Good points. Hosting companies are leaders in the virtualization market, and most of what I was talking about before was large enterprises consolidating. I have a limited field of vision on this issue, but I just don't see the buzz around the MS offerings with big customers. I think we have some emerging contenters in the virt market, like KVM and VZ and maybe even Sun's containers. What would be great is an overarching enterprise level management tool that takes advantage of the various hypervisors (container, guest) to use the best in the correct situation. We also need improvements in the network infrastructure to make is far more flexible and dynamic when moving VM's around.
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While it might be nice if all these things are easy and work well for the hobby crowd, the real money in virtualization is in the enterprise space. Most servers in enterprise environments run 15% max and are refreshed every 3-5 years. The special processor matters less in that case, and the competition is between a mature VMWareESX server (not free), a hardware based IBM and Xen. Microsoft is a surprisingly minior player. VMWareESX server is very good for x86 consolidation and saves customers money, but is very expensive. It is still the best option for Intel based consolidation. Xen has deep penatration in enterprise lab environments. It is just getting the enterprise management tools to move into real production. IBM is very good at virtualization and stability, but on proprietary power and mainframe hardware. Xen will be fine, because the market is very immature, but expect more seamless and non-attrusive virtualization on the desktop.
Some people believe Bush is the moderate (supporting Kennedy with no child left behind, his stance on immigration) and think Hillary is far left (socialized medicine). Personally, I think they are both politicians.
Imagine what it would be like today if we kept going to the moon through the last four decades. The costs are minor compared to the social programs and the military budget. Why can't some senator earmark a space program, like they do for bridges and museums? It holds about the same priority in the budget.
The Japanese just had the equivilant of a 20 year recession, with almost no growth. There was a time when the Japanese economy was half that of the United States, now it's just over a quarter. The Japanese have a good solid western ecomomy, but they haven't had significant growth above inflation since the 70's, very similar to Europe. The United States has had a few minor setbacks, but has grown 1-2% above inflation steadily for 50 years. During that peroid we've seen under developed nations grow in double digits and close the gap with the USA for a time. Soviets (by raping East Europe) and Western Europe in the 50's and 60's, Japan in the 60's and 70's, and China now. But they've always dropped back to normal rates when the void filled. Western Europe once had an economy equal to the United States, now all of the EU barely keeps up. Maybe China is the country to challenge. The industrial revolution gave England an advantage that lasted nearly 100 years, until the United States and Germany industrialized fully. The US advantage isn't written in stone forever, but the steady growth of the US hasn't been matched yet.
The GPL is an attempt to license behavior and mitigate the natural greed factor in humans (corportations?). Legal minds have worked diligently over the last decade to bypass as many of the greed restrictions in the GPL as possible to commercialize open source software. In response GPL drafters are trying to contain the greed factor and keep open source from being constrained.
Are they (corporations with money and patent portfolios) trying to box open source in? Is Google and BMC spreading FUD like Microsoft and Novell? It might be innocent, but I'd like to know their motivations.
That's what I'm thinking. I travel a lot and would love a small low power laptop with a real keyboard. I've found that I really don't need much more than a browser, document creator and a terminal connection to servers for heavy lifting. Very good price point in comparision to sub-notebooks and the n800 (which I like a lot, but I can't type on it). If it's fairly open so I can add some basic sysadm tools and run a terminal, I'd seriously consider it.
While I'm sure you had a interesting time at the DMV in North Carolina, there are good reasons for the hard requirements. It wasn't long ago that to get a NC license all you had to do was wait in line at the DMV. NC became a haven for false identifications in illeagal immigrants and criminals. In fact law enforcement should be extra suspicious of NC ID's and licenses issued more than three years ago.
Nice name calling from a coward. He is an isolationist. Sure he's ok with low tariffs for imported goods, but what about selling US goods abroad? Is he going to force other countries to buy our goods? It takes international cooperation and policing to have international trade, or maybe you haven't heard of GATT.
He's an isolationist. That might sound ok... "America for Americans, high tariffs to protect American jobs, let others deal with their own problems, etc". That's the same attitude that kept us out of the League of Nations and out of WWII for three years. The United States is far to large economically, militarily and culturally to isolate itself like Paul wants.
Typical American School classroom:
30 Students all at basically the same level (grade wise)
Computer lab available if not in classroom.
Textbooks for every subject.
Library full of reference books.
Teacher and Assistant.
Blackboard, overhead projector, audio/visual equipment.
Electricity, desks and lights.
Computer access at home.
Typical Emerging Market school classroom:
Lots of students.
Teacher.
Blackboard.
OLPC is designed provide more than just a computer. It'll be a textbook, library, play video, link to scarce resources, link to the world. It can even be used by the parents of these kids to lookup agricultural processes, how to build a pump to get clean water, medical information, lobby the UN and world bank for money, info on micro loans, check to see if their government is lying to them.
