It looks beautiful, but I have a hard time leaving gnome every time I try. It's just so easy to use. Plus you can make it look half decent with some extensions.

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ZDNet calls LibreOffice 5 the best office suite.

NFSv4 is only for security, typically you want to avoid this in a production virtualization environment. You would want to be on NFSv3 for performance reasons.

@Dashrender said:

The quote indicates leaving 6 billion on the table, i.e. shrinking the market value... sure they are talking about increasing their own share, but the market overall would be shrinking. Wouldn't others step in to bring the market back to the full 9 billion? or am I missing something? the market has already shown that it's willing to pay at least 9 billion to do what they do.

The market was willing to pay $9bn when no other options existed. Other options now exist. Like any market, competition shrinks markets. Just like how IBM, HP and Dell have decimated the server market total size by lowering the cost per company. And how Amazon has. But as we have seen Amazon killing the server market still makes Amazon a LOT of money!

I've seen DB2 in use, we had so many machines with it holding customer information.

I was young then, and the memories have stayed with me.

The horror, the horror..

Then the company bought out another company which also had DB2 on some old Unix V knock off and some weird flat file thing on some PDP-somethings and we had to interlink the services and slowly transition everyone over.

Time for a reload..

It give me practice anyway...

@scottalanmiller said:

Or, far better, that ReactOS and other projects like Wine could stop trying to rewrite the Windows code and could focus on replacing the components that Microsoft can't release. Piece by piece they could leverage the MS code to make the whole thing free. Much like the BSD projects did long ago to free UNIX from AT&T.

Well, I think you're just asking for the moon when it comes to a lot of people interested in Windows.

@scottalanmiller said:

@tonyshowoff said:

....the US Navy funded/lead to the creation of Tor, a favourite of drug pushers and child pornographers everywhere.

This could be taken so many ways...

Do drug pushers and pædophiles like to join the navy? Does the navy just get a lot of moral support from these groups? Does the navy support those groups? Do the two physically interact or do they just like each other?

lol, yeah, that part was a joke... or do I have secret information?

@mlnews said:

This one is pretty big...

Office 365 Drive Mapping for Enterprise Desktops

Office 365 Drive Mapping for Enterprise Desktops allows users to utilize folder redirection for SharePoint Online, and it is especially helpful for Windows 7 desktops or higher with no local storage being used in the process. With this tool, you can map drives directly to your Office 365 storage options, such as OneDrive for Business, which is based in SharePoint Online.

Oooh, this one is pretty cool. I will have to play with it in the future.

@scottalanmiller said in VMware Sued Over Unlicensed Use of Linux Kernel Code:

@thwr said in VMware Sued Over Unlicensed Use of Linux Kernel Code:

It looks a little bit like that. Anyway, we don't have anything like your fines and settlement deals here.

VMware seems pretty unconcerned about having used Linux code and violating the GPL in Germany, though.

Too big to care.

@thecreativeone91 said:

I don't know anyone using open source ERP's on a large scale yet, mainly because of the support contracts you get with enterpise commercial systems and with all or most of your companies data being in this system - you really want a support contract even with in house development incase something goes wrong.

Agreed, and even a lot of closed source ERPs like SAP don't scale worth a damn either, I think the biggest difference is with the support contracts people feel better, where as if you hit a scalability wall with OpenBravo or something, you're basically screwed unless you want to hire some Java programmers. Even if SAP takes 2 days to fix something, that's a lot better for a company than something never being fixed, or having to setup all the outsourcing/insourcing to fix some internally mangled Java app.

I also noticed the article doesn't mention and sources or any companies using open source ERP. And this is written by a guy who does Open source ERP Implemntation/customization so bias is likely.

I hear that... this is typical though. They'll ignore 500 fail cases and concentration on 2 use cases and call it success.

I love both PC-BSD and Cinnamon. Just wish that they would get this polished and fully stable. Could really be awesome. Although, I hear, PC-BSD is working on a native desktop to really help the BSD desktop ecosystem compete as Linux desktops have deep ties into the Linux ecosystem.