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VARs still have Long Reach in small business market

In the real world of small business, costs matter more than license terms.These are Michael Whitehead's customers at The Long Reach in Ottawa, Canada."All businesses really care is can I get something that’s cost effective, which does the job, which is priced to suit my business, and do I have someone...

Tags: Strategy, Software Licensing, resellers, mass market, marketing, Legal, General, Enterprise Policy, Database Management, business models, Applications

Blog posts 2007-07-13

BBC takes political hits for rejecting open source

The BBC wants to put its shows on the Web, and made a deal with Microsoft for the technology required to do that. (That's the Tardis, from Dr. Who, one of many fine BBC programs.)This has the BBC in political hot water. Boingboing says it's a DRM issue, but the country's Open...

Tags: video, Microsoft, mass market, Legal, Internet, Implementations, Government, General, Enterprise Policy, Applications

Blog posts 2007-06-27

Microsoft forces hard questions on open source

A Microsoft spokesperson "confirmed it has no immediate plans to sue" over patents. In a statement mailed to ZDNet UK, Microsoft confirmed it would not litigate for now.No immediate plans. For now.Open source is getting played.Microsoft is holding a sword over the head of all open source users, and all...

Tags: Development, Enterprise Policy, General, Legal, Linux, management, mass market, Microsoft, Patents, Strategy

Blog posts 2007-05-24

Can open source processes close doors to speech?

Jimmy Wales and Tim O'Reilly have begun an interesting experiment.(Picture from TheAllINeed.)They want to create a bloggers code of conduct, through Wikia, aimed at drawing a line against abuse and flame wars.While they insist this is voluntary, in fact it can easily become mandatory, once blog hosts like Typepad and...

Tags: politics, mass market, Legal, General, Enterprise Policy, content

Blog posts 2007-04-12

Google's role in an open source world

This would not be the open source decade without Google.Everyone who cares knows that Googles giant server farms run Linux. The company freely offers APIs for its most interesting features, it contributes to a wide variety of open source projects, and it will host a Developer Day on May 31...

Tags: Enterprise Policy, Database Management, Strategy, mass market, Google, General, business models

Blog posts 2007-04-11

Comcast money helps open source scare Cisco

With Lucent absorbed into Alcatel, big phone and cable companies have fewer-and-fewer choices.Cisco is gaining market power over them. Or is it?This may be a head fake, but Comcast has invested in Vyatta, an open source maker of networking gear. It was just part of an $11 million round, so...

Tags: Strategy, mass market, Internet, Infrastructure, Hardware, Google, General, Enterprise Policy

Blog posts 2007-04-02

Linux silly season hits Dell

When Dell says "lets have a conversation" the company really means exactly what Hillary Clinton does.Show me the money.Instead, Dell has this questionnaire. Asks where Dell should put its Linux -- on what model computers. It asks which Linux you prefer.Its nonsense.Linux isnt Windows. Open source is not something you...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Dell Computer Corp., Linux

Blog posts 2007-03-14

Reputation vs. marketing in open source

One of the big stories for 2007 is going to be the battle between marketing and reputation. (This guy is pure marketing, and thus has no role in what follows.)Traditionally open source gets by on reputation. Your credibility, your openness, your commitment to open source values, help determine your standing...

Tags: open source, marketing, management, telecom, publishing, mass market, Infrastructure, Enterprise Policy, General

Blog posts 2006-12-06

Additional Resources

Revisiting RIM: Are the enterprise storm clouds brewing?

In the context of the scenario...it could very well come down to iPhone v. RIM. If, as posited, businesses adopt a BYOP model. That kind of thing doesn't matter what wireless network your using, if they'll open exchange up for you to hook your iPhone to. Which may - and...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, data plan, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., BIS, RIM BlackBerry, Verizon Communications Inc., Research In Motion Ltd.

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

MokaFive launches version 2 of its MokaFive Suite

Desktop virtualization (the combination of access virtualization, application virtualization and/or processing virtualization for client-side deployment) has not gotten the intense industry attention that its cousin, server virtualization, has and yet, a number of suppliers have pegged their hopes and dreams to that nascent market. MokaFive is one of those suppliers....

