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by steve on June 1, 2005
Last week we had a post titled "Secure the Mobile devices", In which we discussed the theft of a laptop of an MCI employee and the loss of financial information that was on the same. Now we ...
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by steve on May 31, 2005
Earlier in this month we had a post highlighting the discussion on H-1b visa, well looks like it was all for nothing, As the expected rush for H-1Bs doesnt seem to have materialised. When the U.S. Cit...
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by steve on May 30, 2005
Eben Moglen is convinced the software industry is returning to being about a free exchange of ideas and code. I came across this article at Internet News , below are excerpts from the same.
Eben Mogl...
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Enterprise Software
by steve on May 27, 2005
From CRN,
A new market battle is brewing
in the enterprise applications space. The soon-to-be combatants: SAP
and Salesforce.com, both of which aim to convince businesses of all
sizes to use their o...
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Market Perturbations
by steve on May 27, 2005
Siebel management appears to be sufficiently concerned and cognizant of the fact that employees get jittery during takeover rumors. The've announced a retention benefit program as reported by CNE...
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by steve on May 27, 2005
CDs containing localised versions of OpenOffice, Firefox and other open source applications will be distributed to millions of people by the Indian government. The government has started distributing ...
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Enterprise Software
by steve on May 26, 2005
Real simple syndication, better known as RSS, is moving from weblogs to the Fortune 500. The technology, designed to let users subscribe to blog newsfeeds, is being co-opted by corporations to keep em...
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by steve on May 26, 2005
Sage Software launched SageCRM.com, a rebranded version of the Accpac accounting and sales software Sage bought in late 2003 from Computer Associates International Inc. The new SageCRM.com service tak...
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by steve on May 26, 2005
With thousands of CMS (Content Management System) options available, it's difficult for a CMS shopper to evaluate those options in a timely way. Now companies looking for an open source CMS have a...
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by steve on May 25, 2005
Kory/Ferry International, one of the well-known executive search firms, has an interesting article in Computerworld entitled, "Is There Really A Glass Ceiling For CIOs?" Probably interesting...
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by steve on May 25, 2005
Mark Taylor believes that OpenLDAP is the catalyst that will finally make open source fully enterprise-ready. And he's willing to stake his business on it. Taylor is founder and CEO of Sirius IT. ...
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by steve on May 25, 2005
Little more on enterprise security, yesterdays post we spoke about the need to secure the mobile devices, today about the need to secure the enterprises network against disgruntled employees both pres...
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by steve on May 24, 2005
Before warming up for key webconference meetings, one of my colleagues and I would get a fresh brew of coffee and get the blood rushing by playing an intense game of foosball. The game would be so fie...
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by steve on May 24, 2005
Readers who have been following this blog and reading the various posts on Open source & software as service might not be very surprised by the title. This post is based on an article at the IT Ma...
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by steve on May 24, 2005
With the increased capacity & capability of mobile devices and their pervasiveness in todays business world. Security both physical and electronic of the information is growing significantly in im...
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by steve on May 23, 2005
HDI, the world's largest membership association for the service and support industry, has a self-evaluation program for support center operations within a company.
The HDI program is a variation ...
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by steve on May 22, 2005
An investment venture has been set up which will try to replicate the model of Gluecode, an open source start-up recently acquired by IBM, with a fund dedicated solely to open source software. Looks l...
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by steve on May 20, 2005
IBM worked with OneCleveland to help health care, education, research and government organizations use grid computing technology to better collaborate on projects. The idea is that the sophisticated c...
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by steve on May 19, 2005
Earlier we had a post about the adoption of open source on the desktop in the Burmingham Council, In this post lets discuss a presentation at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo titled "Client OS and Off...
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by steve on May 19, 2005
Thats right Google desktop search for the enterprise was just released as a product, that can find files and e-mail messages on business computers, an effort to have its software installed on corporat...
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by steve on May 18, 2005
First the Australian Govt. than the Burmingham Council, now its cuba's turn, Cuba will gradually switch to the open-source Linux operating system for its state computers, eliminating its exclusive...
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by steve on May 18, 2005
First we have IBM & Linux, Coming together. IBM is offering to do free assessments to Solaris customers who want to do a cost / benefit of moving to LINUX.
Excerpts:
IBM has decided to lend Red H...
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by steve on May 17, 2005
First the Australian govt puts together a Guide for open source as indicated here now another Govt body "Birmingham City Council" is planning to carry out large scale trials to evaluate open...
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by steve on May 16, 2005
Continuing along the theme of CIOs & thier role and how its changed in recent times, Computer world carries the article "Volvo exec: To succeed, CIOs must get the basics right".
Excerp...
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by steve on May 16, 2005
First we had Web 2.0 now we have CIO 2.0, Thats right, Deloitte has a white paper/report on the CIO, titled CIO 2.0: The Changing Role of the Chief Information Officer.
You can get a copy of the repo...
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by steve on May 16, 2005
October 2-5, 2005 will be a great time to make it to Orlando, Florida. That's the location of this year's IT Infrastructure Management (ITIM) Conference & Expo, an HDI event where famed fo...
