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- Pravda, Sutor, and IBM Linux
- I've just read a Linuxworldpresentation, by IBM's Bob Sutor, that left me frothing - it's slyly anti-Sun and, I think, just as fundamentally counter-productive and wrong-headed as their collective response to SCO. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: ibm linux, ibm corp., bob sutor, linux, open source, unix, operating systems, software, paul murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-09
- OpenDocument camp in full-court press with '100 or so' countries?
- Late yesterday, IBM's vice president of standards and open source Bob Sutor published a blog that points to Malaysia's potential adoption of the OpenDocument ODF file format. According to OpenMalaysia blogger Hasan Saidin, ODF is now officially on whatever track it needs to be on to be approved as...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2006-07-19
- IBM's Sutor understands DRM, but logic misses major point
- In his blog, Bob Sutor has responded to a post about digital rights managment DRM technology by Marc Wagner here on ZDNet. In response to my ongoing series of rants about DRM (what should be called C.R.A.P.: Read why or watch CRAP: The Movie), Wagner explored the...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, digital-rights management, IBM Corp., digital rights managment, music, Bob Sutor, CD, Apple iPod
- Blog posts 2006-05-19
- Document-centric vs. knowledge-centric IT
- IBM's veep of open standards and open source Bob Sutor picked up on my discussion of why thinking in terms of documents when designing collaborative infrastructures is a trap that predisposes your IT to Draconian architectures when today's technologies can help you break that inefficient chain. Knowledge centric thinking...
- Tags: I&rsquo, ve
- Blog posts 2006-05-03
- IBM's Sutor asks how you share documents. Wrong question, right time?
- In his blog, IBM's open source/open standards veep Bob Sutor asks "How do you share documents?" The post briefly delves into the history of how paper and eventually digital documents are created and passed around, recommends using PDF if document requires no further editing by recipients and...
- Tags: knowledge
- Blog posts 2006-05-02
- Havana Bob
- I'm sitting in the bar of the Argent Hotel with Dan Farber. He's just come from a concluding ODBC panel on open source and vs open standards with among others, Bob Sutor and Tim Bray. I saw Tim last night at Sun's sushi party where he told me that of...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Bob Sutor, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2006-02-15
- IBM follows Sun's lead with open letter to Massachusetts gov't
- Yesterday, I wrote a blog entitled Let the file format hairsplitting begin. The blog is about how Sun Microsystems director of corporate standards Carl Cargill sent a letter to Massachusetts Secretary of Administration and Finance Thomas Trimarco in hopes of influencing the outcome to a hotly contested debate over...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2005-11-29
- Public discourse under way over definition of "open"
- I've been taking some time to digest the open vs. closed discussion (the context being Microsoft's new XML document format for Word, Excel and PowerPoint) that's taking place in various corners of the blogosphere. IBM's Bob Sutor, whose blog is entitled Open standards, open source, open minds, open opportunities,...
- Tags: IBM Corp., blog, Bob Sutor
- Blog posts 2005-06-17
- Karma Chameleon
- David Berlind's hat tip to the Verizon/Windows Media Player deal is nicely nuanced as it straddles the fence between a warning and an analyst brief. In just a few short months since ZDNet began blogging and weeks since Berlind began podcasting, the service (and that's what it is) has become...
- Tags: David Berlind, Rob Enderle
- Blog posts 2005-01-30
- Will Sun's 1600 patents suck the life out of Linux?
- Now that people in blogosphere and open-source circles have had two days to let Sun's OpenSolaris announcement sink in, the commentary is starting to show up. But before touching on that, first a quick review of what happened.Under the name OpenSolaris, Sun officially announced an open source version of...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., open source
- Blog posts 2005-01-27
- IBM's Sutor: No app left behind
- Talk about serendipity! Moments after a cursory explanation of SOA sucked me into the black hole of acronymophobia, an interesting no-app-left-behind discussion of services oriented architectures by Bob Sutor, IBM's director of WebSphere Foundation Software, turned up on ZDNet. Sutor talks about how legacy software, like the 200 billion lines...
- Tags: Bob Sutor, SOA
- Blog posts 2004-10-19
Additional Resources
- Cloud computing and open source face-off
- Cloud computing remains one of the big topics in software this year despite considerable and ongoing concerns over lock-in, lack of control, and security. The siren song of ease-of-development, reduced costs, highly elastic scalability, and next-generation architectures has many in IT and in the Web community carefully weighing the...
- Tags: Cloud, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Virtualization, Hardware, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-06-14
- Linux, user interfaces and copying Apple
- Linux, user interfaces and copying AppleIt makes sense[i]He also stated that they have to clone less the look and feel of desktop Windows, even going so far as to state they would do better to clone the look and feel of Mac applications if they are writing applications for the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Desktops, Linux Interface, Linux, Apple Inc., Linux User, KDE, Microsoft Windows, desktop, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Linux, user interfaces and copying Apple
- Bob Sutor of IBM thinks that Linux needs to make innovative user interfaces, pointing to Apple as proof that charting your own path is beneficial. Apple, however, has certain aspects of its business that simply do not apply to Linux, making it harder for the business-focused operating system to...
- Tags: Linux, Apple Macintosh, User Interface, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Desktop Computer, Desktops, Hardware, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Pravda, Sutor, and IBM Linux
- Pravda, Sutor, and IBM LinuxWrong!At it again are we?Paul get your facts straight before you try to be the same failure as that fraud.Yes the U2 crashed because it used a jet engine who was held together by good intentions and bailing wire.But regarding Linux, you are still wrong. Linux...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Utility computing, Linux, IBM Corp., Unix, duck, IBM Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-08-09
- Video: IBM: Linux in 2018?
- Video: IBM: Linux in 2018?Slight correctionI believe it's Bob [i]Sutor[/i].
- Tags: Corporate communications, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, IBM Corp., Linux, video
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Will RIM please make a BlackBerry MID?
- OK, my BlackBerry rocks. I just got it today and the screen is clear and bright, the interface is intuitive, and having my emails pushed to me after a painless setup is the best thing since sliced bread. Although I've only experienced the joy of the...
- Tags: research in motion ltd., phone, rim blackberry, software as a service (saas), keyboards, telecom & utilities, handhelds, emerging technologies, hardware, peripherals, christopher dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- IBM: Linux in 2018?
- At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, IBM executive Bob Sutor talks about what a desktop will mean in the future, saying it will focus more on mobile devices like iPhones and collaborations across platforms. He then calls for better graphics designers in the open-source world to make them easier...
- Tags: graphics, ibm corp., open source, operating systems, software, linuxworld, ibm, desktop, linux
- Videos 2008-08-07
- IBM open source strategy becomes clearer
- With a little help from an Infoworld blogger and a closer look at IBM's Lotus Symphony announcement, I may have finally divined IBM's mass market open source strategy. Savio Rodriguez Rodrigues is the Infoworld blogger in question, and this is fair play because he is, in fact, an...
- Tags: Strategy, IBM Corp., Savio, Websphere CE, OpenOffice, Blogging, Open Source, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Microsoft Office is dead meme revived
- Microsoft Office is dead meme revivedDefinition of "Keep out of the dead pool"Stay as far away from Microsoft as you can, and stay in the shallow end if one ever has to wade into the poisoned pool.Two innacuraciesNot a bad summary of the current state of the business, you have...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OPEN SOURCE, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., object-oriented, StarOffice, OpenOffice
- Discussion threads 2007-08-14
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