Amount of ice in Bering Sea reaches all-time record: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/11/bering_sea_ice_cover/

About 7 years ago, I did a Linux desktop pilot with a large ad firm in Chicago. It would have reduced their costs, improved reliability, etc. However, the IT Director at the time did everything she could to work against me. She wouldn't enable IMAP on the server, which made switching off of Notes impossible. Further more, OpenOffice was 1.0 and the compatibility with Office docs was terrible, and it's not a whole helluva lot better today. Almost every other app had a viable open source replacement, but the Office suite was the Achilles heel. If the open source community could get a full replacement for the Office suite, especially Outlook, it wouldn't be as hard to switch to Linux on the desktop. Maybe now that Oracle owns OpenOffice, we'll get better compatibility with Office files. However, compatibility isn't enough as "me too" products don't do very well in the market place. We need something that has enough "killer features" compelling enough to switch off of Office and Windows.

Well said, Locutus. The only reason IE has the market share that it is exactly because of bundling! People just double-click the blue IE their computer and they are on the 'Net. Add a few bookmarks and switching because a chore for most people. This guy at Mozilla is a fool for saying otherwise. I thought Mozilla employed smarted people than that. I mean, come on, Microsoft admitted in the Anti-Trust trial that they paid Dell, HP, Compaq, Gateway, etc NOT to bundle Netscape/Mozilla. Why do would they do that? Because bundling leads to market share and Microsoft was hoping to make it so that the Internet, a realm they can't control, only works well on IE/Windows!!! Wake the hell up people!

..because it's the only one that will allow you to migrate from Active Directory. FDS does Active Directory user and group synchronization. I will say that Active Directory is still a pretty darn good LDAP server. However, switching is a good idea simply because you can use FOSS LDAP user self-service tools like http://lam.sourceforge.net/

Man, they'll never see that money again....