- Time to consider open source?
Considering the current administration's domestic policy on funding for public education here in the U.S., school systems probably have the most to gain and the least to lose by exploring cost-effective open source alternatives.
Information should be free in the first place...restricting access to such with premium prices is set to go the way of the dinosaurs. Yet I think open source analysis (like open source software) has just as much to do with open participatory practices as it does 'free' content.
- Open source business meme
Steve over at Redmonk is dead on with a quality set of do's and don't to heed when building a business on free/open source software.
- OpenID still has a ways to go
Oftentimes the next big thing never becomes the big thing at all...will OpenID go that route? Only time will tell.
- Google pushing green computing
It's good to see the folks at places like Google and Intel get behind efforts which advocate more efficient computing. If only because firms of their stature can set precedent, which carries weight throughout industry towards garnering wider acceptance.
- SuccessFactors and transparent participation
The model for SuccessFactors NEXT Labs sounds awfully interesting...at the least, it is an example of the positive effect open, outward facing processes can have on innovation and the bottom line.
- Looks like an Apple?
I agree to an extent that product differentiation still matters even if imitation is taking place in order to reproduce elements held in high regard by a target market. However, in the case of desktop Linux I think that familar look-and-feel and functional design is actually a good thing through and through.
- LAMP and the death of Java
True, Java isn't dead yet because it still does the job...period. It's not about another technology stack replicating what Java does in a tighter, easier-to-use package without introducing too many other drawbacks, but about how Java continues to evolve in light of industry requirements.
- Downloading OpenSolaris
Not as much hub-bub surrounding OpenSolaris as there could be...and I think that's a mistake.
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