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Comparing code bases

The Swartz analysis I discussed Monday reflected an attempt to compare the Red Hat 5.2 source to other code bases including those for SCO OpenServer. To the extent that the documents we have describe the methodology it appears to have consisted of two phases: first an automated review looking...

Tags: Swartz analysis, Coherent, Mark, Williams, Swartz

Blog posts 2005-07-22

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Next Generation Cost Effective IT Infrastructure

The continued aftershocks from the financial liquidity crisis which started in August 2007 continue to be felt this weekend, with venerable institution Lehman Brothers descending into insolvency, Merrill Lynch being absorbed into Bank of America and AIG seeking to raise cash. This is clearly a very...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Tool, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-09-14

LHC and Faith-Based Science

LHC and Faith-Based ScienceBut the scientists have to talk to us too"If you really want to point out the faults in a scientific project then you need to educate yourself and be able to talk to a scientist and express yourself on their level."That's not realistic since physicists speak in...

Tags: Cosmic Rays, LHC, Faith Based Science, black hole

Discussion threads 2008-09-08

The Importance of Dissent

The Importance of Dissentwould be nice...It would be nice if we could "shout from the rooftops" without fear of reprisal. In reality, with most companies, the options are "jump ship" or "keep your mouth shut and do as you're told".It's hard to disagree publicly with your companyI agree with you...

Tags: Drizzle, Mat, open source

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled into

Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled intoI agree "One OS to unite them all""One price to keep all happy" In the end it's just a marketing ploy different versions each with their own "missing" pieces. In many ways it looks like double dipping...

Tags: Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Media Center PC, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, marketing, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

What's in IE 8 for enterprise users?

What's in IE 8 for enterprise users?The biggest thing in IE8 for the enterprise: continued compatibilityproblems and continued foot dragging on the standards front. Also very slow JavaScript. Much slower than the already released version of FireFox, Opera, and Safari. Pretty sad . . . .RE: What's in IE 8...

Tags: Web browsers, Quality, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE 8, enterprise user, standards, Mozilla Firefox, IE8, Web browser

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Question from a reader - What notebook/OS for college?

Question from a reader - What notebook/OS for college?Check with the college to see what is their preference...If there isn't one then being as I'm from a Windows IT background that moved over to Mac I'd chose the Mac. If you do need Windows you can run Boot Camp, VMware,...

Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, college life, Apple Macintosh, notebook, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

It's official: OOXML is a standard

It's official: OOXML is a standardA right decisionYou can only FUD so much.Now......we get to see who's going to implement it and how much of it will be implemented. Note that if multiple vendors are using the same MS-Windows API to support OOXML, they're not creating independent implementations of...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Fast Tracking, Office Open XML, oXML, OSI, Microsoft Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

Changing university education, one Nobel laureate at a time

Changing university education, one Nobel laureate at a timeSheperds nowhere to be foundMany of my university professors I was in the college of engineering had a poor grasp of the English language. One professor named Murata was jokingly called "MoreData" in light of the fact that his English was utter...

Tags: college education, university education, Changing, Nobel Laureate, degree title

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

Talent development

Talent developmentWrting lessons neededNot very coherent article.The point of the article was???

Tags: Workforce management, Talent Development, talent

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little

Vista adoption in the enterprise is mired in the single digits, but is an option for companies that have Windows releases before XP. Nineteen percent of enterprise users use Firefox. And the Mac OS is making some headway in the enterprise, but Apple lacks a coherent strategy to pitch business...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Enterprise, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

A super-resolution x-ray microscope

Swiss researchers have developed a very-high-resolution x-ray microscope. Their approach combines two well-known microscopy techniques, coherent diffractive imaging CDI and scanning transmission x-ray microscopy STXM. As a result, the new system offers both the high penetration power of x-rays and high spatial resolution. This method will allow other scientists to...

Tags: Method, Microscope, Researcher, Imaging, Image, Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy, X-ray, EPFL, Document Management, Semiconductors, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Tough love: Linux needs more haters

[The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] I've been spending far too much time reading a blog recently. Normally I dislike reading blogs, or as my friend from the IT News site "the Register" Andrew Orlowski calls them;...

Tags: Blog, LinuxHaters, LinuxHater, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Blogging, Software, Internet, Jeremy Allison

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Ticking bombs in enterprise land

I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKenna  where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...

Tags: Software, Audit, Francine, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-07

KooBits (zip)

KooBits offers an intuitive and effective platform where children and like-minded adults can easily express their ideas using different digital media and create highly interactive digital content. With KooBits, children can easily express their wildest imagination, unleash their creativity, and share their colorful dreams with their parents, teachers, and all...

Tags: Multimedia, Animation, Personal eMotion, KooBits, E-books, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-07-07

The view from the trenches...

Taking a pragmatic approach on collaboration 2.0 strategy and tactics, here's an example of some realities from a client side perspective. This post is about what it's like inside a large enterprise running a collaboration system. I've been on both sides of the fence during my career:...

Tags: Software, Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Silo, E-mail, Tools & Techniques, Online Communications, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Nokia Symbian deal winners and losers

After an expansion phase that saw the introduction of the iPhone, Android, LiMo, and JavaFX Mobile, the mobile phone platform landscape is shrinking again. Nokia today announced it plans to spend $410 million to acquire the pieces of Symbian Ltd. that it doesn't already own, and...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Symbian Inc., Eclipse, Android, Eclipse Public License, Eclipse Foundation, Open Source, Java Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server: a next generation of deeper, wider content silos?

The 'shoot out' between Microsoft Sharepoint and Lotus Connections, two juggernauts in the enterprise space, played to a packed audience at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. The two companies went head to head, squaring off with product demos. I chose to instead attend John...

Tags: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Collaboration, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Server, Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-22

Breaking the dialogues of the deaf

How do you talk to people who just don't want to hear it? Every time I get into a conversation comparing Windows to any Unix option I discover the same thing: the people who will listen to rational argument already know the right answers,...

Tags: Belief, Believer, Festinger, Dissonance, Security, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Coherent Optical Frequency Transfer Via 110-Km Urban Fiber Network

Optical frequency at 1542 nm was coherently transferred over a 110-km optical fiber using an urban fiber network (JGN2) between Tsukuba and Kashiwa cities. The phase fluctuation induced by the fiber length fluctuation was actively reduced by stabilizing the fiber length using a fiber stretcher and an acousto-optic frequency shifter....

Tags: Fiber, University Of Electro-Communications, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2008-06-10