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Can Linux and Solaris be married?Open Source - Dec 2, 2008 It’s pretty obvious that OpenSolaris, despite its advantages as a carrier-class operating system, especially in file management, is losing its war for survival with Linux. Blame its developer relations, or Linux … Also tagged: general, development, linux, sun microsystems, linux server os |
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Why engage in open source FUD?Open Source - Nov 27, 2008 Whether or not Gartner Group really is engaging in FUD regarding open source, there is a good reason for it. There is big money in FUD. (Elmer Fudd did not become really dangerous until Warner Brothers gave him a … Also tagged: general, marketing, publishing, business models |
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Open source and health care reformOpen Source - Nov 24, 2008 Computing is said to be the “secret sauce” enabling health care reform. But after over a year covering the field for ZDNet, I sometimes feel I have been transported to the late 1980s. There are a host of proprietary … Also tagged: general, development, strategy, database management |
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The Twiki fork, a takeover opportunity?Open Source - Nov 1, 2008 One of the first stories I did here was about the fork of the Mambo CMS project. Three years later both the Mambo Foundation and the fork, called Joomla, survive. It’s happening again, this time with Twiki, an open … Also tagged: general, development, management, strategy, venture capital, sun microsystems, business models, database management |
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The real value of Scribe for open sourceOpen Source - Oct 28, 2008 There is much rejoicing over the fact that Facebook has released Scribe as open source. I want to join the celebration for reasons which have nothing to do with social networking. Scribe, in the end, is a tool for … Also tagged: general, development, internet, infrastructure, applications |
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Is Linux really worth $10.8 billion?Open Source - Oct 24, 2008 How did the Linux Foundation come up with a value of $10.8 billion for the code in Linux? Very conservatively. Amanda McPherson (right), the group’s vice president-marketing and developer programs, said they used the … Also tagged: general, linux, red hat, distributions, linux server os |
Paul Murphy - Oct 24, 2008
You'd think buying a snow blower in snow country would be easy: but between the problem posed by an unwillingness to buy Chinese, a distrust of companies buying brand names to exploit customer loyalties, and the …
Also tagged: general, infrastructure, productivity, enterprise policy
Open Source - Sep 30, 2008
The decision by Microsoft to add JQuery to its Visual Studio may seem like no big deal, but it strikes me as evidence we are on the other side of an important tipping point in tech history. The war between business …
Also tagged: general, development, microsoft, mobile, java
Open Source - Sep 23, 2008
While we will continue to see gadgets for many years, just as we still have the Internet and PCs, we are now entering a new technology era, the box era. (These boxes live at Cornell. From Blenderartists.org.) …
Also tagged: general, hardware, applications, software as a service, business models, mass market
Open Source - Sep 18, 2008
Rumors are swirling. HP wants to stop depending on Microsoft and will build a Linux shell which bypasses Vista and offers a better customer experience. Question. Is this just like Ubuntu, or is this going to be a …
Also tagged: general, development, management, linux, linux desktop os