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Posted on 23-Nov-2003 20:34 GMT by bbrv | 147 comments View flat View list |
After the Pegasos of course, the big story at SoCal was Novell and IBM. :-D "IBM will support SuSE and what will be left of Redhat," said the leading IBM rep at the Show. In the meanwhile, the Novell booth brought a air of credibility to what was the largest show other than CES that we have participated. Novell has assembled a complete Linux stack. People want it. Novell is providing it. If anyone is missing the "Linux is coming to a Desktop Near You" story, they should even avoid WrongPla.net, much less ANN.
The time is NOW.
If you are a Developer and you have something to offer get on the bandwagon of your choice (or both). The Linux Desktop *is* the Trojan Horse for this Community. Don't miss the boat! And, BTW, let us be bold enough to suggest that IBM will very likely be selling the Pegasos one day (or something like it) as a thin client in a total system package. Why the Dell not?! IBM sells services. When they sell an enterprise network to a corporate customer they often continue to “own” the entire system. The customer contracts for the entire package. IBM insures that everything is working and that the latest and greatest is there running as it should. Why should IBM continue to sell a PC when they begin to promote a Linux desktop? First, they throw out Windows (replaced with Linux) and then the Intel-based CPU/PC can be replaced with a PowerPC based system that runs on an IBM CPU. All IBM is doing is connecting the dots from client desktop to enterprise network and ultimately to the "GRID" that IBM now extols (the Matrix is coming!).
And, while we are at it beyond the "Matrix" -- not only are the major game consoles moving to the PowerPC, it is also the CPU found in the most advance DTV receivers (satellite or terrestrial). The latest one from Disney is called MovieBeam. Imagine a Super TiVo (PowerPC too BTW) using an expanded version of AmiNetRV (radio and video) and all integrated into a MPlayer-like UI that would do to a TV set what MP3 did to music. Now, that is really any show any time. TV signals digital or analogue can be integrated, but the Internet is the foundation of the future in this arena in our opinion. While we are at it since that MP3 player will not play high fidelity sound why not use that 24/7 broadband Internet connection to get that home stereo equipment back in the game too!
Final note: Pegasos II sales have passed the 1500 unit mark. These are the combined sales based on Reseller, Internet, and institutional/corporate orders. Congratulations to Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda. Your years of hard work and dedication are paying off and thanks to you we have the fundamental ingredient required to march forward to our future.
R&B :-)
P.S. This week "will be IBM week." ;-)
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Posted by Anonymous on 24-Nov-2003 13:39 GMT | In reply to Comment 60 (bbrv): You see, BBRV, you are sending out mixed messages.
One second you are hyping Linux as The Next Big Thing[TM] (bigger even than Mr Lesnar? ;-) ] and that Linux is the way forward, and then the next minute you say you are pushing MorphOS.
Sorry, Bill, your enthusiasm is getting the better of you. You need to slow down, take a deep breath, THINK what you actually want to achieve, and THEN start talking, instead of flitting from 1 idea to another like a butterfly (absolutely no pun intended there!).
BTW, if I wanted to run 5 OSes on one cheap piece of hardware, I'd run them on a dirt cheap x86 box, which woul blow the Pegasos away in terms of performance at dthe moment, AND for a fraction of the cost I'm afraid. But like the vast majority of people, I don't have the need to run a dozen OSes on one system. I want my system to run the applications I need and quickly enough.
And no matter how nice Linux is, it's useless for a lot of my requirements (music synthesis/recording/processing - Linux does not have the software nor the basic functionality to do this - however, there werre some bloody good AmigaOS tools which did, and could do again via MorphOS. That's one example of why I am keeping an eye on how MorphOS/ Pegasos is coming along). |
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