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Where is open source innovation?

Where is open source innovation?Is there even any inovation at all? That is the real question.Amaya started in 1996 http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ This predates FrontPage.Mozilla actually was started with NS 5.0 code by Netscape. Netscape predates MSIE. XUL predates XAML and Mozilla has had plans to intergrate SVG with...

Tags: Web browsers, Apache Software Foundation, SVG, XUL, open source, commercial open source, Mozilla Corp., sponsored project, content management, Microsoft Corp., innovation, Netscape Communications Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-11-25

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Yahoo pays its 'technical debt' with IT overhaul

Yahoo had a lot of "technical debt"---systems that most companies would call legacy infrastructure---and has it just about paid off. Sam Pullara, chief technologist at Yahoo, walked developers through its infrastructure changes over the last three years. The talk could have come from any enterprise that finds...

Tags: Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Sam Pullara, HBase, YQL, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Open Source, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-09

New Microsoft social computing lab formed under Ozzie

desktop social networkingI saw this awhile back when doing some research and bookmarked it, looks to be a promising angle, and involving this team:http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/SocialDesktop/Lili, Social Desktop, and Live MeshThis must mean that Social Desktop (Lili's previous MSR project) is on the fast track to productization.I also find it interesting that...

Tags: Social networking, Desktops, social computing, Lili, Social Desktop

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

News to know: Skype; reCAPTCHA; Oracle Q1; Zune HD; Bing

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Report: Skype founders sue eBay; could complicate Skype sale Dave Greenfield: Skype Founders Sue eBay and...

Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Zune, Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Phishing, Microsoft Project, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Cyberthreats, Web Browsers, Handhelds, Security, Spam And Phishing, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Internet

Blog posts 2009-09-17

FSF launches "Windows 7 Sins" campaign

Classic defensive strategyIf you can't defend your POV, pound the table! :)Seriously, this makes the FSF look desperate. It might also open them up for libel charges Of course MS has to weigh the martyr factor. On second thought, that might give the FSF too much credit...The fact they felt...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Patches, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Number 6, Total Cost, Free Software Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

Vicious cycle: Climate change stresses grid. Outages occur. Repeat.

I know that pretty much everyone out there has a very polarized view of climate change. My blogging partner Harry Fuller does a fabulous job of stoking the flames on that issue, so I usually leave well enough alone. But couldn't ignore the irony of a new report sponsored by...

Tags: Climate Change, Grid, Outage, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-25

Samba, Microsoft cooperate on new set of SMB/CIFS docs?

One Samba contributor is working with Microsoft on a new set of SMB/CIFS documentation. A recent post on the Samba team blog indicates that code contributor Chris Hertel and his Ubiqx consulting company are working with Microsoft on a new set of SMB/CIFS protocol documentation. ...

Tags: Common Internet File System, Samba, Microsoft Corp., Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Inside Curve: Lane Bryant Scores Plus Plus

Who doesn't love style and fashion?  Well, I suppose I don't love fashion, judging from my incredibly poor clothing selection skills (I rely 100% on my wife, who has mad skills when it comes to picking out good looking clothes) but I am in love with style. I love to...

Tags: Apparel, Exclusion, Community, Brand, Women, Network, American Eagle, Bebe, Curve, Jay, Kate Moss, Gender And Diversity, Social Networking, Branding, Human Resources, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Intuit creates open source community

Earlier today, I had a conversation with Alex Chriss and Alex Barnett of Intuit as they discussed the creation of code.intuit.com Intuit's open source community. This is a smart move and one that I'd suggested would be a welcome addition to IPP when we last spoke. In...

Tags: Intuit Inc., Open-source Community, VerticalResponse, Web Services, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-27

A Good Year for Security Collaboration

Guest Editorial by  George Stathakopoulos It seems like just yesterday when I was at Black Hat.  Now as I get ready to fly to Las Vegas again, I look forward to seeing a lot of security researchers, hearing their latest exploits and how they fared over the...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Conficker Working Group, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-07-27

A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)

My first post of today pointed towards an all too familiar enterprise project 'fail' and the documented experiences of one project person trying to reach completion on a now two year implementation. Coincidentally (I didn't know this was in the pipe), Mike Krigsman provides a critique of Forrester's Enterprise Software...

