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Sun's continuing open source problem: Despite its best efforts Sun Microsystems still has a big open source problem. Commitment. (Affordable Wedding Bands sells rings in both gold and platinum.) Any salesman is expecting a commitment from a buyer. But an open source salesman is expecting a deeper commitment. A...; Tags: Commitment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Service Level Management Route to Value: A Path to Effective Business Service Management: Service Level Management encompasses four important functions: establishing commitments, monitoring performance against commitments, acting swiftly when commitments are in jeopardy or have been missed, and reporting on actual service levels versus commitments. Through these four steps, you will be better able to ensure that your organization is effectively meeting the...; Tags: Commitment, Business Service Management, Service Level Management, Service Management, It Operations, It service Management; White papers 2005-02-16
Intranets.com : Intranet Security: The security and reliability of the data is not only critical - it's the top priority. In this paper the devotion is given to the significant resources for the continuing enhancement of the world-class security and operations infrastructure. The commitment is to provide state-of-the-art hosting facilities, equipment, and security management...; Tags: Intranets.com Inc., Commitment, Intranet, Security; White papers 2004-12-09
Diagnostic tool for assessing employee commitment: You can administer this brief survey to all employees who have spent more than a year working in your company. Then use it to diagnose the commitment level of your staff.; Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Commitment, Tool, Productivity, Marketing Research, Marketing; Tools & templates 2003-09-19

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EDS internal memo on the HP purchase: HP acquired EDS in a deal valued roughly at $12.8 billion. The move was outlined Tuesday morning amid a healthy dose of skepticism. Here's a memo from EDS CEO Ron Rittenmeyer, who will now report to HP CEO Mark Hurd. To the EDS Worldwide Team: Today...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Branding, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-13

Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refuse: Last week, I blogged about the possible future of a unified UNIX GPLv3 operating system "mother distro" comprising the merged source code of the Solaris and Linux kernels (and presumably, the source code of other vendors as well) and related GNU stack with associated tools and applications. ...; Tags: Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., SCO Group Inc., GPLv3, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-05-12
The application interface problem: I believe that almost any programming language can be used to build almost any kind of user interface, but that the closer the user interface is to the assumptions built into the language, the simpler and more efficient this component of the overall application will be. More importantly, I believe...; Tags: Application, User Interface, Tool, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-12
Another net neutrality bill, in a Comcast-charged atmosphere: The latest net neutrality bill, offered by Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), is a second try to treat neutrality as an antitrust issue, Ars Technica says. It's essentially the same bill that failed in 2006. The bill is intended to "promote competition,...; Tags: Bill, Comcast Corp., U.S. Congress, Net Neutrality, Internet, Networking, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Microsoft going it alone? Not exactly: Trying to parse Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' every utterance in search of clues about what Microsoft is doing next is a dangeous game. (Remember the recent Windows 7 date confusion spurred by a recent Gates' utterance?) On May 6, headlines across the Web declared that Gates told...; Tags: Facebook, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-07
UAVs will study Californian smog: The California Energy Commission is funding a research effort named CAPPS, short for California AUAV Air Pollution Profiling Study. CAPPS will use autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (AUAVs) to gather meteorological data as the aircraft fly through clouds over Southern California. The goal is to study smog and its consequences as...; Tags: Southern California, Researcher, Pollution, Aircraft, Global Warming, UAV, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Is Stallman right about OLPC?: Is Stallman right about OLPC?Another open source ........ disciple weighs in. Thank you for making the point!Once again ....... Stallman and you missed the point about the OLPC. It was never about your Open source religion. It was about helping out kids in third world countries. ...; Tags: Stallman, open source, One Laptop Per Child project; Discussion threads 2008-05-01
Know when to say when on open source: My librarian and I spent quite a bit of time evaluating open source replacements for our ancient Follett library software. We both liked what Koha had to offer and would obviously rather use something free than something, well, not free. However, with both of us in...; Tags: Open Source, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-04-30
Microsoft preps pay-as-you-go Office for June launch: After more than seven years of lobbying by service providers, Microsoft is finally set to allow pay-as-you-go licensing for Microsoft Office and other products downloaded to PCs using streaming technologies, according to information the company recently made available to channel partners. Many observers will see the move as a new...; Tags: PC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Business Services, Desktops, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-04-30
Online thieves worse than 1960s Mafia: It took Robert F. Kennedy to break the back of Mafia families like the Bonannos (that's Joe Bananas pictured) and we need that kind of dedicated commitment to stop today's equivalent of organized crime: online scammers, many of them from Eastern Europe. That was the message Attorney General Michael Mukasey...; Tags: Banking, Government, Federal Government, Financial Services, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-04-24
Drivers highlight Linux Summit progress: The final release on the recent Linux Collaboration Summit is out and the big word is drivers. No, not like this Big Bertha, available from the World of Golf for just $200. (But she's a beauty, ain't she?) Software drivers. If...; Tags: Driver, Linux, Scanners, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-24
Ubuntu's corporate ready 8.04 is released but is three a crowd in Linux server market?: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was released on April 24 as planned and will be supported until 2011-2013. But is extended support enough to convince ISVs and businesses to support three Linux distributions? Despite the hoopla around its release Wednesday, Ubuntu's ambitions in the corporate server space will be...; Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Server, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-04-24
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS "Hardy Heron" is out!: Bang on schedule, Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is released. This is a significant release of Ubuntu. Not only is this release an LTS or Long term Support version (which means that support for the desktop version will be available for 3 years, while server versions will enjoy...; Tags: Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-04-24
Umm, Yummy: Mactel eats Lintel's desktop: Red Hat recently issued a press release under the title What's Going On With Red Hat Desktop Systems? An Update whose content boiled down to "It's a loser, so We're bailing." Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 is a cool two year old product from a...; Tags: Linux Desktop, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ubantu, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Open Source, Desktops, UNIX, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-04-23
Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIX: Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIXIBM, bah!I always considered AIX as the fork that broke UNIX' back. IBM was very late to the UNIX party, and instead of paying 5 bucks for a copy of SysV UNIX, they instead re-invented the wheel (badly) by re-writing UNIX...; Tags: Operating systems, IBM AIX, IBM Corp., Unix, Linux, operating system; Discussion threads 2008-04-22
Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIX: Once upon a time I did a few articles for searchenterpriselinux at techtarget.com, but we parted ways very quickly over their commitment to Red Hat's anti-Sun marketing strategy. Ken Milberg, a guy I think I first ran into in the context of my original 2002...; Tags: Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM AIX, Duck, IBM Corp., Attack, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-04-22