Archive for June 14th, 2008Filed under: Software, Freeware, World wide web Tools, Open Source
As we noted a few weeks ago, the Mozilla team has set up a pledge program to remind Firefox users to download the Firefox 3 browser within 24 hours of its release in order to nab a Guinness World Record.
Well, the day is getting close - Firefox Download Day 2008 is scheduled for June 17th around the world. As of 11 AM MDT on June 14th, 2008, 1,221,679 people had pledged to get their copy of the new Firefox release on Download Day. It’s not too late to take the pledge and help Mozilla spread browser goodness throughout the planet. It’s happening again. Another bloated, proprietary industry is giving way to an “open-source” alternative. The industry? Legal research. With an increasing number of legal thoughts on the internet, rather than locked behind LexisNexis or Westlaw, Fastcase was bound to arise. Fastcase is an up-and-coming competitor to these locked-down, high-priced services, offering …
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Amazon.com: Finance - International: Books: Foreign Exchange, FinancePosted by: admin in Financial NewsAmazon.com: Finance - International: Books: Foreign Exchange, Finance Westchester County Finance Department www.Westchestergov.com Finance - Boston College Finance Finance - TwinCities.com Finance Certificate Finance at Pavilion Lincoln Mercury Inc. - Your Austin, Texas Lincoln Wallick & Volk Finance Department - Stephen M. Ross School of Business Finance FREAK .com - Money and Finance made simple! IN.gov: Taxes & Finance Department of Economics and Finance:: College of Business
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Siemens looks for competitive advantage in open sourcePosted by: admin in Business and PoliticsWhat do you do when you’re trying to unseat an incumbent in your market? You could try competing with the same tools as your competitors, or you could try to disrupt them with open source. For Siemens, the latter course makes more sense:
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Siemens looks for competitive advantage in open sourcePosted by: admin in Business and PoliticsWhat do you do when you’re trying to unseat an incumbent in your market? You could try competing with the same tools as your competitors, or you could try to disrupt them with open source. For Siemens, the latter course makes more sense:
I didn’t attend the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this year, but judging by Jeff Whatcott’s commentary, I’m not sure I missed much. It would appear that the Enterprise 2.0 world is still recycling the same froth in an attempt to stand out. Here’s what Whatcott had to say:
Internally, I heard from Jean Barmash on the Alfresco consulting team who echoed Jeff’s comments:
It feels like we’re in the early stages of Enterprise 2.0. Let’s call it Enterprise 1.8 where everyone is showing the right slideware and demos, but few, if any, really know how to put it all to productive business use. Until the money steps in, I think we’re going to remain in a curious limbo where “shiny baubles” (a colleague’s favorite term) get rolled out widely but for which few pay because no one on the enterprise side has really connected the dots between community, user-generated content, and enterprise productivity/business value. |











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