That's a good question, but on Wall Street, speed and latentcy are becoming more importantant factors than stabiltiy. That's the reason why most brokerages locate their primary data center in Manhatten, or co-locate with the NYSE. A crash that effects everybody equally is preferable to odd processing delays. No data is better than slow data is an old mantra in the trading feild, and even more important when trading is triggered electronically and milliseconds count.
While most people just want something that works, there is no 'good' reason why the iPhone needs to be a totally closed platform. If Sun's new product is based on open standards and not locked and still gives a good customer experience, it will be far more than an iPhone.
That's what I said when Byte went out of business and instead of refunding my subscription they sent me "Business 2.0". Multiple letters latter, they stopped sending the piece of crap magizine, but I never got my refund. It was only like $10, but it was mine.
I've noticed Balmer appearing/interview on a number of media outlets recently. USA Today is just the most recent. Two page spread in the middle of Money section. There is normally barly enough content to cover a bathroom trip. First question: is Microsoft buying articles (under the table, big advertiser offers an interview with CEO, business journalist bites)? Second question: Why do they feel the need for publicity now?
Interestingly enough, I had this arguement today with a co-worker. Choice and flexibility afforded by open source and more importantly open standards will pay dividends for companies that think long term. The shrink wrapped mono-culture beat can be the less expensive option in the short term (no retraining, prepackaged apps with ready training and documentation, cheap labor). But, open with lots of choices wins in the long run every time because it gives ownership of IT to the companies that use it instead of the companies the produce it.
Freedom and choice may be the difficult choice in a short-term return corportate culture, but the companies that embrace open standards will be the long term winners.
The only reason in the US that private or elite degrees are harder to get is because the cost is 5x public universities. I suspect India has similar issues.
That doesn't refute my point that Apple, by being not free as in freedom, owns how you use your computer. Just because they are nice now, doesn't mean they won't charge for security upgrades or to open a file.
Even if Vista is the gold standard of operating systems, I use Linux and FOSS because once it's on my computer I own it. The data is mine, what I do with it (on my personal system) is mine. I don't have to ask permission from Apple or Microsoft to boot. It's my computer, my software, my content.
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Good points. Hosting companies are leaders in the virtualization market, and most of what I was talking about before was large enterprises consolidating. I have a limited field of vision on this issue, but I just don't see the buzz around the MS offerings with big customers. I think we have some emerging contenters in the virt market, like KVM and VZ and maybe even Sun's containers. What would be great is an overarching enterprise level management tool that takes advantage of the various hypervisors (container, guest) to use the best in the correct situation. We also need improvements in the network infrastructure to make is far more flexible and dynamic when moving VM's around.
While it might be nice if all these things are easy and work well for the hobby crowd, the real money in virtualization is in the enterprise space. Most servers in enterprise environments run 15% max and are refreshed every 3-5 years. The special processor matters less in that case, and the competition is between a mature VMWareESX server (not free), a hardware based IBM and Xen. Microsoft is a surprisingly minior player. VMWareESX server is very good for x86 consolidation and saves customers money, but is very expensive. It is still the best option for Intel based consolidation. Xen has deep penatration in enterprise lab environments. It is just getting the enterprise management tools to move into real production. IBM is very good at virtualization and stability, but on proprietary power and mainframe hardware. Xen will be fine, because the market is very immature, but expect more seamless and non-attrusive virtualization on the desktop.
IBM Blue Gene/P update slated to run at 3 petaflops.
Some people believe Bush is the moderate (supporting Kennedy with no child left behind, his stance on immigration) and think Hillary is far left (socialized medicine). Personally, I think they are both politicians.
Imagine what it would be like today if we kept going to the moon through the last four decades. The costs are minor compared to the social programs and the military budget. Why can't some senator earmark a space program, like they do for bridges and museums? It holds about the same priority in the budget.
The Japanese just had the equivilant of a 20 year recession, with almost no growth. There was a time when the Japanese economy was half that of the United States, now it's just over a quarter. The Japanese have a good solid western ecomomy, but they haven't had significant growth above inflation since the 70's, very similar to Europe. The United States has had a few minor setbacks, but has grown 1-2% above inflation steadily for 50 years. During that peroid we've seen under developed nations grow in double digits and close the gap with the USA for a time. Soviets (by raping East Europe) and Western Europe in the 50's and 60's, Japan in the 60's and 70's, and China now. But they've always dropped back to normal rates when the void filled. Western Europe once had an economy equal to the United States, now all of the EU barely keeps up. Maybe China is the country to challenge. The industrial revolution gave England an advantage that lasted nearly 100 years, until the United States and Germany industrialized fully. The US advantage isn't written in stone forever, but the steady growth of the US hasn't been matched yet.
