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- The French way to open source
- What government can best provide to open source is education, encouragement and incentive. True broadband into every classroom, the best possible programmer training, a few contracts, a competitive market, and an attaboy are all I'd recommend. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Roberto, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- FAQ: A concentrated power boost for solar energy
- FAQ: A concentrated power boost for solar energyLove the ideaI'm developing property in the south of Spain, and I'm waiting for the day when I can incorporate these techniques in a cost effective way in my projects.It would make my properties far more attractive than other vendors, and I see...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Roberto, solar energy
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
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- News to know: IDF; Windows 7 wishes; IE 8; Salesforce.com
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers Ed Bott: My Windows 7 wish list ...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Jason O'Grady, Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Intel Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Conversation with HP's Roberto Moctezuma
- I recently had the chance to speak with Roberto Moctezuma, VP, Desktop Solutions Organization for HP about the company's approach to providing its customers with desktop and client virtualization solutions. I've spoken with one of Roberto's team, Tad Bodman, and posted HP and Desktop Virtualization a while back. ...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- 10 reasons for IT failure
- 10 reasons for IT failureThe number one reason...I still say the number one reason for failure is the mind set that in some magical way IT project management is different than other diciplines. (Engineering projects as an example.)One of the short comings I see in most curriculum for computer...
- Tags: Strategy, Project management, information technology, IT Failure
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Psystar: Hoax or fraud?
- Psystar: Hoax or fraud?Looks like fraud to meIf they're taking prepaid orders but nobody can find their physical location, it's fairly certain it's a con game. In the unlikely event that the business turns out to be legit, I'll be happy to retract and apologize.clarifications. first of all you...
- Tags: Litigation, fraud, Psystar, Roberto Pedraza, compagny, Hoax, eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-16
- Europe tries to make open source its own
- Roberto Galloppini right writes from Rome about how everyone there wants to talk about open source, but few want to do much about it. One speaker at a recent conference even suggested a "Euro-centric" public license in place of the GPL. That drew yawns. One...
- Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Vulnerability auction site founder arrested in Italy
- Roberto Preatoni left, one of the brains behind the WabiSabiLabi vulnerability auction site, has been arrested in Italy in connection with an international corporate spying scandal. Details of the allegations are very sketchy but according to published reports out of Italy Google translation, Preatoni's arrest is linked...
- Tags: Telecom Italia, Arrest, Italy, Roberto Preatoni, WabiSabiLabi, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Microsoft hacker summit tackles security veil of virtualization
- The Fall edition of Microsoft's Blue Hat hacker summit will kick off next week with a heavy focus on piercing the security veil of virtualization and process isolation. At Blue Hat v6, scheduled for September 27-28 in Redmond, external security researchers and internal Microsoft software engineers...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Rootkits, Hardware, Storage, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- Is the EU spending big bucks for the obvious from QualiPSo?
- QualiPSo bills itself as a "unique alliance of European, Brazilian and Chinese ICT industry players, SMEs, governments and academics to help industries and governments fuel innovation and competitiveness with Open Source software."It's a think tank.Governments, academic institutions, and corporations in Europe, Asia and Brazil have all put in big bucks...
- Tags: Industry, Fact, Buck, Think Tank, QualiPSo, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- Open- and Closed-Source Services Convergence
- Open- and Closed-Source Services ConvergenceFixed price and modular and limited"While I agree with Roberto that fixed-price services are the right model, it’s not specifically an open source issue."When a consulting firm uses proprietary software, its own homebrewed CMS for instance, sometimes they use it to lock the client into continued...
- Tags: Outsourcing, open source, content management system, Fixed Price
- Discussion threads 2007-07-31
- Open-Closed Source Services Convergence
- Recently, Peachtree Pro Accounting was given away for free, making this commercial software look open source, from a financial acquisition perspective.Against this backdrop, I read comments by Roberto Galoppini, where he raises the issues of services in the open source world. Roberto makes this comment:Open Source franchising is aimed at delivering to the...
- Tags: Packaged Services, Open Source, Consulting
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Lenses that bring everything into focus
- Scientists at the University of Michigan have developed a new lens device that will shrink huge light waves to pinpoints. The superlens looks like a plate and "is etched with a specific pattern. As the waves pass through the patterned lens, it is sculpted into different sizes and shapes. The...
- Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Nanotechnology, Science &, Nature
- Blog posts 2007-07-14
- Is StillSecure open source?
- Once more we have a company playing games with the definition of open source, forcing potential users to look under the hood, read the license agreement carefully, and risk a "gotcha" if they unknowingly violate its terms. (Say hello to my leetle frahnd. From the Boston Herald.)This time its StillSecure,...
- Tags: Strategy, Software Licensing, Security, marketing, management, Legal, General, Applications
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Forthcoming Nokia tool will be a barrier to mobile VoIP
- Those of us who are opposed to mobile carriers putting up barriers to VoIP calling cant be thrilled by Nokias upgrade to its Nokia Flexi Intelligent Service Node (touted in the excerpt from a Flash demo, shown at top).The Node tool, which is available to carriers, is set to...
- Tags: General, Skype, trends, Nokia Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
- Microsoft extends a helping hand to Firefox developers - but why?
- Microsoft extends a helping hand to Firefox developers - but why?Actually, Firefox is a little buggy (2.0b1 beta)I keep sending bug reports via Firefox's Talkback add in but they never seem to get addressed. Things like the latency of ports opened by web pages in Firefox to stay open...
- Tags: Web browsers, M$-only, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2006-08-23
- Microsoft's PlaysForSure partners in denial?
- Microsoft's PlaysForSure partners in denial?RanchingHey, I'm trying to get away from the pervasive automotive metaphors, even at the risk of comparison to Darl McBride.Anyway, there's one thing a rancher knows: cattle are good, more cattle are better, and they don't make you rich while they're alive.Perhaps MS intends to play...
- Tags: Business structures, Digital media, Digital music, Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft Corp., PlaysForSure, partnership, WMA
- Discussion threads 2006-07-25
- GoDaddy hosting customers victim to massive hack
- [Updated 1:17 PM] Earlier this week I blogged about the case of Turkish hackers defacing a record number of websites. 38,500 sites were defaced in a single day by hacker iSKORPiTX who used an automated mechanism to attack what appeared to be an exploit in a sloppy implementation of...
- Tags: GoDaddy
- Blog posts 2006-06-02
- Turkish hackers go on defacement rampage
- Two Sony websites were hacked yesterday by a Turkish hacker (thanks to Roberto Preatoni of Zone-H.org for heads up and explanation). The two site URLs are:http://sonymusic.it/index.php http://sonymusicstudios.co.uk/ As of 12:30 AM Pacific Standard time on the USA west coast, the handy work is still there for all to see....
- Tags: Turkish, Zone-H.org
- Blog posts 2006-05-31
- The myth of the cyber-meltdown
- We've all heard of the impending doom of the cyber-meltdown by all the so-called experts in cyber-terrorism but unfortunately they couldn't be further from the truth. There will be no cyber-meltdown in the form of a massive cyber-attack that will cripple the Internet and IT infrastructure. Not only...
- Tags: cyber-meltdown, cyber-intrusion
- Blog posts 2005-08-26
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