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- Larry Augustin's practical revolution at SugarCRM
- Dana, what is the trend in the Open Source community?OS started as a software development and delivery model "for the people by the people", i.e. free use enabled by free contributions. Now free contributions are likely drying out. Companies with paid employees are contributing the most significant part of code....
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Welcome Back, SugarCRM
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- Is Apple being too precious about the App Store?
- If by precious you mean fascistthen yes they are...great...Get ready for the Jobs cultist starting another holywar because you "tarnished" their cyber-religion.Precious.The marketplace is what it is because of ownership. Apple owns the store they built and has the identical right that Disney or The Atlantic or Toyota does to...
- Tags: Public relations, Microsoft Windows NT, Balmer, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- SnapLogic snaps together different data flows and cuts integration costs
- I recently had a chance to catch up with one of my favorite Silicon Valley serial entrepreneurs Gauruv Dhillon. When I first met Mr Dhillon he was CEO of Informatica, one of the top software companies in Silicon Valley. These days he is founder,...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Developer, Consultant, Snap, SnapLogic, Cloud Computing, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.
- Richard M. Stallman RMS the founder of the Free Software Foundation, has labeled prominent Open Source software developer Miguel De Icaza a "Traitor" for joining the Board of Directors of Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation as well as for his creation of the Microsoft .NET-compatible Mono software development...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Free Software Foundation, GNOME, Microsoft Corp., Richard Stallman, Miguel De Icaza, Mono Framework, Genie, Linux, Open Source, C#, Tools & Techniques, UNIX, .Net, Operating Systems, Software, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Intuit's reported purchase of Mint: A fine defensive move
- NervousIntuit never merged their online product and their excellent Paytrust product, and now they are likely to screw up mint, which I liked as well. This does not bode well.I dislike having my financial info on the web.Must just be me, since all those Mint users don't seem concerned. ...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Intuit Inc., reported purchase, defensive move
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- Making the tablet computer "classroom-ready"
- With all the recent conjecture about the rumored Apple tablet (nee "iPad") I found this email particularly interesting. Confessions of a teacher, parent and wanna-be tech geek by John H. Julian I've taught since 1980 and the people to get involved...
- Tags: Teacher, Computer, Tablet Computer, Personal Information, Tablets, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-08-16
- Will all the good open source companies be acquired?
- Another one bites the dust. Add SpringSource to the expanding list of independent open source companies that have been gobbled up by proprietary software giants. Let's consider the growing list: IBM's purchase of Gluecode, Novell's purchase of SUSE, Citrix's XenSource deal, Nokia's Trolltech buy,...
- Tags: VMware Inc., SpringSource, OpenBravo, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Microsoft still pushing a standards tax
- You make an assumption that is not true"If a standard includes ?IP restrictions? of any sort, especially royalties no matter how reasonable or necessary you consider them you?re imposing a tax on all users for your invention."Excuse me? Take for example Flash. Do they not license On2's proprietary "IP restricted"...
- Tags: patent, Microsoft Corp., tax
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- Confirmed: Developer of software stolen for Green Dam is under attack
- Confirmed: Developer of software stolen for Green Dam is under attackGreen dam removal.It seems that if Green Dam is a stolen program then the programs owner should be able to disable it. Why not Bomb all of the Chinese Green dam programs and solve the problem once and for...
- Tags: SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Communist, NOW IT, Green Dam, attack, USSR, software
- Discussion threads 2009-06-29
- Ubuntu a minor player? Not outside the States
- Ubuntu a minor player? Not outside the StatesAgreed, with one minor point difference . . .I believe that the reason you're seeing what you are in China is that since most Windows installations are pirated copies, they get no support. And if you're going to have no support, might...
- Tags: Operating systems, Linux/Ubuntu, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows, Linux, minor player, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- Will Ubuntu remain a minor player
- Will Ubuntu remain a minor playerWhat's novel here?Not the fact that you can try Ubuntu.It's the fact that you try any operating system.How is that happening? Most likely Click2Try is another open source hoster running Xen, much as Amazon Web Services, only they are moving ahead with easy 'on...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Only Problem, Ubuntu, minor player
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- GPL's cloudy future
- GPL's cloudy futureIn the Cloud: ANYBODY can do ITANYBODY. I believe that is the essence of the Cloud revolution.Users old enough remember the IBM PC. It was a revolution. A maneuver around traditional IT which gave rise to a new generation of software and hardware development without...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Configuration Files, GPL, AGPL, Google Inc., information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- Oracle and the great innovation debate
- Oracle and the great innovation debateLarry, not just innovationmost of the follow up from my original post has focused on Oracle's innovation or lack there of...I was also asking about continuous improvement to the base products and services - given emerging SaaS/cloud SLAs have Oracle's own levels evolved? Given declining...
- Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Oracle Corp., innovation, great innovation
- Discussion threads 2009-02-26
- What do Windows 7 beta testers really want?
- What do Windows 7 beta testers really want?They want something that works that they can use for freeAt least that's what the majority want. The ones who actually take the beta seriously just want to be taken seriously. MS uses the beta primarily as a marketing tool, so at least...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, beta, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-02-20
- Worst. Windows 7. Piece. EVER!
- Worst. Windows 7. Piece. EVER!Windows 7 must be good...if this is the best they can come up with! Slashdot appears to be down at the moment so can't read the whole story but I agree this is Gutmann bad. A DLL is hacked and a program stops working - shock,...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-02-17
- Got waste? Feed it to the algae. Presto chango it's valuable.
- Helix bioreactor. Courtesy Origin Oil. For a healthier environment today, tomorrow and in the distant future: algae. That's the belief of Riggs Eckelberry, CEO of OriginOil, in Los Angeles. Sound like just another bodiesel start-up? No way, this is a company that...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Sapphire Energy, Solazyme, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- Has Apple gotten lazy?
- Has Apple gotten lazy?Evolution vs. RevolutionIn IT I believe a steady flow of evolutions is preferable to revolution. Vista was supposed to a revolution. The desired changes were so profound MS couldn't deliver they couldn't even deliver after reducing the specs. With apple at least software, older drivers, older Macs...
- Tags: Investment, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-01-12
- An interpretation of the cloud
- An interpretation of the clouda questioncloud computing does not address the small machine computing side of the equation, it adresses the big machine side. Loud does not pretend to replace clients, but storage and application servers.So what is your point there ?The cloud is not for everyoneIf you are a...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, big machine
- Discussion threads 2009-01-07
- The Componentware Revolution
- Many have serious misconceptions about the capabilities of current software approaches. Based upon surveys of corporate software projects in the United States, the realities of software development are as follows. About one third of all software projects are cancelled. Average projects expend twice as much budget and schedule as initially...
- Tags: Software, Software Project, iCMG, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2009-01-01
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