Open Source considered expensive for SMEs
Interesting report from German analyst company SOREON Research (formed by former top people from Forrester in Germany). Open source software doesn't represent any savings to small and medium sized...
View ArticleNaples, Italy, you have six weeks to clean up the mess
Break-down in garbage removal blamed on the Mafia, and residents burning the resulting mountains of garbage thus causing hospitalizations, closure of schools, etc. That's the current scene in Naples...
View ArticleShocking report on Linux on the desktop
It's sometimes shocking what other people find shocking. Yesterday I stumbled upon this example from Scott Johnson who reports on his use of Linux on the desktop. Lo and behold, his USB camera worked...
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Smart people are cool
The guy on the right here is John Perram, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Maersk Institute of the University of Southern Denmark (since 1975). He was just awarded the Harmann prize of aprox....
View ArticleMozilla Firebird annoyance
After using Mozilla Firebird as my "main secondary browser" (neat and very telling expression I saw on a message board) for a couple of weeks, I took the plunge yesterday and clicked the button to make...
View ArticleConfidential patient information leaked from a psychiatrist's PC
Lots of computer vira have the nasty effect of emailing themselves to people in your list of email addresses, and a family among these vira (I forget what they're called) accompany these emails with...
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Regnecentralen
Once upon a time, there was a great Danish technology company called Regnecentralen (which translates into Calculation Central). They made computers, aerospace products and a bunch of other things, and...
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Sneak peaks at ECIS 2003 in Naples
The European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2003) that I will be attending next week takes place in Naples, Italy. The organizing university is the Università di Napoli Federico II.According...
View ArticleECIS presentation done
Ram and I did our presentation in style, despite several technical problems with the conference venue's equipment. The projector kept turning off during my part of the talk, and I kept on talking.A...
View ArticleThe Microsoft Evangelist's prayer
Via Scoble (an actual Microsoft evangilist) comes this prayer by Kenneth Tan:"Our father, who art in Redmond Microsoft be thy name Thy monopoly come, thy will be done throughout the earth as it is in...
View ArticleApple is truly becoming a niche product
Paul Boutin in Slate:"In the latest of his legendary keynote stage shows, Steve Jobs kicked off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference this morning in San Francisco by showing off the company's speedy...
View ArticleLinux vs. Apple in poor communities
Update to the earlier post on Apple vs. Linux: In an email, Phil Wolff reminds me that Linux is likely to gain market share in poor communities too.Makes sense. My colleague Ram tells me that India is...
View ArticleAn evangelist's view of installed base as competition
Robert Scoble, who works for Microsoft as an evangelist for the coming operating system currently codenamed Longhorn is asked how he is going to relate to the installed base of millions of users of...
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Fighting the bull in business
Funny publicity gag from Deloitte Consulting: Bullfighter, a Windows application that warns you about "bull" in the texts you write in MS Word or PowerPoint. Words and phrases such as the following are...
View ArticleWho is an open source developer
Scoble on the ground level Linux developers and their motivations now that Linux is gaining momentum as a platform for big companies to build on:"I talked with another long-time Linux supporter last...
View ArticleThe future according to Larry Ellison
Interesting little article: Larry Ellison's take on the future of the applications market."According to Ellison, there are four types of technology company right now: companies with products based on a...
View ArticleYes, Microsoft should continue the development of Internet Explorer
Robert Scoble (who works at Microsoft in a developer relations function) feels that Microsoft can't justify further development of Internet Explorer to make it a better browser."[...] there's the rub....
View ArticleShocking report on Linux on the desktop (round two)
David Weinberger (of Cluetrain Manifesto fame) experiments with Linux on the desktop:"Another day, another linuxOk, I'm up and running in Mandrake, using kde as my desktop. So far so good... The only...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
This is a two-part posting of a single quote. You see, I like the punchline so much I'll put it first:"The personal computer software market is Microsoft."[Joel Spolsky, August 1, 2003] And now here's...
View ArticleOnline document search reveals secrets
Microsoft Word (and many other document editing applications) store caches of text that are not shown when the document is edited in the application itself, but which are stored in the document when it...
View ArticleDoctor slang
Interesting article about (medical) doctor slang in BBC News. Apparently doctors scribble acronyms in patients' journals as a code to themselves and other doctors that the patients won't understand...
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Longhorn preview review
Via Scoble: Longhorn preview article by Paul Thurott of WinSuperSite.com. Man, this is cool stuff. Gotta start saving for that new laptop I will have to buy some time in 2005 to run Longhorn. It's a...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
Interview with Sterling Ball, the boss of music string maker Ernie Ball. After a nasty incident with BSA, he switched his whole business to run anything-but-Microsoft (on aproximately 80...
View ArticleOpen Source Software panel title
Copenhagen Business School is organizing an IFIP 8.6 conference in October. IFIP 8.6 deals with diffusion and adoption of technologies and is said to be one of the more practical minded information...
View ArticleUniversity education and social mobility
Will Hutton debunks "The American Prosperity Myth" and contrasts the loan-funded American economy with those of prosperous and "welfare generous" European countries. The article has a lot of unpleasant...
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