I was chatting with a network contractor who came from a network solutions company. Just under half about 40% still cling to XP.
My inbox is flooded with jobs looking for XP to 7 migration experts. Most companies today look at IT as a cost and not an asset as it adds no value to the bottom line
Dude my inbox is flooded with jobs for XP to Windows 7 migrations TODAY! They just started and in their eyes 7 is a brand new OS so why waste more money?
The fact that the fear of change starting with XP and still to this day many businesses which are smaller still using it with plans to change scare them.
Annual new releases though will drive them harder to Windows 7 more than any other time in computer history. It means businesses which take years to upgrade due to dozens if not hundreds of apps and ancient IE intranet sites will need staff that just upgrades and changes for the sake of changes year round!
Cost accountants and CIOs will not like annual upgrades
Let's say you own a business with 60 users in 2 locations? Does it make sense to blow 100,000 in an IT guy after taxes, Obama care, and other expenses, plus an additional 100,000 on servers and 50,000 on software?
Or go to office 365 and pay $900 a month and it just works?
I am happy to pay for software.
In economics both the worker and customer benefits. If you need something done and you have people waiting then there is no time to wait fixing or developing a system.
The free market provides solutions such as a more reliable virtualize and office suite over free alternatives. Namely MS office and vmware workstation over Libre office and virtualbox. Windows just works.
My comment just made a few red in the face but it's true. I have money. I need things to work without workarounds. I need a resume formatted properly on someone elses comouter. I need Windows 10 and 6 different vms to just work without crashing. Clouds are great too.
If these were all sooo horrible and anti user then the free market would have bankrupted them. You are denying a programmer financial incentive to serve his customers and me and my boss to buy software which pays for itself.
... since I am just a nice guy and this is slashdot I found the news story here
Might have been Coke Cola.
It was mentioned in my accounting book when I was in school a half decade ago. SEC busted them. Try Googling that as it was one of the 2 soda makers at a wharehouse in Plano.
They got em.
Private sector too whenever the sole and only focus is on metrics. Like how Pepsi loaded all their inventory on a truck moved it 1 foot then did an inventory count each quarter is a classic example.
People will find a way a number is met
Winforms emulate com underneath. I remember a long time ago there was dcom/com on Linux. Do no not know if it is still active or how well it integrates with Gnome or XFCE?
Problem is we excpect it to be like Java and just work across platforms. C# maybe started out as J++ as a set of apis for java, but it is not java anymore. It is not python either that has gui components and frameworks designed to be cross platforms. It is not PHP either which that has quirks which make running it on Linux far best to this day.
The compiler is free but in 2015 it is about including code. That code is win32 specific.
I believe Beagle was one such c# program for gnome that was successful back in the day but was all 100% gnome with no emulating win32 stuff in it.
Problem is let's say there is a bug that is causing your web app to constantly run out of threads or restart?
Who do you call for support? Let's say you think it is mono causing it? WIth VS.NET on Windows you see the bug is not there. Or if it is you can go to MSDN and find others with the same issue and work arounds and a promise from QA that it will be worked on if it is big enough in a Windows update.
I do not like Mono for this reason.
Like C++ there is a big difference between one written for Unix and one with Win32.
I am not a metro fan at all.
I am typing this on Windows 7. But really people do not use servers as a desktop and your thing with VPN's is a non issue in a server.
There are younger folks who have no problem with the start screen after they get used to it. It is just different and requires muscle memory. For a server I only use server manager which opens by default or the tools at my desk. I do not run it on a laptop where I will VPN from a hotel room.
More than likely when the release comes next month it will have a 10 UI with a start menu and yes some applets come with 10 but will probably be absent for the server..
I do not see what the big deal is on a server?
Desktop by default loads up with Server manager. As long as you do not hit the Windows key the start screen doesn't pop up. You can with powershell install Windows Server 2012 headless with no gui at all!
90% of the work on servers is done from a system admins desk anyway with MMC and the associated server tools. Very rarely does one log in unless something is wrong. Powershell version 4 means you can do alot without walking into the server room and plugging in a monitor and keyboard.
Now on a desktop this can be frustrating to get used to if you use it for 8 hours a day.
MacOSX left init in 2006 man.
Solaris left Init too. It is gone because it is not adaptive or event driven. This is not just because of performance at startup but because it makes a dynamic environment that respond to events such as a disk failing, hacking attempt, waking up on a different network etc.
In init you need to think of every possible action and every sub action in that action and write complicated scripted to get anything done.
It wasn't a problem in 1985 when RC was new when a Unix server had 50 programs at the most and did 1 thing and stayed in a computer room somewhere. A linux distro or a mac or even a modern server talking to virtualizers and serving traffic with thousands of programs is a different manner
Do not tell IT anything and then blame them and throw them under the bus when it doesn't get done. Give a wonderful Window at 3pm on a Friday for somehting that needs to be ready by Morning. Also having IT management do 15% layoffs each quarter do wonders for morale too
Never invite them to meetings as they are a cost center. Create a culture of constant reminders of this and you will obtain the best and brightest talent
Have you used SystemD?
It is quick and wonderful. Only hate is from trolls who like to start flamewars which he is since he went on about VS and Apple and system administrators who do not want change and have thousand line rc filed which are really programs with logic and data together with nested if/else which reference other scripts in a unholy mess of thousands threads that boot at startup who see nothing wrong with that??
Crazee Edeee, his prices are INSANE!!!
