I do the taxes for my kids who are in their mid twenties and a number of their friends. Almost all of them get back more than they paid. In some cases it's thousands of dollars more. Pretty much anyone who is married with children and has less than $40K in income gets back more than they pay.
Apple's JVM was packaged a bit different than all the other *nix JVMs and they had their own unique way of allowing you to select JVM versions. The changes in this update make it easier to install, select , and use a third party JVM that is packaged in the more conventional way. I suspect this is the first step in moving to an Oracle supplied JVM or an open JVM.
They are not using a conventional SSD. This is flash, soldered right on the main board. Since Apple is the largest user of Flash memory in the world they are able to do it cheaply.
You can call the new Macbook Air many thing but boring is not one of them. You'd have to be very thick or very biased not to see the difference between the Air and a netbook. Lets start with an aluminum unibody, hi res screen, full size keyboard and multitouch trackpad. Then there is the 7 hours of real world battery life. This thing is a work of art.
Actually, thats one of the things Steve mentions in the article. He quotes Eric Schmidt saying that Android activations are running about 200K per day and then says iPhone activations are running at about 300K per day. He also says thats the only data available on Android sales. So what data are you using to show that Android is outselling iPhone?
"I'm not going to whore the product out by mentioning it here"
There's your problem right there. Thats the difference between being an entrepreneur and and being just a programmer. If your not going to bother to mention your app...why should Apple.
References please? OpenLDAP is ok for some tasks but it is not taking the world by storm and it's not close to eDirectory, OID, or SunOne in performance or scalability. I said AD is best for managing Windows workstaions...kinda hard to dispute that.
There is no ONE directory services that is optimum for every use case. If you want to manage large numbers of Windows workstations then you need AD. If you want to do high performance LDAP then you need eDirectory. If you want to manage authentication to Oracle DBs the you need OID....the list goes on. This is why for any non-trivial implementation you need Novell Identity Manager which allows you to use the right service directory for each of these applications but enables you to manage your environment as if it was a single homogeneous directory.
Note...I design such systems for the largest environments in the world. The largest production implementation I've worked on is in excess of 400 million identities.
My company is going even further. Except for a handful of large sites we all work from home (or travel). While it does have some issues I find it preferable to a cube any day.
You CAN do exactly the same thing with Linux!! Automated install, remote config and management, automated patching. In fact it's a fraction of the cost of doing with Windows. Everything you need to do it can be found at http://www.novell.com/
You must have missed this part: IT IS A TOUCH SCREEN IPOD!
So a VERY smart phone and an ipod for $500...not too bad. There is likely to be a version without the phone soon as well.
"Support" for these types of companies is not a level 1 phone jockey. They will likely have dedicated support engineers on site. At the very least they will have a person reponsible for managing support issues.
OPEN INVENTION NETWORK FORMED TO PROMOTE LINUX AND SPUR INNOVATION GLOBALLY THROUGH ACCESS TO KEY PATENTS - - - Investors Include IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat, and Sony
New York (November 10, 2005) - Open Invention Network (OIN), a company that has and will acquire patents and offer them royalty-free to promote Linux and spur innovation globally, was launched today with financial support from IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat, and Sony. The company, believed to be the first of its kind, is creating a new model where patents are openly shared in a collaborative environment and used to facilitate the advancement of applications for, and components of, the Linux operating system.
"Open collaboration is critical for driving innovation, which fuels global economic growth. Impediments to collaboration on the Linux operating system seriously jeopardize innovation. A new model of intellectual property management for Linux must be established to maintain advances in software innovation - regardless of the size or type of business or organization," said Jerry Rosenthal, chief executive officer at Open Invention Network. The company will foster an open, collaborative environment that stimulates advances in Linux - helping ensure the continuation of global innovation that has benefited software vendors, customers, emerging markets and investors, among others. Patents owned by Open Invention Network will be available on a royalty-free basis to any company, institution or individual that agrees not to assert its patents against the Linux operating system or certain Linux-related applications. Open Invention Network believes that creating a new system to manage and ensure access to key patents for the Linux operating system will have a significant economic impact. According to International Data Corporation, the worldwide Linux businessis expected to grow 25.9 percent annually, doubling from $20 billion in 2005 to more than $40 billion in 2008. "Open Invention Network is not focused on income or profit generation with our patents, but on using them to promote a positive, fertile ecosystem for the Linux operating system and to drive innovation and choice into the marketplace," said Mr. Rosenthal. "We intend to spur innovation in IT and across industries by helping software developers focus on what they do best - developing great Linux-related software with greater assurance about intellectual property issues." -more-
Among Open Invention Network's initial patent holdings is a set of business-to-business electronic commerce patents that were purchased from Commerce One by JGR, a subsidiary of Novell.
