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Is open source health related to trade show attendance?

Is open source health related to trade show attendance?Dana, great post! Interesting topicYes, mny open source businsses are definitively struggling. They have lost many of the "donation" like contracts and have an even harder time landing new contracts.Once the beancounters hear "open source" they start quizzing to find out if...

Tags: open source, Is open source health, IS open source, health care

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Is open source for Windows worthwhile?

Is open source for Windows worthwhile?Open Source can help temprarilyOpen Source can help maintain the monopoly for a little while longer. But in the end, the compatibility and cost will actually open the door for people to move to other platforms.If people get used to open source tools, it...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, open source, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-04-04

Is open source the right way to bring innovation to market?

Is open source the right way to bring innovation to market?Not really newsMore like a sales pitch.In-memory databases have been around for a long time and it does not take a rocket scientist to know that accessing RAM is faster than accessing disk. Adding in a object orientation to the...

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Databases, IS open source, innovation, open source

Discussion threads 2008-03-26

Is open source anti-American?

Is open source anti-American?Who thinks up this stuff???NTJust because there's a profound, global, anti-American sentiment,doesn't mean Open Source is anti-American--unless you consider it anti-American for other countries to look for ways to avoid paying for, and using, American IP. There are lots of people who use Open Source alternatives...

Tags: anti-American, American Business, Is open source anti-American, open source, IS open source

Discussion threads 2008-03-26

Today's Debate: Is open source the cure for health care?

Today's Debate: Is open source the cure for health care?The Coming Electronic Health Record Software Disaster[url=http://www.linuxmednews.com/1190745985]FYI[/url]RE: Today's Debate: Is open source the cure for health care?The link is to an Ignacio Valdes story at LinuxMedNews describing how financial incentives for EHR, if not matched by standards, will lead to disaster.Recommended.Cost...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, E-health, open source, health care, hacking, FYI

Discussion threads 2007-09-26

Is open source losing its center?

Is open source losing its center?This is a sign of growthIf the worst of the growing pains F/OSS suffers is losing a way an inaccurate way at that to measure downloads, I think that's something we need to get over. Sourceforge will not go away, but it may have to...

Tags: F/OSS, TIMES CHANGE, IS open source, open source

Discussion threads 2006-07-28

Is open source more secure?

Is open source more secure?SECURITY STARTS WITH THE USERIt doesn't matter how well a system is designed security starts with the user. Even if Vista implimnets a better security method if there is a way to turn it off people will and they will be no better off. Unless an...

Tags: IS open source, security, open source

Discussion threads 2006-06-19

Is open source communist?

Is open source communist?Awesome.Let's move away from the assumption that communism is inherently evil or wrong. If open source is communist, more power to it. The communist methodology seems to be producing pretty high quality software. Pointing to archetypal "evils" is always a sign of a desperate argument.

Tags: communist, IS open source, open source

Discussion threads 2005-09-23

Is open source communist?

Is open source Communism in software form? (I had Karl Marx join us to set the mood.)That's the question asked by Kenneth Brown's Alexis de Tocqueville Institution,which draws backing from leading right-wing foundations. Brown has been after open source before.A recent TechWorld column charges his whole argument is a Microsoft...

Tags: open source, Brown

Blog posts 2005-03-29

Additional Resources

The Role of Open Source Data Integration

This free-to-download whitepaper looks at how Enterprise customers are demanding project]sized data integration tools that can be scaled up to enterprise use. They donft want complex, expensive DI products that are not a fit with the distributed nature of the application environment. With such a large market need, we argue...

Tags: Open Source, Data Integration, Talend

White papers 2009-11-26

Death of the black box EULA

Nonsense. Just look at Psystar.They died by the EULA. The judge even brought that up.And open source software has an EULA of its own, telling you exactlly what you can and must do to be able to use the software.Any failure to follow the EULA/GPL allows the owner of the...

Tags: EULA, black box, software

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Does virtualization equal cloud computing?

I would say yesThere is no need to buy 'stand alone' servers any longer in functionality when you can put it in a Blade 'name your flavor' chassis.Virtualization with VMware/RHEL or some vendor is the best way to get it off bare-metal...Doing baremetal rebuilds is time consuming and it takes...

Tags: Data centers, Servers, Utility computing, server, cloud computing, virtualization, cluster

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Is Google the Center of the Universe?

Google and the universe"Say what you will about Murdoch?s empire, ethics and politics, but you can?t argue about the fact they employ over 60,000 people in an era when shedding jobs is the ?Wall Street juice? of a jobless ?recovery?."This may be true, but it is a lousy argument. We...

Tags: INTERNET, Microsoft Windows, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

HP debuts iPAQ Glisten, 3G Windows Mobile 6.5 world phone on AT&T

FAIL!It's running Windows Mobile....FAIL! A phone is only as good as the OS that is on it. So long Windows Mobile...It has been replaced by Open_Source technologies and Android/Apple phones that work!;)Next up Google Chrome OS will take on Windows.It is going to be interesting.I agreeandroid and Linux is the...

Tags: Mobile operating systems, Operating systems, Handhelds, Mobile applications, Wireless and Mobility, OPEN SOURCE, 3G, AT&T Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Compaq iPAQ, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Linux, Microsoft Windows, phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

What open source can teach medical practice

Great article, Dana.You did in such a short piece what CNN, MSNBC, FOX and other media journalists failed to do: tell the story as it really is. You didn't take what was news worthy and sensationalized it, nor played up a negative reading of it to frighten those possibly affected,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, open source, medical practice, CNN

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

What open source can teach medical practice

We are collecting the data. We need to unlock it. We are writing the code. We need to share it. This is what open source can teach the practice of medicine. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Practice, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-11-24

Zimbra Collaboration Suite 6.0.3 (Mac)

Zimbra Collaboration Suite ZCS is modern, innovative messaging and collaboration.-Zimbra is the leading open source solution for enterprise, service provider, academic, and government environments; offering administrators and their end-users unmatched benefits and TCO. Zimbra is popular choice for today's growing-Linux email server base. ZCS features an award-winning Ajax web client...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Zimbra, Mobile Device, Zimbra Collaboration Suite, Zimbra Collaboration Suite Network Edition, Microsoft Outlook, Open Source, Wireless And Mobility, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-24

Windows Mobile is better than you think

My main gripeis with the antique user interface which is little more than an uninspired, miniaturized desktop GUI.The foundations seems solid enough now - it is quite decent in multi-tasking and is generally responsive.I too believe that if MS can reinvigorate the UI they still has a strong competitor. Oh...

Tags: Mobile operating systems, Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Fawning over Chatter and how SAP missed its chance

What Salesforce did was pricing, not features...What I was talking about that most people missed wasn't the feature set. Of course that isn't new. Even Benioff pretty much admits he stole the idea from Facebook and Twitter.But at the Techcrunch Real Time Crunchup on Friday Benioff said Salesforce was working...

Tags: Pricing, Sales force management, Marketing research, Strategy, Chatter, SAP AG

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Google goes all-in with an open source cloud

RE: Google goes all-in with an open source cloudGoogle is redifing the marketplace each day with calculated innovation to set the table for their advancement and domination in the future. I can't for the fight that is coming with MS Office next year and Google docs.another nail in M$...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Chrome, Windows 7 market share, Google Inc., open source, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-11-23