Comment Yes, It's about time. (Score 2, Interesting) 119
Ok,
Let's take DCOM, PHP, ASP, XML, SQL, ActiveX, DirectX, Flash, LISP, Perl give them a whirl add a chicken for lustre some hot-peppers for muster and then dethrone eXchange, explain to people that theier only choice is Linux and make the punishment for useing windows the loss of your hands.
Realistcily people like Outlook, they like exchange and they do not like change the public containts too many windows peons for that kind of change to happen.
Oddly enough exchange is a stripped down version of X.400 with X.500 extensions thrown in for good measure (Look ma no UNIX!). Microsoft has always taken current technology, re-branded it given it a nice gui (if you like puke grey!) and re-sold it to the would be managers/ceo's/cio's and marketing people. Another perfect example of the drop re-tool and replace (BSD's 4.2 TCP stack is in both windows 2000 and WinXP). Please correct me if I am wrong.
Group Ware from a coroporate stand point should always cost money, most of the managers I know maintain the belief that a tool is as good as it's price. Or more concisely "you pay for what you get", and then you pay for what you didn't get too. Realistcly people like windows it keeps them in the comfortable world of I neither know nor care obout my antiquated kernel with crappy drivers and an HAL that reeks of 5 years ago.
P.S. HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer).
Then again I should be one to talk, I am a OS zelot and I hope to help with this ever so monumental task of replaceing all of DCOM. But what of security? Will it be Kmail? Or Pine? Which one will get the ever so useful access to theis new form of OPENDCOM? And how long before the same problems hit all those nice mandrake/Suse/redhat installations?
I hope it works, and I hope people learn to trust open soucre, but I have been let down by OS my self a few times.
Three Letters "XML" that exists so why not just make everything comply!
Let's take DCOM, PHP, ASP, XML, SQL, ActiveX, DirectX, Flash, LISP, Perl give them a whirl add a chicken for lustre some hot-peppers for muster and then dethrone eXchange, explain to people that theier only choice is Linux and make the punishment for useing windows the loss of your hands.
Realistcily people like Outlook, they like exchange and they do not like change the public containts too many windows peons for that kind of change to happen.
Oddly enough exchange is a stripped down version of X.400 with X.500 extensions thrown in for good measure (Look ma no UNIX!). Microsoft has always taken current technology, re-branded it given it a nice gui (if you like puke grey!) and re-sold it to the would be managers/ceo's/cio's and marketing people. Another perfect example of the drop re-tool and replace (BSD's 4.2 TCP stack is in both windows 2000 and WinXP). Please correct me if I am wrong.
Group Ware from a coroporate stand point should always cost money, most of the managers I know maintain the belief that a tool is as good as it's price. Or more concisely "you pay for what you get", and then you pay for what you didn't get too. Realistcly people like windows it keeps them in the comfortable world of I neither know nor care obout my antiquated kernel with crappy drivers and an HAL that reeks of 5 years ago.
P.S. HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer).
Then again I should be one to talk, I am a OS zelot and I hope to help with this ever so monumental task of replaceing all of DCOM. But what of security? Will it be Kmail? Or Pine? Which one will get the ever so useful access to theis new form of OPENDCOM? And how long before the same problems hit all those nice mandrake/Suse/redhat installations?
I hope it works, and I hope people learn to trust open soucre, but I have been let down by OS my self a few times.
Three Letters "XML" that exists so why not just make everything comply!
