LinuxWorld: Managing mixed source software stacks
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| Microsoft Vista: The more things change, the more they stay the same
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| Pavlicek said he hasn't seen a Microsoft Vista upgrade with any of
| his customers yet, but he could guess what early evaluations in the
| process would look like. There will be new hardware purchased to
| handle it, he said. Most applications that run on it will be
| completely new for Vista. Back-end servers will probably need
| new software to talk with the new operating system on the desktop.
| There will be back-end hardware upgrades. "It is a downward spiral
| that takes place, and it is not modular. You cannot plug in an
| application and have everything else exist as it once was," he said.
| Open source projects, on the other hand, trend toward modularity.
| If IT managers can think in terms of modules and not complete
| application stacks, then they can avoid the "upgrade whirlwind"
| of Vista, Pavlicek said.
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