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Tuesday, October 22, 2002Microsoft's SmartPhone platform is finally becoming reality, thanks to the Orange SPV (aka HTC Canary). Forbes reports a US$260 selling price. infoSync has a thorough pre-release evaluation. InfoWorld says that AT&T will offer SmartPhones in the US by mid-2003.
According to Microsoft's specs, the SPV is tri-band. Probably won't be long before someone starts importing them...
Miami Herald: Man recovering after bitten by gator he stepped on.
Don't step on alligators.
This is purely anecdotal, but in my experience Windows folks are very accepting of Unix-ish solutions when there is demonstrable benefit. Unix-ish folks tend to be hostile to Windows, period. Why is that?
Example #1: Project to automate server deployments. Lots of stakeholders and interested parties. I was handling coordination and the Windows end, someone else handled Linux. At some point I suggested that we consolodate everything on the Linux servers, saving $30,000 on initial deployment costs and having negligible impact on anything else. I was happy to have fewer servers to support, and the other Windows folks jumped on board for the savings. Most of the non-Windows people required an edict from management to go along with the idea.
Example #2: We had a low-end hosting product that was a glorified rendition of the "Domain Parking" concept. Minimal features, extremely high density, served from a database on our favorite proprietary Unix platform with Squid in front to manage the load. I put together a pitch for switching to Windows. Minimal development effort, zero impact on support, expected to achieve half the density at 1/6th the cost, projected annual savings of well over $100,000. Windows folks loved the idea, Unix folks never took the concept seriously.
