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The Prospect for 2005 (IT-Director)
Robin Bloor looks forward to 2005 in this IT-Director article. "The successful growth of Open Source in any market puts price pressure on the dominant proprietary vendors and we expect this pressure to show in the database market in the coming year with customers adopting Open Source database products for some applications and using this as a lever to negotiate the price of Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server downwards. In our view few companies will think to migrate their mission critical applications to Open Source database products, but we are already hearing of some companies that intend to do just that."
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The Prospect for 2005 (IT-Director) Posted Jan 18, 2005 16:31 UTC (Tue) by ordonnateur (guest, #6652) [Link] Quote "Linux PCs are not for the power user"
Obviously a 'power user' is not someone who knows much about computing then.
I have a few PUs in my office: need admin rights to install software, can install an mp3 player but can't manage to run windows update when requested.
The Prospect for 2005 (IT-Director) Posted Jan 18, 2005 17:06 UTC (Tue) by allesfresser (guest, #216) [Link] I have found that the term 'power user', once considered a compliment, is now more often than not an insult wrapped in sarcasm: someone who knows just enough to thoroughly scramble a well-tuned system.
The Prospect for 2005 (IT-Director) Posted Jan 18, 2005 17:10 UTC (Tue) by khim (guest, #9252) [Link] Very true. I hate so-called "power users". These are people who are unable to keep their own system running yet knowleadgeable enough to screw up it over and over again. Truly computer-savvy users are long ago switched to Linux (at least partially), most users just do not care (they need 2-3 programs - and they are happy) but "power users" are total disaster. They will whine no matter what and if - and they can screw up Windows PC just as easy as Linux PC and even Mac is not safe from them
The Prospect for 2005 (IT-Director) Posted Jan 18, 2005 22:46 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] A person can be a "power user" of a proprietary application such as Microsoft Excel, and make intensive use of some of the features that aren't in free software in the same category. This type of "power user" isn't doing anything wrong, but he or she is still hard to move (hairy macros and all) to a different platform.
The Prospect for 2005 (IT-Director) Posted Jan 19, 2005 17:27 UTC (Wed) by ordonnateur (guest, #6652) [Link] So we have two definitions of 'power user'a) someone who uses application(s) that truly need more computational power (complexity of application, processing capacity etc) than most (email, web, and WP) users
b) users who insist they need to be 'administrator/power user' (windows), enable the root password (OSX) etc as a matter of self esteem rather than need.
It is possible to be in the first category without being in the second.
The Prospect for 2005 (IT-Director) Posted Jan 19, 2005 15:58 UTC (Wed) by XERC (guest, #14626) [Link] I suggest, that You try to remember the times,when You were exaxtly like that: screwd up the computer and got on someones elses nerves to get it back running again. :) Screwing things up while learning(even when learning is done without being consious about it) is a natural part of the process. I guess that thnings would be much worse, if people wouldn't screw things up, because, that means that they don't learn. The next step for the annoying "power users" could be Linux or BSD, even if they don't admit it and even if it takes a few years for them to become curious about Linux. :)
The Prospect for 2005 (IT-Director) Posted Jan 19, 2005 1:05 UTC (Wed) by foo (guest, #1117) [Link] If you want to suffer through more of the bizarre management-speak pidgin English that this sort of publication uses, here's last year's prediction list:http://it-director.com/article.php?articleid=11541Biggest howler: In 2004 the spam will finally drop away.
The Prospect for 2005 (IT-Director) Posted Jan 19, 2005 16:02 UTC (Wed) by XERC (guest, #14626) [Link] And it "did", thanks to Microsoft and software patents.
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