Archive for May 30th, 2008Glyn Moody hits the nail on the head with his critique of Microsoft’s proposed approach to Windows 7: State little so that the market expects tiny. It’s not an unreasonable approach, and Microsoft did get burned for actually warning the market about what it would be providing, only …
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The most important open-source projects…to GooglePosted by: admin in Business and PoliticsChris Dibona, head of Google’s open source program office, sat down to talk with CNET’s Stephen Shankland. In the course of that interview, Chris provided great insight into how Google views open source and contributes back to the various communities from which it derives benefit. However, it was … OpenOffice.org Ninja has posted an interesting analysis for anyone who has found themselves complaining that OpenOffice is slower than frozen honey on a frozen three-toed sloth’s frozen right nostril. The spoiler? It’s getting slower all the time.
I’m not sure if this is supposed to count as advocacy for the open-source productivity suite, but it hardly sounds like a ringing endorsement. Of course, there’s more to this report than immediately meets the eye. In all the hype around Software as a Service (SaaS) as a way to bring down prices and drive value to the customer, one thing is conveniently overlooked: SaaS is the ultimate lock-in platform. As Chris Keene, CEO of Wavemaker, suggests, however, SaaS might well succumb to the same forces that are driving software to open up:
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