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Notebook: IBM's Linux desktop installs; Notes evolution; Data center stats

Notebook: IBM's Linux desktop installs; Notes evolution; Data center statsWell Done Larry!ntRE: Notebook: IBM's Linux desktop installs; Notes evolution; Data center stThe question - Whats the holdup. And then in the answer, a mention of RedHat desktop. I dare say many people in Europe who are used to SuSE would...

Tags: Data centers, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, E-mail servers, Utility computing, Notes evolution, IBM Linux, IBM Lotus Notes, Linux, IBM Corp., desktop, data center, notebook

Discussion threads 2007-12-18

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A Forrester interview with Steve Ballmer about the SharePoint Business

I had the pleasure to sit down with Steve Ballmer for an interview at the Microsoft SharePoint conference in Las Vegas this week. My research team at Forrester spends a lot of time thinking, researching, and writing about the future of information work. So getting Steve’s view on SharePoint’s decade-long...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Steve Ballmer, Forrester Research Inc., Steve, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Matthew Brown

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Is the IBM Client for Smart Work an alternative to 7 for schools?

Thoughts"IBM and Canonical, though, are asking if that upgrade path really needs to involve Windows at all."Umm - dare I ask why large industries are allowed to influence education?"Why migrate to Windows, though, when your client machines can run Ubuntu "Because I don't need to deal with any migration headaches...

Tags: Operating systems, operating system, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Google Wave: The Microsoft Bob of the New Millennium

Google Wave uber-whelms meHi Jason,I agree that the beauty (one, at any rate) of gmail is its simplicity, but that aside, I think you're giving Wave short shrift. It's not so much an application as a platform for other apps and ultimately a way to drown Microsoft Bob, as well...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., e-mail, convo, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Works of John Galsworthy. FREE Author's biography & play in the trial 11.1 (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any poem from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights Searchable and interlinked. Access the e-book anytime, anywhere...

Tags: Mobile, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2009-09-14

2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart

In our opinion, the most fun you can have in a car is driving a twisty mountain road, negotiating hairpin turns as fast as possible without overshooting and taking a tumble down a 100 foot cliff. Big dogs like the Cadillac CTS-V and the Audi S8 are no good for...

Tags: Notebooks, Handhelds, Lancer Ralliart, Mitsubishi Lancer, Compaq Evo, Mitsubishi Corp., Sport Shift Transmission

Product reviews 2009-08-20

iTunes Store to offer booklets, liner notes

iTunes Store to offer booklets, liner notesDepends if you need itDepends if you buy music for the music, or to get mixed up in the artists' heads. Much like if you buy the deluxe editions of DVDs for all the special features or the basic to just get the movie.I...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, liner note, music, iTunes Store, Apple iTunes, Online Site

Discussion threads 2009-07-26

Slash Storage Costs, Archive to the Cloud

Cloud storage, the next step in the data archiving evolution, offers highly scalable storage for inactive yet indispensable information. As Storage Switzerland notes, experience matters when choosing a provider: Companies with a proven record in data protection, such as Iron Mountain, creator of the Virtual File Store, have an undisputed...

Tags: Iron Mountain Inc., Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-07-10

'EvoGrid' to model life's origins, and maybe answer the big questions

EvoGrid is a grid-computing concept that'll attempt to digitally simulate the primordial soup from which life arose and it may shed light on the origins of life on Earth and in the universe. It may also provide new tools for evolutionary biology, biochemistry, and complexity studies. Studying...

Tags: Earth, Soup, Computer, EvoGrid, Life Form, Productivity, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-07-04

Red Hat's Fedora 11 to offer interop with Microsoft Exchange

Red Hat is not going to let the Microsoft-Novell partnership dim its own prospects for interoperability. That seems to be the case with the Red Hat-sponsored open source Fedora project, which plans to release on June 9 a major upgrade of its free Linux that offers robust...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Exchange Server, Fedora Project, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Instant Messaging, Groupware, Open Source, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-06-02

E-reader devices: The fun is just starting

E-reader devices: The fun is just startingKindle 3.0 and BeyondGood post, Larry.I agree that we're closer to the beginning of Kindle than the end. I finally looked at one recently and was amazed at how easy it was to navigate. Features such as the dictionary were really intuitive. Still, I...

Tags: E-books, PDF Support, e-Reader, E-reader device, e-book, iRex

Discussion threads 2009-06-02

Is there an open source alternative to Microsoft Outlook?

Is there an open source alternative to Microsoft Outlook?Do you mean in Windows?Because in KDE you have Kontact, and in Gnome you have Evolution. You could try googling to see if either of those have decent Windows ports. You'd probably have better luck finding one for Evolution.RE: Is there an...

Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Kontact, open source alternative, Mozilla Thunderbird, open source, GNOME, KDE, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

News to know: AOL's new CEO; Windows 7; Cloud computing

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Is Windows 7 reliable enough to release now? Brian Sommer: A U.S. Version of the Satyam Scandal? Washington D.C. IT Fraud? ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, America Online Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Operational Planning, Social Networking, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Business Operations, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet

Blog posts 2009-03-13

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

This is the 41st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (2) In its present form this commitment to publication and peer review, originally derived from the core academic and scientific approach giving rise to the science...

Tags: Noorda, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Sprint: Hedging Wimax--or Clearwire--bet?

Sprint is reportedly testing Long Term Evolution equipment in what may be a hedge in case Wimax doesn't quite work out.  GigaOm's Stacey Higginbotham reports that Sprint is testing LTE gear even though it has a big stake in Clearwire. The official Sprint response was that the...

Tags: Clearwire Corp., Sprint Communications, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-10

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

This is the 40th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (1) Almost everything you really need to know about Unix or Unics as it was first known and the open source movement can be gleaned from...

Tags: Open Source, Multics, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-06

HP TouchSmart tx2z Tablet PC - 2.4 GHz, 400GB HD, 4GB RAM

The HP TouchSmart tx2z stands alone as a rare example of a consumer-focused convertible tablet PC. We're not sure if this is because non-business-related laptop users don't see the value of a touch-screen tablet, but hopefully they'll catch on soon. The tx2z is an evolution of HP's previous tx1000...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Keyboards, Monitors & displays, PC, HP TouchSmart, tx2z, tablet, Hewlett-Packard Co., tablet PC

Product reviews 2009-03-05

Cisco's jump into servers: It's just business

When times get tough, the companies that weather the storm the best are those who 1) have a treasure chest of cash on-hand and 2) are smart enough to invest in technologies that will leave them well-positioned for the recovery. Sometimes, it means rocking the boat and recognizing that there...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Server, Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-21

Migrating to Amazon Web Services: The blueprint

Migrating to Amazon Web Services: The blueprintNow this is where it makes sense.In this sense the so called "cloud" is just an evolution of the common hosting scenarios. But its the only "cloud" scenario that makes sense to me.Good article. I'm planning on looking at EC2 for a couple of...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, cloud computing, Web services, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Web Services, Web service, software

Discussion threads 2008-12-18

Clearwire, WiMax face uphill battle vs. tight credit

Looks like 3G is going to be around for awhile. Today's Wall Street Journal notes that Clearwire's plans to rollout its Clear WiMAX network faces hurdles thanks to the still-tight credit markets. Though Clearwire Corp.'s recent merger with Sprint Nextel's wireless broadband unit put the company on...

Tags: Clearwire Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-17