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Open source migration must be evolutionary

Open source migration must be evolutionaryI agreeThe risk and effort involved in a all-in one migration is very high. Open source works great with proprietary software so there is no reason to migrate the server-side all at once. The desktop is a little harder to do.James DixonThis is why FOSS...

Tags: Web browsers, Desktops, open source, migration, Open Source Migration, Microsoft Corp., desktop

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

Open source migration must be evolutionary

The failure of Vienna, Austria's open source migration program teaches a powerful lesson to enterprises of all sorts. (Jon Voight played Milo Minderbinder in the film version of Catch-22.) Open source migration should not be a religion. It needs to be a practical step, actually a series...

Tags: Migration, Open Source Migration, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-06

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Can open source software stop IT failure?

I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...

Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Windows 7's latest fan: Linus Torvalds

This is great news! This picture is proof positive that Linus T. is ditching linux because it was so bloated and scarey that he is converting to Microsoft Windows 7. If the leader of linux is doing it then we can say it won't be long before the rest...

Tags: Operating systems, Happy Days, Linus Torvalds, Linus, Microsoft Windows 7, Linux, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

News to know: HP; AT&T; Malware; Twitter; RIM

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. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Hordes of owners complain of problems with HP Elite Pavilion PCs using Core i7 Ed Bott: Apple...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Co., Twitter Inc., AT&T Corp., Malware, Apple Inc., Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-28

iODBC Driver Manager, Administrator, SDK 03.52.0709.0909 [3.52.7] (Mac)

iODBC stands for Independent Open Database Connectivity. Commonly considered to be specific to Linux or UNIX platforms, iODBC is a truly platform-independent Open Source implementation of ODBC. The iODBC effort is managed via the iODBC project, http://www.iodbc.org, which is maintained and supported by Openlink Software. iODBC and ODBC are...

Tags: ODBC, Apple Macintosh, Administrator, SDK, OpenLink Software Inc., iODBC, iODBC Effort, Apple Mac OS, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-09-17

Oracle tries to stop Sun's bleeding: Is it too late?

bring it IBM....Sun Admin here!I just love Sun and Oracle!!!RE: Oracle tries to stop Sun's bleeding: Is it too late?Too late. Sun has been sinking for years, the migration started around 2005/6, unit numbers are down, and WAY down if you take the x86 products out of the mix. ...

Tags: Processors, Sun Microsystems Inc., Digital Equipment Corp., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

News to know: Gmail outage; VMWorld; Skype; Browsers; Steve Jobs; Google Wave

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. Andrew Nusca: Partly cloudy: Google's Gmail goes down; outage chronicled on Twitter Christopher Dawson: Oh sure...4 days in...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Sony Corp., Google Inc., Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Outage, Sam Diaz, E-mail Providers, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Internet, Software

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Signs show Linux moving into the driver's seat

Just Works!Yes, it is a very good situation to have Linux moving "into the driver's seat".I install my preferred distros on my boxes, notebooks and netbooks and everything just works.Very nice indeed.Unfortunate Driver ModelUntil Linux re-architects the driver model to detach most of them from the kernel, there will be...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, binary driver

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

Geek Sheet: Virtualizing Free Linux Distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2

cool.......:)ntAnd why Jason would anyone in their right mind want to do this?ntFor the same reasons...You'd do it in VMWare. The difference is that this solution is free. You want live migration or anything else VMWare does you'll have to pay for it. Hyper-V is an excellent hypervisor.Would you run...

Tags: Virtualization, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Server, Xen, hypervisor, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Linux, open source, Microsoft Windows Server 2008

Discussion threads 2009-08-09

TechRepublic's CIO Jury: Split on deploying Windows 7

IT departments have largely ignored Windows Vista and stuck with Windows XP as the corporate standard. However, Windows 7 has received a warmer response from IT professionals than Vista did, and TechRepublic’s CIO Jury is split down the middle on whether to deploy Windows 7. On July...

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., CIO, Information Technology, Director Of Information Technology, Jury, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Managing IT in desperate times

Managing IT in desperate timesSome good ideasBut your treatise on the economy is not. I have read much on the US economy, and the "experts" seem to agree that there is a danger of DEflation - as all those newly printed dollars tend not to circulate - banks don't lend...

Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Free trade, information technology, Murph, problem-I

Discussion threads 2009-07-18

RIM: Is the BlackBerry OS the weak link?

RIM: Is the BlackBerry OS the weak link?Not dire yet, just mild concern.I would like many get an iPhone if I didn't have to get AT&T to do it and could get one without spending so much $$. But I like my Blackberry, I'm posting with it now. I just...

Tags: Handhelds, Operating systems, Smart phones, RIM BlackBerry, Research In Motion Ltd., operating system, BlackBerry OS, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

IBM expects Linux to make money

IBM expects Linux to make moneyFuture is Linux devices, appliances & distro'sLinux is modular and it is the future platform it already powers the Internet, the future will be smart appliances not huge monolithic closed source dinosaur operating systems such as 'Windows'...;) A smartphone-like app storeDesktop Linux REALLY needs a...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Canonical/Ubuntu, Linux, IBM Corp., OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-11

News to know: Palm Pre weekend; iPhone Monday; Bing; DTV conversion; Twitter accounts

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: Palm Pre weekend: Sprint could steal Palm's moment Matthew Miller: Initial Pre thoughts and answers...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Palm Inc., Microsoft Corp., Digital Television, Twitter, Sam Diaz, E-mail, TVs, H-1B, Embedded Linux, Cloud Computing, Tv & Home Theater, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Operating Systems, Software, Linux

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Cutting software maintenance costs 101

Cutting software maintenance costs 101agreedI am no fan of vendors charging clients for unused products. Many clients of mine have taken this for granted, although they certainly haven't like it. Good suggestions, Larry.Drop your maintenance after 1 yearIt makes no sense to have a 18% maintenance contract on an MRP...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Groupware, E-Room, open source, software maintenance, Microsoft SharePoint, software

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

Open source enterprise software shakeout

Open source enterprise software shakeoutNo shake out hereI see FOSS doing very well while M$ is 'shaking' thousands of jobs every quarter.The FOSS strategy is working!I didn't blog it because...I couldn't. I have too much skin in that game. But if you check Twitter, you'll see that I...

Tags: FOSS strategy, open source project, open source, commercial open source company, Open source enterprise software shakeout, enterprise software shakeout, Sun Microsystems Inc., enterprise software

Discussion threads 2009-05-08

How much does open source cost schools?

How much does open source cost schools?Why don't YOU share with people the challenges you facedwhen moving entirely to Linux? Oh wait, you didn't? Then why are you asking other people to do it?RE: How much does open source cost schools?Just imagine a world where *nix skills where as common...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, open source, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Covetus the Sun installed base

The value of Sun’s Solaris installed base proved its worth once again this week as Oracle found it too tempting to pass up and pulled the trigger trumping IBM. A large percent of Oracle’s most profitable customers run their Oracle wares on Solaris and for them to fall further into...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Virtualization, UNIX, Operating Systems, Utility Computing, Servers, Storage, Software, Hardware, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-04-20