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- Open source to go under the radar in 2007
- We are only two weeks into 2007 and one trend already seems clear.Open source will fly under the radar in 2007.The media explosion that hit after the realization Linux was competitive with Windows in the server business and the SCO suit is getting old. New stories have replaced it. Windows...
- Tags: General, Development, mass market, 2007 preview, radar, open source
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- Open source in the post-telephony era
- We are firmly in the post-telephony era. (Image from the BellSystemMemorial.) On buying BellSouth, AT&T executives spoke of selling "bundles" of service, wireless being the most important, and of using ads as a primary revenue stream. They were combining the land lines business as a by-product -- local, long distance,...
- Tags: Trixbox 2.0, open source, 2007 preview, business models, VOIP, Infrastructure, Strategy, Enterprise Policy, Implementations, Applications, General
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Open source New Year's Resolutions
- Before you disappear inside a champagne bottle or perhaps some hours after you emerge I want to offer the open source movement some New Years Resolutions.(This is the LinuxCaffe in Toronto, a fine coffee bar where open source enthusiasts often meet. Dont drink and drive.)Fewer Lawyers – Lawyers, like the...
- Tags: 2007 preview, Standards, business models, General, Development, Legal, open source
- Blog posts 2006-12-31
- How good a friend to open source is Google?
- The question of how good Google is to open source has come up again, in a good way.When Jeremy Allison of Samba fell out with Novell over its Microsoft deal recently, he fell into Googles loving arms. He will keep doing exactly what he was doing, working on Samba, but...
- Tags: Google, 2007 preview, General, open source, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-12-27
- Open source 2007 and desktop Linux
- Its going to be another year of desktop Linux talk. (Chart from Yahoo finance.) IDC says this will be the year businesses revolt against Microsofts anti-piracy efforts and back desktop Linux. Even ComputerWorld expects AMD to finally line up some proper graphic chip support. Personally I think there are two...
- Tags: Desktops, open source, desktop Linux, Linux, desktop, Apple Computer Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- Open source issues for 2007 start with the profit motive
- One of the big issues here in 2007 will continue to be the divide over profit as prime motivation.We are used to this in software. The very term open source is meant to differentiate those who care first about profit from the Free and Open Source FOSS crowd, like Richard...
- Tags: motive, open source, Internet
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
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- Lead, Melamine, and Backdoored Routers
- It seems that not a day goes by without a new media alert regarding bad things in the chinese supply chain. First it was lead in our toys, then it was melamine in our milk, and now it also may be backdoors in our counterfeit Cisco hardware. ...
- Tags: Router, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Adam O\'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- OK, now OpenOffice is definitely good enough
- There is a reason that the OpenOffice.org 3.0 servers are struggling to keep up with demand. OO.org 3.0 really is a serious upgrade over version 2.4 and makes NeoOffice irrelevant for Mac OS X users (previously, OpenOffice only worked within X11; While NeoOffice did a great job porting OO.org...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., OO.org 3.0, OpenOffice, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Office, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- OpenOffice 3 launch timed perfectly but will Sun, IBM exploit opportunity?
- Sun and IBM could not have asked for better timing for the launch of OpenOffice 3, a major upgrade of the open source office suite. Both vendors are preparing to ship commercial offerings of StarOffice and Symphony based on the new OO 3 release and have a...
- Tags: Desktop, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Training, IBM Corp., Symphony 1.2, Conversion Tool, OpenOffice, StarOffice, Open Source, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Silverlight 2 is released, available for download tomorrow
- Microsoft announced this morning that Silverlight 2 will be available for download tomorrow. So after a long beta period that included big events using Silverlight including the Olympics and the DNC, the bits are going to be out there. The press release includes some impressive numbers: ...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Silverlight 2, Productivity, Corporate Communications, Linux, Open Source, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Opera 10 will be 'prettier'
- Many users, especially of Apple, found Opera's latest version 9.6 unpleasant on the eye. But the company says its next major update will be prettier. The next major release of Opera for the desktop will be 'prettier' than the current version of the browser, claims the company. ...
- Tags: Opera Software, Lawson Software Inc., Hicks, Web Browsers, Internet, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, Opera, browser, Opera 10.0
- News items 2008-10-13
- Enterprise web 2.0 costs set to plunge
- Good news for credit crunch squeezed CIOs: the price of enterprise web 2.0 tools is set to plummet, according to a new report from Forrester. Good news for credit crunch squeezed CIOs: the price of enterprise web 2.0 tools is set to plummet. According to a new...
- Tags: Software, Web, CIO, Tool, Web 2.0, Productivity, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Marketing, Management, Forrester, budget, Jo Best, Silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-13
- Picture Data (exe)
- PictureData is designed to allow the user to keep track of all their pictures, movies, or anything that has an image. You can store a digital preview image of the picture or the picture it's self. You can search for people, places, anything you put in the application. Each picture...
- Tags: Picture, PictureData
- Software downloads 2008-10-13
- Surviving the recession with Free Linux distributions (Part 1)
- Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers was recently asked by a colleague the following question: "If an SMB...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Distribution, Recession, Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Debian, Times, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Debian Support Cycle, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- MP3 Renaming (exe)
- MP3 Renaming is a program designed to automatically rename using ID3 tags in your mp3 files, according to rules that you specify. Rename your mp3 files, using ID3 tags in your mp3 files. Specify any format, that you want to rename your mp3 files. Preview before renaming. Fast and User-Friendly....
- Tags: MP3, MP3Renaming, MP3 Renaming, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2008-10-12
- Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC
- Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UACSo I don't have to wait for Windows 7?The need to wait or upgrade to Windows 7 is looking more dim for Windows Vista users. Microsoft just yesterday announced their intention to improve the user experience for UAC in Windows 7. But with third...
- Tags: SECURITY, Web browsers, EXPLORER, UAC, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Overachiever: Sun surpasses greenhouse gas reduction goals
- Bully for Sun Microsystems. The company's U.S. operations have actually already overshot the 20 percent reduction goal originally set for 2012 under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program. Yes, that's right folks, a tech company has done something earlier than expected! The company reports this...
- Tags: Emission, Sun Microsystems Inc., Greenhouse Gas, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft renames its 'D' language 'M'
- Microsoft is continuing to slowly trickle out details about its Oslo modeling strategy. The latest info with company has gone public are the names of the three Oslo components it will release in Community Technology Preview CTP form at the Professional Developers Conference PDC, by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Models, Research & Development, Microsoft Development Tools, Business Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Is OpenOffice good enough?
- Is OpenOffice good enough?For the vast majority of users, it works fine.For the vast majority of users, it works fine. There are occasional features that it doesn't do so well at, but it has all of the standard word processing features that most people need.If you need to use some...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OPEN SOURCE, object-oriented, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Is OpenOffice good enough?
- Yes. OK, obviously there's more to this story than my tongue-in-cheek answer. This came up after one of our supercool, power user secretaries (who is an Office 2003/2007 wiz) ran a training session for the other secretaries in the district. The other secretaries are largely...
- Tags: Secretary, Training, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
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