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99% of the time, in my experience, the hard part about creativity isn't coming up with something no one has ever thought of before. The hard part is actually executing the thing you've thought of.
The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics.
Pan is seen in this color view as it sweeps through the Encke Gap with its attendant ringlets. As the lemon-shaped little moon orbits Saturn, it always keeps its long axis pointed along a line toward the planet. From this vantage point, the dark side of the moon is visible.
This view looks toward Pan (26 kilometers, 16 miles across) within the Encke Gap (325 kilometers, 200 miles wide), on the unlit side of the rings, and from an inclination of about 33 degrees above the ringplane.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Dec. 16, 2006 at a distance of approximately 779,000 kilometers (484,000 miles) from Pan and at a Sun-Pan-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 83 degrees. Image scale is 5 kilometers (3 miles) per pixel.
Canyons and mountain peaks snake along the terminator on the crater-covered, icy moon Dione. With the Sun at a low angle on their local horizon, the line of mountain ridges above center casts shadows toward the east.
Sunlit terrain seen here is on the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Dione (1,126 kilometers, 700 miles across)--the side that always faces away from Saturn. North is up.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Dec. 15, 2006 at a distance of approximately 299,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 81 degrees. Image scale is 2 kilometers (1 mile) per pixel.
Open source is not a business model, it is a development model. The software business, open source or not, is about providing customers with a product that is better than the competing product. [...]
A great software business is a great software business, independent of open source. Furthermore, customers will pay a premium for great software, if they cannot get the same great software cheaper from somewhere else. Therefore, if you have a great software business based upon high performing software that is only available from you, there is little reason to open source your product. [...]
Support is a bad business model for software because it misaligns the customer and the vendor. Customers don’t want to pay for support or services, they want software that works WITHOUT support. Vendors that generate revenue from support only scale their business if the software is buggy and difficult to configure - driving support calls/incidents/whatever in order to scale revenue. [...]
The biggest problem I had while running sales for Red Hat was overcoming the customer objection that Red Hat’s software should be very cheap, or that Red Hat’s value should be based upon how much "support" the customer consumed (incidents, callers, whatever). [...]
Customers stopped talking about "support" and "free software" because we convinced them that engineering is what really matters . . . . and they could only have the product if they paid for it. [...]
Novell's Linux revenue performance:
- Q105 $8.5m
- Q205 $8.6m
- Q305 $8.9m
- Q405 $9.3m
- Q106 $10.4m
- Q206 $10.3m
- Q306 $11.6m
- Q406 $13.0m
[...] With Linux revenue only accounting for 5.3% of Novell's total revenue in the fourth quarter (4.7% for the fiscal year) it is not fast enough growth to offset the demise of Novell's NetWare business.
That business shrunk $19.4m year-over-year in the fourth quarter, while Novell's combined Linux and Open Enterprise Server revenues were up just $4.3m year-over-year.
Trends change. Boomerang does too.
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[...] The right strategy makes any tactic work better. The right strategy puts less pressure on executing your tactics perfectly.
Here's the obligatory January skiing analogy: Carving your turns better is a tactic. Choosing the right ski area in the first place is a strategy. Everyone skis better in Utah, it turns out.
If you are tired of hammering your head against the wall, if it feels like you never are good enough, or that you're working way too hard, it doesn't mean you're a loser. It means you've got the wrong strategy.
It takes real guts to abandon a strategy, especially if you've gotten super good at the tactics. That's precisely the reason that switching strategies is often such a good idea. Because your competition is afraid to.
"I am going to take some time off to take care of family and myself. I am increasingly experiencing diminishing returns on my emotional and professional investments at Red Hat," Fleury said in the December note seen by CNET News.com. "Working with all of you at JBoss has been a pleasure and probably the apex of my short career."
Fleury complained that the JBoss research and development budget "really hasn't benefited from a huge investment, which I was hoping for and was the main reason I went to Red Hat...That's a bit of a point of frustration for me personally."
In 2005, analysts raised doubts about the JBoss integration. But when reporting financial results for its most recent quarter, Red Hat reiterated its expectation that JBoss would generate between $22 million and $27 million by the time the company's fiscal year ends on February 28.
Unlike with 32-bit XP versions, many hardware devices will not work on XP x64 because of a dearth of 64-bit drivers (32-bit drivers will not work in a native 64-bit OS). Likewise, many software applications will not install or run because of various issues, including a surprising amount of 16-bit application installers and poorly-designed version detection. [...]
All Windows Vista editions, except for Vista Starter, will come with both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) versions in the box, on separate DVDs. This includes the Home Basic (and Home Basic N), Home Premium, Business (and Business N), Enterprise, and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista. [...]
Vista Home Basic (and Home Basic N) with support up to 8 GB of RAM, compared to 4 GB for all 32-bit versions of Vista. Home Premium, meanwhile, will support 16 GB. And Business (and Business N), Enterprise, and Ultimate will all support 128 GB or more of memory. (The "or more" bit refers to the fact that there are no client PCs available yet for over 128 GB of RAM; when that happens, these Vista versions will support it.) [...]
Most dramatically, the Windows Vista x64 versions include a new secret security feature that will virtually eliminate remote system attacks for the first time on the Windows platform. This feature, previously undisclosed, ensures that system files load at random (1 in 256) memory offsets at every system boot, compared to previous Windows versions where system files always loaded to the same offset memory location. Because of this change, most (approximately 99 percent) remote attacks will simply fail on x64-based Vista versions. [...]
Those hoping to upgrade should be aware of a few issues, too. 32-bit versions of XP can only be upgraded to 32-bit versions of Windows Vista. And Windows XP Professional x64 Edition can only be upgraded to 64-bit versions of Windows Vista (Business and above). [...]
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