____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Wednesday 05 March 2008 20:36 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Duncan Meyer
> <duncan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:05:08 -0500
> <47cee359$0$25980$88260bb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> "The Ghost In The Machine" <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:6573a5-e2f.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Erik Funkenbusch
>>> <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote
>>> on Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:15:57 -0500
>>> <1oa6hbgmmmypq.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:19:15 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Expert: White House Negligent on E-Mail
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| The White House e-mail troubles began in 2002 with a decision to
>>>>>upgrade
>>>>>| electronic message capabilities and move from Lotus Notes to Microsoft
>>>>>| Exchange.
>>>>>|
>>>>>| Prior to launching Microsoft Exchange for e-mail, there should have
>>>>>been
>>>>>| full-scale testing of an archiving system, e-mail experts said. In
>>>>>addition,
>>>>>| both the existing archiving system and a new one should have run at the
>>>>>same
>>>>>| time until the new system was fully proven.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080303/white_house_e_mail.html?.v=1
>>>>>
>>>>> Heaps of examples below. Microsoft to E-mail is like Windows ME to a
>>>>> patient on
>>>>> a life support machine.
>>>>
>>>> Why do you keep lying Roy? It's very clear from the text above that the
>>>> failure was with the *ARCHIVING* program. Microsoft does not sell an
>>>> Archiving system for Exchange, so it has to be a third party system.
>>>
>>> One of the more interesting notions is whether Windows CE
>>> (or its replacement; I don't know Microsoft's official
>>> name, but I have been calling it "Windows Vista Mobile
>>> Edition") would be good for realtime applications such as
>>> life support machines. At least with Linux (which is *not*
>>> designed for realtime applications but at least one patch
>>> exists that can rectify that) one can in theory see what's
>>> going on internally.
>>>
>>> (Since WinCE/Mobile Edition doesn't handle emails there's
>>
>> Correct. Nobody "blamed" Microsoft software for the lost emails.
>
> No one can. It's the combination of system, user, and
> environment that is blameable for various failures.
>
>> It is the
>> terrible migration process used that is being blamed. Seems that Roy
>> Schestowitz is simply a dishonest liar.
>
> Or propagating a lie...probably both.
>
>>
>> Windows XP embedded is real-time capable with the appropriate extensions.
>>
>
> And who has these extensions, just out of curiosity?
>
> (I should point out that Linux can do *nothing*
> without extensions. It won't even boot from a floppy
> without extensions. Of course most will think of them
> as bootloader (LILO, GRUB, or maybe LOADLIN), shell
> (/bin/bash), and/or init (/sbin/init) -- but they are
> not part of Linux proper.)
Rex mentioned this a couple of weeks ago. Lotus backs up E-mails on the fly.
Microsoft's catchup-ware does not. It's as simple as that really. When it
comes to Free software also, Microsoft usually lags behind in terms of
features (requiring third-party add-ons, e.g. for spam filtering, security).
Erik is nitpicking.
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