I guess they are going to worry about how to make money later. The important thing is that it’s free.
I love VMWare and Microsoft VPC. Two years ago I was studying for the Windows server clustering test and had no clustering hardware, not in the home office, not anywhere. The only clusters I saw were in client data centers, and the client usually wouldn’t let me play with theirs!
But I had one decent optiplex and I setup two vmware windows 2003 servers and a shared disk that both could “see”. The shared disk became my RAID array and vmware was smart enough to let you simulate as many scsi buses as you wanted. I could cluster to my hearts content. Good stuff.
Written by CmdrChalupa on February 9th, 2006 with no comments.
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Motley Fool:
Dell will no longer sell any of its DJ digital music players, except for its $99 512MB flash music player, the DJ Ditty. Dell’s 5GB Pocket DJ, 20GB Dell DJ20, and 30GB Dell DJ30 are all going the way of the dodo.
Yeah, sometimes it’s good to stick with what you know. The Ditty is a decent product if you look at the specs, especially compared to the shuffle. LCD Screen, FM Tuner, same price as an Ipod shuffle.
The real killer for the Dell DJ (dumb name by the way) was the crap software. Here are your choices:
MusicMatch.
Yes, MusicMatch WILL surf the internet for updated tags and album art; let me choose how it will rename files; and transfer songs to a portable device BUT, after only one, yes one, week of using iTunes, was I able to easily manage my collection of songs (finding duplicates with a simple click of the mouse) and create group and album names all while I sleep. Sure, it has only cost me $19.99 and two years to get my music sorted and renamed with MusicMatch, but in the one week I have used iTunes, my results are staggering and the best part: iTunes is FREE.
Windows Media Player: Harder to use, vastly overengineered for what it does.
Napster To Go: Have as much music as you want, but stop paying and it all goes away while itunes is free.
And that is the advantage for Apple here. Dell is a hardware company, Apple is a hardware AND a software company, so if the music management market suxorz, they can make their own. Dell can’t. So if the DJ had the best feature set in the world. (and it doesn’t) the ipod would still win, because anyone can use it.
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