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Microsoft and Nokia announce my dream partnership so why aren't you all happy?
Microsoft and Nokia announced they are partnering to bring Windows Phone 7 smartphones and services to the world. I must be dreaming and cannot think of a better strategy for both companies at...
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Well-known, open-source advocate Matt Asay leaves Canonical/Ubuntu
Asay leaves Canonical to joining Strobe, an early stage open-source start-up.
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Does Microsoft want a Linux trial?
What Matt Asay claims to want is a legal invasion. But I don't think he really wants that. He wants a peek at what Microsoft is settling for.
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Matt Asay's big break is a big one for open source
Ubuntu is a wonderful dream, but a prosaic reality. It sells itself as the shining city on the hill, when it's really just a small attractive village. Matt Asay can change that.
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Open source is sold and FOSS is not
If someone comes to you wearing a suit, a smile, and their hand out, it matters little what license their wares may carry. They're still a salesman. They're open source.
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Missing what open source cannot afford
In order to deliver you free code open source companies must eliminate functions a regular company can only squeeze.
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At what stage of life is the open source industry?
Every industry goes through life stages, just like people. At what stage is open source at, now, in the middle of 2009?
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Carrier strength drives smartphone selections
Jason Hiner earlier posted on his buying decision between the iPhone 3G S and Palm Pre and as this blockbuster smartphone Summer kicks off I imagine that many prospective buyers will be looking at...
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Open source enterprise software shakeout
Businesses are subject to pressures that projects may not be. What happens to projects, and to software, as the enterprise open source market consolidates?
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Browser standards in an open source world
Microsoft is engaged in the equivalent of a Cold War with open source, and in the end freedom carried the day in that larger war, as it will in this one. Limits are not something we want our...
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IBM, Microsoft and open source citizenship
For IBM, software is a shared store from which it benefits, and to which it contributes. The company has built an arms-length relationship with the whole process of improving code.
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Microsoft Recite: useful, interesting, drop-dead simple and powerful
ZDNet colleague Zack Whittaker has a way of firing me up from time to time (check out my Windows Mobile post from last month) and he does it again this Friday with his Microsoft Recite post. I am...
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What Oracle is doing right against open source
Frankly I can't think of a single proprietary vendor, even Apple, even Microsoft, that is better prepared to face the continuing open source onslaught than Oracle.
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Community relations key to open source success
Matt acknowledges in his post that the nobles of open source, the corporate sponsors, cannot be the sole estate here. On the other hand we don't want corporate heads on pikes, or its equivalent.
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Open source and innovation as maintenance models
Following my piece on a proposed model for enterprise applications maintenance, two fresh posts, one from Matt Aslett at 451.com and another from Leigh Cauldwell offer alternative ideas around how...
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Frequent open source miles
The bottom line is there are all sorts of things open source marketers can do with the permission users give them every day.
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Will market reject Sun's open source vision?
If Mr. Schwartz wishes to lead the open source parade, then let him lead it and embrace its development model. Waving a flag alone won't do it.
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How evil is China?
I have no doubt that China is going to get serious about "intellectual property piracy" in my lifetime. Because I have faith in their inventors and writers.
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Google Sites is not a Sharepoint anything
The question of Sites or Sharepoint really depends on where you think the growth of computing will be, on your hardware or in the cloud's? That's the real trillion-dollar question.
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Hey, Vonage, what part of "it's over between us" don't you understand?
Or, to put it another way, this is a story about how Comcast and Vonage have given a fellow named Asay a pain. Sorry but just couldn't resist the groaner play on a rather impolitic vernacular....
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