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Microsoft readies its Web platform 2.0

Microsoft readies its Web platform 2.0Greatness!I downloaded and installed Wordpress on my machine using the Web Platform Installer last week and it went out, got WordPress and PHP and installed them both on my machine in minutes! It would have taken me an hour to get it all set up....

Tags: Channel management, OPEN SOURCE, Databases, post title, Web platform 2.0, Microsoft Ready, Web, Microsoft Corp., MySQL, LAMP Stack

Discussion threads 2009-03-23

Bringing those dollars home

Bringing those dollars homeOff-shoring antique COBOL programs...... doesn't work because the programs tend to be idiosyncratic in many ways. Just explaining the accumulated oddities constitutes on-the-job traing. Particularly with the further oddities of the way systems connect.An anecdote: a programmer named internal variables after his favorite high...

Tags: Programming languages, Scripting languages, Development tools, Databases, LAMP Stack, Paul, dollars home, Python, Perl, PHP

Discussion threads 2007-02-15

MyStack is the competitive way to play open source

With so many different Linux operating systems, middleware options, and database options out there, the new frame for competition is the "stack," in which support is offered for a collection of software platforms that can create a functioning enterprise system.The best known is the LAMP stack -- Linux, Apache, MySQL,...

Tags: PostgreSQL, MySQL

Blog posts 2006-07-07

Microsoft to shake up Windows leadership

Microsoft to shake up Windows leadershipto little to late!It's not going to save the sinking ship.Only if M$ would GPL windoze it will make a good product, that can ship during our lifetime.trusted lieutenant for JihadMicrosoft's PR firm has carried this holly war business way to far. Few now remember...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sinofsky, Microsoft Windows, LAMP Stack, Microsoft Office 2007, leadership, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, MSFT

Discussion threads 2006-03-22

If it's 'live' it's on Linux

If it's 'live' it's on LinuxMarketing GlitzMS is staging another marketing ploy for non-existent software/services and is trying to quietly repackage MSN into Live.The best they can hope for is that SOA On Demand decision makers won't move to the LAMP stack 'en-masse' by virtue of it's pure scalability and...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Linux, Microsoft Corp., LAMP Stack

Discussion threads 2005-11-04

Feature heap won't undo LAMP's toll on Microsoft

Feature heap won't undo LAMP's toll on MicrosoftLAMP is nothing newI must admit I get confused with writers shouting about this *new* LAMP setup. Just because you are making an acronym out technology that has around for many years, does not make it new. Why would Microsoft suddently feel threatened...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Scripting languages, Channel management, OPEN SOURCE, Databases, PHP Developer, Microsoft Corp., LAMP Stack, PHP, web app, database, Web

Discussion threads 2005-06-16

Feature heap won't undo LAMP's toll on Microsoft

You've heard of feature creep? The phenomenon that occurs, usually during the specification phase, when extraneous features somehow work their way into software in such a way that can make the resulting product either too complex or worse, impossible to use? Well, now comes feature heap. This, according to...

Tags: LAMP Stack

Blog posts 2005-06-15

BEA's Aqualogic move. Bold enough? Or is there more?

Almost one week has passed since BEA revealed its intentions to become the Switzerland of Services Oriented Architectures SOAs. And, as with the Apple/Intel announcement, it usually takes about that long for news to sink in and for the dots between several takes on such deals to be connected....

Tags: BEA Systems Inc.

Blog posts 2005-06-14

Additional Resources

JumpBox for LAMP Deployment 1.1.13 (Mac)

The JumpBox for LAMP Deployment is a great utility system that allows you to easily deploy applications where a tailored JumpBox may not exist. It contains MySQL plus PHP, Perl, Ruby and Python along with PHPMyAdmin to help you manage the database. Using the JumpBox for LAMP Deployment you can...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Ruby, JumpBox, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Benefits, Servers, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Management, Human Resources, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-02

Event Management Services Firm Chooses SQL Server Over Linux/MySQL for Lower TCO

Panamedia Group created a better way for organizations to manage conferences and conventions with its BusyEvent solution. Before creating BusyEvent, the company needed to determine the best technology stack to build on. After considering use of Linux, Apache, and MySQL sometimes referred to as the LAMP stack, it chose the...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Server, TCO, Microsoft Corp., Databases, Microsoft Visual Studio, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-08-14

Google ChromeOS: Have people taken leave of their senses?

