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Open source a better long-term prospect
Talkback This makes open source software a better long-term prospect, with less risk for business users. pjc158 states: Of course you will step in if you can make money from it and have the resources to take it on, but will the customer have the confidence...
About: What vendors really mean by 'open source'
[January 16, 2009, 20:03 by conz]
Short term greed means long term harm for mobile operators
Talkback I use Orange pay-as-you-go. The default homepage on the phones they provide is "orangeworld". As an experiment, I went to the orangeworld home page, then looked to see how much data I'd used. I'd sent 3647B and received 14599B.
About: Short term greed means long term harm for mobile operators
[November 3, 2005, 13:22]
Short term greed means long term harm for mobile operators
Talkback I agree. The MNos need to get closer to empathgising with the all the customers and ensuring that the services are well defined and priced transparently. We have left behind the concepts of metered charging with units that were defined in the...
About: Short term greed means long term harm for mobile operators
[November 6, 2005, 21:31]
Novell promises long-term NetWare support
Talkback Myself and a number of colleagues are just plain weary from reading badly planned and implemented journalism. It is hard enough in the world as a whole, reading between the lines to get the truth. To blatantly try and create a picture in the...
About: Novell promises long-term NetWare support
[February 3, 2005, 13:08]
Novell promises long-term NetWare support
Talkback Pretty typical ZDNet "reporting". Start with a faux positive tagline and get progressively more negative. Each company comment is nicely tagged with a "but" to make sure the negative slant is continued.
About: Novell promises long-term NetWare support
[February 4, 2005, 14:03]
Google's long-term dominance doubted
Talkback Maybe the others do display similar results for most things but Google doesn't have bloated pages, loads of ads (yet) and displays results which are simple to understand, unlike most of the others
About: Google's long-term dominance doubted
[May 26, 2004, 10:58]
Novell promises long-term NetWare support
Talkback The one 'but' in the story is actually used to introduce a positive comment from the company after a paragraph explaining its earlier reticence to furnish customers will assurances of long-term support.
About: Novell promises long-term NetWare support
[February 4, 2005, 16:24]
Novell promises long-term NetWare support
Talkback Like aI learned a long time ago, the media is the message. Pretty typical is right. I'm beginning to stop reading these.
About: Novell promises long-term NetWare support
[February 9, 2005, 15:38]
Novell promises long-term NetWare support
Talkback So very incompetent amd LAZY! How can you cite a 2003 study that was based on old information and pre-dates Nterprise Linux Services, GroupWise on Linux, the Ximian acquistion, the SUSE acquisition, and the very successful beta of Open Enterprise...
About: Novell promises long-term NetWare support
[February 9, 2005, 17:05]
Novell promises long-term NetWare support
Talkback I cannot believe that a publication such as this would cite a 2003 study. Perhaps, the publication or the writer receives special things from Microsoft to add little sentences like this to an otherwise VERY positive article on Novell, OES...
About: Novell promises long-term NetWare support
[February 9, 2005, 20:13]
Dell Latitude X300
Member Review Has a re-occuring issue where the presence of the battery can stop the system from powering up. Overtime the mains power connector becomes loose and prone to accidental removal.not an issue normally. If you are suffering from the above battery...
[July 16, 2008, 9:31 by bigfootman]
Heron's not so hardy after all
Blog Ubuntu 8.04LTS - for Long Term Support - was widely expected to continue the platform's long, steady march towards impeccable reliability and usability. It is important to have long-term support for a product; it is less so to anoint that product...
[May 20, 2008, 16:10 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Issues Not Addressed by Gartner
Talkback If you view it over the long term the failure to mention the upgrades to hardware and software on the premise must be taken into account. If you keep the software on premise these things would have to be updated every now and then over the LONG term.
About: Gartner: SaaS could cost more in the long term
[April 30, 2009, 21:09 by iconcmo]
Linux: Lost in the trough of disillusionment?
Talkback > the Linux community must convince its IT industry admirers that they have a long-term future together. It's a matter of indifference to the Linux community whether the IT industry thinks it has a long-term future with Linux.
About: Linux: Lost in the trough of disillusionment?
[September 13, 2005, 12:41]
War of words greets Microsoft's UK anti-Linux campaign
Talkback Even given that Microsoft's claims that Windows is cheaper in the long term have some truth, I'd still be concerned with the implications of this. Essentially, what this means is that if you want to see these supposed statements, you're going to...
About: War of words greets Microsoft's UK anti-Linux campaign
[January 30, 2004, 20:56]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback I'm not too worried about the long term success of customer service outsourcing. The public image of a company has alot to do with the long term viability of said company. Look at what happened to Comcast.
About: Dell admits Indian mistake
[March 16, 2005, 18:05]
RE: ICANN wants independence from US govt
Blog Comment Ending the JPA will provide long-term stability and security for a model that works. Government oversight has nothing to do with providing long-term stability and security in the eyes of the international community that would singularly fix these...
[March 4, 2008, 0:37 by kfattal]
RE: Go! Ubuntu Linux 8.10, Intrepid Ibex - Installation Tips
Blog Comment Not so in Ubuntu 8.04 as it is a long term support release. However by going into 'Software Sources' from the System => Administration menu, I found that I could change from from 'Long term support releases only' to 'Normal releases' in the...
[October 31, 2008, 7:57 by Moley]
Open source gains from the downturn?
Blog Long term, though, people do have to buy things again - but they will be more price conscious. But at the moment, most of these companies have a significant strength: long term contracts with customers.
[November 26, 2008, 10:31 in Open Sauce Software by PeterJudge]
Asian Windows alternative 'would raise competition issues'
Talkback Organisations, which benefit from such contracts, do not however, misunderstand the long term profitability, -taking patented income and capability growth in to consideration-, of their association with Governments, and the latter's financing of...
About: Asian Windows alternative 'would raise competition issues'
[September 8, 2003, 12:18]
