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- Open source business model reaching tipping point
- Open source business model reaching tipping pointyeah, but ....Thats all I keep reading about. These tools that add something, and extend Databases, W2 and other likewise services.BUT the real questions is, WHERE ARE the REAL services like Accounting Software (G/L, A/R, A/P, I/V, PO, HR-PR, FA ..etc) that are in...
- Tags: Open Source Product, open source, Open Source Business Model, license fee
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- Open source and political junkies
- Open source and political junkiesAnd thus it will ever beThere is no reason to believe it will ever change substantially. To the vast majority of users, a computer is just a tool. It should be like a hammer or a drill--obvious and intuitive. I don't need to spend hours scouring...
- Tags: Linux, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, open source, Open Source Product, Microsoft Windows, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
- How to kill open source
- How to kill open sourceConspiracy Theory?Are you saying that email/newsgroup spam is a plot by the megacorps to take over the internet?I would say more that it's a flaw in the original design of the networks. I just finished reading The Cuckoo's Egg ( http://tinyurl.com/35bc5o - classic stuff, one...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Tools & Techniques, Open Source Product, network security, software, digital-rights management, open source, Killing Copywrite, FLOSS, F/OSS
- Discussion threads 2007-05-07
- What is your open source business model?
- What is your open source business model?Great topicI think this is a great topic for discussion. Personally, I have seen business models in the oss world consist of selling documentation, asking for donations and selling cd-based versions of products. There are lots of ways to make money, consulting being my...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Open Source Product, Free Software, open source, OSS
- Discussion threads 2005-03-30
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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
- 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
- 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
- Exclusive: First look at the FastMac U-Charge
- Here's an exclusive sneak peak of FastMac's newest product - U-Charge. U-Charge is a portable, standalone charger that connects directly to the battery's terminals to recharge the battery quickly and efficiently. It's compatible with over nine years of Apple laptop batteries as well as after-market/third party replacements...
- Tags: Apple PowerBook, Apple MacBook, Battery, FastMac U-Charge, Notebooks, Engineering, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- 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
- 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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