January 22, 2009
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Remember today’s date: January 22, 2009. It may go down in business history as the day that it became clear that proprietary software had been broken by Linux and open-source software. First, Microsoft had its biggest layoffs in the company’s … Continue reading
December 16, 2008
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Likewise Software, which specializes in getting Linux and other Unix systems to work with AD (Active Directory) authentication, management, and auditing is offering a middle ground program between its open-source version, Likewise Open, and its enterprise edition, Likewise Enterprise: Likewise … Continue reading
December 16, 2008
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There’s a long standing argument over the differences between “open-source” software and “free software. But, a more common error outside of software ideology circles is that you can use open-source software anyway you please. Nope. Wrong. It’s never been that … Continue reading
December 2, 2008
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Wow. Talk about your disgruntled employees. Michael ‘Monty’ Widenius, MySQL’s founder and, for the moment, still Sun’s CTO for its MySQL division, greeted the GA (general availability) of the latest version of the popular open-source database system MySQL 5.1 by … Continue reading
November 30, 2008
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If you use Wi-Fi on your laptop, there’s an excellent chance you’re using Atheros chipsets for your wireless networking. Atheros’ silicon is in gear from Linksys, D-Link and Netgear to name but a few vendors. However, although Atheros has been … Continue reading
November 16, 2008
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Over the years I’ve had mixed feelings about Sun. I like SPARC systems, much of the software, and several of their senior staffers are great, bright people. On the other hand, for ages the company kept going back and forth … Continue reading