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- Misys walks the open source walk
- Misys walks the open source walkMaybe you should have posted this one to the other blogThis does seem to be more of an open source story than a medical tech story. It's both, of course, but the emphasis appears to be on the former.RE: Misys walks the open source...
- Tags: Open Source Development, open source, Misys, middleware, Apache Software Foundation, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-02-08
- open source development is parallel processing in action
- Open source development is parallel processing in actionYou should investigate git and what role it will play in large"massively parallel" open source projects like the Linux kernel.Have you seen the video of Linus at Google talking about git?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8Standard issue for open source commiters: svn, git, cvsntNo I hadn't. ThanksI thought...
- Tags: open source, git, Open Source Development, parallel processing, Git
- Discussion threads 2007-10-24
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- News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Introduction to BIT
- This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...
- Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature
- There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...
- Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Sugar-free Windows, as predicted
- As Ivan Krstić predicted in his May 13th blog post (see "Intense and really thoughtful ranting from the OLPC front"), the OLPC XO will start shipping with Windows XP, minus the Sugar interface and open source tools that allow full implementation of the XO hardware (e.g., mesh networking). ...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?
- Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Verdiem spruces up its Survey PC power management software
- Verdiem, one of the better known developers of power management software that counts Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft among its close partners, has delivered an impressive upgrade to its Surveyor technology. According to the Seattle-based company, the focus was on providing IT managers with even more configuration flexibility than previously available....
- Tags: Software, Power Management, PC, Power Consumption, Survey, Verdiem, Desktops, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand
- Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...
- Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...
- Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Facebook: Google Friend Connect violates our privacy standards
- The social networking ground war is well underway. Facebook said Thursday that it will block Google's Friend Connect services because it "redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge." Facebook's Charlie Cheever writes regarding Google Friend Connect: We're excited that our industry partners...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Standards, User Information, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Medical companies celebrate death of patent reform
- Medical device makers and drug companies are celebrating the apparent death of the 2008 Patent Reform Act. (For the other side of this debate, visit my open source blog.) Why were AdvaMed, PHRMA, and the rest of the industry so dead-against an end to...
- Tags: Patent, Industry, Patent Approval, Drugs, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Patent reform dead for 2008
- The death of the Patent Reform Act in the Senate spells hard times for open source. That's because one of the act's main aims was to end "forum shopping," the practice of filing lawsuits in, say, the Eastern District of Texas, which never saw a patent plaintiff...
- Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Geekbench: Psystar v. Mac mini (and all three MacBooks)
- Yesterday I posted Xbench benchmarks of the Psystar Open Computer against the latest shipping Mac mini and all three Apple notebook computers and the Open Computer beat the Mac mini 147 to 99. Some suggested Geekbench 2 benchmarks should also be run. If you're not familiar with...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple MacBook, RAM, Notebooks, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Photos: Cracking open the Atari 2600
- Check out the joystick ports, circuitry, and other parts that made the venerable game console tick.The Atari 2600 in all its cracked-open glory. I never owned one of these consoles--I was an Intellivision II man. (George Plimpton convinced me it was better.) Do you still play your Atari 2600?...
- Tags: Joystick, Photograph, Atari Inc., CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-15
- A robotic chef for your kitchen?
- The European Commission has founded a project named 'Co-operative Human Robot Interaction Systems' CHRIS for a cost of €3.65 million. The project, which started in March 2008, will last 4 years. It is based at Bristol Robotics Lab BRL which will work with the University of the West of England...
- Tags: Project, CHRIS, Service Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- What open source teaches publishers
- I have a more in-depth analysis of today's C|Net news on my personal blog. But there are important comments to make about open source and what it implies to publishers. (What does this classic Geico commercial have to do with anything? Patience, grasshopper.) The...
- Tags: C|Net, Profit Statement, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Gallery: Installing a WiFi draft-n card in the Psystar
- As I've mentioned before, one of things that I should have ordered with my Psystar Open Computer was a WiFi card. For the low price of US$399 the Open Computer doesn't come with WiFi and my office is on the other side of the building from my cable modem –...
- Tags: Card, Draft-N, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Gallery: Installing draft-n WiFi in Psystar
- Installing a D-Link DWA-556 802.11n WiFi card in a Psystar Open Computer and turning on Airport in the Leopard Network System Preference. by Jason O'Grady
- Tags: Draft-N, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Home Networking, Wireless, Networking, Personal Technology, Jason O\'Grady, Psystar, Open, Computer, Clone, WiFi, D-Link, DWA-566, Install
- Image galleries 2008-05-15
- Yahoo! frees the Monkey, and announces prizes for a Developer Challenge
- In conversation with Yahoo! Research's Peter Mika last week, I jokingly suggested that Yahoo! Search's open developer platform, SearchMonkey, might open its doors to developers this week. Well, they just did, and went a step further by announcing a month-long Developer Challenge and prizes of up to $10,000 for innovative...
- Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., Infobars, Search, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
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