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For the past several months, I?ve been serving as an Algebra tutor for my friend?s child. This kid i
Enterprise 2.0 needs Digital Foundation
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The Nature of Learning (and Remembering)
For the past several months, I’ve been serving as an Algebra tutor for my friend’s child. This kid is very gifted intellectually, but he suffers from pretty severe ADHD, and unfortunately Algebra is his last class of the day, right about the time whe
SOA as a Business Strategy
Below is the beginning of an article Jim Irwin and myself wrote for SOA World on how the “real” play with SOA is business agility. Although you may not have heard of Jim Irwin, he is one of the brightest minds in the SOA world … quietly behind the sc
$1,000,000,000 acquisition
Sun's purchase of MySQL for a cool $1 billion is all the buzz today and rightfully so. I think this news goes to show the power, visibility and growth in adoption of open source. And in this particular case MySQL.As enterprises continually seek compe
Web 2.0 and Generational Uptake
Are there generational differences in business that result in operational challenges? You bet! Let me explain.I recently attended a wonderful seminar hosted by Kim Huggins, Owner and President of K HR Solutions on the subject of Generations at Work.
The Ultimate in Customer Service
How can you not be impressed with the way Apple packages their products? It’s obvious they put a lot of effort into the “user experience” all the way through to the opening of the boxes and the packaging of the components. But now I’ve personally exp
Hybrid environments – the realm of Open Source
It is very rare that I come across a datacenter environment that is purely one technology. By that, I mean that most infrastructures are composed of some hybrid mix of legacy (old proprietary), commercial, and open source components. Why is that?We
GTC East 2007 – Business & Technology for Government
It’s been awhile since I traveled to Albany. And, this time of the year, seeing the leaves changing colors along the Hudson was absolutely spectacular. This is the 19th year for the event, obviously highlighting New York’s leading-edge efforts at stu
Enterprise Open Source Magazine article
Enterprise Open Source magazine just published an article I wrote on business adoption of open source solutions for mission-critical applications. The article analyzes the results of a study that Unisys commissioned from Forrester Consulting. Based o
Model of Mass-Collaboration
Many of my blog posts have focused on the business benefits of open source. But perhaps even more significant is how the open source model of “mass collaboration” is changing the way the world works. Some of you know that I’m working on a book on thi
The CIO Conundrum
I call it the “CIO Conundrum”, and it goes something like this: you are the CIO of a large company and each year, your budget is, on average, decreasing by about 4%. And, most of the money you’re allocated (perhaps 70% of more) is used to maintain yo
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OCM Provision 4.0 Adds Cloning And Disaster Recovery To Open Country Linux Product Line
Laurent Gharda wrote: LinMin bought the assets of Open Country in late 2007 and significantly enhanced its provisioning products. The next generation OS provisioning and disk imaging software is called LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning, and is priced at around $3 per system per ...
McNealy: "We Invented Open Source, Gang"
Dan McGarigle wrote: IBM's VM Operating was NEVER an 'open source' OS. It was/is licensed to IBM customers. IBM's VM system actually originated within IBM from the work IBM did on its System/360 Model 67, which was a mainframe originally designed and built in the late 1960's ...
After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Increasingly Bad, Increasingly Archaic, Increasingly Unfriendly
Hair Loss Treatment wrote: I finally installed Linux after resisting for the longest time, thinking Windows was perfectly fine, then after checking out several different distributions, I found that Ubuntu and a few of the variations built on it is just great. I've now decided...
EasyLinuxCDs.Com Launches New Free Services
R HILL wrote: i ORDERED FEDORA CORE 7 DVD AND FEDORA TRAINING AND PAID FOR THEM BUT NEVER RECEIVED THEM? ARE THEY TRYING TO RIP ME OFF? I TRIED TO E-MAIL THEM (EASYLINUXCDS)BUT NO ONE ANSWERS?
Trail of tears: MySQL, ODBC & OpenOffice 1.0
Mark wrote: My repairs were apparently less serious but greatly helped by this article. I have SUSE 10.3. I found that the libraries were installed to a different place, so I simply modified the odbcinst.ini file to reflect that they lived in: /usr/lib/unixODBC instead of the assumed location...
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