For more information go to www.openinventionnetwork.com
Investor Statements
IBM "The formation of Open Invention Network signals a growing movement where companies today are looking beyond their own organizational boundaries," said Jim Stallings, vice president of intellectual property and open standards at IBM. "They are strategically sharing their intellectual property and building broader industry partnerships in order to accelerate innovation and drive new economic growth."
Novell
"We are proud to be a founding member of the Open Invention Network,"said Jack Messman, CEO of Novell."While Novell has been a major contributor to the open source community and has shown its commitment to promoting and fostering the adoption of open source and open standards, this initiative raises our leadership to the highest level. With this new initiative, users of open source software will have access to a broad set of technologies that will help foster an even more robust community of developers, customers, business partners and investors. This is a breakthrough idea whose time has come."
Philips "Philips is actively involved in the creation and funding of Open Invention Network because we believe that OIN will make the Linux platform more attractive for users. This will stimulate developers to focus their resources on creating
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I do the taxes for my kids who are in their mid twenties and a number of their friends. Almost all of them get back more than they paid. In some cases it's thousands of dollars more. Pretty much anyone who is married with children and has less than $40K in income gets back more than they pay.
Apple did it with Suns approval and they didn't make changes that made it incompatible.
Apple's JVM was packaged a bit different than all the other *nix JVMs and they had their own unique way of allowing you to select JVM versions. The changes in this update make it easier to install, select , and use a third party JVM that is packaged in the more conventional way. I suspect this is the first step in moving to an Oracle supplied JVM or an open JVM.
Actually...no they couldn't. Not without making the batteries smaller.
They are not using a conventional SSD. This is flash, soldered right on the main board. Since Apple is the largest user of Flash memory in the world they are able to do it cheaply.
You can call the new Macbook Air many thing but boring is not one of them. You'd have to be very thick or very biased not to see the difference between the Air and a netbook. Lets start with an aluminum unibody, hi res screen, full size keyboard and multitouch trackpad. Then there is the 7 hours of real world battery life. This thing is a work of art.
Actually they are Flash only...No hard drive at all.
Actually, thats one of the things Steve mentions in the article. He quotes Eric Schmidt saying that Android activations are running about 200K per day and then says iPhone activations are running at about 300K per day. He also says thats the only data available on Android sales. So what data are you using to show that Android is outselling iPhone?
What are you talking about?? You can rest your hand on the trackpad any way you like. It only responds to movement. Try it...
Same for me... My iPhone 4 works many places my 3G does not. So far I've not had any issues.
Having just skimmed the doc, I don't see why anyone would care. The information available to law enforcement is actually less than I had expected.
It's open source and cross platform. Works great!! http://www.ifolder.com/ifolder
"I'm not going to whore the product out by mentioning it here"
There's your problem right there. Thats the difference between being an entrepreneur and and being just a programmer. If your not going to bother to mention your app...why should Apple.
References please? OpenLDAP is ok for some tasks but it is not taking the world by storm and it's not close to eDirectory, OID, or SunOne in performance or scalability. I said AD is best for managing Windows workstaions...kinda hard to dispute that.
