i checked 'generic action movies in space', but really would have liked 'generic soap opera in space' as an option.

the day i realised star trek voyager was just that, was pretty much when i gave em all away!

once worked with a guy who insisted on dvorak... and would set up shortcut switching to change on every pc he went near.

so he comes & works with you on a problem, fast switching back and forth the dvorak... then up and leaves..

without changing back!

all the keys are useless!

( and no, yelling out the dvorak key combo as you walk away to tell me how to change back isnt any help neither ).

with solaris going gpl, i think linaris is more likely :)

correct!

my wife did, now she lives with me in a country where universal healthcare costs us a few % on our incomes through taxes. earn a bit more, pay a little more tax, or voluntarily join a private health insurance fund.

how the debate against such a system can actually be happening there in the US is beyond me.

( Australia, FYI )

mainly because people dont need most consumer goods, and so price competition and product utility/value are the way to entice people to part with their hard earned.

health, on the other hand, is essential to life!, so the health 'industry' really has a captive 'market'.

the 'competition' view for healthcare having broadly self-correcting 'market force' doesnt really apply, because the 'industry' knows they can basically charge what they like.

clearly, all that government intervention in healthcare up to now is the source of all the problems.

may i refer you all to the hippocratic oath

HP-UX, AIX, Minix, Irix...OSX

some variants match the nix, others dont.

maybe just *X would be more accurate?

well, not quite. more like the minimalist guys need to spend more time stripping out the bits they dont want ( menuconfig or rm -Rf from the source..).

more likely to have it scripted anyway so they dont start from scratch with each new kernel release.

or their own git trees...

either way, for the minimalist distros and embedded device guys, all the extra stuff in the kernel sources are simply excluded/ignored from the build. if anything, the option to pick and choose from the broader set of perhaps kludgy or duplicated code is probably keeping their binaries pretty tidy.

obviously the wheels

so...

are you saying that the british universal healthcare system _prevented_ mr. hardy from purchasing it himself?

didnt think so.

just because pfizer can come up with an expensive new drug ( that is their business you know ), doesnt instantly provide rationalisation to purchase it.

any evidence of what the benefits to this expensive new drug were?

i'd say that if mr. hardy had kidney cancer, which had spread to his lungs, his days are pretty well numbered as it is, so handing over a metric assload of cash to pfizer in order to extend his life by a matter of (probably only) weeks would be sheer self indulgent madness.

it comes down to this: would mrs. hardy like to be the one to pick and choose which services to deny others in need from the healthcare system in order to cover the cost of the expensive medication?

define 'enterprise class'.

without the markitecture diagrams and execuspeak please.

the vast ( and i mean _vast_! ) majority of needs in an application database are covered just fine by free/open source tools, speed, reliability and redundancy inclusive.

the remainder probably could benefit from reconsideration of architecture and data access design.

the only reason you would nominate oracle is if your department needed to blow a remaining budget in order to get the same budget next year.

that or oracle sales reps helped write your requirements documentation.

'enterprise class' pffft.

IMHO, the really sensible thing to do is not run oracle products at all. even the bea purchase and rebadging of the weblogic/aqualogic app server doesnt change that.

i've never bothered to look at oracle linux, because i can get 'free' redhat through centos, and when i want paid support, i can get it directly through redhat.

without some other differentiation, what is oracle providing that isnt there from the others?

so yes, it is just a rip off of red hat.

.. pull my finger.