I thought that WindowsNT was heavily influenced by the VMS architecture?!

> You can incorporate it into your own code, provided that you license your code as GPL (commercial software doesn't usually allow that)

Actually, you only have to license your code as GPL if you distribute it. I know it's a small point (why would you write software and then not distribute it?!), but if you don't distribute your code (binary and/or source) you can use GPL code without restriction.

Don't think this fiasco is over yet. The UK government has a rather poor record of securing data. It won't be long until the entire database is up on WikiLeaks.

> On the other extreme, rising star Chrome appears to be left out, too. What does Google think of that?"

Who are JPMorgan Chase? I did a Google search for them and I didn't find anything?

I agree.

And, IBM will never be replaced as the dominant PC manufacturer.

We're a funny lot in the UK. The English are particularly strange. I should point out that I was born in the fine county of Essex, England. We don't eat horses. We don't eat dogs. We don't (on the whole) eat veal. And we definately don't eat Blue Fin tuna. However, we do produce veal.... we just ship it to Europe. What we don't eat gets turned into dog food. Similarly, we have alot of dear (venison), but instead of eating it ourselves, we (again) feed it to cats and dogs. I don't know if we export horse meat, but I'd wager that we do..... we just won't eat it ourselves. Me? Well I'm English.

UK Schools now routinely use the "Data Protection Act" or "Privacy Concerns" to prevent parents taking photos of their children at school plays, sports days, assemblies, award ceremonies, etc. Actually, the "Data Protection Act" doesn't have anything to do with this. The schools are petrified that one pervert might come into their school and take photos of kids and upload them to some sicko website (Myspace, Facebook, Bebo???) and get the school a whole load of bad publicity. When I was recently "told off" by my daughter's Karate instructor for taking photos just before a grading (she got a green belt), I did feel like saying "Where exactly in the Data Protection Act does it say I can't take pictures of my children?". Of course I didn't, I wanted my child to be able to take part. However I was denied the opportunity to have any photographic record of her achievements. There is also the fact that many schools make money out of videoing these events and selling the DVD's. The schools are just protecting a revenue stream. There's nothing to stop the perverts buying the DVD and having a jolly good hand shandy over it. Where's the "Data Protection Act" now?!!

So, SCO is actually worth less than I thought! Oh well. You can't win them all.

Does anyone ever read TFA at slashdot, or do any research before posting a comment. Oh... sorry, this is slashdot, of course they don't! The iter website actually lists the consortium as "China, EU, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the USA". Indeed if you want to get a job there, you need to be citizen of one of those areas. I'm British, which is (just about!) part of the EU, so I'm eligible. As it happens, they also include Switzerland with "EU", even though it isn't. The ITER project builds on the developments at JET and other fusion projects..... which have been looking for a way to get fusion working for along time already. Considering the potential benefit, the time and effort is worth it. Actually, I think it will take us that long to get to grips with the potential outcome. Imagine the disasterous consequences to the global economy if oil and gas were suddenly made worthless! Has anyone thought of doing the financial modelling of the possibility that ITER is successful?!

They still have Unixware and SCO OpenServer, which are "Unix Products". They also (presumably) have Caldera (Linux) and DrDos. To be honest, I can't imaging anyone actually making any money out of these products now.

Sophos's main website is www.sophos.com. Sophos is the solution I have chosen for the company I work for. The "Enterprise Console" stuff requires a Windows server. As it happens, Sophos had a centralised administration system called "InterCHK", and that could be used with a linux server (that's how I originally set it up), however the new tools are Windows only (shame). I recently evaluated NOD32: I came to the conclusion that the centralised adminitstration wasn't as good as Sophos, so stuck with Sophos (despite the Windows Server issue). I should point out that I still occasionally get computers which get compromised..... it's always the "Road Warriors". We've not had a virus enter through the main network since I've worked here. I should add that the gateway is a linux box and it scans emails using ClamAV.
My vote: Sophos (but you're gonna need a Windows box to run the "Enterprise Console" on.

I think this one fifth is a gross under-estimate. Don't forget that almost half the earth is bathed in sunlight most of the time. I'd reckon that at any one time, no more than a third of the population can see the stars at all!