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How big the Google open source credibility gap

How big the Google open source credibility gapSame script, different actorsEveryone hates "the king of the hill." Once upon a time, Microsoft was David and the Goliath was IBM... and everyone was filled with schadenfreude as IBM lost control of the PC market hardware and wound up seriously restructuring its...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google open source credibility gap, IBM Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

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News to know: Swine flu; Microsoft; Windows 7; iPhone and Verizon

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. Andrew Nusca: Swine Flu: Where to find virus, track outbreak, learn symptoms, more Harry Fuller: Swine flu and the enviornment? Mary Jo...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Microsoft Windows 7, Verizon Communications Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-28

News to know: Windows 7; Oracle OpenWorld; Adobe CS4; Search 2.0

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows Live team confirms Win7 to replace subsystems with services Ed Bott: How to set up a new PC in one easy session ...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, BEA Beehive, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Open World, Help Desk, Java Development Tools, E-books, Enterprise Software, It Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Personal Technology, Software

Blog posts 2008-09-23

How big the Google open source credibility gap

I have written quite positively about Google in the past, yet there is a growing sense that they're just a technicolor Microsoft, led by a two-headed Bill Gates with better hair. This is a problem. Question. Is there a solution? by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Google Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-09-22

New Microsoft-commissioned studies are busting out all over

New Microsoft-commissioned studies are busting out all overMore Bloatsmoke from the BloatfarmWhile no one can criticize the right of a company to publish whatever it wants, this work is very likely just more Bloatfarm FUD.Does GM give "helpful hints" on Toyota?One should treat emanations from the Bloatfarm as that Bloat...

Tags: Groupware, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft-commissioned study, Linux Developer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SharePoint, OOXML

Discussion threads 2007-08-27

The year in preview: Google goes evil; Mixed source rules; Microsoft buys Yahoo

Wondering how 2007 will turn out? Look no more. Here are a few fearless predictions to ponder. 1. Google goes evil. OK, well maybe not totally evil. But this is the year the perception of Google changes. In its 2004 IPO prospectus Google said: Don’t be evil. We believe strongly...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Google Inc., Novell Inc., Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2007-01-02

ZDNet Reader: Fat Clients are forever

ZDNet Reader: Fat Clients are foreverBandwidth dismissal naiveDismissing bandwidth considerations on thin clients is a trip down fantasy land.You keep using the example of writing an email. Writing an email is trivial. Start working with spreadhseets, business presentations, sales proposals involving graphics, photoshop files from the marketing department, etc.Throw...

Tags: Programming languages, Thin clients, OPEN SOURCE, CREDIBILITY GAP, Java, thin client, OpenOffice, mainframe

Discussion threads 2005-10-05