Date: 04/27/06     Keywords: technology

I must admit that the net neutrality debate has begun to surprise me.Those seeking guarantees of network neutrality via Savetheinternet.com are right on the facts, and right on the technology. Cisco already sells boxes that would let Bell or cable ISPs throttle service from any server, or guarantee delivery.At the Freedom2Connect conference I saw leading [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=637

Date: 04/26/06     Keywords: no keywords

What we're moving toward is a world where everyone works together on everything, with the leaders being those who implement best. That's a world where U.S. manufacturers can compete.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=636

Date: 04/25/06     Keywords: no keywords

Maimone has a good pitch.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=635

Date: 04/25/06     Keywords: no keywords

Sun Microsystems became fully committed to the open source business model yesterday by naming COO-blogger Jonathan Schwartz as its CEO, succeeding founder Scott McNealy.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=634

Date: 04/24/06     Keywords: no keywords

Just remember that it takes time to learn, time to apply, time to patch and time to improve any tool, even an open source one. Don't forget the money value of time.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=633

Date: 04/24/06     Keywords: no keywords

You can't get there if you're charging thousands of dollars per "seat," or even hundreds of dollars. If you want something to be common, if you want decision-making embedded deep within your enterprise (as nearly every enterprise claims), then you have to give everyone the tools.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=632

Date: 04/24/06     Keywords: no keywords

This necessary evil of geocoding needs to be adopted by everybody, so you can type an address and get the same functionality around the world.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=631

Date: 04/24/06     Keywords: linux

FarStone Technologies will re-sell its RestoreIT disaster recovery package through Linspire under the name RestoreIT Linux Edition. The announcement was made today at the Desktop Linux Summit in San Diego.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=630

Date: 04/24/06     Keywords: microsoft

"My feeling, from the buyers’ side as well as the analyst side, is the timing is right. That’s because Microsoft is in the middle of a major product shift."

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=629

Date: 04/22/06     Keywords: microsoft

Murdock has penned in more market cap than Microsoft has, and is building something solid on that base that applications can be written to, regardless of distribution or user interface. Write your program to the LSB, in other words, and it will run on Novell or Ubuntu, under KDE or GNOME.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=628

Date: 04/21/06     Keywords: linux

Advertising can do for desktop Linux what radio did for the Godot play -- make people feel comfortable. And if they feel comfortable, some will buy. At that point, if those buyers are happy, the momentum will really build.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=627

Date: 04/20/06     Keywords: no keywords

Interop is one small step for Groundwork, but one giant leap for open source. We're playing with the big boys now, and we're here to win.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=626

Date: 04/19/06     Keywords: no keywords

One of the silliest obsessions open source users have had to deal with this year has been Oracle.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=625

Date: 04/19/06     Keywords: security

Is it time for someone, a foundation say, to launch a project in this area, to distribute their code free, and to update it free as well? Something like, say, Firefox, only for security?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=624

Date: 04/18/06     Keywords: no keywords

How important is AJAX to you now, and how would you like to see it unified?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=623

Date: 04/17/06     Keywords: no keywords

"This is not in competition with free. We’re going to keep Subversion on Demand in sync with the open source releases. Nor are we doing an internal fork."

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=622

Date: 04/15/06     Keywords: mysql, sql, web

Web 2.0 projects built on mySQL can also move ahead with confidence they’re ready as they move into transactions and as users "rush to the rail" to support them.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=620

Date: 04/14/06     Keywords: no keywords

You won't just get a job this way. What will happen is that jobs will come after you. People will ask you to keep at what you're doing, only under their banner. Then you can name your own terms.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=621

Date: 04/13/06     Keywords: browser, linux

Fedora Frog is a GUI-based install script for Linux that automates the installation of things like Macromedia Flash, Adobe's PDF, and your browser.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=619

Date: 04/11/06     Keywords: no keywords

Who are the leaders? I have no idea. The game has just started. Who do you think the leaders are?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=618