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Open source a Pull-a-Part yard?

Open source a Pull-a-Part yard?So what if you want......support? In the corporate environments I've worked in, management has always insisted on support agreements, sla's etc. So who do you call for support when you have a stack of multiple products that you mashed together to build your solution?...

Tags: SourceForge, Pull-a-Part, open source

Discussion threads 2008-01-15

Open source a Pull-a-Part yard?

As programmed systems grow more complex, and need to be built from parts, the open source world starts to look like a Pull-a-Part yard. Folks in the South and Midwest know what I'm referencing here. Pull-a-Part is not just a junkyard. It's a database. Just as a...

Tags: Tool, Pull-a-Part, Productivity, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-15

Additional Resources

Migrating From Domino to Exchange 2007 (Part 4)

This paper looks at how Exchange 2007 and Lotus Domino 7 can coexist with the future aim of migration from Domino to Exchange. The paper gives sample scenario in which, Fabrikam is running Lotus Domino 7 and Contoso is running Exchange 2007. It prepares the Contoso Exchange environment so it...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, IBM Lotus Domino, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-11-22

SAP's Apotheker: 'Happy John Wookey joined us'; Business hasn't gotten worse

SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker said Friday that John Wookey, a former Oracle executive, is "a great software man" who will help the enterprise software giant push its software as a service meets on-premise applications strategy. Separately, Apotheker noted that business hasn't gotten worse from the outlook the company gave on...

Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Google Chrome to be pre-installed on PCs in 2009?

Google is reportedly thinking about cutting deals with PC makers to have its Chrome browser pre-installed on new computers, a move that could position the Internet giant to not only boost its presence in search but also put some of its branded apps - Gmail, Google Docs, Google Reader and...

Tags: Google Inc., PC, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Web Browsers, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-21

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 5

Today is the last day of a 5-day course on iPhone programming class led by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. During the course I've been taking notes on how development for the iPhone compares to development for Android. By the way, BNR also offers Android courses if you're interested....

Tags: Program, Apple iPhone, Web Service, Android, iPhone API, Settings App, Android Preference, Cloud Computing, Web Services, XML, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Details of AMD's Phenom II desktop chips keep leaking out

AMD will announce its second-generation Phenom quad-core chips at the big Consumer Electronics Show in January. But at the current rate at which the company is leaking information about its first 45nm desktop processors, there may not be much left to say by the time they get to Vegas. ...

Tags: Desktop, AMD Phenom, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Chip, Core, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Enterprise 2.0 solution reduces email abuse

We now live in a day and age where we can expect to get dozens, if not hundreds of emails a day. Most of these you'll find are replies and forwarded emails - emails which you have already responded to and are following up, or emails which have been passed...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 Solution, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-11-21

A guide to cutting IT costs

Reduction of spending in the IT department is more art than science. Metri consultant Paul Michaels offers some advice on how to get it right. For the past few months everyone was hoping the IT industry might be saved the worst of the credit crunch fallout, on the...

Tags: CIO, Benchmarking, Information Technology, IT Cost, Paul Michaels, Conundrum, Strategy, Management, IT management, costs, cutbacks, staffing, Paul Michaels silicon.com

News items 2008-11-21

Photos: Gadgets we're thankful for, part 2

Still More Crave contributors give thanks for their most-appreciated consumer electronics of the moment. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-11-21

News to know: Dell; Army bans USB drives; Salesforce; Microsoft

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Cost cutting pays off for Dell; IT spending, demand 'challenging' Sam Diaz: Salesforce bucks trend for Q3; shares rising. Unsealed court filing: HP's Hurd...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Corp., USB Flash Drive, Internet, Open Source

Blog posts 2008-11-21

Unsealed court filing: HP's Hurd had Vista concerns

HP CEO Mark Hurd told Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in an e-mail last year that HP's call centers were "being overrun" by customers who were having difficulties upgrading to Windows Vista, a detail that was revealed in the unsealing of a court filing in the Windows Vista Capable lawsuit. ...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Steve Ballmer, Mark Hurd, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Detroit automakers have little to be thankful for

But they do have a little time to pull their drumsticks out of the oven. Today the Democrats in Congress gave the U.S. auto industry until December 2nd to come up with a proposal acceptable to Congress and the current White House occupant. You gotta ask...

Tags: Detroit, U.S. Congress, Merry Chiristmas, Branding, Manufacturing, Government, Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Beggars, and no longer choosers

Detroit, its auto industry and its UAW find themselves facing a whole new era. A Congress that may NOT come across with dollars to keep the Detroit Dinosaurs (that's a management team not an NBA team) playing. And today a new powerful figure in charge of the House...

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-20

How Apple gained the upper hand on Microsoft

I've just been working my way through hundreds of emails released as part of the Vista Capable lawsuit and there's one phrase that keep coming across that might explain why Apple got the upper hand on Microsoft with Vista. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), E-mail, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Online Communications, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Apple Macintosh, Experience, Desktops, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Sex, Rock and Roll, and Open Source Reporting Frameworks

Actuate 10 and the Eclipse-based Open Source BIRT framework allows you to build rich reporting applications for your enterprise. Click on the photo to watch a video of the software in action. The title got your attention, didn't it? ...

Tags: Reporting Tool, Actuate Corp., Open Source BIRT, Business Intelligence, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-20

Photos: Gadgets we're thankful for, part 1

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, the Crave team shows gratitude for everything from routers to BlackBerrys to an old-school game console. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Games, Game Players, Team Management, Routers & Switches, Handhelds, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Management, Networking, Hardware, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-11-20

Hands On: The BlackBerry Storm

First off, a warning: Be very skeptical of any review you read in the next 24 to 48 hours that proclaims to be the definitive word on the Blackberry Storm. While clearly I have my own early impressions, the Storm is so different than any other smartphone...

Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Phone, Screen, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Customer, Video, RIM BlackBerry, Plan, Blackberry Storm, E-mail, Handhelds, Keyboards, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Josh Taylor

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Google kills Lively

A product called Lively was touted as a "second life killer" by some, but today it was officially put on the chopping block. At the end of December, this experiment will officially be terminated, and all employees that work on it will be assigned to other teams within the...

Tags: Google Inc., Team Management, Management, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-11-19

iPhone vs. Android development: Day 3

This is the 3rd in a series of 5 posts about an iPhone programming course I'm taking this week. The course is presented by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. To make things more interesting I'm writing about how iPhone development differs from Android development, a subject with which I'm...

Tags: OpenGL, Apple iPhone, Android, Timers, Textures Textures, MultiTouch, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-19