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Is open source communist?

Is open source communist?Korea loves LinusThat's South Korea http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/29/0322248 The anti-Communist one.Can this get ANY more ridiculous?Only in a GW run administration could such BS even be considered.Let's analyse this a little furtherThe central tenet of Marxism is that capitalists accumulate capital by charging more for products than the actual...

Tags: Marx, Central Control, open source, communist, communism, labour, GPL, capitalist

Discussion threads 2005-03-29

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AOL: Will Armstrong get any honeymoon?

Time to send out some free AOL signup disks ntntGood Bye AOLThe sooner AOL is just a shadow in the rear-view-mirror of technological history, the better.Since day one they were a success because of aggressive marketing not due to providing anything of any value to their customers.When they bought Time...

Tags: Transportation, America Online Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Not enough hours in the day? There's a personal assistant for that

Actually Under -PricedSounds like a pretty cool service. I doubt your "personal assistant sitting in a call center in middle America". I'm sure he or she is in a call center in middle India. But seriously, the service might actually be under-priced. I'd pay more than $10 and I'm sure...

Tags: Call centers, Customer relationship management (CRM), personal assistant

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

KFC UNThinking at the UN

Honestly, the professional PR brigade never cease to amaze me with some of the nuttiest ideas for brand enhancement that all too often turn out to be just the opposite. My ZDNet colleague Jason Perlow was spammed today by a top PR agency with...

Tags: Brand, KFC Corp., UN General Assembly, Yum, Branding, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-10-22

IBM XIV® Storage System: Ease of Management Reinvented

Managing a storage system has become a costly and complicated task. The direct labour cost associated with its management is increasing. In addition, organizations incur hidden indirect costs due to slow responsiveness, ineffective utilization, and inflexibility. This paper discusses how the IBM XIV Storage System's revolutionary built-in virtualization...

Tags: Storage System, IBM Corp., Storage Management, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-10-12

Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design

Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...

Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Microsoft pushes business users to start Windows 7 upgrades now

I would betthat not nearly as many businesses will bite as MS wants, but that more businesses than usual will bite.RE: Microsoft pushes business users to start Windows 7 upgrades nowAs with many we are still running XP on all of our machines and Server 2003 with no money in...

Tags: Web browsers, Quality, Microsoft Windows 7, Web browser, standards, Acid3 Test, compliant browser, web standard, IE 8, GNU/Linux, Web, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

iPod touch camera modules failing?

Apple camera problemsThe rumors are definitely true. Shipments are going to be delayed until after christmas, there is a bigger problem than with just the camera unfortunately. There will be a fresh new lineup of the ipod Made in China crapTop dollar product made in China by dirt-cheap suppliers and...

Tags: Notebooks, iPod touch camera module, camera, camera module, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

UK caves to Hollywood, orders net cut-off for 'hardcore' downloaders

In June, the U.K.'s Digital Britain report rejected the Draconian demands of Hollywood to cut off "hardcore" downloaders from the Internet. Now the British government has changed its tune: Stephen Timms, the minister for Digital Britain, said that proposals previously considered by the Government to...

Tags: Watson Co., Mandelson, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-25

UK may disconnect suspected file sharers

Upon suspicion?Or upon determination of guilt in a court of law??? What has happened to the Magna Carta, and the right to trial before assumption of guilt?Mr MandelsonHas friends in the big media companies. He went to a meeting with them one morning with them and then disclosed...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, guilt, Magna Carta

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

Abacre Retail Point of Sale 3.1 (Windows)

A complete retail management system that encompasses all aspects of the retail: taking orders, billing, purchasing, inventory, and labour management. Reports show a complete picture of retail operations: sales by given period, hours of high load, Z-Out, on hand inventory, the most active employees, payment methods, and automatic tax calculations....

Tags: Point-of-sale, Payment, Inventory, Microsoft Windows, Abacre, Taxes, Free Trade, Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance

Software downloads 2009-08-22

Use H-1B or L-1 workers? Prepare for a Federal audit!

About timeThere are employers who have > 50% of their workforce as foreign workers. I can't imagine all of them are doing things according to the letter of the law.RE: Use H-1B or L-1 workers? Prepare for a Federal audit!this is probably the only good thing to come...

Tags: Financial accounting, H1B, audit, Use H-1B, L-1 worker, Federal audit, L-1, H-1B

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Abacre Retail Point of Sale 3.0 (Windows)

A complete retail management system that encompasses all aspects of the retail: taking orders, billing, purchasing, inventory, and labour management. Reports show a complete picture of retail operations: sales by given period, hours of high load, Z-Out, on hand inventory, the most active employees, payment methods, and automatic tax calculations....

Tags: Point-of-sale, Microsoft Windows, Abacre, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance

Software downloads 2009-07-25

Who is attacking Solid Oak, whose code was stolen for Green Dam?

Who is attacking Solid Oak, whose code was stolen for Green Dam?Typical China moveC'mon, who is honestly surprised by any of this?And Americans still want to be "friends" with China.Will they never learn, China cannot be trusted in any way.If it enters their borders, it's theirsThat's been their motto since...

Tags: Solid Oak, Green Dam

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

Microsoft, Mississippi settle over software pricing

Microsoft, Mississippi settle over software pricingWhat a huge waste of moneyI cannot believe that the state of Mississippi spent the $ necessary to get some of it's residents a few dollars refund. We'll never know but I bet after factoring in the cost per taxpayer for the lawyers fees...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Investment, Personal finance, Microsoft Corp., software pricing, software, pricing strategy

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

IBM expects Linux to make money

IBM expects Linux to make moneyFuture is Linux devices, appliances & distro'sLinux is modular and it is the future platform it already powers the Internet, the future will be smart appliances not huge monolithic closed source dinosaur operating systems such as 'Windows'...;) A smartphone-like app storeDesktop Linux REALLY needs a...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Canonical/Ubuntu, Linux, IBM Corp., OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-11

University Programme Gives Graduates Competitive Advantage in the Labour Market

University of Maribor, School of Economics and Business has around 2,000 full-time students. Founded in 1959, the School of Business and Commerce was the first faculty at the university. School needed to integrate business information systems into its curriculum. The school developed an e-business programme to put enterprise solutions into...

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Competitive Advantage, University Corp., Microsoft Corp., Strategy, Web Technology, Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

SAPPHIRE and The Story of Stuff

SAPPHIRE and The Story of StuffExcellentIt's hard to fight the obsolete items, but when someone criticizes you on the Perceived Obsolescence it makes you feel less of a person. I think women have it worse in this cases so they can stay high in their social groups.For me on...

Tags: Gender and diversity, birth credit, SAPPHIRE

Discussion threads 2009-05-19

Bill Hill, eBook champion, leaves Microsoft

Bill Hill, eBook champion, leaves MicrosoftHis blog entry implies he wasn't laid offFrom everything I've read, the people who are in this most recent set of layoffs just found out about it this week. However Bill's blog entry states: "For some time, I have been preparing for leaving Microsoft...

Tags: E-books, e-book, Microsoft Corp., layoff

Discussion threads 2009-05-07

ComSuper Turns to SAS for Quality-Assured Business Intelligence

ComSuper, in Australia's capital city of Canberra, is responsible for administering a number of superannuation schemes for public service employees and Australian Defence Force personnel. The challenge was that generation of information through process was labour intensive and often dependent on the availability of specific subject matter expertise. This situation...

Tags: SAS Institute, ComSuper

Case studies 2009-05-01