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http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/20...isease.ars
THE SPAWN OF SATAN SPEAKS!!!
HE SAYS HATING Micro$LOTH is a disease! Who out there DOESN'T HATE just LOOKING at Balmer?
Let alone using their garbage!!!???
And don't EVER forget -- he said "The MACH Kernel is a POS." Tough words from a guy who writes software
that's only PART Unix!
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How easily he is bought off. Just for some M$ drivers that make virtualized Linux run better in Windows? Sheesh.
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Actually, MS had to provide the drivers because they violated the GPL. MS tried to play it off as a goodwill gesture, but really it was to dodge a lawsuit. I actually agree with Linus Torvalds on this issue. I respect Microsoft for some of there software. Exchange is brilliant. MS Office is also pretty nice. Windows is a trainwreck. What I don't like is that MS uses there enormous market share and their horde of cash to influence the market to crush competition. I don't understand why no one can make a better version of Exchange. Office should be easy to out do also. Yet no one has done it. Open Office is getting closer all the time, but Microsoft just keeps buying, bribing, and lobbying their way into dominance with Office. I keep expecting Apple to do something like Exchange, but every software company seems to avoid it like the plague. Novell and IBM tried. IBM's effort has languished for years. Novell abandoned their effort entirely. I strongly suspect that once Ballmer is gone (and that should be 1-2 years max) Microsoft will rise up off of it's bruised rear-end and produce some great software. I would have no problem using Microsoft software if it didn't herd me into a corner and prevent me from getting out. I want them to write better software and embrace some open file formats so that I can bring files in and out freely. As it is, I feel that most of their software has not improved in about 5 years and they've just been spending time trying to figure out how to keep earning money.
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"Exchange is brilliant."
Really? Or did MS finally fix the bugs that sometimes resulted in mail database corruption and in some cases near total loss of mail and other data such as calendars?
"I don't understand why no one can make a better version of Exchange."
MS made agreements with owners of some competing and successful mail products years ago that resulted in them being end-of-life'd by the owners. By convincing non-tech types who control purchases of products that only MS Exchange will integrate well with Office, and you have gone into how that gained dominance, new competing products have just not managed to gain traction in the market.
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As someone who has actually adminstrated Exchange servers, it IS brilliant -- if by "brilliant" you really mean "heinous nightmare". Then again, Lotus Notes is even worse.
Apple is kind of putting the pieces in place to compete with Exchange, with the CalDAV stuff in Leopard Server. However they are incomplete and very poorly implemented at present; really hope Snow Leopard Server moves things forward in that area. Meanwhile I have been very pleased with Kerio Mail Server, which I have migrated some Exchange sites away from with good results, plus it integrates with Mac clients and iPhones extremely well and costs a LOT less than Exchange.
But back on topic. I would wager that Apple has contributed a LOT more to open source projects than Microsoft has, but still gets disproportionate grief from the "freetards."
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I enjoy an intelligent conversation like this. It's very helpful in weeding out the people with new children
who are generally in a great mood about everything and unwittingly let that generosity extend to such
a bag of infectious pus as Balmer.
But... I give you a few months of puke and diapers, and when you stare down into that diaper, you'll
immediately see what is really there. MonkeyBoy's face!! That's when you'll say
"It's BRILLIANT! He sells
this stuff and people PAY for it! It really IS brilliant!"
:woot::-D
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Oh! I also wanted to thank JP for the great graphic that started out this thread!
Let's all give him a big SATAN LEADER!
(also... I had nothing to do with creating the Yoda pic... I found that one. But I'm not telling you what I searched for.
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I've never had an Exchange DB get corrupted, and I'm managing 7 of them in the US. You just have to do routine maintenance on them so that they don't grow too large, and you have to periodically defragment them. When the DB grows, it doesn't necessarily shrink if users delete email and files. You have to actively compress the DB.
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How many users? And then you must be an exception. There have been a number who did all that you say you do, and still got corrupted databases.
