Symantec To Acquire PGP and GuardianEdge 160
An anonymous reader noticed the news that Symantec has bought PGP and Guardian Edge for $370 million. They plan to standardize their encryption stuff on PGP keys.
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I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.
Re:Not bad (Score:3, Interesting)
You know, I've seen a lot of that in the corporate world. That's why folks have gone with RHEL rather than Fedora. They get to pay for something, so they feel better about it.
Of course, Microsoft servers are that much better, in that they can pay more for them. :)
Way back in the day, one boss was interested in going to Linux, but he couldn't find anything that satisfied his needs to pay for it. That was primarily a BSDi shop, but it switched over to Windows because we could pay. Even under BSDi, they had paid for licenses, but didn't want to pay to upgrade to current, so we had quite a few problems, including getting network and SCSI card drivers that worked. It became a quest to find new hardware that was still supported by the older version.
It was a hosting company, and it broke anyone's sites with CGI's on them, so they grudgingly allowed customers to request to be moved back over to the *nix platform machines.
{sigh} I hate it when the misguided interests of the bosses are in conflict with the customers. Needless to say quite a few customers jumped ship when their sites broke and the migration path back to a *nix platform was very slow and manual.
Another place I was at was bent on support contracts. They refused to believe that a free version of Linux could run their custom software. They still refused to believe it when I demonstrated on my Slackware workstation. When I asked how many times they had requested support, they admitted it had never happened. It's not a matter of *using* the contract, it's a matter that it's there to make them feel warm and fuzzy.
Re:Not bad (Score:1, Interesting)
Believe it or not, I've had people go into panic when they saw the red ribbon in Outlook when I signed E-mails, thinking it is a virus or Trojan horse.
Just make sure the client understands that the icon is a good thing, so you don't have their IT department or legal team calling you up demanding what you sent them... even though they will commiserate with you how stupid people are once they find what the issue was.
Re:suckitude (Score:3, Interesting)
Ran Corporate version 9, 10 and 11, then with 12 it all fell apart. The replication database should only grow to 5 gigs in size. But it keeps growing till there is no space on the servers hard drive. We had to literally uninstall it, reinstall it, configure it and run it for 3 months till the database filled a 200 gig hard drive. 3 times. After 9 months and a promised "fix" always soon to be released but never actually seeing the light of day, we switched to Kaspersky.