Would you to talk to some of the biggest names in open source?
No, not me! You know how to talk to me and I’m not exactly a big—or even middle-sized—open-source developer or executive anyway.
June 4, 2008
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June 4, 2008
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XP lives! Sort of.
Congratulations Linux. Yesterday was the day you made Microsoft blink. Microsoft has changed its mind and has decided to keep XP Home around after all.
I’m sure that Microsoft’s change in heart was in part due to efforts like InfoWorld’s Save XP efforts, which put names to over 200,000 users who don’t want to move to Vista. I’m even surer though that what really changed Microsoft’s mind is that Linux, and not Windows, was taking over the red-hot UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) market.
June 3, 2008
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Why Novell is cashing in on Linux
Novell made some, but not a lot of money from Linux in its second fiscal quarter, which ended April 30, 2008. The real news though isn’t the Linux income itself–$29-million–it’s that Novell year-over-year growth in Linux is up a healthy 31%.
Actually, that’s not healthy. That’s great.
While Linux remains overall a small part of Novell‘s net revenue, $236-million for the quarter, it’s SUSE Linux’s exceptionally strong growth that’s the real story.
June 3, 2008
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Good-Bye Mr. Gates
It was appropriate that Bill Gates’ last major public speech was not to the masses, but to developers at Microsoft’s TechEd conference. We often forget that the billionaire great white shark of the technology business started as a geek.
Indeed, for those of us who have known him for many years, at heart Bill Gates is still a geek. He dresses better than the traditional stereotype and Lord knows he knows more about running a business and stomping on the competition than any three other technology CEOs put together — Steve Jobs of Apple and Larry Ellison of Oracle excepted. But, in his heart of hearts I believe he’s still be more comfortable talking code with other developers than boasting about how much better Windows (fill-in-the-blank) is over its competitors to Microsoft fans.
So, it was only appropriate that instead of talking about Windows Seven, he spent his last minutes as a Microsoft keynote speaker talking about Project Oslo, a new SOA (service-oriented architecture) application development platform and touch-screen technologies. Of course, if all Gates had had was his developer skills, we never would have heard of him. Gates was an OK, but by no means, great programmer.
For all that he was a developer at heart; it was his “take no prisoners” business mind that made Microsoft number one.
June 3, 2008
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Canonical Releases Ubuntu for Netbooks
The paint has barely dried on Ubuntu 8.04 when Canonical announced at the Computex trade show in Taiwan on June 3rd that it will be releasing a new version of Ubuntu 8.04 just for Intel Atom-based netbooks and UMPCs (Ultra Mobile PCs).
According to Canonical, this version of the popular desktop Linux will be known as the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. It’s based on standard Ubuntu but it will include a ‘Launcher’ that allows users to get on-line more quickly and have faster access to their favorite applications.
From a user’s viewpoint, Pete Goodall, Canonical’s product manager, said “The Launcher will be the interface. While it’s GNOME-based, it’s meant for users who may never have worked with Linux before. Like Good OS’ gOS (http://www.thinkgos.com), users will be able to easily access their most commonly used Web and PC-based applications.”
However, Goodall continued, “Unlike gOS, there will be a bit more emphasis on PC-based programs. Still, we expect people to primarily use these devices for Web-based applications. The Web is king. The key difference is that Ubuntu will be providing long term support for OEMs using Ubuntu Netbook Remix on their computers. It’s here to stay.”
June 2, 2008
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Privacy is dead
A friend of mine recently brought to my attention that the South Florida Sun-Sentinel recently decided to ‘investigate’ local school teachers on Facebook. Like far too many Facebook pages, some of the teachers were, shall we say, indiscreet about what they do away from the schoolroom.
Some of them were ‘shocked’ that anyone could see their Facebook pages. Idiots.
Privacy is dead.
If you lead any part of your life on the Web — whether it’s purely social networks like Facebook or business-focused sites like LinkedIn — anyone can track you. If you think that’s not so, you’re delusional.