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A success story out of Florida

A success story out of FloridaI hope the progress spreads locallyI moved into one of the Viera subdivisions in 1993, when Wickham Road was 2 lanes and the only places to eat at that exit were McDonald's, Miami Subs, Denny's, and Cracker Barrel. To know that this much progress...

Tags: success story

Discussion threads 2009-07-19

Discussing Corruption

Discussing CorruptionA friend?Is this the same kind of friend you use when you need to go to the doctor and describe something embarrassing? You also just couldn't stop yourself with the "Windows and PC junk" could you?Time has come to stop talking about "friends" Rudy and start detailing one...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Discussing Corruption, success story

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

IT success stories

Linkedin's web infrastructure seems to offer a model for mid range sites: it's fast, it's clean - and development seems to have been based on combining the best of open source products with minimal customization. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Customer Service, Information Technology, Success Story, Sun Solaris, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Open Source, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Build ERP on social media: not a joke

Build ERP on social media: not a jokeProvocative but needs some factual correctionsHi Dennis: I often find your blogs interesting and provocative whether I agree with their hypotheses or not, and this one caught my attention as others have in the past. But I'm sometimes disappointed when some of...

Tags: Blogging, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, blog, success story, ERP, social media

Discussion threads 2007-07-19

Another Parallels-Vista success story

Another Parallels-Vista success storyMacintosh , it just works . As a toy....as a toySilly RabbitToys are for kids... Oh waiti'ts been that way for yearsIn the 90s, working at a university, I often found that floppies that wouldn't mount on the original PC would read fine on my Mac running...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh, Parallels-Vista, success story

Discussion threads 2007-05-09

Vista gets bashed for non-exploitable vulnerability

Vista gets bashed for non-exploitable vulnerabilityWrong bug GeorgeMS07-019 which Dave refers to isn't the Vista bug. _rit's a critical bugIt's a bug rated "critical" by Microsoft, even for Vista. Thanks for admitting the mistake._rBugYes a bug, is it explotable? in what way? We talk about Vista.. how many...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Vista security failure, Microsoft Windows Vista, vulnerability, success story

Discussion threads 2007-04-10

A OneCare success story

A OneCare success storyToo bad about Drive ImageI used PowerQuest's Drive Image as a backup for years and thought it to be the friendliest backup program I had ever seen. Then Symantec bought it and buried their only real competition. Ghost will never visit my computer.Isn't the latest...

Tags: Backups, Drive Image, OneCare, success story

Discussion threads 2006-03-21

File-swapping gets supercharged on student network

File-swapping gets supercharged on student networkDeja Vu all over again?[i]"Internet2 is for research. It's not for downloading music," said Marc Ray, a senior computer support specialist at Florida State University. He's still evaluating the program, he said. "The fact is the network cost a lot of money, and downloading games...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), success story, Internet, RIAA, copyrighted work, file-swapping

Discussion threads 2004-04-29

Additional Resources

Calling all innovators: Google hangs "Help Wanted" sign

Google hangs help Google provides no conduit for unsolicited ideas. It is arrogance - that one can get away with whilst the web is young. ZDNet should try asking why, rathering than pandering...Perhaps if their staff were given 15 minutes a week of free time to ponder on what is...

Tags: Benefits, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

New York Nights: Success In the City for iPhone 1.1.5 (Mobile)

New York Nights: success in the city for iPhone is a social simulation game for your iPhone and iPod Touch. You arrive in Manhattan fresh off the plane with little more than the shirt on your back and a place to crash. Make friends, find profitable employment, and party hard...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, New York, Gameloft, Smart Phones, Games, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Ubuntu 9.10 launch - 29 October

If it's ...... easier than Win7 to install, they will have a winner!^o^Yawn, another boring launch of another boring linux distro. No excitement, people aren't enthused. There is nothing new here. As I said...BORING.Well 9.04 was not diffcult to install Not sure what you are going for here 9.04 was...

Tags: Linux, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, KDE 4 Desktop, Win7, Ubuntu, HDCP, Microsoft Windows 7, hardware, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Print and online ad revenues plunge at New York Times Co.

Their losses will continue, and it's not because of a bad economyThe company said that there was some sign of an improving economy and that fourth quarter losses should be lower than in the most recent quarter.That's some good spin. However, their losses and that of the MSM started...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Sales force management, online advertising, New York Times Co., advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

The maintenance renewal landscape

A small and therefore statistically dubious quarterly CIO survey undertaken by Kash Rangan's team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch published earlier this month makes revealing reading. On the general spending front, it should be no surprise that the survey believes CIO's are under spending relative...

Tags: Revenue, SAP AG, Maintenance Fee, Maintenance Revenue, Data Centers, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Team Management, Operational Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-23

News to know: Nook; Yahoo; Sun; Net Neutrality; Apple; Windows 7

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. Ed Burnette: Meet Nook: Barnes and Noble's sexy new book reader Matthew Miller: B&N Nook ebook reader revolutionizes...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Sun Microsystems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Apple MacBook, Apple iMac, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, E-books, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Notebooks, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-10-21

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

LOL!!! Sinking to a new low to try to justify linux. This is just sad. I give them less than a year before they migrate away from it.Yes, if security, scalability, and performance are important, Linux is a nobrainer. There are a lot of companies out there still flushing...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

News to know: Apple; Alex; Microhoo; Droid; FCC

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: Another strong quarter for Apple; credit strong iPhone, Mac sales Jason D. O'Grady: Apple announces most profitable...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Federal Government, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Government, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Massachusetts becomes Canada as reform debate nears climax

Obamacare ship is sinkingPeople saw the light with the failed socialist experiment in mASSachusetts, so liberal politicians like Barnie Frank can stuck their health care reform where the sun doesn't shine.Yeah, the ship is sinking, but it is Obama who's rearanging the chairs to give Pelosi and Reid front row...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

On the future of Open Source thought leadership

It's time we recognized the advantages of bothIMHO it's time to recognize the advantages in both, and not to do silly things like pretend that somehow software is a moral agent.I can certainly see the advantage of software being open source. It helps the educational community, and gives tools to...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Free Software, leadership, Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services, open source, proprietary software, Microsoft Corp., hardware, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Success Story: NaviSite

"In a sense, our IT infrastructure is our product, says Mark Clayman, senior vice president of hosting services for NaviSite. "By building a best-in-class delivery platform—storage, service, networking devices and processes and tools—we can offer a level of technology and expertise that most customers can't easily...

Tags: NaviSite Inc., IBM Corp., Productivity, Networking

White papers 2009-10-08