The VAR Guy has the scoop on some upcoming Ubuntu news: Ubuntu and Openbravo are teaming up to help push Ubuntu into the enterprise.
Now, Canonical is seeking killer server applications for Ubuntu. MySQL, the open-source database now owned by Sun, has backed Ubuntu quite a bit. And now Openbravo is joining the party…Smart move by Canonical and Openbravo. CIOs, midmarket IT managers, and solutions providers don’t care much about server operating systems. It’s all about the applications.
I agree, and so do Red Hat and Novell, which built their formidable server businesses by focusing on applications.
It’s interesting, however, where Canonical/Ubuntu is focused. It started with some select, big-name partnerships with IBM and others, and is now focused on shoring up that story with open-source applications. Openbravo is the first to leak, but there are others in the works.
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Oliver Marks takes a detailed look at GE’s new SupportCentral collaboration backbone. It’s pretty impressive and a strong hint at where collaboration is going in the enterprise:
The numbers are huge: 400,000 global users in 6,000+ locations around world, all working within a 100% web interface …
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I took my team to see The Dark Knight today to celebrate the good work they’ve done. I might have chosen a better reward.
The movie is exceptionally well done. It is also relentless. Everyone is smeared. Everyone is corrupt (or corruptible). Except, frustratingly, Batman. What I would have …
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I think there’s a lot of truth in Linus Torvald’s derisive comment about innovation, and the software industry’s fetish with it.
I think that “innovation” is a four-letter word in the industry. It should never be used in polite company. It’s become a PR thing to sell new versions with.
It was Edison who stated “1% inspiration, 99% perspiration”. That may have been true a hundred years ago. These days it’s “0.01% inspiration, 99.99% perspiration”, and the inspiration is the easy part. As a project manager, I’ve never had trouble finding people with crazy ideas. I have trouble finding people who can execute. IOW, “innovation” is way oversold. And it sure as hell shouldn’t be applied to products like MS Word or Open office.
Amen. Looking around the industry, there’s very tiny “innovation” going on. The iPhone’s interface? Sure. Vista (or, for that matter, Apple’s Leopard)? Nah.
These are incremental technology advances backed by good execution. Microsoft isn’t Microsoft because it makes “innovative” technology. It’s Microsoft because it tends to keep the trains running on time.
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