Microsoft's shadow, open source and the next great user interface
I met with Mark Anderson, tech analyst and...
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Andrew Nusca is a writer-editor for ZDNet, contributor to CNET and the editor of SmartPlanet, ZDNet's sister site about innovation. In 2013, his coverage will focus on enterprise startups. He is based in New York.
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Rachel King is a staff writer for ZDNet based in San Francisco.
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OSDL's Stuart Cohen Unplugged
Meet Stuart Cohen, CEO of Open Source Development Labs. In some ways a product out of IBM's old school era, Cohen and his organization are the ecumenical North Pole of an open source world, which is struggling to straddle the fence between the direction it's going (business mainstream) and the place it came from (the hacker community).
In hopping chips, will IBM hop Solaris and Windows too?
How Novell's and Red Hat's versions of Linux came to run on IBM's big iron has always been a mystery to me. About all I knew was that there was some collaboration between IBM and the two companies.
Software-as-a-movie
Jon Udell, tech writer, analyst, and developer, writes in his InfoWorld blog about his experiments with what he calls "screencasts" or narrated movies of software in action. Easy to do, apparently all it takes is a tool that captures screen video along with voiceover, and after some editing you can showcase application tips, capture and publish product demonstrations, and even make short documentaries.
The escalating conflict over Web forms standards
News.com's Paul Festa has a story about major conflict among...
RSA conference: A nest of insecurity
We have more news from RSA:Time to regulate software industry? Dick Clarke, chairman of Good Harbor Consulting and former presidential special adviser on cybersecurity: "Regulation is neither good nor bad...
Scalix offers Firefox-based imitation of Outlook
For Scalix's first trick, it offered an Exchange-compatible e-mail and calendaring server for a fraction of the cost of what it takes to run Exchange. (The company's founder, Julie Farris [right], says savings typically run from 30 to 70 percent.