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What's wrong at OpenSolaris

The OpenSolaris community just released the first complete "Project Indiana" edition of the OS - and in that process demonstrated why community enthusiasm for the product seems to have weakened recently. It's a great product -everything from ZFS to a new package management system...

Tags: OpenSolaris, Intel X86, Developer Argument, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-15

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Google "attacking" developer community?

No.Improving their apps doesn't make them evil.Killing competition by giving away apps for "free" makes them evil.Isn't it a bit hypocritical to complain?After all Android developers are using Android which they didn't need to pay for because Google gave it to them. Where do they think those development funds...

Tags: Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-01

Microsoft to drop Office Accounting product, services

DumbWhat a dumb move their Accounting software was one of the best products they had.Anyone notice a trend?Dumping Money, dumping Office Accounting, and all at a time when the Feds are increasingly regulating Financial firms. While MS is clearly not a "Financial" Company it looks alot like they are...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Office Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

A Forrester interview with Steve Ballmer about the SharePoint Business

I had the pleasure to sit down with Steve Ballmer for an interview at the Microsoft SharePoint conference in Las Vegas this week. My research team at Forrester spends a lot of time thinking, researching, and writing about the future of information work. So getting Steve’s view on SharePoint’s decade-long...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Steve Ballmer, Forrester Research Inc., Steve, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Matthew Brown

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Sneak Preview: Chrome OS Browser Video Tour

Another videoThere's another video on a blog at http://chromeos-blog.com that also shows the browser. It's 3 mins.RE: Sneak Preview: Chrome OS Browser Video TourWith Google in the fight against MS over MS tyingbundling their browser to their OS, can someone explain to me why its ok for Google to make...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Google Inc., Web browser, operating system, Chrome, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Study: 67% of Mac users would install, try Windows 7 if it was free

Marketing failureThe irony of course is that changes introduced in Vista mean that anyone could try it free for 4 months.I'm pretty sure that Windows users would also try OSX on the same basis. (Indeed some are helping themselves!)I might try Win 7 for free, but not on my Mac.I'd...

Tags: Desktops, Linux, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, MAC USERS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Win7, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Vista/IE market share slide, Win 7/Firefox/Chrome surge

IE "Hit"I never understood this...."Internet Explorer?s market share also took a battering, dropping by a massive 1.26%, taking its market share to a new low of 65.7%. This is a huge hit for Microsoft."What kind of hit? IE could go away and MS wouldn't lose a dime because it seems...

Tags: Web browsers, MarketShare, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Chrome, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Red Hat CEO vs. Torvalds: More Linux features don't equate to bloat

Linux distro appliances are the futureCompanies are wising up and getting away from MS 20G worm/virus operating systems and going to Linux distro driven appliances.It is the future with appliances no one needs a Windows OS with Office for someone to open a (.doc) to edit it is a security...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, COMPANIES, Red Hat Inc., Linux, desktop, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Open source does not work well for bad guys

Open_Source is the futureOpen_Source 'Linux distro' driven appliances are the future, such as the many companies already doing extremely well.Closed source is a huge lethargic insecure monopoly trying to license/patent everything, however it is failing miserably. Look at the exploits of Windows, $9 Billion in damages last year just from...

Tags: open source, bad guy, Conficker, Linux, Closed Source

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Has Apple quelled smartphone buyer expectations for finished products?

MOPushing out products too fast seems to be the MO among companies. They want to make a buck, don't they?People seem to be so focused on features, features and even more features that some are blind to the obvious, that the gadget's first duty is to be useful and usable.What...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, I-don't-know-what, smart phone, operating system, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Developer calls for Apple to eliminate App Store review process

Joe Hewitt, a software developer best known for his work on Facebook for iPhone and early Firefox, has a radical proposal about how to fix the App Store: eliminate App Store review process completely. While I agree with the spirit of Hewitt's argument, it will never happen....

Tags: Developer, Apple Inc., App, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-08-25

The Google Voice app scandal: is Apple losing control over the iPhone?

its rather a good thing no technologie suppliers should have any right over what you do with your device ...period ... RE: The Google Voice app scandal: is Apple losing control over the iPhone?SAM: "Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that I?m a big Apple fan..."What a joke....

Tags: Smart phones, Games, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Forget 99 cent smartphone apps, let's be fair to developers too

Price floors don't help anyoneFirst, setting a minimum price is a price floor. Basic microeconomics teaches that this lowers demand and raises supply, generating an inefficient surplus. I don't see how that's good.Second, you seem to imply in this article that $0.99 apps are Apple's fault. They...

Tags: Action Games, developer, cent smartphone app

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

Fed's RFIDiocy pwnd at DefCon

Do you even read your own stuff?From your quote:". . . will be releasing a $50 kit at the end of August that will make reading 125-kHz RFID chips ? the kind embedded in [b]employee access cards[/b] ? trivial." emphasis addedAnd yet you go and say that this is a...

Tags: WPA2, passport, RFID, pwnd, RFIDiocy, RFIDiocy pwnd, security, DefCon, Federal Reserve Board

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

The Apple tablet is a non-starter in Ed without content

The Apple tablet is a non-starter in Ed without contentEVDO Internet connectivity??EV-DO really?With that only it's a pretty restricted market...there are not many countries were it will work...Better GSM+EDGE+HSPA&HSPA+ /WCDMA (2G -> 2.5G -> 3G -> 3.5G etc. support).CDMA has no longer term future on this planet... RE: The Apple...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Cellular phones, Apple Tablet, tablet, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

Analyst: Forget the Feds, Apple is 'doing just fine at wrecking the wireless business'

The Feds have been examining exclusive wireless carrier deals with handset makers---think AT&T and Apple---but the effort is a bit of a farce. Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett says it's laughable that the wireless industry is anticompetitive and the Feds don't have to worry about wrecking the wireless industry---Apple already has....

Tags: Apple iPhone, Network, Handset, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Wireless, Customer Loyalty, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-13

The costs of free

The costs of freeSomr miscreant? How about some do-gooder?"some miscreant may come along and skew the market in ways your model doesn?t reflect."Like the way some "miscreants" destroyed the livelihoods of apothecaries by revealing to the public how to make simple home remedies themselves?Face it, if somebody can destroy your...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, mass market, F/OSS

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

Microsoft Money Just Wants to Be Free

Microsoft is abandoning its personal finance software, Microsoft Money, after over 16 years of development and marketing. But why abandon perfectly good software when it could be released to the community as an Open Source project? This week, Microsoft announced its...

Tags: Be Free, Microsoft Money, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Personal Finance, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Fight Windows tax with a penguin stick

Fight Windows tax with a penguin stickWho needs LinSux?Only poor, jobless and ignorant guys who think they are pros like Linux Geek need LinSux. If that small amount of money feels like tax then you need to work harder and get a better job. By the way am about to...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, netbook, Linux, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-06-11

Apple goes after business; watch out Palm, RIM, Microsoft

There was a lot of ground to cover in the keynote presentation at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference this morning - and I'll be chiming in on more from the event later. But here's a quick observation about the potential rise of Macs and iPhones as business devices. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Apple Macintosh, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Palm Pre, Desktops, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-08