There’s an old saying: those who refuse to study history, are doomed to repeat it - and, in the IT version, this says that people who base IT decisions on popularity are doomed to forever accept recycled ideas as new and advanced.
With that in mind I want to dig out something from last January discussing a plan by one Mark Whitehorn to blog his company’s transition to the wonders of the 1980s coded into Microsoft’s Server 2008 stack.
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Read more »When I added Amazon.com to our SaaS 20 Stock Index, a few readers asked me whether the online retailer is really a software as a service (SaaS) company. My answer: Absolutely. And a growing number of tech companies agree with me.
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Read more »The open source is perhaps the most innovative origin in the market since its inception which is probably challenging the way the conventional software market existed. What symbolizes its efficacy is its ability to adapt and customize towards numerous applications in demand and thus totally revolutionalizing the market dominance and perhaps the best ever acknowledged trait of easy affordability.
Read more »In order to extend company's Linux automation strategy, Red Hat has announced expanded capabilities and incorporated broadened community involvement for secure management of both users and systems across virtual and physical enterprise infrastructures.
Read more »I asked what role does open source play at Verizon now, especially in light of the recent SFLC lawsuit against Verizon on GPL infringement. Strigl looked at me with a blank face and asked me to repeat my question. He was completely clueless. He then asked one of his PR people to answer, and they too were clueless.
Read more »One of the unsung heroes of the Unix realm is — I kid you not — IBM. Stop laughing, I'm serious.
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Read more »While blogging platforms like WordPress and Movable Type have considerable name recognition among Web users, few outside the development community know about this flexible and open-source content management system Drupal, which powers sites like Sony BMG's Myplay, PopSci.com, and the Web 2.0 blog Center Networks.
Read more »Matt Asay wants Red Hat to make its Spacewalk project a true community. That’s a noble goal. But what I’ve observed over the last few years is there is a big difference between the noble goals of community and what many businesses want.
Read more »Take a look into OSGi, SCA, Apache HTTP Server or the countless other open source projects into which IBM has open sourced technology. This technology didn't undermine competitors; it helped customers and competitors alike (and let's not forget that competitor contributions helped IBM).
Read more »Red Hat's new chief executive Jim Whitehurst has admitted his company needs to improve its approach to its customers and partners.
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