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- Open source is a sales model
- Open source is a sales modelKey point"While most open source firms look at open licenses as lowering their R&D costs,... [Yes, reduced R&D staff costs as a result of the generosity of people willing to replace employees at no cost.]... it's this lower sales cost Soward believes is the real...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, sales, open source, William Hurley, car company, Sean Hull
- Discussion threads 2006-12-11
- Qlusters serving all virtualization schemes
- I had the honor last week of chatting with William Hurley, CTO of Qlusters, the open source data management outfit. The headline was that its openQRM project would deliver plug-in support for all the major virtualization projects -- Xen, VMWare, QEMU, VServer -- whatever. For enterprises this is...
- Tags: virtualization, William Hurley, Qlusters
- Blog posts 2006-07-25
- Qlusters prepares to attack the systems management establishment
- Earlier this year Qlusters crossed the chasm from proprietary to open source software. The small company, backed by blue-chip VCs, took nearly three years of proprietary code development for its sophisticated systems management software and open sourced it under a modified attribution only Mozilla Public License. Now, armed with a...
- Tags: Qlusters, open source
- Blog posts 2006-04-18
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- Report: Data-mining for terrorists doesn't work
- After years of the federal government grabbing all the data it could find, building huge collections through which to data-mine for connections that would yield leads to terrorism suspects, a 352-page study released on Tuesday by a committee of the National Research Council warned that such goals "will be...
- Tags: Terrorist, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Data Mining, Federal Government, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Techies choose Obama - by a landslide
- If techies could choose the next President, Obama would win in a landslide. Checking donors from 10 large tech companies, including Apple, Dell, Google and Microsoft, over 90% of the donations support the senator from Illinois. Why does high-tech love Obama? First the numbers The...
- Tags: Landslide, Broadband, Obama, McCain, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Apple aims to dismiss Psystar countersuit
- Apple asked a U.S. District Court judge to dismiss Psystar's counterclaims against the company. As background, Apple launched a suit against Psystar alleging that the Mac clone maker harmed its brand. Psystar all resources fired back arguing that Apple was abusing monopoly power and launched its own...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Antitrust, Apple Inc., Computer, Psystar, Productivity, Corporate Law, Desktops, Security, Business Operations, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Mio Knight Rider GPS
- If you ever dreamed as a child or as an adult of owning a car like KITT of Knight Rider fame, you're dream is about to come true...sort of. Unless you're rolling in money, you can't have the actual Trans Am or David Hasselhoff, but you can have the next...
- Tags: GPS, Keyboards, display, Mio Knight Rider GPS, KITT, portable navigation device, Knight Rider GPS
- Product reviews 2008-09-26
- My Awesome IT Job: Vice President of Security, SuccessFactors
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Security, QA, SuccessFactors Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Arctic Class of '08: less ice, but not the least
- Arctic Class of '08: less ice, but not the leastArctic Ice can not effect sea level"What If All the Ice Melts?" Myths and Realities (Wm. Robert Johnston, B.A. Astronomy, M.S. Physics)http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/environment/waterworld.html[b]"[i]Arctic Ocean pack ice = 0.01 % Fraction of world ice - The melting of floating ice will not change...
- Tags: ice, Arctic, RealClimate.org
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- YouTube profit (and revenue) watch intensifies
- Google has made profiting from YouTube a big priority in 2008, 2009 and beyond and the video site's potential is being monitored closely amid a weak ad market. Sure YouTube founder Chad Hurley wants to conquer every screen. In a blog post Hurley wrote: Our goal...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- Shuttleworth defends Firefox license in Ubuntu
- Canonical's CEO Mark Shuttleworth has explained the presence of a Firefox 3.0 end-user license agreement in Intrepid Ibex, following developer complaints. Mark Shuttleworth, whose company, Canonical, funds the Ubuntu operating system, has stepped in to try to resolve a dispute on Ubuntu developer's forum Launchpad. ...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Mozilla Firefox, EULA, Mozilla Corp., Shuttleworth, Web Browsers, Internet, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, Canonical, Linux, Firefox, developers
- News items 2008-09-15
- Apple execs settle shareholder suits for $14 million
- A federal judge in San Jose has given preliminary approval to a $14 million settlement of shareholder claims over backdating of stock options against current and former Apple executives. LOS ANGELES--A federal judge in San Jose has given preliminary approval to a $14 million settlement of shareholder claims over...
- Tags: Stock Option, Shareholder, Stock, Settlement, Apple Inc., Financial Accounting, Litigation, Investment, Benefits, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Business Operations, Reuters, Apple, stock options, legal
- News items 2008-09-11
- J. M. W. Turner Screensaver - 130 Paintings (exe)
- Joseph Mallord William Turner, an English landscape/seascape oil painter and watercolourist of the Romantic era, whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. He drew inspiration from the raw power, immediacy, and energy of nature; and strived to transpose this passion to the canvas. The work...
- Tags: Screensaver, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-09-11
- TechCrunch50: Day 1
- When Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis team up on a project, the webs are bound to be shaken up. Last year, their conference TechCrunch40 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Advertisement, Marissa Mayer, Entrepreneur, Video, MySpace, Qik, Meghan, Arrington, Vitamin Water, Calcanis, Mahalo, Blueprint Multicore, OpenTrace, E-mail, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Class action bait on iPhone problems
- Classic class-action bait over the iPhone 3G's crappy performance: A San Diego-based lawsuit filed late last week alleges that Apple and its carrier partner AT&T have knowingly oversold iPhone 3G, promising fast speeds only to see a glut of customers bog down the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Performance, Apple iPhone 3G, Class Action, 3G, Performance Management, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- William Bouguereau Screensaver - 155 Paintings (exe)
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau Screensaver - 155 images of the original paintings spanning his career. Bouguereau was completely in tune with the Academic style of his time, and is considered to be of the highest standard in expert painting technique. He was heavily inspired by the ancients but using modern interpretations. When...
- Tags: Image, Images, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-08-22
- Microsoft launches 3-D photo viewer Photosynth
- Microsoft Live Labs' latest project is actually an old one with a new twist. Photosynth lets you stitch together an entire roll of photos into dazzling 3-D environments. CNET.com's Ina Fried sits down with Microsoft's Gary William Flake to chat about what you can do with this new technology.
- Tags: 3D, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Microsoft Live Labs, News, ina fried, microsoft, photosynth, gary william, pictures, albums
- Videos 2008-08-21
- Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service
- Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called "spectacular," but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon. On Salesforce.com's second quarter conference call (earnings recap, InStranet acquisition) Benioff revealed that Dell signed a...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Marc Benioff, Billing, PaaS, Summer Sales Cycle, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Compromise on the drinking age debate
- Compromise on the drinking age debateThe Land of Misfit toysA brief conpendium of former Rice people would have to include Howard Hughes, Carrie Bradshaw and Matt Wilson, all of whom left after their freshman year.Among our graduates are John Doerr, writers William Broyles and Bill Goyen, game designer Steve Jackson...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, drinking age, beverage
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- RIAA settles for $6K in Elektra v. Barker
- The RIAA has settled PDF for a mere $6,000 in the case of Elektra v Barker. The RIAA had sought maximum statutory penalities for each of a long list of files found in the defendant's "shared" folder. So this is a come-down from many tens of thousands of dollars (recall...
- Tags: RIAA, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
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