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Submission + - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/29/whats_goin

Submitted by travellerjohn on Sunday November 30, 2008 @06:44AM

travellerjohn writes: There is plenty of speculation in the press about what will happen to Sun. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/29/whats_going_to_happen_to_sun/. Personally I have always liked the idea of a Sun Apple merger. Solaris and ZFS underpinning OSX would be a cracking desktop OS, and all that Sun enterprise software and kit driving business inside the corporation would make for a true competitor for Microsoft at last. They might have to do a bit more work on Star Office and Opera mind you. So how would the /. crowd like to see Sun evolve?

354341 submission

Submission + - No Java 1.6 on Leopard (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by travellerjohn on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @05:04AM

travellerjohn writes: Over on The Register they have a report that Java 1.6 is not supported on Leopard. Sure we are used to Apple being a bit slow getting a Java VM out, but this strikes me as a major ommission in the new OS. With Apple's small market share support for a cross platform language like Java should be a strategic priority not an afterthought. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/29/no_java_for_leopard/

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Comment Re:Endangers Mutually Supporting Monopolies (Score 1) 300

by travellerjohn on Monday August 21, 2006 @10:15PM (#15953030) Attached to: Stuart Cohen Predicts Office for Linux

You have hit the nail on the head.

I work for a small company where we recently considered moving to Linux on our workstations. The Operating System was not an issue, but the cost of retraining our staff to use OpenOffice out-weighed any benefit we might gain. Taking even half a day to train a busy executive would cost the company more in lost time and productivity than we could ever hope to gain in savings through licencing costs.

Meanwhile at home I have switched to OSX without any drop in productivity (well apart from time wasted playing with all the pretty widgets) because I can use Word with no time spent relearning the system. Someday I will try iWork but I am just too busy right now.

Microsoft may create a version of Office for Linux, but it will be after they have lost the battle for the desktop not before.

1669993 journal

Journal Journal: Ask Slashdot - A database for the office

Journal by travellerjohn on Thursday June 15, 2006 @09:40PM

I have just had my forst submission to Slashdot accepted (A Database for the office) - and it has got a remarkably useful response; 100+ comments and some good ideas in there. My thanks to the Slashdot community.

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