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LinuxWorld Conference attendees are judging open source software by the same criteria they judge proprietary software, opening up more opportunities
In the past week I heard about two fairly large companies who are in a bit of a jam. Back in the days of the Internet Boom, they purchased an "E-commerce server" from one of two separate niche software vendors (i.e. ISVs). These two ISVs we
Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW), under CEO Jonathan Schwartz's focused leadership, has managed to turn a profit for the third quarter in a row with its results announced earlier this week. While Sun has been a whipping boy in recent years, I thi
One other very noteworthy keynote at Oscon last week was Steve Yegge's presentation "How to Ignore Marketing and Become Irrelevent in Two Easy Steps which you can view on Blip.tv. While Steve had some technical problems displaying his slide
At Oscon last week, Bill Hilf, Microsoft's General Manager of Platform Strategy, gave a keynote presentation on the Microsoft's Open Source initiatives. While the talk was only about 20 minutes, Hilf did a good job describing the context in
There seems to be a lot of discussion about whether Project Indiana at openSolairs is a Linux clone or not. The Project Indiana website states: "Project Indiana is a new project to create an OpenSolaris binary distribution. This distribution wil
I was playing golf the other day with some other folks in the software business and the topic of email came up. I was talking about an article I read that claimed that the younger generation prefers instant messaging over email and quoted someone as
I'm sick and tired of products. Actually, I'm sick and tired of product features and the announcements related to them. I remember back in the late 80's and early 90's when database products were introducing new features like row-
File archiver 7-Zip wins award as all-over best project; Firebird relational database is voted best project for the enterprise
In Bill Hilf's keynote at Oscon today, he announced that Microsoft will submit it's shared source licenses to the OSI for approval. This includes the Microsoft Permissive License, Community License and Reference License. Although a bit late