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- Open source and innovation as maintenance models
- Following my piece on a proposed model for enterprise applications maintenance, two fresh posts, one from Matt Aslett at 451.com and another from Leigh Cauldwell offer alternative ideas around how the present conundrum might be solved. Matt offers the open source position arguing that: This would appear to be...
- Tags: Innovation, Leigh Cauldwell, Matt, Savio Rodrigues, Open Source, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Don't downgrade me to XP!
- Don't downgrade me to XP!except thatVista won't with our printers, or our scanners, or our cameras, or much of our vital s/w.It isn't logical to buy all new and then have vista be slower than tar on a winters day on the machines it's put on.Don't downgrade me to XP:...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Are "instant on" notebooks the future?
- Are "instant on" notebooks the future?Instant boot into full OS...I imagine there has to be a way to perform this instant Linux boot while loading the full OS in the background and seamlessly giving you the full OS functions once its loaded. Now if the Linux community concentrated on that...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, notebook, Linux, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- The Unix sysadmin salary premium
- The Unix sysadmin salary premiumThe non-obviously conclusions I draw...The non-obviously conclusions I draw from this is that organisations looking fron Windows admins could do well by bring in guys with Unix experience.(I can hear someone say "No self respecting unix guy would take the job", to which the answer is...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix skill, Unix, salary, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Supporting the long tail of open source
- Supporting the long tail of open sourcePerhaps a good start......would be for "good developers" to not consider people with questions as "stupid".Carl RapsonMixing modelsIt depends on what "model" or paradigm or whatever you want to call it produced the piece of OS software.Was it the IBM / Redhat "we'll professionally...
- Tags: Development tools, open source, WAS IT, developer, software, Carl Rapson, long tail
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- The kids are all right with Linux
- The kids are all right with LinuxThe kids are all right with Linux...well maybe.Let's see. You say "The new system should be more rugged than the old, the terminals are cheaper to replace, and the central system is physically inaccessible, so there will be less mischief. Before any kid can...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Do it Yourself Mojave
- Do it Yourself MojaveVista security broken - Black Hathttp://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/08/vista-security-rendered-uslessI really don't understandI have a cheap white box machine with a Q6600 processor, 8600GT, 4 Gig Ram, single hard drive, Vista Busines 32 bit. The machine is an absolute dream. Everything is fast. Its the best machine I...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, GPU
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- IBM should spend another $1B to drive consumer adoption of its Symphony OpenOffice-Linux desktop
- IBM should spend another $1B to drive consumer adoption of its Symphony OpenOffice-Linux desktopIbm should spend 1% of its revenueeach years to help , expend and monitor/sponsored open sourceUp to a certain point IBM OS/3 "pay back" linux or bsd flavor since we are into the "if/why not"...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, desktop, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Corp., Symphony, server
- Discussion threads 2008-08-06
- Do open source applications take security seriously?
- Do open source applications take security seriously?Good Point, Good PostThe lack of objective security information is a major concern to "computer naive" Vice-presidents. Blanket announcements that open-source systems Linux have always been secure and commercial systems Windows have never been secure are simply not believable to enterprise management. Nothing is...
- Tags: security, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-07-20
- How good is open source support?
- How good is open source support?This why I do not want open source.I can never get help when I need it, and those that try to help have a very snobbish attitude, and like to say you are not learning because you do not want to learn.Well I can only...
- Tags: Operating systems, open source, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- VMWare: Time to Pay the Open Source Piper
- VMWare: Time to Pay the Open Source PiperOn the other hand ...... if all the hypervisors and their attendant management suites become free ... then will I choose to serve:1. Basic software via increasingly powerful cloud computing or open source freebies (e.g. Firefox, Open Office)2. MyCompanysSoftware via *IX (I have...
- Tags: Operating systems, value-add, VMware Inc., open source, Hyper-V
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- (Linux's dirty little secret)
- (Linux's dirty little secret)Possible workaroundI am also new to Ubuntu, although I have used early RedHat versions on a server. But Ubuntu is based on the Debian Linux release which uses a different package manager aptitude than Redhat's RPM. If you cannot find an apt-get compatible package, you may be...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Linux's dirty little secret
- Linux's dirty little secretNice commercial! How much did it cost you?Strange, you publish it under the heading of "Dirty Little Secret"."Upload, design and build dynamic multimedia training courses. We charge a small fee to deliver the courses to the students online. For a few dollars per student, you...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Ubuntu, package manager
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Fun with openSUSE 11.0
- Fun with openSUSE 11.0Virtualized OpenSUSE 11.0I too am a devoted Ubuntu user, and decided to check out OpenSUSE 11.0. I downloaded the 32bit GNOME LiveCD and loaded in with Virtualbox in Windows XP. I got through the whole setup fairly quickly but when the "system" rebooted it crashed and said...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, desktop virtualization, openSUSE 11.0, KDE, KDE 4, Novell OpenSuse, Novell Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- No reprieve: XP phase-out begins June 30
- No reprieve: XP phase-out begins June 30But why?Surely if Microsoft remove Windows XP then lazy software developers who don't want to make their apps Vista compatible will be be forced to pull their fingers out!Windows Vista doesn't include many new changes to the software standards that Microsoft introduced with Windows...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertise
- Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertiseCompanies making money from open source.Well, there's Red Hat... and there's Red Hat and, oh yes, I remember, Red Hat.There are ways to save expenses with open source, but that's different from making money with open source. If a company...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Parallels releases its Hypervisor -- on the Mac
- Today, virtualization vendor Parallels released the first version of its Server hypervisor for x86 hardware. The surprising thing about it is that it chose to go to release with its Mac version first. Parallels first came to market with its desktop-based virtualization products...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Hypervisor, Parallels Inc., Parallels Server, VM, Virtuozzo Container, Windows Version, Virtualization, Linux, Desktops, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Why is Microsoft sponsoring the Open Source Census?
- Why is Microsoft sponsoring the Open Source Census?Microsoft sees RedHat and Novell making...money with open source. They are looking to see if it is a market they can tap into as well. Microsoft would rather make money from Open Source than try to kill it - something they have found...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., open source, Winux
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- Red Hat settles patent suit
- Red Hat settles patent suitI need clarification[i]Essentially, all that have innovated to create, or that will innovate with, software distributed under Red Hat brands are protected, as are Red Hat customers.[/i]That sounds like a Novell-M$ pact!The only way to be compatible to GPL3 is to buy the patent and release...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Inc., DataTern/Amphion
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
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