Tags: Desktop Management, MokaFive, MokaFive Suite, Desktop Management Cost, Desktops, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-25

News to know: Windows 7; Top student laptops; Facebook; Larry Page's commencement speech

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: How many Intel CPUs will fail the XP Mode test in Windows 7? Larry Page's fine commencement speech. Andrew...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Microsoft Windows 7, Larry Page, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-04

Novell delivers SUSE Linux Enterprise 11

As the other Linux provider, Novell goes to great lengths to differentiate its offering from rival Red Hat. The company's expansive version 11 platform is no exception, and is said to promise unique advances in virtualization, management, interoperability, high availability and desktop computing. ...

Tags: Desktop, Novell Inc., SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux, SuSE, High Availability Extension, Open Source, UNIX, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-03-24

Getting right by open source

Getting right by open sourceWould Ubuntu continue without Mr. Shuttleworth?Yes, it would continue, but without the support that a hobbyist billionaire can provide.He does have limits to his support. A recent article in the Times observed that Vista required the work of 10,000 people, many of whom raise families...

Tags: Strategy, Ubuntu, Shuttleworth, open source

Discussion threads 2009-01-14

Gartner doles out sobering predictions for open source over next 5 years

Gartner doles out sobering predictions for open source over next 5 yearsMeaningless corporate clap-trapProblem with reports such as this one is that, while they sound smart at the surface, I have to admit that once I dig deeper I realize than I have no idea what the report is saying.Article:[i]That's...

Tags: Open Source Apps, open source, Gartner Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

Platform Computing VM Orchestrator

Although I've tracked Platform Computing for well over a decade, I don't get the chance to speak with them all that much. A short while ago, I had the opportunity to chat with Peter Dye, Product Manager of VM Orcestrator VMO. Although our discussion ranged from Platform's history, where it...

Tags: Product, Platform Computing Inc., Productivity, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-01-28

Mobius Amsterdam 2007: Symbian, Windows Live, and working group session

Mobius Project: I previously posted about the opening reception and Day 1 of the Mobius Amsterdam 2007 event and this will be my final installment that covers the 2nd full and final day. The morning started out with a short discussion on the Mobius Project that was kicked off back...

Tags: Device, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Mobius, Microsoft Windows Live, Apple Inc., Symbian Inc., S60, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Marketing, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-30

Jimmy Wales and Enterprise Wikis

At the Summer Davos in Dalian, China, I was able to speak to Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, about wikis in the enterprise. Wikipedia has become not only the world’s most popular wiki, but the ninth most popular web site in the world. Jimmy is here as a Young...

Tags: Difference, Wiki, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Jimmy, MediaWiki, JN, JW, Wikia, John Newton

Blog posts 2007-09-14

Auditor inquisition could determine ODF's fate in Massachusetts

At a hearing yesterday in room 437 of the venerable State House in Boston, Mass., a Commonwealth Senate oversight committee chaired by Senator Marc R. Pacheco opened yet another chapter in the ongoing saga of Massachusetts' Enterprise Technical Reference Model -- a blueprint for the state's information technology, authored by...

Tags: ITD, OpenDocument Format, Pacheco

Blog posts 2005-11-01

Did Microsoft send the wrong guy to Massachusetts' ODF hearing?

Did Microsoft send the wrong guy to Massachusetts' ODF hearing?It's all a jokeMicrosoft's representatives didn't help with their tone, either. It was a somewhat informal meeting, but the jokes about coffee came across as belittling. The overall impression was that Massachusetts was in the unenlightened wilds far from...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), MS Office Format, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format, migration

Discussion threads 2005-09-26

Rearden Commerce transforms business services

Patrick Grady, the founder and CEO of the newly minted Rearden Commerce, likes to tell his story--a tale of perseverance, technology innovation and business acumen in the risky enterprise software business. A venture capital investment of $42 million plays a key role in the story, as well as the company's...

Tags: Patrick Grady

Blog posts 2005-02-27