Tuesday, January 30, 2007
2/1 SNR
- MS is offering a seminar called "Your Future Beyond SCO", which shows you how to migrate to Windows from SCO OSes. I suppose this means the PIPE fairy won't be showing up again anytime soon.
And it gets better: To offer the seminar, MS has partnered with DTR Business Systems, a company SCO recently crowed about as one of their big partners.
They even refer to their segment about Small Business Server as a "Deep Dive". Cheeky, that. - CBR about the 10K: "Has SCO seen the end of the line?"
- And if you'd like to watch 15-year-old dweebs try to play financial analyst -- and who doesn't? -- here's Slashdot's piece about the 10K.
- El Reg, also on the 10K: "You'll have SCO to kick around for another year". The piece notes in passing that SCO's website is borked again. Someday they'll get the hang of this newfangled Interweb thingy, I'm sure of it.
- On the other hand, Netcraft now says SCO's website actually runs on "SCO Unix". Which could mean either UnixWare or OpenServer, I suppose -- and that's assuming the returned server info is accurate. What's more interesting, in my mind, is that SCO's not operating out of an NFT netblock anymore. Here's Netcraft's list of sites within SCO's netblock.
- The SL Trib has a brief mention of SCO's big launch party in Russia.
- From InfoWorld, via GL: "The demise of Unix is exaggerated". By Unix the article seems to mean traditional big (and non-x86) servers running some os descended from SVRx, which these days essentially means Solaris, HP-UX, & AIX.
- Regarding that article, PJ asks If Unix isn't dying, why is SCO?". I have a few theories about that:
- For one thing, if you're shelling out six figures for a big server box, the cost of the OS is negligible (if they charge you separately for it), and the OS comes with the box. With SCO, you're paying potentially thousands of dollars for an OS that runs on cheap commodity hardware. Not a very attractive deal, especially with all the other OS options out there.
- And even if SCO OSes were priced competitively, it doesn't appear that they've been enhanced in any significant way since the early 1990s. It's just been minor dot releases for years and years.
- I actually think their distribution model is obsolete in this day and age, with all these multiple layers of integrators and resellers, most of whom are small mom-and-pop operations that nobody's ever heard of. If you just need more boxes for the server room, and you need them ASAP, most vendors let you buy online. Last time I checked, there wasn't anywhere on SCO's site where you could order a box preloaded with OSR6.
- They don't understand their market, and they don't have a clue about why they keep losing marketshare. They lost lots of ground to Windows even before Linux really took off, and even now they don't seem to have a strategy to compete with MS, even though MS is quite happy to compete against them (see top item.)
- For one thing, if you're shelling out six figures for a big server box, the cost of the OS is negligible (if they charge you separately for it), and the OS comes with the box. With SCO, you're paying potentially thousands of dollars for an OS that runs on cheap commodity hardware. Not a very attractive deal, especially with all the other OS options out there.
- Symantec is acquiring ex-Canopy co. Altiris. Sure is funny how having actual products that customers want really helps close the deal, if you're looking to sell the company. And no, Darl, I really don't think HipCheck falls into that category.
- A rather idiosyncratic series called "The Linux Project". The author is a newcomer to Linux, and details his experience both good and bad. In 5 parts so far: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. A couple of these posts focus on a distro called "PHLAK" that I've never heard of before.
- A piece about Novell's huge new SuSE deal with PSA Peugeot Citroen, the French automaker. This ought to give Esker an aneurysm.
- A post arguing that Gentoo doesn't belong on your server. Does anyone actually do that? Gentoo has a nice niche as the distro of choice for bleeding-edge ubergeeks. I don't think the people behind it really intend for you to dump RHEL in favor of Gentoo any time soon. And even if they did, recompiling everything from source is not a generally recognized IT best practice, to put it mildly.
- Rumor has it that MySQL AB is headed for an IPO. I mention this because SCO gets a mention, in connection with Caldera's IPO way back when. The MySQL-SCO deal isn't mentioned, nor is the ongoing litigation over the Caldera IPO.
- ZDNet UK: "Microsoft's bold march towards open source". Sorry, kids, it's just satire, at least for now.
- Today's batch of Vista thrills, chills, and spills:
- BBSpot: Top 11 headlines you won't see on Vista launch day.
- "Theatrics Surround Windows Vista Debut".
- "No Huge Crowds for Vista Launch"
- Kaspersky Labs on Vista security, such as it is.
- Other security folks have similar comments about the new OS. The guy from F-Secure speculates that the OS inside the Xbox 360 is probably more secure than Vista. Ow!
- PC World NZ says "Wait! Don't buy Microsoft Windows Vista"
- The UK's Green Party is concerned that Vista will mean lots of suddenly "obsolete" PCs will be junked in the near future.
- A man-bites-dog story about a Mac user who's switching to Vista. The story comes to us via MSNBC, always your #1 unbiased source for Microsoft news.
- Seems Vista has issues with virtualization. Ok, the EULA has issues with virtualization, as in, you're only supposed to do it with the more expensive versions.
- Be that as it may, here's a bit about running Vista under Parallels on an Intel Mac.
- The fun new Vista security model means that a lot of games don't work anymore.
- LXer: "A dystopian future - looking beyond Windows Vista"
- And here's a fun Vista exploit involving its speech recognition feature. Personally I've always thought speech recognition is useless. It sounds great in theory, and it's a staple in your classic SF movies and TV shows, etc., but in practice it's just a novelty item, and a flaky one at that.
- BBSpot: Top 11 headlines you won't see on Vista launch day.
- And a few items on the Zune front:
- The VP in charge of the Zune division has "retired" to pursue "personal interests". It's a strange quirk of the modern English language that "pursuing personal interests", and "wanting to spend more time with one's family", generally mean one has screwed up royally.
- Turns out the Zune is prone to screen cracks if you let the battery charge for too long. Yikes!
- But don't worry, Zune fan(s)! The Zune Phone is on the way!
- The VP in charge of the Zune division has "retired" to pursue "personal interests". It's a strange quirk of the modern English language that "pursuing personal interests", and "wanting to spend more time with one's family", generally mean one has screwed up royally.
- Another BBSpot item, about the feds' new interest in faith-based firewalls.
- The UK computer chain PC World will no longer sell floppies. Although as the article notes, MS Word 2k7 still uses floppy as "save file" icon.
- LXer on porting KDE to Mac OS X, and Windows too.
- Sony settles with the Federal Trade Commission [US] over the recent rootkit debacle.
- A New York Times piece on why gamers seem to prefer Nintendo's Wii over Sony's PS3, despite the latter's glitzy graphic abilities and fancy Blu-ray drive.
- Some handwringing about creaky old PalmOS.
- An OSNews piece on BeOS, part of their continuing "Forgotten Tech" series. Some people lament that it wasn't chosen as the basis for Mac OS X. I have to disagree there. I liked BeOS and everything, but it's good to have a real BSD under the hood.
- This is OT, but it may explain a great deal. Seems there's a species of snake that has figured out how to eat poisonous toads & reuse their venom.
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