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- Open Source Initiative Board takes shape
- Open Source Initiative Board takes shapeOSI President - Are you kidding me!Kim Polese for OSI board president, please! First, this is not a reflection on Kim but on the author of this article. Kim, to my knowledge, has no open source experienceJava is not open source and whose primary qualification...
- Tags: open source, Open Source Initiative board, Open Source Initiative
- Discussion threads 2005-04-02
- Open Source Initiative Board takes shape
- Danese Cooper, the open source diva who recently left Sun to join Intel, and who is also an officer at the Open Source Initiative, is spreading the word that the OSI has announced a new board. According to her new blog she had an old one, joining her and acting president...
- Tags: Kim Polese, open source, OSI
- Blog posts 2005-04-01
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- News to know: VMware; IE 8; Google; 3D Web
- 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. Sam Diaz: Facebook responds to redesign concerns; Changes are coming Mary Jo Foley: VMware picks up yet another former...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3D, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., VMware Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Twitter, Smart Phones, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Open Source, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Part Tree, er...Three
- To Recap We're heading into the homestretch. Which is why the Giants need to beat the Panthers....last night. Oh, snap. This isn't my NFL blog. I don't have one. This is the final episode in that hilarious sitcom, Greenberg's Fools Gold. For those of you who missed the previous...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, CRM, Greenberg, Connectbeam Management, Zuora, LucidEra, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-22
- CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped
- Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Google Chrome: Steal this browser
- Google Chrome: Steal this browserMemory Usage not commendableFirefox 3 uses lesser memory than Google Chrome. The base browser itself uses about 75MB and with 5 tabs opened, the total memory usage is around 200MB. Firefox with the same number of tabs is less than 100MB. Makes me wonder how efficient...
- Tags: Web browsers, Google Chrome, Web browser, Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- News to know: Google Chrome; CAPTCHA breaking; StatusHQ
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Google to launch browser to target IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is Google Chrome an IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari killer? Ryan Naraine: Google Chrome, the security...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., Web Browser, Web Browsers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Linux, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- Will Bill Gates' departure usher in open source friendly era at Microsoft?
- Will Microsoft become more open to open source with the departure of Bill Gates? It’s a tough call. Observers from both the open and closed source worlds say the exit of Microsoft’s longtime leader won’t usher in a GPL era at the company but it will likely...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Adobe opens up Flash, but leaves out Google and Apple
- In a well timed move today Adobe announced the Open Screen Project and lifted restrictions on the use of Flash related specifications. The initiative is supported by several industry leaders including ARM, Intel, LG, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, and Verizon. Notably absent from the list...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, Apple Inc., Flash, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Does open source need a Micro-cop?
- There they go again. Microsoft is playing good cop, bad cop, offering "to promote greater interoperability, opportunity and choice" on the one hand, dismissing efforts to build real standards on the other. Specifically, it provided documentation allowing developers to link with its MS-XAML, an...
- Tags: Risk, Microsoft Corp., Choice, Steve Jackson, Games, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Open Source, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Bruce is back, does OSI still want him?
- Open Source Initiative co-founder Bruce Perens wants back on the board. Perens, who quit OSI in 1999 to concentrate on free software, has launched a petition drive to win his way back in. Perens says vendors are over-represented on the board, which is headed...
- Tags: OSI, Bruce Perens, Bruce, Michael Tiemann, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Ubuntu Mobile: who cares? Sorry, mostly coders and open source reality distortionists for now
- Ubuntu Mobile: who cares? Sorry, mostly coders and open source reality distortionists for nowIronicIronic that ubuntu is "going mobile" yet they can't seem to make some basic changes to their install-screens to allow for a better installation experience of their desktop OS on devices with less than 800 x 600...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Mobile, mobile, open source reality, coder, Skype Technologies S.A., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Evaluating large IT project proposals
- Evaluating large IT project proposalsExcellent catalog of failuresBut if we assume that any large IT Project Proposal is going to be a failure, why not just reject it without evaluation?What does a proposal for a successful project look like?RE: Evaluating large IT project proposalsPaul, I wonder if there are any...
- Tags: Linux, Word processors, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Office, INCLUDING Microsoft, large IT project proposal, IT Project Proposal, European anti-Americanism, Evaluating, Corel WordPerfect, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-02-22
- Mozilla's T-Bird 3 to get calendar, search, UI, config, add-on improvements in late 2008-early 2009
- The newly minted Mozilla e-mail subsidiary has moved out of stealth mode and is targeting the release of the next generation of Thunderbird for late 2008. The open source Thunderbird 3, now under development, will feature integrated calendaring, better search, easier configuration, significant user interface improvements...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Mozilla Thunderbird, Plan, Mozilla Corp., E-mail Clients, E-mail, Software, Online Communications, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- JBoss sets goal: Capture 50 percent of enterprise middleware workloads by 2015
- Red Hat has big plans for JBoss. With its “Enterprise Acceleration†initiative, the company hopes to gain 50 percent of enterprise middleware workloads by 2015. Red Hat points to rising adoption of open source solutions, support from system integrators and a customer, the Swedish Police Board,...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., JBoss, Middleware, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Google outlines the Open Handset Alliance; Will it succeed?
- Google rolled out its mobile plans Monday in a group it calls the Open Handset Alliance, an effort that encompasses the search giant's Android software and a bevy of partners. Andy Rubin, director of mobile platforms at Google, wrote in a post. Despite all of the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Alliance, Eric Schmidt, Phone, Mobile, Open Source, Goal, Social Media, Handset, Android, Gphone, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Halloween XII: What's really behind those Microsoft licenses?
- Last night I stayed up late to watch a scary movie called The Grudge. It's a remake of a Japanese film, set in Japan, with English actors including Sarah Michelle Geller. It's not gory but it sure gave me the creeps. Tonight after all the trick-or-treating is done and the...
- Tags: License, Microsoft Corp., Ms-RL, Nelson, Corporate Governance, Open Source, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Microsoft gets the open-source licensing nod from the OSI
- Microsoft was awarded an official Open Source Initiative OSI approval for the two Shared Source licenses it submitted for consideration in August -- but not without agreeing to some OSI-requested changes first. On October 16, Microsoft officials announced that the Microsoft Permissive License (MS-PL) -- which is...
- Tags: OSI, Open Source Initiative, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Intel aims to speed Linux gadget development
- Intel aims to speed Linux gadget developmentWyse Thin Clients; OLPCIntel has put on the good guy hat recently. Today they distance themselves further from HP and Microsoft. HP is now the largest tech company by revenue and has abandoned the HP way for the wrong ways of identity theft. ...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Loverock, Linux, Intel Corp., Linux gadget development, gadget development, Microsoft Corp., developer
- Discussion threads 2007-07-16
- Hasso Plattner outlines SAP's software vision
- Over 35 years since co-founding SAP, Hasso Plattner has been seeking to transform business software. Speaking at SAP annual Sapphire conference in Atlanta, Plattner gave a seminar on next-generation software, in which he detailed many of the main principles behind the companys next-generation product A1S business suite, without mentioning the...
- Tags: IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
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