There is no ONE directory services that is optimum for every use case. If you want to manage large numbers of Windows workstations then you need AD. If you want to do high performance LDAP then you need eDirectory. If you want to manage authentication to Oracle DBs the you need OID....the list goes on. This is why for any non-trivial implementation you need Novell Identity Manager which allows you to use the right service directory for each of these applications but enables you to manage your environment as if it was a single homogeneous directory. Note...I design such systems for the largest environments in the world. The largest production implementation I've worked on is in excess of 400 million identities.
Novell
My company is going even further. Except for a handful of large sites we all work from home (or travel). While it does have some issues I find it preferable to a cube any day.
You CAN do exactly the same thing with Linux!! Automated install, remote config and management, automated patching. In fact it's a fraction of the cost of doing with Windows. Everything you need to do it can be found at http://www.novell.com/
You must have missed this part: IT IS A TOUCH SCREEN IPOD! So a VERY smart phone and an ipod for $500...not too bad. There is likely to be a version without the phone soon as well.
MS is not providing them Linux support. The sold them Novells support program.
What your missing is that this is even better. MS sold them Novells support.
"Support" for these types of companies is not a level 1 phone jockey. They will likely have dedicated support engineers on site. At the very least they will have a person reponsible for managing support issues.
So...this deal is bad for Novell how??
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6962961128.html
OPEN INVENTION NETWORK FORMED TO PROMOTE LINUX
AND SPUR INNOVATION GLOBALLY THROUGH ACCESS TO KEY PATENTS
- - -
Investors Include IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat, and Sony
New York (November 10, 2005) - Open Invention Network (OIN), a company that has and will acquire patents and offer them royalty-free to promote Linux and spur innovation globally, was launched today with financial support from IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat, and Sony. The company, believed to be the first of its kind, is creating a new model where patents are openly shared in a collaborative environment and used to facilitate the advancement of applications for, and components of, the Linux operating system.
"Open collaboration is critical for driving innovation, which fuels global economic growth. Impediments to collaboration on the Linux operating system seriously jeopardize innovation. A new model of intellectual property management for Linux must be established to maintain advances in software innovation - regardless of the size or type of business or organization," said Jerry Rosenthal, chief executive officer at Open Invention Network. The company will foster an open, collaborative environment that stimulates advances in Linux - helping ensure the continuation of global innovation that has benefited software vendors, customers, emerging markets and investors, among others.
Patents owned by Open Invention Network will be available on a royalty-free basis to any company, institution or individual that agrees not to assert its patents against the Linux operating system or certain Linux-related applications.
Open Invention Network believes that creating a new system to manage and ensure access to key patents for the Linux operating system will have a significant economic impact. According to International Data Corporation, the worldwide Linux businessis expected to grow 25.9 percent annually, doubling from $20 billion in 2005 to more than $40 billion in 2008.
"Open Invention Network is not focused on income or profit generation with our patents, but on using them to promote a positive, fertile ecosystem for the Linux operating system and to drive innovation and choice into the marketplace," said Mr. Rosenthal. "We intend to spur innovation in IT and across industries by helping software developers focus on what they do best - developing great Linux-related software with greater assurance about intellectual property issues."
-more-
Among Open Invention Network's initial patent holdings is a set of business-to-business electronic commerce patents that were purchased from Commerce One by JGR, a subsidiary of Novell.
For more information go to www.openinventionnetwork.com
Investor Statements
IBM
"The formation of Open Invention Network signals a growing movement where companies today are looking beyond their own organizational boundaries," said Jim Stallings, vice president of intellectual property and open standards at IBM. "They are strategically sharing their intellectual property and building broader industry partnerships in order to accelerate innovation and drive new economic growth."
Novell
"We are proud to be a founding member of the Open Invention Network,"said Jack Messman, CEO of Novell."While Novell has been a major contributor to the open source community and has shown its commitment to promoting and fostering the adoption of open source and open standards, this initiative raises our leadership to the highest level. With this new initiative, users of open source software will have access to a broad set of technologies that will help foster an even more robust community of developers, customers, business partners and investors. This is a breakthrough idea whose time has come."
Philips
"Philips is actively involved in the creation and funding of Open Invention Network because we believe that OIN will make the Linux platform more attractive for users. This will stimulate developers to focus their resources on creating