It's a way to add a salesperson into the loop. Pick your parts from a nice kiosk display, have them "expertly" assembled. Have them remind you about upgrades and support contracts.
What about the Ubuntu community makes anyone think they would want to be locked into making Oracle applications run better?
What about Oracle and Larry makes anyone think they would want to answer to Ubuntu community every time they want a change to make an Oracle application run better?
Big company supporting Linux...Yea
Oracle support for Linux...Good already
Larry owned a big chunk of the Linux market...???
It's likely we'll shake out to two enterprise Linux distributions. Just to hard for the majority of large companies to roll and support their own distribution. Most companies will outsource their open source participation.
Interesting comparisions on the market from two big companies.
IBM is divesting from commodity software to open source (Websphere Community Edition/Apache Geronimo, Cloudscape/Apache Derby) Plus they've never attempted to build their own distribution, or buy a distribution company (both of wich could have been easily done).
Oracle is buying open source companies and building a commodity stack. Possibly to have control of where and how their products perform. Buying Novell would give them an OS, plus a bunch of other stuff including headaches.
Red Hat (a very small company) is building an open source software stack and trying to turn it all into a commodity. Kind of like Dell with desktop/laptop hardware, except with software. They are trying to be the best support and packaging for stuff you can get off the shelf.
Interesting business models.
For companies that don't the internal expertise to maintain their own distribution and relationship with the community, the issue is support.
RedHat and SUSE are not litterally selling their distribution. They are selling entitlements to a collection of open source and closed packages that they are willing to support.
There's room for Xandros if they create a competent help desk, patch management system, work with hardware vendors to get on supported lists, engineering team to make custom changes or write patches to send upstream, and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember right now.
I was at the speech. The lecture was not about Microsoft not being cheap enough or Linux being too fat. It's about getting an educational tool that is a replacement for textbooks and a suppliment for six grade educated teachers. All the press I've seen on this takes the quips and jokes and makes them the subject for tha articles. How about someone in the press talking about the other 95% of the presentation. The fact the technology can be deployed at a reasonable cost. The need for content development. The mesh networking. The need for the inexpensive village server and internet connectivity. Ways to effencently power the devices..... Something of substance.
Wouldn't there be an issue here of selling another person's content? While everyone can view the content at will, copying that information to media and then reselling it, or even distributing it for free, would be an issue.
Seems like MS is trying hard to create links between their fat client and back office software. Could be looked as enabling client users to viral infect corporate infrastructure with the next generation of shared spreadsheets and access databases. Nice technically but locked into one vendor and takes away opportunity for using different clients.
When will we stop accepting vendor lockin?
The paper version of the newspaper has a well established format that's proven to work. The are trying to move that to the web where most people filter their news.
Newspaper all or nothing. You subscribe or you don't. A headline grabs you and purchase the paper, or you don't. Online news has been built around specialist sites and blogs that focus on one subject. People use google and portals to build their own newspaper.
Newspapers need to create specialized content that is local or valued. It'll help if I can pull the stories I want into my feed. I'd love to see a "just the facts" overview with clearly marked content from avocates and specialists in the field. Wiki like contributions from trusted sources and feedback from other readers.
"You'd think, with all the smart people working for newspapers,"
That assumption doesn't stand up. In college journalism students are taught how to write badly. Then they get jobs as political reporters without a poly sci degree, business reporters without business degrees, and technology reporters without being able to do basic math.
Leave the internet with the USA and it's tradition of a free (if yellow) press, that may someday become a police state.
Give the internet to the UN which has a majority of non-free press states, and a fair number of known internet censors. A group that allows N. Korea, but doesn't allow Tiawan.
Maybe we could suggest a group of "free" states to run the internet. G8+India+Brazil, etc.
I think vmware is a solid viable product today, but I was thinking long term. Maybe I'm wrong, but Xen looks a lot like Linux in the mid 90's. They are riding high on the leading edge of x86 virtualization, and ESX server is impressive.
There are limitations to Xen today, but it is an excellent project with tons of potential. I'm glad it's there to put pressure on EMC and Microsoft in this field.
Sounds like they are feeling pressure from Xen and are trying to prevent the truely free OSS solution from gaining mindshare.
They make a good product, but cost and closed source will limit them in the long run.
