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Guy Kawasaki has posted a few recent entries over on his blog about starting a company without venture capital and without the typical lofty business plan. Instead, just test the idea in the real world. Thanks to open source software, cheap hardware
Evans Data Corporation yesterday announced the results of its survey of North American developers and concluded that Windows is losing ground to Linux as a platform for application development. Windows targeting decreased by 12% in the last year, it&
Get started with an open-source, Swing-based library for creating graphs
A few weeks back, intrepid reporter Will Watts over at RegDeveloper in the UK broke a story about how Microsoft was threatening legal action against a developer for creating a unit testing extension to Visual Studio, known as TestDriven.Net. The stor
Matt is interviewed at Dana's open source blog at ZDNet. "We sell primarily to places that also use Java, to companies that care about open source, and there are a lot. Open source is becoming a default for large companies. I’m seeing
IBD published a Q&A with Nora Denzel, who you might remember we spoke to back in January. IBD says the systems management market is led by HP, along with IBM, BMC Software and CA. Denzel says the Big Four are vulnerable to open source. A Gartner
David Kline left a comment regarding my blog on Intellectual Dishonesty. The ideas that David promotes in his comments deserve a little more exploration and I’d like to attempt to answer his question as well as invite others to do so. There are
Via Dana & Matt, The Register reports that the Red Hat Exchange (RHX) "roars like a muted lamb". The Register's point is that RHX has met with a lukewarm reception to date. After reading the following comment from Matt, with his VP
I recently keynoted the JA-SIG Conference in Denver, CO. For those who don't know (as I didn't), JA-SIG is a Java organization focused on the Higher Education industry, with a strong open source bent (Sakai, uPortal, etc.). As such, I talke
It seems I'm not the only open source guy currently suffering from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Carpal Tunnel is a Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) typically caused by too much typing combined with bad ergonomics. Not only do heavy-duty computer users