Former members of the 3DO-owned studio that created the Heroes of Might and Magic series say the offices will close today.
A report on the fan site Celestial Heavens points to message board posts by former members of New World Computing revealing that the studio's offices will close today. 3DO had paid to keep the offices in Solvang, California, open until this point. The former employees speculate that bankrupt publisher 3DO will likely sell off the studio and the Heroes of Might and Magic franchise separately from its other assets. In the meantime, some of those who had been working on a new Heroes of Might and Magic game have since taken jobs with other game developers.
News source: GameSpot
A report on the fan site Celestial Heavens points to message board posts by former members of New World Computing revealing that the studio's offices will close today. 3DO had paid to keep the offices in Solvang, California, open until this point. The former employees speculate that bankrupt publisher 3DO will likely sell off the studio and the Heroes of Might and Magic franchise separately from its other assets. In the meantime, some of those who had been working on a new Heroes of Might and Magic game have since taken jobs with other game developers.
News source: GameSpot
I'm not a big fan of Gartner, but they've issued a report, correctly titled, "Munich's Choice Doesn't Prove Linux OK for General Desktop Use," that raises some interesting issues. First, many of the Windows desktops they're migrated are very old Windows versions like Windows 3.1, making the switch to Linux less painful (it would be equally painful to switch to XP). Gartner says the cost of switching to Linux will cost 30 million Euros, or 3 million Euros more than it would cost to switch to XP, not including any steep discounts Microsoft would have no doubt provided. And finally, because most of the Linux machines will use VMWare to run Windows anyway, Linux is really being used as a hosting environment, and not as a replacement. In other words, this isn't exactly a good business case on which other companies can base a decision to migrate to Windows desktops. And, not coincidentally, that's why we're not reading about a lot of other high-profile Linux switchers.
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