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[News] WGA Can Kill, Highlights the Linux Genuine Advantage (LGA), ATM AWOL

  • Subject: [News] WGA Can Kill, Highlights the Linux Genuine Advantage (LGA), ATM AWOL
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:15:47 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Dvorak: 'Something To Avoid at All Costs'

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| Many in Health IT are moving to all over-the-web 'asp', software-as-service 
| Electronic Medical Records services with total centralized control of data. 
| John C. Dvorak sounds off a note of caution for such a trend with the recent 
| Windows Genuine Advantage server outage...
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1188267152

Scot Finnie slams Microsoft?

Fatal Mistake? Microsoft's Cavalier Disregard for Its Customers

http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/6097

Meet Linux Genuine Advantage

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| “Microsoft’s only recognition of the problem has been in an email to a user 
| having trouble, who posted the information here on a Microsoft official 
| forum. Microsoft’s suggestion: Try to validate again on Tuesday. Hey, hope 
| you don’t need your computer over the next four days …”   
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13153

Yet another ATM (new photo) shows the huge cost of Windows, especially where
important services are involved.

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e302/forknuts/DSCF00012.jpg


Related:

ATM using un-activated Windows

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| Ok, so lets be realistic for a moment here, first off, is 'Hackers Best 
| Friend" MS Windows really the optimal choice for an operating system that 
| spits out cash?  
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http://www.itdrive.com/articles/177/1/ATM-using-un-activated-Windows/Page1.html


ATM with Pirated Windows [with photos]

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| In Russian you can sometimes meet pirated copy of Windows even 
| on ATM. It warns that this copy of Windows need activation and 
| the work of ATM gets interrupted.
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http://englishrussia.com/?p=981#more-981


http://img505.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo06091944fe5.jpg


Why not Embedded? ATM's Running XP Professional...

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| This time, I happened to be there when it suddenly BSOD'd and began a
| reboot cycle. Obviously, to BSOD it needs to run Windows, and moments
| later, that was confirmed. But that's not the story here -- believe it or
| not, most ATMs run Windows nowadays, and there's absoloutely nothing
| wrong with that.
|
| [...]
|
| There's a million reasons why an ATM should must be RTOS, be it Linux or 
| VxWorks or Windows CE, but even if you don't go with RTOS, Windows XP 
| Professional most certainly isn't the answer. Especially if it's not even 
| SP2.
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http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/287


ATMs hacked using MP3 player

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| A criminal gang in the U.K. was able to steal confidential banking
| data by bugging ATMs with an MP3 player, The Times of London
| reported in its online edition Thursday.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6135905.html


Open source use expanding in mission critical apps

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| Perceptions still dog open source, such as the lack of support
| services or security, but these attitudes in corporate IT are
| changing, according to Forrester.
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http://www.echannelline.com/usa/story.cfm?item=21981

Forrester: Open source is everywhere, and increasingly used for
mission-critical applications

,----[ Quote ]
| Forrester just issued an insightful report on the increasing adoption
| of open source in the enterprise. The verdict? Open source is everywhere,
| and taking an ever-increasing piece of the enterprise pie
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/05/forrester_open_1.html


Open Source Slowly Gains Momentum on Wall Street

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| Customers may be comfortable using Linux for infrastructure-type
| systems but less so for business software, said Monica Kumar,
| senior director of product manager for Linux and open-source
| software at Oracle.
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http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=20569


Linux Crossing Threshold to Real Mission Critical Computing

,----[ Quote ]
| ...Linux developers are steadily chipping away at the most
| significant functional gaps that limited its suitability for
| these workloads in the past, allowing it to progress far beyond the
| "edge of network" domain where it has traditionally thrived. The
| impressive wins by Novell and Red Hat prove that user perceptions
| about Linux's limitations are gradually crumbling as well.
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http://ideasint.blogs.com/ideasinsights/2007/04/linux_crossing_.html


Linux goes to Wall Street, puts on a show

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| "The Financial Services firms are leading the enterprise adoption of
| open source technology, including Linux," says Zachary. "By watching
| the consumption patterns of these firms, open source vendors can
| gain a good understanding of the types of products and services
| that are commercially viable.
| 
| [...]
| 
| "We see a growing role for open source software beyond Linux in
| financial services companies and that's why many companies are
| expanding the governance policies and procedures around using
| open source software."
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http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/22/1310216&from=rss


Next Gen, Mission-Critical Apps To Be Deployed on Linux Says Report

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| By now it should be obvious to even the most casual industry observers
| that Linux operating systems - and open source-based software in general -
| have reached critical marketplace mass. Recent Linux deals and
| announcements by Oracle and Microsoft have only reinforced the "open
| source is enterprise-grade" message that IBM, Unisys and other "Master
| Brand" hardware, software and services vendors have been preaching for
| years. In short, open source, especially Linux, is becoming "legitimized"
| by the major vendors for enterprise environments, and user executives
| are more than happy to believe them.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/News/RoundUp/Next_Gen_MissionCritical_Apps_To_Be_Deployed_on_Linux_Says_Report


CIO study finds Linux ready for prime-time

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| The company predicts a steep rise: only 18 percent of businesses
| will be using Linux in business-critical roles by the end of 2007.
| 
| "Linux operating systems - and open source-based software in general
| - have reached critical marketplace mass," said the study's authors,
| Bruce Guptill and Bill McNee of Saugatuck Research. 
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7681

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