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Tim O'Reilly, ever a few steps ahead of the rest of us, has some thoughtful musings on what's behind Google's new 411 service. Tim doesn't cast this as an open source move, but rather a Web 2.0 move designed to build up a treasure
I just finished reading this excellent article from last week's BusinessWeek on William J. Conaty, GE's head of Human Resources (HR). He offers insight that is appropriate for any company, of whatever size, open source or proprietary. On me
I'm finishing up my presentation for the upcoming COSS.fi event next week (4/19/07), and was exploring an idea - how do you compete when the code is open? - when two things happened in quick succession. One, I was reading the Bible and came acro
We made a bold attempt to switch over to the Google Apps today and man what a world of pain we ran into with some of the stupidest "features" I have ever seen from a business application. The main issue is that you can't send POP mail
Acquisition gives Sun SavaJe's intellectual property, including its open Java platform for mobile devices
This is what I love to hear: Sumitomo Electric is moving to Novell's SUSE Enterprise Linux. Apparently, a key driver for Sumitomo's investment is Novell's vision of virtualization, as Dan Kusnetzky recently captured:Novell thinks that
LinuxWorld just posted an article identifiying 10 hot enterprise software startups to watch. Not all the companies are open source (some are SaaS, for example). In fact, one sells "extensions to the Microsoft Dynamics and Microsoft Dynamics CRM
In the early days open source was all about lower costs, but these days the apps have matured to such a point (on par or better than proprietary) that the conversation is shifting to value - getting more from your applications at a lower cost and ena
Network Security Journal just posted a compendium of open source security tools for your enjoyment and adoption. Lots of cool apps I have never heard of on the list....