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Is Microsoft preventing Corel from supporting ODF

Is Microsoft preventing Corel from supporting ODFOn another serious note....Corel has also been indicted on numerous criminal counts of failing to support compuserve's GIF and standard 8-bit ASCII code. Apparently the "!" is missing a period in their ASCII version, leading the FBI, CIA, and Scotland Yard to believe...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Office, Web browsers, document paradigm, Web browser, Corel Corp., OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-10-21

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Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Looking beyond Windows 7 and Office; Pondering the alternatives

No reason to look beyond Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office, its a complete solution out of the box for every business need. Pondering the alternatives will take all of 5 seconds before realizing the alternatives won't live up to what Microsoft has to offer.Preceding message brought to you...

Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Loverock Davidson

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

In the aftermath of the T-Mobile Chernobyl

Lazy people.Thats all I can think. Who, in their right mind, would entrust valuable data to >> someone elses system

Tags: Backups, backup, cloud computing, T-Mobile

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

Amazon Kindle DX: The solution to a problem that doesn't exist

Amazon Kindle DX: The solution to a problem that doesn't existI won't buy this, but you know what I WOULD buy?I would buy a lightweight, feature-rich, electronic replacement for my leather-bound notepad. In fact, I've been searching for this mythical device since the first PowerBooks, always to be disappointed....

Tags: Wireless LANs, Tablets, Desktops, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle

Discussion threads 2009-05-06

Mindtouch 2009: Collaborative Mashup Switchboard

Mindtouch announce today a new message bus that enables bi-directional notifications when changes are made both within MindTouch 2009 or to the many applications that users plug into or connect to with MindTouch 2009. Examples of these could be Web services, enterprise systems, databases, office productivity applications...

Tags: JavaScript, Wordpress, Plug-in, Mashup, MindTouch 2009, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-02

Box: Content Management With New Collaboration Enhancements

Box.net, the online file hosting and  sharing service that allows users to store, access and share files remotely, is moving further into the collaboration space. Founded in 2005 as a Software as a Service offering, Box was originally the antidote to the ftp...

Tags: Team, User Interface, SAP AG, Content Management, Box, Team Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-02-05

Minimizing after sales disasters

Minimizing after sales disasters2004/5The UNIX market may have been depressed for a number of reasons.The number 1 would be the rise of Linux then there is HP-UX being forced onto IA-64, the death of tru-64 etc....AIX sales were not too bad in that period so I think there was more...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Sales strategy, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Linux, recession, sales

Discussion threads 2009-01-15

USB 3.0 arriving - bring on the speed

USB 3.0 arriving - bring on the speedsweet!ntNice.Nice. No more slow external drives. I've always had a tendency to avoid external drives for that reason.eSATA is nice as well, but it was for drives only.why it took so long?USB3 has been in works for many years.Initially the big selling point...

Tags: USB3, FireWire, USB

Discussion threads 2009-01-13

Microsoft and Novell at two: Was the patent pact worth it?

Microsoft and Novell at two: Was the patent pact worth it?Sheer brillianceNot that I'm going to start any wars or anything, but from a business perspective this deal was totally worth it. Microsoft got to wiggle its way into mixed source environments. Novell got a lifeline and became a bigger...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., openSUSE

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

IBM's Legacy World

I attended a regional 'Lotus Collaboration Summit' yesterday - a very helpful road show style event IBM put on to help flesh out the state of the Lotus universe and give partners a chance to demo their products to the customers in attendance. ...

Tags: IBM Corp., E-mail, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-10-22

McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girl

McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlEnough already!We get it! Anybody that is supporting John McCain is bad and anybody supporting Barrack Obama is good. You have sufficiently established your liberal credentials.RE: McCain wants bailout package online, defends Fiorina as working girlMcCain wants something acutally ONLINE?...

Tags: John McCain, Obama

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

Netbooks, Chrome and the future of computing

Netbooks, Chrome and the future of computingIs that a Compaq 'Hernia' Luggable?I am afraid to admit I had one of those.I don't buy it.Maybe it's the future for some people but not me.Correction"It’s a search bar, a direct link into the Google search engine. It is, in fact, a Web...

Tags: cloud computing, battleship, Chrome, Yamato, beta

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

Can open source kick-start the hardware hobbyist market?

Can open source kick-start the hardware hobbyist market?A bright new paradigm for opensource!So OSS has come of age, after all!Soon opensource will start bringing food to many a table across the globe.The days of proprietary monopoly are numbered.S.KOpen source?Cool dev board, but what's open source about it? OS? Dev tools?The...

Tags: open source, hardware, MythTV

Discussion threads 2008-07-29

Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage in the House of Wax

Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage in the House of WaxAnd this is whyour Founding Fathers pushed for as limited a government as possible. If our federal government actually stayed within its constitutional limits, this debate and its corresponding corruption and graft wouldn't exist.Again, you are deliberately misreading historyIt is as foolish...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, government, U.S. Constitution, Medicare

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

When will textbook publishers get a clue?

When will textbook publishers get a clue?I buy all my books onlineI mostly use half.com, which is part of eBay. But there's also:http://www.allbookstores.com/This is an aggregator, so it searches a bunch of sites.Here's how much you can save: My "Advanced Suse Linux" book retails for $146.95 at school...

Tags: Wiki, Linux, Microsoft Office, textbook, Textbook Publishers

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeGood PostIn those days i was the Manager of Technical Services and Computer Operations and remember not too fondly the innumerable meetings, courses, seminars required to implement changes. The technique "Structured or Top-down programming" was used to insure data integrity when program...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, Y2K, IS-department, data-processing, IBM mainframe, business rule, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Tim Berners-Lee talks cranberry sauce and Linked Data in New York City

Sir Tim Berners-Lee took to the stage in New York City last night, to deliver the final keynote of the day at JupiterMedia's new semantic web event, Linked Data Planet. The ballroom of the Roosevelt Hotel was certainly busier than earlier in the day, as a smattering...

Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, Brand, URI, Data, Tim, RDF, Semantic Web, Branding, XML, Printers, Internet, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware, Peripherals, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Literate programming

Literate programming*blink*Full time programers don't do this? I learned FORTRAN around 1980 and the text required "a structured and disciplined style." That may not be the same thing as "literate programming" but it seems close. I know I have a hard time getting statisticians to document their project specific analysis...

Tags: Development tools, programming, programmer

Discussion threads 2008-06-17