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- Business family, open source community
- To truly make an open source project a community project, a business has to completely let go of it, and recognize that it may go in unexpected directions, directions which don't embrace the business' vision, which may in fact run counter to it. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
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- Not tolerating the intolerant
- My thoughts"Most reject volunteerism in search of making money, satisfying career ambitions, relaxing or spending time with friends and family."Some volunteerism is fine, and I'm glad to help out when I can - but I don't think it can or should sustain an economy or nation. And yes, I think...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Net Neutrality: Hit satire coming to a theatre near you
- The world is a simple place, until someone wants to tell you what to do. The realization that not everyone believes in common ground that surrounds each of us seems to be a new discovery to some. The sanctity of individual requirements is wrapping around our lives with a plethora of effects that...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- The democratization of IT
- Get your head out of your paradigm"democratization of IT"... are you serious? Look at any complex multipolar situation in the world and you'll see that when there are diverging forces, democracy is a liability.Iraq... competing religious factions turned the idea of democracy into a joke.The Palestinian territories... Democracy resulted in...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search)
- What's Microsoft's next billion-dollar business? (Hint: it's not search)Typo"Business Productivity Online Services, Windows Azure, desktop virtualization, storage Data Protection Manager and identity ser[b]v[/b]ices."Me: I would really work much harder on mobileI think Microsoft is doing the right thing in the Enterprise space. I even think it is a...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
- Andreessen: Facebook could do $1 billion in revenue if it wanted to
- Andreessen: Facebook could do $1 billion in revenue if it wanted toNot buying itThis is the same guy who helped SCO craft their legal strategy against IBM and Linux. Netscape and the SCO litigation. Not exactly a record of accomplishment I'd get behind. But he could help...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-06
- My Bing experiment: Can it be the default search engine?
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that it's easy to switch search engines so the company really has no power that should upset regulators. Microsoft has introduced Bing, a search engine that has been well received and could take market share. Where does the truth lie? Somewhere...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Pirate Bay judge is member of Copyright Association
- Pirate Bay judge is member of Copyright Associationthat judge is a joke redo the whole processWith some one impartial and honest.This whole thing is farce is should be seen as is ...... there no legal ground when you judge is before its start already sold to one...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-23
- What
- WhatExplaining IT behavior, what we're missingJust a guess but I think it has a lot to do with what you've talked about earlier, the social dimension to all of this. I would add that there's a cultural factor.Having been a part of the Windows world where I occasionally visit, I...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-27
- Strategic Agility Planning for Banks
- Today, the banking industry needs greater agility to address challenges such as vulnerability to economic cycle vagaries, transient customer loyalties, increasing regulatory pressures, and heightened expectations from other stakeholders. Another agility driver is a need to harness new opportunities such as Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), and new product segments. To...
- White papers 2009-01-15
- Eliminate the FCC?
- Eliminate the FCC?Way of the world.As is well known, a government agency which regulates an industry becomes an advocate for that industry. And scientists have no fewer interests and opinions to advance than other people.You wrote:That's the problem. Any government institution can be corrupted, any set of safeguards overrun...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-24
- Words of Doom: "We have new software"
- You'd think buying a snow blower in snow country would be easy: but between the problem posed by an unwillingness to buy Chinese, a distrust of companies buying brand names to exploit customer loyalties, and the ultimate words of doom - a supplier who says he can't do or tell...
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Hyper-V: The no-brainer virtualization stack for Windows
- Last Thursday, Microsoft released the final version of Hyper-V, the much anticipated built-in hypervisor for Windows Server 2008. Back in February, we had a look at a late beta release, and we were quite impressed with the performance of the system and how easy it was to manage virtual machines....
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- A visit to the Microsoft Newseum
- A visit to the Microsoft NewseumI AgreeWe all remember the Mac story!MS is all about packaging and marketing.Come on Paul...Microsoft has completely changed the landscape of IT FOREVER. I am in a constant upgrade cycle here. I have MCSEs and MCSDs working 365 days a year on upgrades. Our CFO...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- Brief: 5
- This is the fourth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT Proposals Section 2.2.1 "Mergers and acquisitions" You usually have no real choices...
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Why+Microhoo%3A+To+stop+the+Google+machine
- Why+Microhoo%3A+To+stop+the+Google+machineYang will NOT want to work under MS. He WILL take the money and run thoughas Google is eating their lunch, and MS has billions to throw at anything and everything. Time to exit the stage with a suitcase full of cash. My bet is that Yang ends up at...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- To form an us
- As regular readers know one of the big problems I see IT management facing every single day is the inability to identify and correct the misinformation senior executives pick up from the media and then unconsciously rely on to override our carefully researched and thought through recommendations. ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Fat and happy (Facebook's Ad system: Give Coca-Cola a hug)
- Fat and happy (Facebook's Ad system: Give Coca-Cola a hug)Have a look at Coca Cola's profile page...Folk are already posting messages on the wall saying how they prefer Pepsi .... its going to be interseting to see how they deal with that... are they going to edit / remove the...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- Why a gPhone (Google Phone) is a lovely... no, an awful.. no, a lovely idea
- At last count, "consumers" was the No. 1 answer to Dana Blankenhorn's survey question asking who a Google Phone gPhone will help the most. Some are speculating that the gPhone will get announced along with some other news that Google is releasing on November 5. I...
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- DHS accused of collecting union data on travellers
- DHS accused of collecting union data on travellersDamn Lies!Best proof I've seen that DHS Sec. Michael Chertoff is lying. I know the U.S. Government is abysmally slow at destroying ANY data that it collects. And it gets replicated in so many places that stamping it out is harder...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-15
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