Microsoft Caught Rigging ZD Net Poll

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html

Starting August 20, all Evx development will be done using the Clearcase UCM Project model.
####UCM/Clearcase Upgrade Status

**Summary:**

• The switch to the UCM development model is 8/20/2001
• **We must accelerate the Solaris 7 upgrades

**

• All vobs are now UCM capable (Feature Level 2)
• The software project vob is /vobs/sw_projects

Starting August 20, all Evx development will be done using
the Clearcase UCM Project model.

All developers must be using Clearcse 4.2 in order to use UCM

In order to run Clearcase 4.2, a node must be running Solaris 7.

The key point here is that any developer whose view storage resides
on a Clearcase 3.2.1 machine **will not be able to use UCM.**

In both San Jose and Westwood, approximately 50% of machines have
been upgraded to Solaris 7 and Clearcase 4.2. That’s 49 machines
in SJ and 71 machines in WW.

This number is just **barely** enough to get us started.

We must make a concerted effort to accelerate the Solaris 7 upgrades
so that developers will be able to use Clearcase 4.2 for evx
development work. To that end I would ask that the various SJ/WW
SysAdmin groups redouble their efforts.

Live Solaris/Clearcase node information can be seen at:

Microsoft plans to rally its field sales force and partners to crush Linux and IBM’s efforts with the competitive operating

system in 2002.

According to a Microsoft memo dated in December, the software giant will unveil a “Linux Insiders” program at the company’s Envision event in January, an expansion of its existing Linux Competitive Champ Program.

Need I say more? It’s obvious that MS is an anti-competetive defacto monopoly that must be brought down. Are you listening Justice Department?

DVD Extra’s a thing of the past??? Please no!!!

Now if only it could run Windows

Yup looks cool. Maybe I’ll break down and get one.

Steve Jobs has done it again!

Remember when computers used to be cool? Deep inside One Infinite Loop,
the Silicon Valley address of Apple Computer’s Industrial Design Lab, they still
are. Never mind that the Valley is a grim place these days and that the gold
rush has given way to the deep funk. Forget that the Internet bubble has burst,
and that Ma and Pa investors across America are wearing a
what-were-we-thinking? grimace of fiscal remorse. Right here, right now,
sitting on a butcher-block table, bathed in the sunlight that pours in through
spyproof frosted-glass windows, is-repeat after Steve Jobs now-the
quintessence of computational coolness, the most fabulous desktop machine
that you or anyone anywhere has ever seen.

[[new_imac]]

###This is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.

Why is it that [[Apple]] always seems to be one step ahead of everyone else. I know that this is just a computer that’s been repackaged, but to have a flat screen, a DVD burner, and the small footprint on a consumer box is nothing short of genius. There are several people in my office that have looked at that picture and declared that they may now switch from Wintel to an iMac.

Unbelievable!

I’ve been waiting 3 years for this!

Let’s just hope that JMS can really pull this one off. I always thought that Crusade was a little bit off. It just didn’t seem to have the same quality as the original show. But this time, he’s got the full backing of the [[SciFi]] channel.

I think it’s a shoe in!

The [[Golden Globes]] are run by the Hollywood Foreign Press association. Notice the word *foreign*… Fellowship was made in New Zealand. I think that gives it an edge.

He gets a good start on his goals for the season.

Sergio hopes to win the money title on both the PGA tour and the European tour this year. In order to do that, he’ll have to win more than Tiger in the States. Well, he’s off to a good start!