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- Open source and innovation as maintenance models
- Following my piece on a proposed model for enterprise applications maintenance, two fresh posts, one from Matt Aslett at 451.com and another from Leigh Cauldwell offer alternative ideas around how the present conundrum might be solved. Matt offers the open source position arguing that: This would appear to be...
- Tags: Innovation, Leigh Cauldwell, Matt, Savio Rodrigues, Open Source, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Frequent open source miles
- Matt Asay's piece on "open source free- riders" got my goat this morning because we're on opposite sides of the market. Matt's a vendor, a high-ranking executive with Alfresco who by his own testimony spends a heavy chunk of his life in hotels and airports. ...
- Tags: Matt, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Will market reject Sun's open source vision?
- Matt asks today whether open source will save Sun Microsystems. Good question. But it depends on what we mean by open source. (Copies of this lovely poster are for sale at eBay.) And what we mean by saving. As I noted here in January,...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Vision, Matt, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- How evil is China?
- Matt Asay has a headline today that's doubtless worth a click -- Microsoft and Novell seek to exonerate Chinese piracy. The news peg is that Microsoft and Novell extended their existing agreement on IP to China. They call it "an incremental investment in their relationship" aimed...
- Tags: China, America, Matt Asay, Matt, Intellectual Property, Piracy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Google Sites is not a Sharepoint anything
- The launch of Google Sites has brought an interesting divergence of opinion to ZDNet. Our Microsoft lady says it's a threat to Sharepoint. Our Google guy says it's not. Our usability guy says it stinks. And the boss says, well, it's really beta-ware. What it is,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft SharePoint, Matt, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Hey, Vonage, what part of "it's over between us" don't you understand?
- Or, to put it another way, this is a story about how Comcast and Vonage have given a fellow named Asay a pain. Sorry but just couldn't resist the groaner play on a rather impolitic vernacular. Actually, we are talking...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Matt, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Office and Vista: Can't we give Microsoft some props?
- Microsoft posts its best fiscal first quarter in years and Wall Street cheers. But the angst goes on. Derrick Shields at SeekingAlpha asks how can Microsoft stay competitive. The common refrain: The days of Office and Vista are numbered. We've heard this before--repeatedly for a decade. Wake...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Matt, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Office Suites, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Sun's startup program has a false start
- I went to a press event this week where Sun executives talked about making a frontal assault on Red Hats with Solaris 10. Sun is spinning up new services for life cycle management for its operating system in the Web tier, as well as OS migration programs and new...
- Tags: General, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Sun, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- Efonica's CEO tells me: IM in 60 days, inbound in 90
- Late last week I had a most interesting conversation with Matt Rosen, CEO of Internet phone company Efonica. Here are some highlights. I asked Matt why there is no IM client in the inaugural Efonica Fusion softphone build shown at the top of this post. While he...
- Tags: Fusion, Matt
- Blog posts 2006-06-25
- Matt's Puzzle (zip)
- Matt's Puzzle is a fantastic free version of the 15-Puzzle that will challenge you for hours. Use pictures or video files to play: open a JPEG picture or AVI video file with Matt's Puzzle and it will be scrambled it up for you to piece back together. Play using Internet...
- Tags: Video, Matt, Puzzle, Corporate Communications, Internet, Marketing
- Software downloads 2006-03-17
- The 14-year old coders are back in business--proof of Internet 2.0
- Yes, it is official, the 14-year old programmers are back, that means concrete proof that we have a new dotcom boom emerging--but this time with an interesting twist.The twist is this: The 14 year olds are not being employed by corporations, as was the case during the dotcom-hungry-for-html-skills mania...
- Tags: domain name, Matt
- Blog posts 2006-02-04
- High School Student Readies for Technical Career
- The Sequoia Information Technology program at Sequoia High School in Redwood City, California, provides students with advanced training and industry- recognized certification in the field of information technology. Matt Rigdon is a 16-year old student at Sequoia, and is enrolled in the Cisco Networking Academy Program offered at this school....
- Tags: Career, Student, Cisco Systems Inc., School Student, Matt
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- 2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With Digging
- The crossover is close. The Internet is poised to overtake the newspaper industry in total size as an advertising medium. And the question is whether it can also overtake it as a news medium. Says here, the year will be 2011. That is likely to be when...
- Tags: Revenue, Advertisement, Internet Advertising, News, Governor, Internet, Operational Accounting, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- The Importance of Dissent
- Word is going around that Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, is parting ways with Sun. Matt Asay blogs about it and says it's a good thing Widenius is taking his dissent on the road: At this point, however, Monty has done the right thing with his dissent. He has...
- Tags: MySQL, Arjen, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash
- On today's web, so many social sites never get off the ground because users don't easily migrate from their online communities. As much as I want MySpace to die, people will still be using it as long as their friends are using it. Yahoo's mashup social network...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Social Networking, Collaboration, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- A peek into Silicon Valley and beyond . . .
- I enjoy being a journalist and reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. Most of my reporting is done the traditional way, with a notepad and pencil. Increasingly journalists have to do more, carry a camera, do podcasts, run video. Software engineers have to...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, Journalist, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Report: Netbook prices falling, falling, falling...
- I must have missed this while I was busy searching for a mouse last week (stay tuned -- an answer coming soon!), but The New York Times Bits blog reports that Netbook prices are headed south for the winter: "Dozens and dozens of...
- Tags: Research Director, Price, Times, Mice, Blogging, Productivity, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Internet, Marketing, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- NYT profiles iFund's Matt Murphy
- The New York Times has posted an interesting profile on Matt Murphy, the venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers that oversees the iFund. Kleiner established the US$100 million iFund to invest in start-ups specializing in iPhone applications. So far this year, Mr. Murphy and...
- Tags: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Monitors & Displays, Venture Capital, Hardware, Components, Finance, Financing Startups, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Unboxing video and shots of the new Palm Treo Pro
- Unboxing video and shots of the new Palm Treo ProScreen resolution and crispness of fontsWith so many VGA devices coming to market, i am more interested to know the how crisp looking the fonts and the screen are. I would like to see some screenshots around this.I have the design...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Cellular phones, Handhelds, new Palm Treo Pro, Unboxing video, Palm Treo Pro, Unboxing, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, video
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- BlackBerry Bold may be joining the iPhone 3G with reception issues
- BlackBerry Bold may be joining the iPhone 3G with reception issuesRE: BlackBerry Bold may be joining the iPhone 3G with reception issuesThe simultaneous voice and data connections are what have me wanting a 3G blackberry. It is unacceptable for me to have calls roll to voicemail because the phone...
- Tags: Cellular phones, BlackBerry Bold, reception issue, 3G, Apple iPhone 3G, RIM BlackBerry, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-08-21
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