Freitag April 08, 2005

"Enterprise Unix Roundup: Open Source, Redefined"
"Enterprises generally adopt technology based on technological strengths and costs, and, occasionally, ideology. Here, Windows often comes up short. With the corporatization of Linux and open source in general, the ideology part of the argument is splitting. Only the proprietary software vendors stand to benefit, and Red Hat, without the Linux idealism and surrounding buzz, becomes just another competitor to Microsoft and Sun."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 08 2005, 06:00:09 PM CEST ) Permalink

"MIP Holdings moves most users to open source" (including OpenOffice.org)
"The days of seeing a browser or a word processor as a unique application that provided some advantage to business are long gone," says Richard Firth, CEO of MIP Holdings.

"Today, at least 95% of all work done using what we know as productivity tools is common across all organisations. Why then do employees need specialised, expensive tools to do these tasks when their functionality has become a commodity?"

The full article can be found here.
( Apr 08 2005, 01:58:53 PM CEST ) Permalink

Computer Associates interested in Sun's Open Source License CDDL
"Computer Associates is talking to fellow software vendors including Sun Microsystems and IBM about creating a common commercial open source licence for future projects. "We are actively looking at [Sun's] CDDL," said Sam Greenblatt, senior vice president with CA and in charge of open source at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 08 2005, 12:25:40 PM CEST ) Permalink

Just switch! - Thumbnail Images in StarOffice 8 Files
In the "Thumbnail View" of the Windows Explorer StarOffice 7 files just show up with their application icons. StarOffice 8 files however are listed with a thumbnail image of their first page. The following screenshot shows 3 sets/pairs of StarOffice files. For each of them the left one is the StarOffice 8 file and the right one is the StarOffice 7 file.


( Apr 08 2005, 08:36:02 AM CEST ) Permalink

"GooglePreview Firefox Extension"
"GooglePreview is a Mozilla Firefox extension that, when installed, changes the Google search engine results pages (SERPs) so website thumbnails are included next to each listing. The thumbnails are from Amazon.com, Alexa.com, and Thumbshots.org."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 08 2005, 05:42:57 AM CEST ) Permalink

"OpenSolaris Community Picks Board, Gets to Work"
"The luminary that the OpenSolaris community brought in is not, as some had suggested, Sun founder and open source BSD Unix creator Bill Joy (which might have been a little too close to Sun, on second thought), but an equally excellent choice: Roy Fielding.

Fielding was one of the founders of the World Wide Web project in 1993. He was also the primary architect of the HTTP 1.0 protocol that is the basis for Web serving and surfing, one of the co-founders of the open source Apache HTTP Web server project and the past chairman of the Apache Foundation, which governed that open source project."

The full article can be found here.
( Apr 08 2005, 05:41:19 AM CEST ) Permalink

New Book: "Linux Desktop Hacks"
"According to O'Reilly, Linux Desktop Hacks shows readers how they can customize and configure Linux to make it easier, more powerful, and more fun to use. The book includes hacks to "spiff up the boot experience" with graphical startup screens, creative ways to log, and various ways for multiple users to access the same machine at the same time, each one using the graphical desktop they like best, adds O'Reilly. They also show how to extend the capabilities of the graphical desktop and offer tips for those who prefer to do most of their work at the text-mode console."
More details can be found here.
( Apr 08 2005, 05:33:12 AM CEST ) Permalink