As a hobbyist photographer I must say producing the lighting of the Eiffel Tower is a hell of a job, while pressing the shutter button is... well.. pressing the shutter button. There is alot creativity in photography, but taking photos of other's people work it aint.

Do we have AD like single sign on at least for linux servers? No? How about clients then? No?

Seriously, how do you guys handle root password management for servers? SSH is not the real answer here, IMHO.

Eastern Europe? Really? We've been using Office since Windows 3.1, which also had EE version.

>Oracle bought Sun, thus acquiring Java and OpenOffice. They were not the reason for the buyout.

What? Oracle bought Sun exactly because of Java. Everything else just came in the same package.

And a user who "uses email client at home" and _thinks_ it might work with exchange is modded informative?
Oh Slashdot, quo vadis ?

1. There's a BIG difference in using email client at home and in big corporate environment or even job that requires lots of mailing.
2. Last time i tried, the exchange support was a joke. It might have changed, but if it still uses OWA... just forget it.

Ribbons look good, but are a pain to use.

OS2 was much more than "desktop OS". It was what Windows NT only became much later.

I still don't understand how IBM let MS get away with what they did. There's a lot of OS2 know how and architecture in Windows.

And your point is? JVM can be implemented as register vm code.licenser.net/rvm/trunk/etc/p153-yunhe.pdf

It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck.. but it's isDuck() returns false, so duck it's not!

- language is _the same_, java
- some APIs are the same: java.*, javax.*... but some packages are excluded
- extended with android.*
- uses different bytecode, still called bytecode (but hey, this is totally different than java!)
- has java bytecode to dalvik bytecode compiler, agan, not java, it's totally different

Do no evil my ass.

Same tactics disguised in different, "don't be evil" package.

Really, how can people be so blinded by Apple and Google? I mean, it's 20 and freaking 10, we don't have flying cars, but at least we could finally have portable software? You know, with something like JavaFx (or Flash or whatever) it's possible to implement cross-platform iPhone like apps.

The ONLY profit from proprietary platforms goes to their authors. And again, if it was 95 and Microsoft did that.. oh boy...

Dude, Oracle has more or less all their current product portfolio built around Java. From java stored procedures to Fusion Middleware, SOA, 2 application servers, 2 development environments, and most of their "applications" portfolio. Oracle bought Sun just to protect itself from loosing java. what they will make out of it is another story. Probably won't be as open as Sun was, but can't afford to loose customers and devs... interesting times ahaed.

Do you remember when MS had their own JVM and then started adding "extensions" to java? Yeah, that was bad. It was MS's embrace, extend, extinguish strategy. Id bound whatever you implemented on MS's java to Windows platform. Which is exactly the opposite of what java is all about. And yes, Sun sued them and MS discontinued it's own java and tarted .Net. Sun was considered to be the good guy and MS the bad guy.

Now please explain to me how Google, doing exactly the same as MS did, is now the good guy?

Well, the next version of photoshop does have a similar feature...

VirtualBox = desktop Xen=server completely different products, comparing them is nonsense

RHEL is probably not the best choice for workstations....