[Charlug] posscon

[Bob Evans]

Yeah, I'm working on it, Dennis. Biggest road blocks have been overcome. I
think BPL is going to take off. I personally voted for free world wide
wireless, but nobody listened... 8)


http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/

My dad was a life long amateur radio enthusiast. He talked about this 15
years ago.


We should see some movement on this front soon...

-be





On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Dennis Clark <boomfish at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll believe in SaaS has a chance in replacing the desktop OS ... once I
> see affordable ubiquitous high-speed Internet connectivity.
>
> By affordable I mean the same as or less than current standard cable
> Internet service prices for connectivity on *all* my devices, fixed and
> mobile.
>
> By ubiquitous I mean better coverage than current mobile phone service
> providers, and without me having to worry whether I am in a WiFi zone or a
> 4G zone or a WiMAX zone.
>
> By high-speed mean at least 2 Mbps.
>
> I know it will happen eventually, but I'm not holding my breath.
>
> -- Dennis
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Bob Evans <bobevans19 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> SaaS is being touted by Red Hat & Microsoft. IBM always favored it... I'm
>> sure Oracle will join the fray now.
>>
>> When i hear from top Microsft folks that "Windows 7 is the end of their
>> planned desktop deployment" I gotta think they are betting that part of
>> their huge farm on SaaS.
>>
>> It fits well into Red Hat desktop, since they have such a strong server
>> product to back it up.
>>
>> Who knows.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Ryan Sawhill <ryan at openprofessionals.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Dennis Clark <boomfish at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm sure we can all agree that the days of "money is not an issue" are
>>>> over. My hope that this does not result in a blind adoption of open-so=
urce
>>>> simply as a cost-cutting measure without looking into the actual busin=
ess
>>>> needs; unfortunately I'm already seeing signs that this might happen i=
n my
>>>> own workplace.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm a free software advocate, for sure, but I'm definitely wary of too
>>> much of this happening--that's how people get burned, turned off from
>>> something. Also, generally speaking, in principle, I'd much prefer to s=
ee
>>> people moving TOWARD something, you know, for its merits; rather than A=
WAY
>>> from something else. (Though it's easy to argue that in many cases both=
 are
>>> happening.)
>>>
>>> Also, back to Red Hat, specifically in regards to things you were saying
>>> Bob:
>>> I don't know why I didn't pipe up on this earlier, but as far as I see
>>> it, a HUGE part of what Red Hat provides to the world is training. I do=
n't
>>> see them as just a vendor. Sounds like you do--you didn't seem to take
>>> training into account in your analysis of their value and longevity. So=
, I
>>> dunno.. just a thought to consider. *shrugs* While I love Red Hat and t=
hink
>>> they've done wonderful things for linux & FS/open source, I recognize t=
hat,
>>> like you said, things could change. Who knows. :)
>>>
>>>
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