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by steve on May 16, 2005
Its Oracles turn on the OSS bandwagon, Recent article in ZDNET discusses Mozilla & Oracle working together.
Ecerpts:
Mozilla and Oracle are keeping a joint venture under wraps, leading to specula...
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by steve on May 16, 2005
European business technologists see higher spending on IT as helping narrow the productivity gap between the United States and Europe, survey finds.
Information Week , Carried this peice titled "...
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by steve on May 13, 2005
Its a common beleif that the reason, open source is able to thrive is "cost".Well this survey result says otherwise.
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Computer Economics recently conducted a survey of visitors to...
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by steve on May 12, 2005
A Boston based energy Cooperative , Sierra Southwest has has found an open source content management system (CMS) that gives it the power needed to run not only the company intranet, but a handful of ...
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by steve on May 11, 2005
Here we have been looking at how open source is impacting the enterprise, also recently we discussed how Novell is moving forward in the open source space. First output of these two significant trends...
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by steve on May 10, 2005
IBM, was always committed to open source , first its push in the Linux space than its move to throw open its patents.Now IBM has taken another step in the Open Source direction, purchase of Gluecode ...
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by steve on May 10, 2005
The tech beat, is talking about, How software companies are having to change the way they charge for the software given the changes in the processor segment. How multiple processor on one Chip is caus...
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by steve on May 9, 2005
Did you know that HDI,the world's largest membership association for the service and support industry, has an online learning community?
HDI's online certification training programs feature i...
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by steve on May 9, 2005
There is lot of talk floating around about the H-1B visas, this really started with Bill Gates comments on the topic, Now there is a lot of talk about the topic and the discussion now has reached a ...
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Enterprise Software
by steve on May 9, 2005
In a prior life, I followed the enterprise service bus (ESB) and messaging markets pretty closely. Graham Glass (CTO of webMethods) has an interesting post that draws an analogy between the ESB and me...
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by steve on May 7, 2005
Will Skype be taken over? has an interesting piece covering the VOIP market and the idea of consolidation.
Excerpts:
As I follow the evolution of Skype, I have been starting to ask myself the questi...
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by steve on May 6, 2005
Sun was offering its GRID as a service, well now they are planning to offer it as a product too. The USA Today carries an article titled "Sun Touts Grid Computing"
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To act on the ...
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by steve on May 6, 2005
In earlier posts here and here i spoke about skype, not its vonages ture, Vonage will close a $200 million round led by Bain Capital with participation from the company's management and previous i...
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by steve on May 5, 2005
SaaS Spending Exceeds Expectation.As IDC report indicates that the Worldwide spending on software as a service (SaaS) reached $4.2 billion in 2004, an increase of 39% over 2003 according to a recent ...
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by steve on May 5, 2005
Dan Bricklin has spent a lot of time thinking about Open Source issues over the past year. He's written extensively on it and just created a video called A Developer's Introduction to Copyrigh...
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by steve on May 5, 2005
Australian Government has an Open Source Guide, available to download.
The SOURCE IT division of the Government has put together a document with the purpose (as per the document) to provide governmen...
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by steve on May 5, 2005
JBoss, which was funded as indicated in this post , is begining to flex its muscles, the Professional Open Source company, today announced the expansion of its operations with offices in London, UK an...
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by steve on May 5, 2005
Tom Evslin from Fractals of Change , Has an excellent series of posts on Skype, more specifically on the business/economic model of Skype, Part 4 & Part 5.
Excerpts:
Skype's success in the e...
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by steve on May 5, 2005
A recent Deloitte Study, titled "Calling a Change in the Outsourcing Market" has interesting revelations about the Outsourcing trend.
This was a new study based on personal interviews with...
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by steve on May 4, 2005
The topic of discussion is going to be about Skype, a propitiatory, freeware VOIP Software, Well for the uninitiated Skype is a Free VOIP software. It allows you to make voice calls over the internet ...
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by steve on May 4, 2005
Third consecutive month, CIOs are predicting increased IT spending during the next 12 months, - CIO Magazine Tech Poll. Report Available here
Summary:
April poll predicted a spending growth rate of ...
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by steve on May 3, 2005
There is an interesting presentation up at the Silent Penguin blog, which discusses a companies journey in the Open Source Arena , the author mattew tracks the progress from 2000, when they forayed in...
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by steve on May 2, 2005
HDI,the world's largest membership association for the service and support industry, provides value for its members through:
Fellowship with 7,500 members worldwide,
The world's most recogniz...
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by steve on May 2, 2005
The database space has for sometime been an active Open Source area, thanks primarily to MYSQL, Recently there is a lot more news about the space, Eweek is running a special report discussing the Open...
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by steve on May 2, 2005
"Software 2005" Comments and beginning to stream in, I picked up this post at the Sandhill blog where Brian Sommer (CEO of TechVentive, a technology strategy firm.) talks about the 4 themes ...
