The end is near. No more IPv4 address space is available. The sky is falling! I have a feeling that IPv4 will be around a lot longer than the next two to ten years. The reasons corporations move to the newest wizbang technology is because it affects their bottom line, in a good way. The transition to IPv6 will have no positive impact on a corporations stock, but rather be an expensive and time consuming "maintenance task". Granted there are a lot of benefits that go along with IPv6, such as increased security mechanisms which could affect a corporations bottom line, but indirectly... it's not something stockholders are likely to care much about. What reason does a multinational company have to spend millions of dollars moving their infrastructure to IPv6 if they're happily sitting being a firewall doing NAT with a whole class A at their disposal?
It is the look! Everything in Windows looks the same and can be expected to act the same - when you hit "Alt-F" the "File" menu opens and there are always (ok, not always, but the vast majority of the time) three little buttons in the upper right hand corner of the window that always do the same thing. That's what a typical end-user cares about. I personally believe that a unification in the look and feel of operating system and it's applications will go a long way towards having larger user-base embrace a Linux platform. I applaud this effort!
...how many extortion attempts such as this are successful? We (obviously) wouldn't hear about them as a company wouldn't want to air their dirty laundry. I would imagine that any small Internet company without the resources to fight something like this would either have to pay up or close shop. Scary.
...that if there were fewer distributions which development energy were focused on that greater strides could be made in the technology. While I think that the number of distributions currently "in the wild" isn't completely ridiculous, it seems to be heading rapidly in that direction. If we could, for instance, gather all of developers of the "networking utility distributions" together and let them focus all of their efforts on one single "product", we would have the best features from the best distributions. Then again, choice is good.
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The end is near. No more IPv4 address space is available. The sky is falling! I have a feeling that IPv4 will be around a lot longer than the next two to ten years. The reasons corporations move to the newest wizbang technology is because it affects their bottom line, in a good way. The transition to IPv6 will have no positive impact on a corporations stock, but rather be an expensive and time consuming "maintenance task". Granted there are a lot of benefits that go along with IPv6, such as increased security mechanisms which could affect a corporations bottom line, but indirectly... it's not something stockholders are likely to care much about. What reason does a multinational company have to spend millions of dollars moving their infrastructure to IPv6 if they're happily sitting being a firewall doing NAT with a whole class A at their disposal?
It is the look! Everything in Windows looks the same and can be expected to act the same - when you hit "Alt-F" the "File" menu opens and there are always (ok, not always, but the vast majority of the time) three little buttons in the upper right hand corner of the window that always do the same thing. That's what a typical end-user cares about. I personally believe that a unification in the look and feel of operating system and it's applications will go a long way towards having larger user-base embrace a Linux platform. I applaud this effort!
...how many extortion attempts such as this are successful? We (obviously) wouldn't hear about them as a company wouldn't want to air their dirty laundry. I would imagine that any small Internet company without the resources to fight something like this would either have to pay up or close shop. Scary.
...that if there were fewer distributions which development energy were focused on that greater strides could be made in the technology. While I think that the number of distributions currently "in the wild" isn't completely ridiculous, it seems to be heading rapidly in that direction. If we could, for instance, gather all of developers of the "networking utility distributions" together and let them focus all of their efforts on one single "product", we would have the best features from the best distributions. Then again, choice is good.