Haven't posted in a while,
I see alot of posts recently about Microsoft and GPLv3, and how it somehow "hooked" 'the great beast'.
This is so not true, you can read massive posts about it on Slashdot and OSnews and even Groklaw. Some how;
some people have this sort of fantasy where Microsoft just sort of implodes or falls down dead one day. At best its wishfull thinking
at worst its mental. I am all for criticizing Microsoft where its needed, and on *how* that comes back like improved security and OOXML.
and when Microsoft does something well, Like Visual studio or .NET we should stand up and say so.
Now, dont get me wrong. I like Linux/FreeBSD but I just dont think one day we will wake up and there will be no
Microsoft. In the enterprise world Microsoft is pretty entrenched, and for good reasons. A windows 2003 domain,
and well seup desktops are pretty nice to manage. not to mention the loads of 3rd party tools and software that all intergrates
into AD. sure, Nix can do it, *but* nix has always been more focused on the server side. and it shows. for an enterprise setup
where desktops, etc come into play. AD *is* pretty nice. and thats not to mention all the windows based apps that enterpise
folks need that they cant get on Nix. stuff like Photoshop, Visio, autoCAD etc are all windows only.
I my work we have *tons* of nix, but its all server stuff. none on the desktop, all the desktops are Windows.
Not only these things; *but* Microsoft with every version *is* getting better. Something the OSS folks are not even realizing.
becuase many of the *most* hardcore OSS/Linux/bsd.ers are very behind in their Microsoft Knoweldge, and refer to stuff that was NT or windows 98. not XP or even vista or 2003 server.
Personally, I love vmware and Virtual machines. they are *the* way in the future. I can have a Basic host machine that i some my most basic stuff on. then, i can have VMs (Virtual machines) for each task, example: vm for Visual studio 2003 and a VM for VS2k5, and a VM for a freeBSD and a VM for Linux. ALL on the same machine.
This is much better, and I can back up my VMs witha copy and paste or a job that backs them up. not if a VM has issues I just restore
a clean copy. simple.
with large Hard drives, and massive ram this is the future.
my take....
-Nex6
