Hi
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Arun Khan wrote:
On the FOSS side of the coin -- RHEL4/CentOS4 (picked as an example)
has been EoL and it's last incarnate most likely will not have drivers
for the new servers in the market today.
Not quite. Red Hat supports RHEL 4 still via the
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:13:42PM +0530, aag wrote:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244751/As_Unix_fades_away_from_data_centers_it_s_unclear_what_s_next
I liked the comments at the end of the article at the above link. Very
interesting :)
You mean the one that says there isn't
Is this a point, CIOs would be made to think about adopting FOSS systems
in place of Windows - both in the server and desktop space?
Something relevant for this thread
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Goodbye-Win-XP---Hello-Linux-79602.html
Mayuresh
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Something relevant for this thread
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Goodbye-Win-XP---Hello-Linux-79602.html
Gartner predicts end of Unix. The obvious replacements to HP-UX,
Solaris, AIX and other Unix variants today are Linux, Windows and
mainframe operating systems.
On 13 December 2013 07:27, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote:
Gartner predicts end of Unix. The obvious replacements to HP-UX,
Solaris, AIX and other Unix variants today are Linux, Windows and
mainframe operating systems.
One may suspect, Microsoft itself is throwing XP vulnerabilities in the
open to intimidate users into buying its newer versions.
As a business they don't need to use any tactics.
They have declared end-of-sale/end-of-support quite some time ago, with
enough time for people to move to later
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 09:03:10AM +0530, Mandar Vaze / ? ??? wrote:
As a business they don't need to use any tactics.
Eh? Every business needs to use tactics. It is not by definition a bad
word.
They have declared end-of-sale/end-of-support quite some time ago, with
enough time for
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote:
The campaign is not because they care for your business loss if you are on
XP. The campaign obviously is to increase the sales of newer versions.
Products go through EoL. IMO, there is nothing wrong in asking users
to use a
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 06:02:24PM +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote:
The campaign is not because they care for your business loss if you are on
XP. The campaign obviously is to increase the sales of newer versions.
Products go
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote:
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 06:02:24PM +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote:
The campaign is not because they care for your business loss if you are on
XP. The campaign obviously
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 07:44:25PM +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
In that case I guess the OP was a NOOP? Perhaps it should have been tagged
OT.
If the OP claimed, what MS is doing is wrong then this becomes a non OT,
is it?
This is definitely not an OT, as it talks about opportunity for FOSS, if
On Friday, November 29, 2013 07:35:55 AM Mayuresh wrote:
One may suspect, Microsoft itself is throwing XP vulnerabilities in the
open to intimidate users into buying its newer versions.
yes because microsoft has financial incentive to sell the new versions and
their biggest problem is not FOSS
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