Archive for the ‘Open Source’s Blog’ Category
BusinessWeek and the New York Times have both recently written about the looming battle in the BI market between SAS and IBM.
I recently spoke with Drupal founder and Acquia CTO and cofounder Dries Buytaert. Dries gave me an update on Acquia’s success to date and plans for the future. Many readers know Acquia as one of the key vendors behind the White House’s recent move to open source.
Over the last 10 years, Web-based advertising has become huge–a $23 billion business which could eclipse print and television. Despite the rapid growth, Web-based advertising is still an immature industry. There are new businesses being created, ranging from social networking sites and open source ad networks to mobile apps with location-based content.
As with anything Google does, opinion ranges from revolutionary to lackluster. Personally, I think it’s too early to tell. More importantly, I think the success of Chrome OS won’t be based on the success of version 1.0. Google has the uncanny ability to generate and maintain interest even in the face of negative initial reviews.
As with anything Google does, opinion ranges from revolutionary to lackluster. Personally, I think it’s too early to tell. More importantly, I think the success of Chrome OS won’t be based on the success of version 1.0. Google has the uncanny ability to generate and maintain interest even in the face of negative initial reviews.
Reports suggest that Google will partner with phone maker HTC to deliver the much hyped and long-awaited Google phone — the gPhone, as some like to call it. The Google-branded phone is rumored to be out in early 2010 with advertising starting in January.
I don’t want to get into whether or not Microsoft violated the GPL with its Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. That’s already been covered in depth.
My wife recently replaced her ThinkPad T40 with a MacBook Pro. To save me time in the future, when a crash or data loss occurs, I decided to use Apple’s built-in Time Machine app for the Mac and get the Mac system recovery app SuperDuper set up on a Western Digital Passport USB drive. The problem with this setup was that it relied on her plugging the USB drive into the MacBook Pro on a regular schedule.
Checking my twitter feed before heading to bed, I noticed that Dana Blankenhorn had posted a story titled: “Enterprises saving $26 million per project with open source.” There had to be a mistake in the title, right? I read on diligently. Dana writes:
I’ve been following the development of smartphones, tablets, and single-purpose devices for quite a while in this blog, but every time I think that the market for e-book readers has calmed down, another announcement in the sector adds a new competitive dimension.