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Freitag Juni 17, 2005

"Integrate Firefox with other tools"
"If you're moving over to Firefox from Mozilla, you've surely noticed how Firefox is built to be a sleeker, faster browsing engine. It accomplishes this in part by shedding all of its counterparts from the Mozilla Suite, including an email/news client, composer, and chat client. But that doesn't mean this functionality is no longer available. With a few extensions -- or with no work at all -- you can make Firefox integrate with your email client as though it were still part of a suite. You don't have to stop there, either; at least one valuable extension gives you the power to connect Firefox with virtually any program on your system."
The full article can be found here.
( Jun 17 2005, 11:27:02 AM CEST ) Permalink

The ServerWatch on OpenSolaris
"The Fedora-feeding-the-enterprise model didn't quite work as Red Hat envisioned it, but it lacked one vital piece of the puzzle that Sun already has in place. Sun is selling a full system stack, unlike Red Hat, whose business model hinges on selling support. In other words, Sun hopes that giving away the appetizer will lead to the customer sticking around for the meal."
The full article can be found here.
( Jun 17 2005, 11:23:30 AM CEST ) Permalink