Admiral Llama - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Decline of the Landline (Score 2, Informative) 435

by Admiral Llama on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @03:42PM (#29123903) Attached to: The Decline of the Landline

Wire centers have huge ass diesel generators and enough fuel to run for days. Those batteries are really there just last until the generator is up and humming, plus a bunch of leeway should there be issues with the generator.

Also, that cell tower at some point feeds into a wire center anyway, so if the wire center is down, your cell tower is dead in the water.

Your VoiP phone? It goes back to a wire center somehow. Cable system? Take a guess. Wouldn't it be better to connect directly to the wire center with a regular POTS line than slip several points of failure in between?

Submission + - OS X more appealing than desktop Linux

Submitted by El Lobo on Friday December 08, 2006 @10:35AM

El Lobo writes: OS X is more appealing to enterprises as a desktop operating system than ever before and although it is unlikely to take market share away from Windows, the Mac could reduce the number of Linux-based desktops, according to research group Gartner.

Gartner said that as the penetration of OS X increases, it is unlikely to mean less Windows PCs: "In many instances, Macs are replacing Unix and Linux workstations, rather than Windows PCs"..

The report predicts that Windows will be unrivalled on the desktop for the near future. Apple is making a number of mistakes when it comes to attracting large scale enterprise deployments, according to the report.Firstly, Apple does not licence its operating system to third party manufacturers, which is a disadvantage.Secondly, Apple is not clear enough in its roadmaps for supporting current versions of OS X: "Microsoft supports versions of Windows for a minimum of 10 years.Apple needs to make similarly explicit minimum commitments".

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/OS_X_mor e_appealing_than_desktop_Linux_Gartner/0,130061733 ,339272622,00.htm

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