2K3. After a day of work, when I check application memory usage, it's always FireFox topping out the list, Notes is often below MS Word as well.
It's not here yet, but it is coming.