The GPL is an attempt to license behavior and mitigate the natural greed factor in humans (corportations?). Legal minds have worked diligently over the last decade to bypass as many of the greed restrictions in the GPL as possible to commercialize open source software. In response GPL drafters are trying to contain the greed factor and keep open source from being constrained. Are they (corporations with money and patent portfolios) trying to box open source in? Is Google and BMC spreading FUD like Microsoft and Novell? It might be innocent, but I'd like to know their motivations.
It also runs Linux natively. Maybe we should mention that also.
That's what I'm thinking. I travel a lot and would love a small low power laptop with a real keyboard. I've found that I really don't need much more than a browser, document creator and a terminal connection to servers for heavy lifting. Very good price point in comparision to sub-notebooks and the n800 (which I like a lot, but I can't type on it). If it's fairly open so I can add some basic sysadm tools and run a terminal, I'd seriously consider it.
Novell open source users are not protected from Microsoft's vaporware patent lawsuits.
While I'm sure you had a interesting time at the DMV in North Carolina, there are good reasons for the hard requirements. It wasn't long ago that to get a NC license all you had to do was wait in line at the DMV. NC became a haven for false identifications in illeagal immigrants and criminals. In fact law enforcement should be extra suspicious of NC ID's and licenses issued more than three years ago.
Nice name calling from a coward. He is an isolationist. Sure he's ok with low tariffs for imported goods, but what about selling US goods abroad? Is he going to force other countries to buy our goods? It takes international cooperation and policing to have international trade, or maybe you haven't heard of GATT.
He's an isolationist. That might sound ok... "America for Americans, high tariffs to protect American jobs, let others deal with their own problems, etc". That's the same attitude that kept us out of the League of Nations and out of WWII for three years. The United States is far to large economically, militarily and culturally to isolate itself like Paul wants.
Typical American School classroom: 30 Students all at basically the same level (grade wise) Computer lab available if not in classroom. Textbooks for every subject. Library full of reference books. Teacher and Assistant. Blackboard, overhead projector, audio/visual equipment. Electricity, desks and lights. Computer access at home. Typical Emerging Market school classroom: Lots of students. Teacher. Blackboard. OLPC is designed provide more than just a computer. It'll be a textbook, library, play video, link to scarce resources, link to the world. It can even be used by the parents of these kids to lookup agricultural processes, how to build a pump to get clean water, medical information, lobby the UN and world bank for money, info on micro loans, check to see if their government is lying to them.
That's a good question, but on Wall Street, speed and latentcy are becoming more importantant factors than stabiltiy. That's the reason why most brokerages locate their primary data center in Manhatten, or co-locate with the NYSE. A crash that effects everybody equally is preferable to odd processing delays. No data is better than slow data is an old mantra in the trading feild, and even more important when trading is triggered electronically and milliseconds count.
While most people just want something that works, there is no 'good' reason why the iPhone needs to be a totally closed platform. If Sun's new product is based on open standards and not locked and still gives a good customer experience, it will be far more than an iPhone.
That's what I said when Byte went out of business and instead of refunding my subscription they sent me "Business 2.0". Multiple letters latter, they stopped sending the piece of crap magizine, but I never got my refund. It was only like $10, but it was mine.
I've noticed Balmer appearing/interview on a number of media outlets recently. USA Today is just the most recent. Two page spread in the middle of Money section. There is normally barly enough content to cover a bathroom trip. First question: is Microsoft buying articles (under the table, big advertiser offers an interview with CEO, business journalist bites)? Second question: Why do they feel the need for publicity now?
Interestingly enough, I had this arguement today with a co-worker. Choice and flexibility afforded by open source and more importantly open standards will pay dividends for companies that think long term. The shrink wrapped mono-culture beat can be the less expensive option in the short term (no retraining, prepackaged apps with ready training and documentation, cheap labor). But, open with lots of choices wins in the long run every time because it gives ownership of IT to the companies that use it instead of the companies the produce it. Freedom and choice may be the difficult choice in a short-term return corportate culture, but the companies that embrace open standards will be the long term winners.
Can anyone provide a link to ideas that haven't been patented yet?
The only reason in the US that private or elite degrees are harder to get is because the cost is 5x public universities. I suspect India has similar issues.
That doesn't refute my point that Apple, by being not free as in freedom, owns how you use your computer. Just because they are nice now, doesn't mean they won't charge for security upgrades or to open a file.
What do you think the license agreement was at first boot? And on every security update? And the $80 privilege fee you get to pay for point releases?
Even if Vista is the gold standard of operating systems, I use Linux and FOSS because once it's on my computer I own it. The data is mine, what I do with it (on my personal system) is mine. I don't have to ask permission from Apple or Microsoft to boot. It's my computer, my software, my content.
I've never met anyone in retail that had savings that could last 10 weeks. What's the average length of unemployment?