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I have to say that I was pretty disappointed by the Apple announcements this past week. I was really hoping for a 12 or 13 inch MacBook Pro. As the company moves further into consumer it makes sense to that they would continue to revamp the iPod offe
I have been struggling trying to decide whether or not I should continue to blog. I am really busy lately and I mostly have felt like my commentary was as useless as the next knucklehead. James and Cote pretty much convinced me I should keep it goin
Good news on the open source SOA front. Red Hat has announced the general availability of Red Hat JBoss ESB 4.2. This may look fairly innocent, but it's much more than another competitor to WS02 ESB, Mule or FUSE ESB (formerly known as Celtix fr
NetApp contends that Sun's ZFS file-system technology infringes on seven NetApp patents
There's a slew of open source conferences coming up this fall in the US and in Europe. Here are a few of the highlights: -Utah Open Source Conference, Sept 6-8, Provo -Rails Conf Europe, Sept 17-19, Berlin -Gartner Open Source Summit, Sept 19-21
Now that Palm has cancelled the mis-guided Foleo notebook computer, I was thinking more about what would be the ideal ultra-portable. To be fair, there are some things Palm got right with the Foleo, so if they ever create a revised device, perhaps th
In Microsoft's announcement today that it had released Silverlight 1.0 to the Web, the company lavished special attention on Novell's continuing efforts to extend Silverlight (Microsoft's Flash killer) to the Linux platform via its Mon
Just read this on Barron's Online: Is the growth rate of Linux adoption slowing down? UBS software analyst Heather Bellini asks that provocative question in a rundown this morning on the findings of her firm’s latest survey of C
I need an $500 underpowered Linux Laptop like I need a... a Palm Foleo? While the idea of a fast-booting Palm Foleo laptop as a "mobile phone companion" might have sounded like a good idea to the guys who dreamed it up, this struck me as on
Moving from one OS to another is never easy. Heck, it's not even easy to migrate from one version of Windows to the next. (My buddies at Microsoft always tell me it's too much work; just wait until you buy your next machine.) That said, the