Tags: Consultant, SAP AG, Bill, Principle Reason, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-13

! 3D Tennis II 5.2 (Mobile)

Now in High-Res and Stereo where available - Palm OS 5. Realistic 3D Tournament. Become Number One tennis player in the TOP 20 Rank List of Men and Women Singles.This game was the official PDA game of US Open 2001 and 2002 Championships. The project was sponsored by American Express....

Tags: 3D, Palm OS 5, Mobile, Palm Inc., Stefan Komilev, Players Database, 3D Tennis, Palm OS, Mobile Operating Systems, Games, Mobile Applications, Handhelds, Wireless And Mobility, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Students create portable device to detect suicide bombers

According to latest reports, improvised explosive devices IEDs, the weapons of suicide bombers, are responsible for about half of soldier casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. To help contain this urgent threat, specialized contractors are being called in to provide services like counter IED training and technologies like...

Tags: Student, Portable Device, Corporate Communications, Handhelds, Networking, Marketing, Hardware, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Outcome Based Social Networks: Yet Another CRM at the Speed of Light Excerpt

I'm going to finish the book today. CRM at the Speed of Light, 4th edition will be done by the time that the day ends - though I suspect a lot sooner.  It's going to be a 750 page tome - mostly print, some supplemented electronically, on CRM 2.0 -...

Tags: Network, Outcome, YouTube Inc., CRM, Outcome Based Social Networks, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Red Hat's Fedora 11 to offer interop with Microsoft Exchange

Red Hat is not going to let the Microsoft-Novell partnership dim its own prospects for interoperability. That seems to be the case with the Red Hat-sponsored open source Fedora project, which plans to release on June 9 a major upgrade of its free Linux that offers robust...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Exchange Server, Fedora Project, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Instant Messaging, Groupware, Open Source, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Are any open source projects too big to lose

Are any open source projects too big to loseAn enemy of an enemy...It seems clear that these "crown jewels" are continuing sources of vexation to MS. So why would MS arch-enemy Oracle do anything to reduce this effect?On the other hand, might MS counter-move by buying some open source...

Tags: OpenOffice, Databases, UNIX, Oracle Corp., open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source project, MySQL, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-22

Perfectionists need not apply

If you're a perfectionist, or prefer to solve problems alone, you're going to have some problems working with community projects. Individual contributors and companies need to get used to working in the open, and be willing to work towards perfection rather than trying to nail it the first time. ...

Tags: Developer, Drupal, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2009-04-06

Opengear console server for the dynamic datacenter

If we had an opportunity to visit a typical datacenter, we'd see mainframes, midrange systems, industry standard systems, storage systems, air conditioning equipment, power supplies and just about every other type of computing equipment. Oh yes, don't forget the cappachino machine for the operations staff. Each of these pieces of...

Tags: Console, Data Center, Network, Open Source, Server, Console Server, Opengear, uClinux, Data Centers, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-03-17

Mattoon may be back on the map

Actually the town in eastern Illinois was never really off the map. But it did take a big hit at the end of 2007, that's when the President from Texas killed the federal support for FutureGen, the next generation coal-burning power plant to be built in Mattoon. Some...

Tags: Coal, Plant, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-11

Google ads go behavorial; Is it more 'interesting'?

Google ads go behavorial; Is it more 'interesting'?Ad-ware in the Cloud?Targeted ads are not new and have been obnoxious in the past. I remember doing a search for a anti-virus app online and having an ad pop up from Symantec for their anti-virus app. It was really annoying...

Tags: Targeted Ads, NOW IT, advertisement, Google Ads, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-03-11