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- Mac OS 10.6.2 breaks hackintoshes
- Author's views please ...... does the ZDNET author of this post care to say:1. Whether the 'hack' in 'hackintosh' is morally acceptable and/or legal?2. Whether there is any merit in Psystar's case that OSX is tied to Apple hardware? i.e. the vendor makes it a condition of purchasing the OS...
- Tags: Desktops, Linux, Operating systems, Apple Mac OS, Apple Inc., Mac OS 10.6.2, PC, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Open source be not proud
- microsoft over java???hardly.Ellison should use GPL v3 for mysqland commit 1 billion dollars to it.This deal will sail through and everyone will be happy.It is a pyramid schemeFor a long time open source companies were only "profitable" because their perceived value.MySQL is a very good example of this. They sold...
- Tags: Databases, open source, MySQL
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Free Microsoft open-source content management app to get its debut next week
- Very interestingStrange - Ballmer was all excited about how the SharePoint 2010 team focused on internet facing capabilities. Why play with Orchard if you can get all the features CMS and more with a hosted version of SP2010 at a fairly cheap investment?I guess for small businesses who just...
- Tags: Content management, open source, Microsoft Corp., open-source content management app, Free Microsoft open-source content management app, FREE Microsoft, open-source content management, Microsoft Windows NT, content management system, OSS Projects
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy
- Oh my, must not up set the crazy EU.Pfttt....A small question why EU can stop or affect a deal inside usa ..... or is the deal is global ....Also we EU dont fork MYSQL into something purely EU ... and tell Oracle to go to hell. If the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Google defines its focus in Apps in 2010
- Chrostopher: the need for detailed formatting as we know it is going away.Actually, the detailed formatting is moving to making it look like you want on computer screens, NOT on paper, which is quite different.All of those baroque features for printing on 8.5x11 paper are looking more stupid every day.Interesting...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Document management, Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- OpenOffice.org Portable 3.1.1 (Windows)
- OpenOffice.org Portable (formerly Portable OpenOffice.org) is the complete OpenOffice.org office suite, including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package, and database - packaged as a portable app, so you can take all your documents and everything you need to work with them wherever you go. This full-featured office suite...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice.org, PortableApps.com, Office Suite, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2009-11-02
- ODBCHTTP Home Edition 1.0.1 (Windows)
- ODBCHTTP is the first odbc driver that connects to databases over the Internet using standard HTTP or HTTPS protocols and that doesn't require specialized software to be installed on the webserver. Currently MySQL and Oracle are supported. DB2 and SQLServer are under development as well as the Linux port of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, ODBC Driver, Baalsoft, ODBCHTTP, ODBCHTTP Home Edition, Internet, Web Site Development, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-11-02
- Revisiting the topic of Office versus OpenOffice.Org
- re-visit the revisitingif you actually TRIED to use OpenOffice and TRIED to dig in deeper into it's possibilities, you would find zero compatibility issues except for base/access part. and macros, that no one even with the small brain doesn't use.but you didn't. what you did is to buy office 2008...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OpenOffice, Workforce management, OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., compatibility issue
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- Atrise ToTXT 1.2.2 (Windows)
- Atrise ToTXT allows you to convert PDF, HTML, office documents (Word, Excel), OpenOffice, Lotus etc to plain text for PDA reading, portable documentation, Web use. No Microsoft Office installed is required. Optimized for dual-core CPU. The program has very easy and efficient user interface and fast multithreading engine. Simply drag...
- Tags: Multi-threading, Atrise Software, Atrise ToTXT, Microsoft Windows, PDAs, OpenOffice, Operating Systems, Software, Handhelds, Hardware, Office Suites
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- News Corp. prepares to destroy more online value
- Finally Good PointsYou may have wanted to mention that comcast wanted to buy out 51 percent and then charge. Maybe they are delaying the inevitable but a reverse scenario? Due to sites like Hulu and other I and other have not paid for cable or satellite for over 3 years....
- Tags: OpenOffice, Piracy, Blogging, Network technology, Hulu, News Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- NeoOffice 3.0.1 (Mac)
- NeoOffice is a full-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, OpenOffice.org, NeoOffice.org, NeoOffice, Office Suite, OpenOffice, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-10-26
- Open Search Server 1.1r632 (Windows)
- Open Search Server OSS is a search engine software developed under the GPL v3 open source licence. Built using the best open source technologies available, Open Search Server is a stable, high-performance piece of software. It is both a modern search engine and a suite of high-powered full text search...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Full-text Search, Open Search Server, Document Format, XML, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-10-26
- OOo4Kids (PowerPC) 0.5.1 beta (Mac)
- The idea is to provide a 7-12 years software, based on OpenOffice.org source code, say, extremely simplified. Everything is made with the idea to contribute back to OpenOffice.org Project, through OpenOffice.org Education Project, and students projects, but not only (all sort of contributions are welcome, of course). Resources are managed...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Beta, OpenOffice.org, IBM PowerPC, OOo4Kids, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2009-10-23
- OOo4Kids 0.5.1 beta (Mac)
- The idea is to provide a 7-12 years software, based on OpenOffice.org source code, say, extremely simplified. Everything is made with the idea to contribute back to OpenOffice.org Project, through OpenOffice.org Education Project, and students projects, but not only (all sort of contributions are welcome, of course). Resources are managed...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Beta, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2009-10-23
- OOo4Kids 0.5.1 beta (Windows)
- The idea is to provide a 7-12 years software, based on OpenOffice.org source code, say, extremely simplified. Everything is made with the idea to contribute back to OpenOffice.org Project, through OpenOffice.org Education Project, and students projects, but not only (all sort of contributions are welcome, of course). Resources are managed...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Beta, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2009-10-23
- Is the IBM Client for Smart Work an alternative to 7 for schools?
- Windows 7 looks like a genuinely good OS. Reasonable system requirements, high levels of usability and stability...What's not to like? Well, the price, of course. Volume educational licensing runs around $70 a seat for Windows 7 Professional upgrades. Then there's the actual upgrade process. Major rollouts...
- Tags: Ubuntu, IBM Corp., Ubuntu 9.10, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Roi/Tco, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Windows 7: An impressive upgrade
- Windows 7 review:Windows 7 review: 'New' OS is just Vista with small changesPerformance enhancements"We have already determined that W7 won't make your computer run any faster. And if you are upgrading from XP, it might run slightly slower, just as with Vista. ......But it's not really anything new. We hate...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, impressive upgrade, operating system, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Looking beyond Windows 7 and Office; Pondering the alternatives
- No reason to look beyond Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office, its a complete solution out of the box for every business need. Pondering the alternatives will take all of 5 seconds before realizing the alternatives won't live up to what Microsoft has to offer.Preceding message brought to you...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Loverock Davidson
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Who's a candidate for Desktop Linux? Your Kids.
- My kids know Linux, OSX, and XP, and will obviously learn Windows 7, butskip Vista, though they will have contact with Vista. My son prefers OSX, my daughter Ubuntu.But, just like every kid should be taught at least two languages at home, they should also learn multiple OSes. Learning multiple...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, desktop Linux, desktop
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- mySQL founders fork on the post-Oracle future
- paranoia againi remember paranoia when sun bought openoffice and mysql...look they are still here!!!and oracle bought sun...people will be paranoid for some time, and than that story will go to oblivion just like any other paranoid story in open source world.Oracle must commit 1 billion for MySQLand also 5 billions...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Oracle Corp., MySQL
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
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