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How is raising the minimum age from 14 to 18 going to prevent a 13 year old from lying?
It's a way to add a salesperson into the loop. Pick your parts from a nice kiosk display, have them "expertly" assembled. Have them remind you about upgrades and support contracts.
What about the Ubuntu community makes anyone think they would want to be locked into making Oracle applications run better?
What about Oracle and Larry makes anyone think they would want to answer to Ubuntu community every time they want a change to make an Oracle application run better?
Big company supporting Linux...Yea Oracle support for Linux...Good already Larry owned a big chunk of the Linux market...??? It's likely we'll shake out to two enterprise Linux distributions. Just to hard for the majority of large companies to roll and support their own distribution. Most companies will outsource their open source participation. Interesting comparisions on the market from two big companies. IBM is divesting from commodity software to open source (Websphere Community Edition/Apache Geronimo, Cloudscape/Apache Derby) Plus they've never attempted to build their own distribution, or buy a distribution company (both of wich could have been easily done). Oracle is buying open source companies and building a commodity stack. Possibly to have control of where and how their products perform. Buying Novell would give them an OS, plus a bunch of other stuff including headaches. Red Hat (a very small company) is building an open source software stack and trying to turn it all into a commodity. Kind of like Dell with desktop/laptop hardware, except with software. They are trying to be the best support and packaging for stuff you can get off the shelf. Interesting business models.
For companies that don't the internal expertise to maintain their own distribution and relationship with the community, the issue is support. RedHat and SUSE are not litterally selling their distribution. They are selling entitlements to a collection of open source and closed packages that they are willing to support. There's room for Xandros if they create a competent help desk, patch management system, work with hardware vendors to get on supported lists, engineering team to make custom changes or write patches to send upstream, and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember right now.
I was at the speech. The lecture was not about Microsoft not being cheap enough or Linux being too fat. It's about getting an educational tool that is a replacement for textbooks and a suppliment for six grade educated teachers. All the press I've seen on this takes the quips and jokes and makes them the subject for tha articles. How about someone in the press talking about the other 95% of the presentation. The fact the technology can be deployed at a reasonable cost. The need for content development. The mesh networking. The need for the inexpensive village server and internet connectivity. Ways to effencently power the devices..... Something of substance.
Wouldn't there be an issue here of selling another person's content? While everyone can view the content at will, copying that information to media and then reselling it, or even distributing it for free, would be an issue.
Seems like MS is trying hard to create links between their fat client and back office software. Could be looked as enabling client users to viral infect corporate infrastructure with the next generation of shared spreadsheets and access databases. Nice technically but locked into one vendor and takes away opportunity for using different clients. When will we stop accepting vendor lockin?
The paper version of the newspaper has a well established format that's proven to work. The are trying to move that to the web where most people filter their news. Newspaper all or nothing. You subscribe or you don't. A headline grabs you and purchase the paper, or you don't. Online news has been built around specialist sites and blogs that focus on one subject. People use google and portals to build their own newspaper. Newspapers need to create specialized content that is local or valued. It'll help if I can pull the stories I want into my feed. I'd love to see a "just the facts" overview with clearly marked content from avocates and specialists in the field. Wiki like contributions from trusted sources and feedback from other readers.
"You'd think, with all the smart people working for newspapers," That assumption doesn't stand up. In college journalism students are taught how to write badly. Then they get jobs as political reporters without a poly sci degree, business reporters without business degrees, and technology reporters without being able to do basic math.
Leave the internet with the USA and it's tradition of a free (if yellow) press, that may someday become a police state. Give the internet to the UN which has a majority of non-free press states, and a fair number of known internet censors. A group that allows N. Korea, but doesn't allow Tiawan. Maybe we could suggest a group of "free" states to run the internet. G8+India+Brazil, etc.
I think vmware is a solid viable product today, but I was thinking long term. Maybe I'm wrong, but Xen looks a lot like Linux in the mid 90's. They are riding high on the leading edge of x86 virtualization, and ESX server is impressive. There are limitations to Xen today, but it is an excellent project with tons of potential. I'm glad it's there to put pressure on EMC and Microsoft in this field.
Sounds like they are feeling pressure from Xen and are trying to prevent the truely free OSS solution from gaining mindshare. They make a good product, but cost and closed source will limit them in the long run.