I think a real practical problem for Linux is that competent staff for it is really hard to find in sufficient numbers.
Need to work on that reading comprehension thing a bit... You suggest that the company should hire some expertise, but the last line of the quote you used said explicitly that finding competent Linux expertise was difficult. That's a very valid point that you conveniently ignored.
Anyone know anything about the author of this story? That first story, the one about Austereo, looked kinda schilly to me, especially comparing what the author wrote to the quotes from the interviewee. Compare:
After three years with Linux, however, Austereo began reconsidering its choice as continued growth in the company led to increasing complexity within its IT strategy -- exposing the limitations of the Linux-based environment in some very painful ways.
This time around, things are working much better, with a full range of Microsoft server applications providing a deeply integrated, highly effective IT infrastructure that has significantly improved productivity and transformed information management within the company.
Working with Microsoft consultants, he and his team sat down to map out their future infrastructure and found that their requirements could be easily met using an integrated suite of applications built on top of Windows Server 2003.
After thorough discussions, Austereo committed to a move away from Linux onto an architecture combining Microsoft SharePoint Server, Exchange Server and SQL Server as well as Office 2003 and BlackBerry-related add-ons like the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. It was a hard decision, but even Forgione concedes he was impressed when comparing the company's existing and potential computing environments.
To:
"Importing our network environment and applications onto a new platform required some fairly specific skills, and those skills were not abundant within the group. As the business started to grow and we realised we needed to provide additional services to help people accomplish their day-to-day tasks, it became a very obvious and glaring issue."
"The problem was that just one or two people in the group [out of 15 IT staff] could do that, and it was hard finding people who understood that [open source] isn't just about playing with these tools, but delivering something."
Braue's version: Linux wasn't good enough, a Microsoft "solution" was required.
Forgione's version: The IT staff didn't know how to use Linux. For some reason we didn't think hiring competent staff would be a good idea.
"students thousands of miles from Shanghai or Beijing will be able to access online course materials from M.I.T. or Harvard and fully educate themselves."
Do MIT and Harvard distribute course materials in Chinese now?
Anyone know if there's any plans for a standalone window decorator for Compiz? I've tried to get this working on my Gentoo box, and although XGL and Compiz both run, I don't have any window decorations since gnome-window-decorator requires the whole of GNOME to be installed. Now a couple of libraries I could handle, but the whole thing? Bollocks to that.
If by "popular" you mean the government attempts to force people to use their state-sponsored Linux distro to reduce dependence on American software, only to find that people respond by formatting their hard disks and installing pirate copies of Windows.
It's kinda fitting really. I probably wouldn't want to use Linux anymore if the government were trying to force it on me. Especially if it were the Chinese government.
Has the shift in corporate america really occurred or are activities like the profitability of Red Hat signalling that the CEO's are still holding on to the old way of business?
Old way of business = profit.
New way of business = ???
Seriously that doesn't make sense. Surely Red Hat's profitability indicates that they have a handle on the new way of doing business.
Truth.
I stayed at my mum's house for a week last month, and the first thing I noticed on her computer was MS Anti Spyware warning about some Claria stuff. I yelled at her (she's an IT teacher for crap's sake) and clicked on some magic buttons to delete that crap.
This is great news, I've always had difficulty interfacing with my supercomputer. Now even Aunt Tilly will be able to run simulations of nuclear explosions!
A lot of software is distributed "under the GPL 2.0 or later, at your discretion", allowing compatibility with future versions of the GPL. Personally I wouldn't want to do that - distribute my code under a license that I haven't even read. Who knows whether I'll agree with whatever legalBOL RMS decides to throw out?
You're quite free to use and modify GPL software for commercial purposes. What you can't do is then refuse to distribute your modifications under the same terms. If you want to take code from others and not give anything back in return though, BSD is for you. MS and Apple seem to like it.
Thankfully the poster above me knows how to do a simple search. Maybe look at the instructions for searching the internet before tackling a topic like kernel architecture.
Obviously Google is beyond my meagre abilities, because searches like nt "client/server kernel" only turn up a few discussion threads, mostly on Linux mailing lists.
Just to Clarify NT is NOT a monolithic microkernel.
Yeah I'm definitely doing something wrong because when I search for nt hybrid kernel I get a whole bunch of explanations of different kernel architectures, giving examples of monolithic kernels, microkernels and hybrids, the latter of which NT is the most cited.
Please tell me how to improve my googling skills so that the results agree with your love of God.
