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- Future cloud apps won't need humans
- Lew Tucker, vice president and chief technology officer of cloud computing at Sun Microsystems, foresees applications that are entirely self-sufficient. Humans will be able to set boundaries, of course, but will no longer be needed to turn servers, or anything else for that matter, physically on or off. It is...
- Tags: Cloud, Virtualization, Hardware, OpenSource, San Francisco, cloud computing, SaaS, global
- Videos 2009-08-13
- Who will benefit most from the cloud?
- At the OpenSource World event in San Francisco, Lew Tucker, vice president and CTO of cloud computing at Sun Microsystems, explained that many developing countries are skipping over acquiring their own servers and going right to the cloud. Because of the cost effectiveness, the move may spur their economies and...
- Tags: Benefit, Cloud, Free Trade, Virtualization, Finance, Hardware, CloudWorld, cloud computing, OpenSource, open source, SaaS
- Videos 2009-08-13
- ‘Mainstream' meanings for the cloud
- At the CloudWorld event in San Francisco, panelists question whether cloud computing, quickly gaining mainstream adoption, could replace system ownership entirely. Panelists include Joe Weinman of AT&T Business Solutions, Sam Charrington of Appistry, James Urquhart of Cisco Systems and the CNET Blog Network, and Timothy Chou of Ming Holdings.
- Tags: Virtualization, Hardware, Cloud computing, SaaS, OpenSource, mainstream
- Videos 2009-08-13
- OpenSource success: Firefox approaching 1 billion downloads
- OpenSource success: Firefox approaching 1 billion downloadsRE: OpenSource success: Firefox approaching 1 billion downloadsdoes this means Firefox is catching on with IE? 50 share?? Paging Opera.... Paging Opera. ntntfirefox?just tell me when they solve the bug that stops copy/paste in their 3.5.1......I had-to drop back to an older version...
- Tags: Web browsers, Looks like Firefox, Mozilla Firefox, OpenSource, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- Data and software both want to be shared
- Data and software both want to be sharedOnly if it is I who decides what to shareas I would imagine there is data that you posess that you has no desire to let me or the world see, as it would finacially devestate you, or something similar.I would not like...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Music Piracy, software, OpenSource, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-06-16
- Open source and the shrinking waterhole
- Open source and the shrinking waterholeOpen source is the futurentMoment of truthMany open source companies have been kept afloat by selling "support" which was in reality donations in disguise from sympathetic supporters of the open source ideology.Those sympathizers now face much more difficult questions when they try to artificially make...
- Tags: open source, OpenSource
- Discussion threads 2009-04-10
- Ubuntu's "plateau" = Good news for education
- Ubuntu's "plateau" = Good news for educationI agreeI read the other article and it seems that when he wants updates he wants revolutionary new features. It's good to have fancy effects and such but Ubuntu already has those. What I see that their doing is trying to define Ubuntu. Trying...
- Tags: Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2009-03-02
- Yes, vendors are vital to open source
- Yes, vendors are vital to open sourceCompanies and open sourceWell said, I agree. Although it remains puzzling for outsiders, how companies can make money from open source... But they do. Perhaps you could devote a blog to the money-making that can be achieved for businesses, when they become active in...
- Tags: open source, OpenSource
- Discussion threads 2008-10-23
- WordPress 2.6 disables remote access, swats 194 bugs
- WordPress 2.6 disables remote access, swats 194 bugsCondom photoAnd the condom photo signifies what exactly? Increased protection?Another OpenSource Triumph!Insecure architecture fixed in version 2.6! Well, better late than never, right? And of course in the OpenSource tradition, they fixed it ... fast? 196 bugs! A service pack and a half,...
- Tags: WordPress 2.6, OpenSource, Wordpress, remote access
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- The sum of Microsoft's fears
- The sum of Microsoft's fears1000 different directions What is MS trying to doso true ... What is MS trying to do. - Attack developers - i develop lots of small ""windows helpers""- Attack techies - I have many windows customers and install Firefox, 7zip, FoxIt, and set the default to...
