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Centrify's Tom Kemp: Here's the map to avoiding Microsoft's patent minefield

On February 21 of 2008, just two months ago, Microsoft announced "strategic changes in technology and business practices to expand interoperability." These changes, which would be incorporated into a set of "Interoperability Principles" that would provide API and protocol documentation for connectivity to and from their "high-volume business products" naming...

Tags: Patent, Centrify, Samba, Protocol, Microsoft Corp., Tom Kemp, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-04-22

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News to know: Twitter DMs; New Neutrality; Zimbra; Dell-Perot; Palm; Foursquare

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. Michael Krigsman: Are Twitter direct messages safe? Richard Koman: FCC to announce net neutrality principles ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Twitter Inc., Information Technology, Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Zimbra, Mary Jo Foley, Net Neutrality, Perot Systems Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Serial ATA, Corporate Law, Web Services, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Business Operations, Management

Blog posts 2009-09-22

Frugal Tech Show with Centrify CEO Tom Kemp

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I talk with Tom Kemp, CEO of Centrify, the Active Directory and Identity Management open systems integration software company. by Jason Perlow

Tags: Centrify, CEO, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Authentication/Encryption, Directory Services, Security Administration, Enterprise Software, Software, Security, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-09-21

News to know: Microsoft Mesh; Microhoo; OLPC; Patents; Linked data

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh Ryan Stewart: Silverlight and the future core of Microsoft Screen shots: Microsoft's Live Mesh right Images: Hands-on with Live Mesh Techmeme ...

Tags: Patent, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Linux, Open Source, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-23

Doing the Microsoft patent math

Just over a year ago, Microsoft officials threw down the patent gauntlet, claiming free and open-source software violated 235 of its patents -- but refused and continue to refuse to get more specific. Today, thanks to a post by my ZDNet blogging colleague Jason Perlow, there's a new piece of...

Tags: Patent, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Patent Application, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Centrify's Tom Kemp: Here's the map to avoiding Microsoft's patent minefield

Centrify's Tom Kemp: Here's the map to avoiding Microsoft's patent minefieldAnd Now for Something Completely Similar...http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2350.htmlCould you make a map for open source companiesLike Red Hat, Sun, IBM, etc.?You could...But no Open Source company has made litigation threats that other Open Source projects are violating their intellectual property. Microsoft has.Keyword...OPENBeing...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source, patent, Centrify

Discussion threads 2008-04-22