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Forrester just issued an insightful report on the increasing adoption of open source in the enterprise. The verdict? Open source is everywhere, and taking an ever-increasing piece of the enterprise pie:Forrester has observed a pattern: Once companies
Despite the fact that I think Ballmer is holding Microsoft back from the 21st Century, I do like his snarky comments. In an interview with USA Today, Ballmer makes some of his most explosive comments to date. When read alongside Bill Gates' comm
In response to "overwhelming" customer demand, Dell will be selling some consumer models of its PCs with Ubuntu pre-installed. This is fantastic for Ubuntu, of course, but it's not necessarily bad for Novell and Red Hat. Why? First off
After law school I lost much of my faith in the law. Perhaps because law text books focus on "edge cases," it's easy to get a jaded view of the law, and especially of the US Supreme Court. Today, I feel some of that old faith coming ba
Word on the street is that Dell has chosen Ubuntu for a line of desktops and laptops. Good for them--now to rid the world of MS Office... DesktopLinux.com: Dell to choose Ubuntu Fabian Rodriguez: It's D Day...
While John Dragoon (a generally likable and great guy) attempts to confuse the issue as to why people are annoyed with the Microsoft/Novell pact (Hint: John, it's not an interoperability thing, it's a patent thing), the Novell exodus contin
What with the recent changes in the RIA market, including the emergence of Microsoft's Silverlight (going into beta on Monday at the MIX conference), Adobe's decision to open source its Flex platform by the end of 2007, I asked David Temkin
Over at Tecosystems, SOG was trying to explain a misquote of his in Computerworld re:MySQL and somehow drafted a great explanation of dual-license models. The short version of my explanation went something like this: in layman's terms (I know th
At least for what I sold. I put my wife's road bike up for sale on Saturday, and by noon Monday had sold it. On eBay it was still at $250 (a fraction of its price) with six days left in the bidding process. It's possible that I would have e
You know this Microsoft ODF thing is a big deal when MarketWatch is reporting on it. A great analogy popped up in the article (paraphrased) -- "Word and Excel are like drugs about to go generic." Soon after introducing an open document form