- Tags: OpenSource, Pliny, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- Costs: Wintel Vs. OpenSource
- Costs: Wintel Vs. OpenSourceHmm, its that alternate reality again.I read through this, and your example is impecable, makes perfect, and I'm left wondered why none of my customers use Sun hardware.And of the course, the reason is that in my reality, the vast majority of enterprises are SME's, and they...
- Tags: Wintel, OpenSource
- Discussion threads 2008-03-05
- Sun/Google Android "fight" overblown
- Sun/Google Android "fight" overblowntrue...OpenSource is never about fighting and wars.If two of the internet's biggest companies start fighting over open technologies what mess would it create.A rift b/w Sun and Google may turn out to be a big setback to opensource community, and i am sure guys at those companies...
- Tags: Network technology, Java, Advertising & Promotion, OpenSource, Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Google Inc., 64-bit, Google Android
- Discussion threads 2007-11-26
- Mozilla sets up shop in China
- Mozilla sets up shop in ChinaNot OkayOne day the Western world will realize that it is immoral to do business with a brutal communist dictatorship. If not by then, the Western world will definitely realize it when China really kicks in its "annihilate the West" strategy that has been going...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, OpenSource, Mozilla Corp., Western World, Mozilla Firefox, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-02-02
- Microsoft: Open source 'not reliable or dependable'
- Microsoft: Open source 'not reliable or dependable'To MS: Windows is "not reliable or dependable".Open source is not anti-Microsoft, but it's giving people choices in the technologies that they use that are very reliable and very dependable. Man, I just can NOT stop laughing. I lost a half a cup...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, investment, Microsoft Corp., open source, software, OSS, OpenSource
- Discussion threads 2006-05-19
- Start-up harvests customer code
- Start-up harvests customer codethe say open-source alot, but it's not...OpenMFG, open-source, open-source business model,providing the source code to customers and partners,open-source project.But NOT an open-source project. The software is MADE with some open-source software.Customers can modify the software.I think all the open-source talk is misleading, and for marketing purposes only.actually.........
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, OpenSource, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2006-01-23
- Nessus security tool closes its source
- Nessus security tool closes its sourceExcellent software!If you're an auditor or lan security admin this program is a must have item.M$ paid them off!I'm sure M$ or $CO paid them to make GPL look bad.I hope they go out of business soon.Nessus security tool closes its source[i]The developer also expressed...
- Tags: tool, OpenSource, Closed-Source, Nessus, GPL, contribution, Nessus security tool, open source, security tool
- Discussion threads 2005-10-06
- Oracle warms up to open source, IBM
- Oracle warms up to open source, IBMGood for them!Opensource is the way to go, why not use it?It's a knock out!Wouldn't it be great if each of the big consolidations all ended up without some vital piece of the software jig-saw. Maybe there's hope for small ISV's after all.
- Tags: Oracle Corp., open source, IBM Corp., OpenSource
- Discussion threads 2005-09-19
- Is open source a scam against itself?
- Is open source a scam against itself?Using weapons in a warhas happened for thousands of years. THis is but another iteration.wasted resourcesOperating systems have been getting so much attention that user interfaces have suffered, if they spent as much money on the software that people actually use, instead of OS...
- Tags: Linux, 64-bit, Operating systems, Free Stuff, IBM Corp., open source, operating system, Forbes, OpenSource, JBoss
- Discussion threads 2005-06-16
- Security is strategic
- Security is strategicyou could be right...but if so, it seems to me that it represents a retreat.More funded studies, quickly debunked in the public press, and with each one the increased awareness that the one party is speaking purely in its own interest - and even if the other is...
- Tags: Patches, security, patch management, Microsoft Corp., Linux, OpenSource
- Discussion threads 2005-05-23
- IBM 'hypervisor' software makes stealth debut
- IBM 'hypervisor' software makes stealth debutHmmmm ....I wonder if this could be used to run Mac OSX on x86 processor, hmmmm .....Steve Jobs would kill me.This is amazing, all of the work IBM is doing for open source.It will be nice when you can install Linux and out of the...
- Tags: Virtualization, Operating systems, MICROSOFT JUST, IBM Corp., OpenSource, open source, Microsoft Corp., hypervisor
- Discussion threads 2005-02-24
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