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- What open source can teach medical practice
- Great article, Dana.You did in such a short piece what CNN, MSNBC, FOX and other media journalists failed to do: tell the story as it really is. You didn't take what was news worthy and sensationalized it, nor played up a negative reading of it to frighten those possibly affected,...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, open source, medical practice, CNN
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- With AppSense, making sense of managing the virtual desktop user experience
- As more enterprises turn to virtual desktop infrastructure to save money and leverage the infrastructure they already have, managing the user experience has become critical. But how do you maintain standardization across large organizations while keeping the user happy at each log on? AppSense...
- Tags: AppSense, Virtual Desktop, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-10-12
- 'Custom XML' the key to patent suit over Microsoft Word
- Well...It's kind of odd/fun/amusing that Microsoft after doing its big OOXML song and dance is being hoist on its own petard by a patent on custom XML.I do wonder if Microsoft in stumping up OOXML did much at all in the way of diligence with regard to patents on custom...
- Tags: XML, Microsoft Corp., patent, Custom XML, Custom Inc., Microsoft Word
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- Google ChromeOS: have people given leave of their senses?
- Google ChromeOS: have people given leave of their senses?Thankyou...This is the first well reasoned and thought out post I have read on ZDNet in a long time. I have just read Adrians post and he has decided it is a game changer already even after saying there is little...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Google Inc., Google ChromeOS, Linux, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-07-08
- After speed, what's the next challenge for web browsers?
- After speed, what's the next challenge for web browsers?SyncronizingI use Xmarks to keep my bookmarks synchronized.http://www.xmarks.com/It does everything I need it to, and doesn't get in my way. Works great.RE: After speed, what's the next challenge for web browsers?I think the future of browsers is that they will become virtual...
- Tags: Opera Software ASA, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2009-07-07
- Detroit's shrunken three looking better, but...
- Detroit's shrunken three looking better, but...GM is screwedI will never set foot on a Government Motors lot again, and, according to polls, I am not alone. So, unless the liberals give up their Civics and Priuses and start buying GM vehicles, GM is screwed.Time for a new way to...
- Tags: way car, car, pod
- Discussion threads 2009-06-22
- EMC: Virtualization is ready to run the world's biggest applications
- Typically, when IT departments decide to use virtualization in the data center, the big question is which workloads to virtualize. The conventional wisdom has been to avoid virtualizing anything that was too I/O-intensive, such as databases and e-mail systems. However, EMC wants to put that idea to...
- Tags: EMC Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Intel's next-gen Atom platform - Pine Trail
- Intel's next-gen Atom platform - Pine TrailOk, but what kind of gfx can we expect?I'm hoping that they have something that will at least do HD video with high bitrates. The GMA X4500HD works fine for that, but the GMA 950 and 500 are just terrible.It'd be nice if...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., graphics, GPU, Pine Trail, CPU, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- Oracle Office, MySQL, and other dreams
- Oracle Office, MySQL, and other dreamsIt also allows Oracle to take baby steps towards the world where databases become a commodity. They will be already are moving up the chain to applications.In the transition, Oracle will have the number one commodity database with the best monetization strategy, and be able...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Databases, OPEN SOURCE, Oracle Corp., Oracle Office, MySQL, database
- Discussion threads 2009-05-02
- CRIKEY! He can swallow whole companies! But not communities.
- Boy, what a big beautiful snake he is, mates. He eats multi-billion dollar companies with all their assets, WHOLE. But even big old  Constrictus Siliconvallis cannot squeeze the Open Source community. So, suffice to say, the Sun Microsystems story didn't end the way...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., JCP, Programming Languages, Java, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Is information technology management stuck in the 19th century?
- Is information technology management stuck in the 19th century?Is our culture holding us back?I'm thinking that one of the big challenges to moving forward with any information technology is cultural change. We've seen an amazing capacity for younger generations those in their teens and twenties today to be able...
- Tags: data model, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-04-17
- The Open Cloud Initiative: Whats Up With That?
- The Open Cloud Initiative: Whats Up With That?One man's Open is another man's ClosedPaul,As your article implies a) we?ve been here before and b) this is bound to fail.?Open? initiatives are always launched by a consortium of second tier vendors who want to challenge the first tier vendors? grip on...
- Tags: Mainframes, Government, Servers, WHATS UP
- Discussion threads 2009-03-30
- Not all cheap wireless routers are created equal
- Not all cheap wireless routers are created equalRE: Not all cheap wireless routers are created equalNothing wrong with cheaping out on the router as long as it fits your needs. The real moral of the story is make sure to test things exactly how the your user is going to...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Home networking, Network technology, NETWORKING, Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, router, NetGear, wireless, wireless router
- Discussion threads 2009-03-22
- Getting inside a CIO's head
- Getting inside a CIO's headThe Government CloudI am not sure this would be a good thing or a bad thing for the Federal Government to get into the cloud.On the one hand they could legislate what the free market has been reluctant to give consumers (Data Ownership, Standardization, Security)But they...
- Tags: security, cloud provider
- Discussion threads 2009-03-13
- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture
- This is the 41st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (2) In its present form this commitment to publication and peer review, originally derived from the core academic and scientific approach giving rise to the science...
- Tags: Noorda, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- Cloud: More important than the PC?
- Cloud: More important than the PC? Without the PC there is no cloudI'm not denying the fact that the cloud has gained importance, and I'm not denying that you can gain access to the cloud through non-PC devices. But the PC is still where the content is...
- Tags: Desktops, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-02-24
- I've Seen the Future of Computing: It's a Screen.
- In the not so far off future, computing for most of us will be reduced to remotely delivered subscriber services, running on cheap, commodity high-definition display units. The last few weeks have been a rush of virtualization and cloud-based announcements. In December, IBM...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Thin Client, Virtual Desktop, Computing, Josef Konsumer, Screen, Linux, Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture
- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source CultureTalk about B & GThe Balkanization and Gerrymandering organizational style of UNIX is the number 1 reason why UNIX never took off like Windoze did. Here's some examples:I worked at FORD on the UNIX server development team. We were responsible for developing...
- Tags: Operating systems, open source, Unix, standards
- Discussion threads 2009-02-13
- Adaptive infrastructure no longer vision
- Adaptive infrastructure no longer visionstandardization with a single vendor isn't the only optionJames,Great post on how yesterday?s vision of the data center is today becoming a reality. While you understandably highlighted the largest players and their quest to homogenize data centers with their line of products, I have to...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, data center, vision, Adaptive Infrastructure
- Discussion threads 2009-01-27
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