The Linux Uprising

ballpoint writes "Business Week is featuring a list of articles under the header 'The Linux Uprising' including topics like 'Red Flags for Red Hat' and 'A Bad, Sad Hollywood Ending?' touching everything dear to the Slashdot community. A good read to align yourself with what mainstream businesspeople are fed."

Re:Quick!

[cheezedawg]

AMD's delay of Athlon64 has little to do with Microsoft, and is more about AMD's problems with SOI and inability to scale the clock speed [tech-report.com].

Re:Chips for linux?

[Skyshadow]

I think that particular error provides you with a fairly accurate yardstick with which to judge the rest of the reporting in the articles.

IMO, you have to be pretty close to any given industry to really understand it and even closer to try and draw conclusions as to what the future looks like. There's no way that you can get that close to more than one or two industries, so turning out an insightful article about a new industry for a magazine each month is a bit of a joke. So, these reporters are left looking at the tea leaves of the businesses they're reporting on -- the profit numbers, the growth rate, etc.

The more important data is beyond their grasp. For instance, I know that the advanced server and subscription update models are good because, even though I'm an old-school linux guy, I use them and find them valuable, esp. if my company's paying for them. I know that when I look on the desktops of the people who are making buying recommendations, I'm seeng Red Hat systems running as desktops. I know that in meetings, we make buying decisions for products based partly on how they support Linux.

None of this is available to these guys, which is why in the long term their advice in this (as well as many other) catagories is essentially worthless -- all they can do is point out the obvious, like "not making phone companies share will hurt DSL companies dependant on that sharing"... Gee, thanks.

Besides, if you knew how to play the market with any great degree of proficiancy, would you waste your time publishing a magazine?

Re:The Linux Uprising?

[macshune]

And of course, the 10% who were just in Seattle to cause a ruckus was 100% of what the media showed on the nightly news. If believe the scene that was replayed many times was someone 'anarchist' throwing a rock at a Starbuck's window.

With regards to L.A. and Seattle, I think they are different beats. L.A. was primarily one group of people expressing outrage at perceived (read: real) economic disparities and the growing prison industrial complex that primarily targets people of color. I think your definition of Seattle's WTO protest is pretty accurate. A lot of white people protesting, but a lot more up there for the spirit of things or just tryin' to bust shit up. IMHO, anyhow.

Re:Chips for linux?

[binaryDigit]

i thought we wrote software for a type of hardware, not designed hardware for a type of software.

Well actually companies (including Intel) have tried to design chips geared towards software. Floating point chips, graphics processors, dsp's all are geared toward solving specific software problems more quickly.

On a more directly applicable note, some have even tried creating cpu's that target specific languages. Most know about Majic (Suns Java chip), but not many know that Intel worked on a chip (the 432) that was geared towards high level languages (array bounds checking, type checking, etc). AT&T also tried going this route (being the inventors of C and all). And if I remember correctly, National Semiconductors 32K line (32016 and 32032) were chips that had higher level procedural languages in mind in their design.

Re:FUD FUD FUD and more FUD.

[mrkurt]

As Linus said (as told by John "Mad Dog" Hall): "I don't care what you call it as long as you use it."

Re:the gist is...

[tomhudson]

they don't know what they're talking about, again.

Here's one stupid quote...

Before using open-source software, tech companies must sign a license in which they promise to give away innovations they build on top of it.

I guess they should have a sit-down with RMS first...

Re:FUD FUD FUD and more FUD.

[Fulcrum of Evil]

Linux has about 3 different pronounciations that I know of, none of which are "wrong".

This has been settled by fiat: Linus, original creator of the kernel pronounces it so that it rhymes with cynics. That's as close as you'll come to an official pronunciation for something that is maintained and owned by 10,000 different people, most of whom have never met.

Re:FUD FUD FUD and more FUD.

[ebbomega]

Lee-nux.

Which is the original pronounciation, considering you pronounce Linus Torvald's name Lee-nus. It's how he pronounces it...

Re:FUD FUD FUD and more FUD.

[ebbomega]

Except for the fact pronounces it in a way that rhymes with "Me Next!" As in his name... Lee-nus. It _was_ named after him, you know?

I'm a bad boy

[Bruce Perens]

I said intellectual masturbation href="in business week [businessweek.com]. They sanitized it for the print version. :-)

Bruce

Re:FUD FUD FUD and more FUD.

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

If you're running certain distros, you can hear Linus himself pronounce the word, "Linux".

$ play /usr/share/sndconfig/sample.au

Now, let's have no more of this Line-ucks business!