Reading the commentary from the likes of TechCrunch, Mashable, The Guardian and even our own esteemed Sam Diaz on the pre-launch (you've got another YEAR to wait) you'd think the Google ChromeOS was the closest thing to the second coming of Jesus Christ. Get a grip people. First up MG...

Tags: Google Inc., Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Register, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-08

The Oracle open source credibility gap

The Oracle open source credibility gapIf I was in Larry Ellison's shoes......I'd do the following:1. Spin off MySQL either by selling it to the public, or by setting up a non-profit foundation and transferring all MySQL copyrights and employees to it. Ellison would get to play the good...

Tags: StarOffice, PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, open source, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Studio

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

Oracle-Sun: an enterprise catastrophe

Oracle acquires Sun- that came out of left field. Well not quite. Fellow Irregular Josh Greenbaum talked about Oracle 'completing the picture' with a Sun acquisition back in 2003. Yes - SIX years ago. Putting on my curmudgeon's curmudgeon hat I can't help but think this is...

Tags: Acquisition, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Open Source, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Sun to IBM: We're willing to talk again; Big Blue not interested

Sun to IBM: We're willing to talk again; Big Blue not interestedI hope IBM know what they're doingIf they play chicken with Sun to get a bargain on the yummy pieces, they still risk throwing Java into years of uncertainty and customer defection. And that'll hurt part of IBMs business...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Financial accounting, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, stock

Discussion threads 2009-04-16

GPL's cloudy future

One of the things about getting older is that you learn to ignore things until you have to do something about them. It's a learned efficiency, I suppose, rationing your increasingly precious time out to the unceasing demands upon it. I finally realized I have to do some serious thinking...

Tags: Software, GPL, Cloud Computing, Free Software Foundation, BSD, Free Software, Affero GPL, AGPL, Open Source, Jeremy Allison

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Cubing Timer 1.1 (Mobile)

You can begin to measure wherever you do the tap at. When your finger separates begin to measure, and touch again to stop. You can measure in the stack timer style. A red lamp is displayed in lower right when the tap is done, and it changes into green if...

Tags: Tap, Mobile, Apple iTunes, Xionchannel, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-03-20

Netbooks not up to the task? Baloney!

Netbooks not up to the task? Baloney!Get one and try it.It just amazes me sometimes how people will listen to such claims without trying it for themselves. Maybe a netbook isn't up to the task or maybe it is....try it and find out.I've read a guys blog who claims he...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook

Discussion threads 2009-02-20

Adapt! (or else)

Adapt! or elseHope is on the horizonThe next release of OpenOffice.org adds scripting and enhanced navigation pages switchboards to the database.Entrenched Business ProcessesImplementing Open Office to reduce licensing costs sounds like a great idea. Any suggestions on overcoming these two hurdles:1. Business processes which are deeply entrenched in Microsoft Access...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Branding, business logic

Discussion threads 2009-01-19

JumpBox for the Wordpress Blogging System 1.1.8 (Windows)

Wordpress is the leading Open Source blogging platform that has rocketed to popularity thanks to its open design and powerful feature set. An extremely popular Open Source application, Wordpress is used extensively around the world. As far as Open Source web software goes it's known as being fairly easy to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Wordpress, Blogging, Open Source, Internet

Software downloads 2008-12-31

Dick, Jane, and MySQL: why recessions favor open source

Dick, Jane, and MySQL: why recessions favor open sourceA few questions+ can you give me an accounting open source software that is accepted by accountants that produces year in year out up to dates forms accepted by the fiscal administration ?+ can you give me the name of an...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, recession, MySQL, open source, software

Discussion threads 2008-11-19