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Standards and pragmatism in web browsers

Standards and pragmatism in web browsersJoel nailed it.Making websites at that worked cross browser has never had ANYTHING to do with standards. [b]Ever[/b]. The collective sigh of relief when Netscape was finally laid to rest was almost audible.Joel is not alone with this conviction. Every developer and GUI designer in...

Tags: pragmatism, standards, Web browser

Discussion threads 2008-03-20

Microsoft gains tech computing toehold

Microsoft gains tech computing toeholdInformed source[i]And for Saifur Rahman, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, using Linux would have required new expertise.[/i]...[i]In particular, his students use the Matlab mathematical calculation and data-processing software on Windows. Matlab on the desktop can tap into Matlab on the...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Tools & Techniques, Pragmatism, Zealotry, Matlab, Linux, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-09

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Enterprises saving $26 million per project with open source

Vendors serving customers at the application development level are figuring out how to respond more effectively. Our message seems to resonate. It's about the pragmatism of taking advantage of what's out there, and making good choices at the application level. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Software Development, Development Tools, Middleware, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Blog posts 2009-11-10

Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development

Richard Stallman and others are trying to block Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. Why? Because MySQL is covered by the GNU Public License GPL, and the purchase has exposed a flaw in the GPL that Stallman says will cause a "major setback" to the development of the free database if the...

Tags: GPL, Acquisition, MySQL, Richard Stallman, Stallman, Mergers & Acquisitions, Open Source, Corporate Law, Databases, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Microsoft and PC makers introduce Windows 7 offers for consumers

Can't wait to see theseThe local Best Buy is having a midnight launch. I'm probably going to go and geek out for a bit.RE: Microsoft and PC makers introduce Windows 7 offers for consumersWish I could afford the upgrades.Been laid off and on for 6 years now.Could not renew my...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), way thing, Linux, U.S. Department of Defense, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Win7, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

On the future of Open Source thought leadership

After over a decade of being in the shadow of the Free Software movement and 30 years of its inflexible dogmatic principles, disruptive new Open Source thought leadership is emerging that is truly able to compromise with the realistic needs of business and end-users without carrying...

Tags: Software, Leadership, Richard Stallman, Open Source, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-08

Does Oracle matter to open source

only as long as Oracle fights M$the reason OSS is doing very well is because people hate M$ and proprietary software in general.As long as Oracle will fund this insurgency against the evil M$ empire everybody will be better off.Eventually M$ will collapse like the Soviet Union and great days...

Tags: open source, proprietary software, OSS, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Microsoft founds, funds a new open-source foundation

Thank You M.J.I just read this with extreme interest. Thank you for the post and sharing this information."My first thought..If you cannot beat them, join them"The power of Open SourceYears ago Bill Gates himself criticized Open Source and the GPL Gnu Public License. Yet, Microsoft has finally realized the...

Tags: software foundation, GPL, Microsoft Corp., open source, Free Software Foundation

Discussion threads 2009-09-10

Alfresco agonistes

Alfresco agonistesThe race to zero is almost completeIt is getting harder and harder to see viable business plans for open source. The recession which were supposed to be so great for open source is having the opposite effect: Instead of customers rushing to the open source model with "paid support",...

Tags: COMPANIES, open source, Alfresco

Discussion threads 2009-05-17

Will a Palm "Mini-Pre" be out in 2009 too?

Will a Palm "Mini-Pre" be out in 2009 too?I am sure the pre will be small enough...How about instead of making it smaller... they add microSD and desktop sync? You know, so that it catches up with the Palm Treo Pro!How can we...compare something to something else, when neither are...

Tags: Handhelds, Pre, Palm Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-30

iPhone users don't use device for work, study says

iPhone users don't use device for work, study saysI use my iPhone for bothThough the "preponderance" of use is personal. I guess a good follow-up question would be, for those of us tho use it primarily for "play", is "Does the iPhone meet your business use needs?" For me the...

Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, U.S. Marine Corps, iPhone 3, business phone, Apple iPhone, soldier

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Iceland could become a green hub for global cloud computing

Iceland could become a green hub for global cloud computingNot Sure!Not Sure if ICELAND can be a hub for global cloud computing.I am worried about the initiatives the Govt of Iceland will be willing to take in the given economical crisis. And moreover ICELAND is one of the worst hit...

Tags: Iceland, pollution, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-03-29

Are open source developers too dominant? Ubuntu, Firefox prove yes

Are open source developers too dominant? Ubuntu, Firefox prove yesGetting excited about a browser or an OS???? Why?Those should be just mature very reliable tools. The excitment should be in the things they allow you to do without getting in your way. I bet that at one time you were...

Tags: Web browsers, open source, Ubuntu, Mozilla Firefox, open-source developer, punk, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-03-02

PPoPP 2009 Day 2: Are most programmers stupid?

The second day of the PPoPP 2009 conference started with a controversial keynote by Yale Patt from the University of Texas at Austin. It was so controversial, for me at least, that I decided to wait a few days to calm down before writing about it. He had three main...

Tags: Software, Hardware, Programmer, Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-02-20

John Galt is dead or Linus shrugs

John Galt is dead or Linus shrugsLinux isn't a good example.It's expense reduction vs Unix for servers, funded by lower staffing costs.A better example is a product like OpenOffice.org, proprietary software given to a project as a desperation play because the former owner4 couldn't make a profit. And hopes...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Dana, Whole Community, John Galt, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Linus

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

Does the Semantic Web matter?

My business card reads 'Technology Evangelist,' and this is a blog about the Semantic Web. So that should be an unequivocal 'Yes!' then, right? However, it's frequently worthwhile to revisit and question presumptions, beliefs and 'truths,' and the Semantic Web that dominates so much of my working...

Tags: Web, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Openness

I've been privileged to be around some amazing people recently, first at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and now this week at SuperNova, Wharton Business school's conference, which this year explored "how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world". My take away word of the...

Tags: Talent, Mozilla Firefox, Collaboration, British Telecommunications, Openness, JP Rangaswami, Sam, Web Browsers, Groupware, Workforce Management, Leadership, Security, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-19

OLPC ready to scrap Linux??

OLPC ready to scrap Linux??XPEOMDon't you know?He swears by BeOS!What "annual tax" are you refering to?[i]having to pay an annual tax to Microsoft for software updates[/i]I receive my updates for free. How do those on the OLPC unit differ?So what would they run on it?Vista? LOLRather extreme positionFundamentalists are always...

Tags: Operating systems, Third-World government, Fundamentalists, One Laptop Per Child project, Linux?, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software

Discussion threads 2008-04-23

Standards and pragmatism in web browsers

Recently, Microsoft declared that true "standards mode" in IE 8.0 will be the default, indicating that it will try to render all pages marked with the proper DOCTYPE according to the more rigorous (and ACID2-compliant) HTML rendering rules of the improved standards mode in IE 8.0. This is in contrast...

Tags: Web, HTML, Spec, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Standards, Standards Mode, Joel Spolsky, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-03-20

Linux security guru joins Microsoft

Crispin Cowan, the Linux security expert behind StackGard, the Immunix Linux distro and AppArmor, has joined the Windows security team. In a blog post last week, Microsoft's Michael Howard, author of Writing Secure Code, wrote: For those of you who don’t know Crispin, Crispin is responsible...

Tags: Team, Novell AppArmor, Microsoft Corp., Howard, Linux, Team Management, UNIX, Operating Systems, Security, Open Source, Software, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-21