NT is a client/server kernel... Go look up what that means, please for the love of God.
I've never heard of such a thing. Neither has google. You probably mean microkernel, which is what MS was claiming NT was until they got tired of academic microkernel nuts telling them it wasn't (everyone except Tanenbaum who was busily claiming that Linux, with its unfashionable monolithic design, was obsolete) NT is a monolithic/microkernel hybrid.
Yes, Microsoft were the Good Guys who made cheap software back when IBM was the Big Satan and Unix companies were happily screwing over their customers.
My how times change. Today Microsoft is the Big Satan, Google are the Good Guys, Unix companies barely exist (Sun Microsystems are now a Java company, nobody gives a damn about Solaris, open or otherwise) and IBM is the toothless old grandpa that gives you candy whenever you come to visit.
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"alot"
"whether it's why its slow"
"they show that there are so many process/threads layers in OS X."
Do the editors even look at submissions any more? Or to put it another way, is our children learning yet?
Use a Free Software license. It is unethical for the developer to take away the rights and freedoms of his users.
Forgione's version: The IT staff didn't know how to use Linux. For some reason we didn't think hiring competent staff would be a good idea.
What do you think?
More like cracking.
Is this a luddite I see before me? I see thee yet I give a damn about thee not.
You're kidding, right?
http://en.opensuse.org/Xgl http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XGL#Prerequisites
Anyone know if there's any plans for a standalone window decorator for Compiz? I've tried to get this working on my Gentoo box, and although XGL and Compiz both run, I don't have any window decorations since gnome-window-decorator requires the whole of GNOME to be installed. Now a couple of libraries I could handle, but the whole thing? Bollocks to that.
This year will be the year of the Linux desktop!
If by "popular" you mean the government attempts to force people to use their state-sponsored Linux distro to reduce dependence on American software, only to find that people respond by formatting their hard disks and installing pirate copies of Windows.
It's kinda fitting really. I probably wouldn't want to use Linux anymore if the government were trying to force it on me. Especially if it were the Chinese government.
big words = cruise control for smarter than thou amirite.
Office suites are a bad idea. MS Office is proof of that; it's the best product in its category, but it still really really sucks.
Old way of business = profit. New way of business = ???
Seriously that doesn't make sense. Surely Red Hat's profitability indicates that they have a handle on the new way of doing business.
nt
Truth. I stayed at my mum's house for a week last month, and the first thing I noticed on her computer was MS Anti Spyware warning about some Claria stuff. I yelled at her (she's an IT teacher for crap's sake) and clicked on some magic buttons to delete that crap.
This is great news, I've always had difficulty interfacing with my supercomputer. Now even Aunt Tilly will be able to run simulations of nuclear explosions!
A lot of software is distributed "under the GPL 2.0 or later, at your discretion", allowing compatibility with future versions of the GPL. Personally I wouldn't want to do that - distribute my code under a license that I haven't even read. Who knows whether I'll agree with whatever legalBOL RMS decides to throw out?
You're quite free to use and modify GPL software for commercial purposes. What you can't do is then refuse to distribute your modifications under the same terms. If you want to take code from others and not give anything back in return though, BSD is for you. MS and Apple seem to like it.
I use colorForth, and your dumb ASCII format screws up when I try to read it with an editor that expects characters to be Huffman coded.
Obviously Google is beyond my meagre abilities, because searches like nt "client/server kernel" only turn up a few discussion threads, mostly on Linux mailing lists.
Just to Clarify NT is NOT a monolithic microkernel.
Yeah I'm definitely doing something wrong because when I search for nt hybrid kernel I get a whole bunch of explanations of different kernel architectures, giving examples of monolithic kernels, microkernels and hybrids, the latter of which NT is the most cited.
Please tell me how to improve my googling skills so that the results agree with your love of God.
I've never heard of such a thing. Neither has google. You probably mean microkernel, which is what MS was claiming NT was until they got tired of academic microkernel nuts telling them it wasn't (everyone except Tanenbaum who was busily claiming that Linux, with its unfashionable monolithic design, was obsolete) NT is a monolithic/microkernel hybrid.
As opposed to a profitable charity amirite.
My how times change. Today Microsoft is the Big Satan, Google are the Good Guys, Unix companies barely exist (Sun Microsystems are now a Java company, nobody gives a damn about Solaris, open or otherwise) and IBM is the toothless old grandpa that gives you candy whenever you come to visit.
Here's to the next decade of monopoly!