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- The 2010 Productivity Tool Bonanza - Microsoft, Google, Zoho & Open Standards
- On the eve of what looks to be a major Microsoft productivity products year in 2010 with the Windows 7 operating system, Exchange 2010, Office 2010, MOSS/SharePoint 2010 and Azure it's interesting to look at how the market for these products serve has changed. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Open Standard, Zoho, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.
- Richard M. Stallman RMS the founder of the Free Software Foundation, has labeled prominent Open Source software developer Miguel De Icaza a "Traitor" for joining the Board of Directors of Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation as well as for his creation of the Microsoft .NET-compatible Mono software development...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Free Software Foundation, GNOME, Microsoft Corp., Richard Stallman, Miguel De Icaza, Mono Framework, Genie, Linux, Open Source, C#, Tools & Techniques, UNIX, .Net, Operating Systems, Software, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Analyst: Cheap ultrathin laptops push design limits; cracked plastic
- Been eyeing a thin-and-light laptop recently? You know, the kind that usually comes prefixed with the "Macbook Air killer" tag? Be careful what you wish for. Broadpoint AmTech analyst Doug Freedman said Wednesday to CNET contributor Brooke Crothers that some...
- Tags: Apple MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, OEM, Manufacturer, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Design Limit, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- How friendly is the Movable Type fork?
- How friendly is the Movable Type fork?If Byrne Reese is behind it, it is worth serious considerationI know Bryne Reese has been a major contributor to the core features of open source MT.It may be as simple as Bryne not being happy with the direction in which MT is going.He...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Scripting languages, Movable Type, fork
- Discussion threads 2009-06-23
- Wood, Arrows, and motivation
- A comment by frequent contributor Roger Ramjet from last week: Free Databases There are many free databases to choose from: Firebird, Ingres, Postgres, and MySQL to name most of them. Most of the "best" developers and the largest community are behind Postgres. MySQL...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Stagnation, Motivation, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture
- This is the 41st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (2) In its present form this commitment to publication and peer review, originally derived from the core academic and scientific approach giving rise to the science...
- Tags: Noorda, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- RDBMS license costs and Open Source
- A comment by frequent contributor JesperFrimann last week caused me to take a closer look at licensing practices among major commercial database vendors other than Microsoft. All three of the big guys (Oracle, IBM, and Sybase) follow the same basic sales model: ...
- Tags: Processor, Oracle Corp., Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, Pricing Strategy, RDBMS, IBM Corp., Pricing, Sales Strategy, Marketing Research, Databases, Marketing, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Spy shot: Is this the new Mac mini?
- A MacRumors forum member posted the above picture of the purported new Mac mini with the following specs: Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz 3MB L2 cache 2GB RAM DDR III, 1066MHz Super Drive is SATA The...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- Making the case for SOA in a tough economy: remember, services are the business
- There's been no shortage of fretting that today's rough-and-tumble economy may cut SOA-related efforts to shreds. Not to worry, says one commentator, who says if anything, a tough economy will prove the mettle of SOA. As I mentioned before on this blogsite, the principles...
- Tags: SOA, Service Orientation, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- Knowledge Plaza: Sophisticated Knowledge Workspace
- There are various shades, strengths and weaknesses to competing software packages, with vendors catering to different user segments and market success often defining the direction of their products. Knowledge Plaza is a relatively new offering in the enterprise collaboration space and offers a...
- Tags: Knowledge, Knowledge Plaza, Searches, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-02-13
- 'Leading with Kindness'
- There is an interesting book and associated US public television series I'm intrigued by entitled 'Leading with Kindness: How good people consistently get better results' The two authors are William F. Baker, Ph.D., (Chief Executive Officer of Educational Broadcasting Corp...
- Tags: Team, Doll, Gore, Team Management, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- Jive Clearspace 2.5: increasingly sophisticated social productivity tools
- Clearspace, Jive Software's 'social productivity' collaboration software, hits version 2.5 today. This latest release builds on a solid foundation, and has many new features and enhancements, as the above video illustrates. 2.5 marks some significant upgrades - there has been some major tweaks under the hood to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Tool, Clearspace Team, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Collaboration, Groupware, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coder
- Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coderAll makes senseIf I was running a large open source project with thousands if not millions of people all over the world depending on me to get it right, I think I'd do things in much the same way.Certainly it makes sense to...
- Tags: Strategy, Torvalds, Linux, vision, Linux coder, open source, chef, picnic
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- 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
- UNIX - Let's get together and feel all right
- People have often accused me of dreaming too much and not having my thoughts anchored in reality, particularly in this world of multi-billion dollar technology companies and big business, when huge amounts of money are at stake and every competitor is vying for the top spot. In...
- Tags: GPL, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., CDDL, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Sun Solaris, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- When Lintel beats Wintel
- Here's the full text of something by frequent contributor Anton Philidor during last week's discussion of various approaches to Lintel/Wintel TCO comparisons: "Linux is more expensive than Windows." You agreed. Quoting: By mid 2004, however, enough people...
- Tags: Wintel, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Lintel, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Will the GPL be overtaken by AGPL?
- Will the GPL be overtaken by AGPL?I can see both sides. I think it should be up to the individual developer.In a way, Google IS distributing the software, since customers are using it, even though it runs on the cloud. But, on the other hand, the business friendly ability to...
- Tags: Linux, GPL, Google Inc., AGPL, server, software, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- Mozilla's T-Bird 3 to get calendar, search, UI, config, add-on improvements in late 2008-early 2009
- The newly minted Mozilla e-mail subsidiary has moved out of stealth mode and is targeting the release of the next generation of Thunderbird for late 2008. The open source Thunderbird 3, now under development, will feature integrated calendaring, better search, easier configuration, significant user interface improvements...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Mozilla Thunderbird, Plan, Mozilla Corp., E-mail Clients, E-mail, Software, Online Communications, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- SaaS hoster OpSource buys billing partner
- Specialist SaaS hoster OpSource today has announced the acquisition of SaaS billing vendor LeCayla Technologies. OpSource has a number of partners that offer services to its customers, some of them integrated into its real-time service bus â€" including Aria Systems, another billing vendor â€" but this is the first time...
- Tags: Web, Acquisition, Software-as-a-service, Billing, Partnership, Aria Systems Inc., OpSource, LeCayla Technologies, Software As A Service (SaaS), Business Structures, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
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