A new report tells us what we already knew: It's a Microsoft world, at least
as far as open source is concerned. This time, The 451 Group (Ray Bradbury fans,
perhaps?) took a look at the viability of open source software in the small
and midsize business (SMB, of course) space.
And guess what? SMBs aren't
so hot on open source. Why? Well, the report says that SMBs don't have big
enough IT budgets to make major changes to their Microsoft-dominated systems,
and besides that, they can't find the type of expertise they need to run open
source systems, anyway -- whereas MCSEs are all over the place. The report also
noted that the earth revolves around the sun and that Bill Gates is rich.
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Posted by Lee Pender on December 04, 20071 comments
Michael Toutonghi is headed back to the Redmond campus, presumably a wealthier
-- although maybe not that much wealthier -- man after Microsoft's
acquisition
of his start-up
, WebFives (which, incidentally, is a name that has "dot-com
boom" written all over it, even though it's obviously not from that era.
No wonder the company struggled.)
Posted by Lee Pender on December 04, 20070 comments
So...normally on Friday, we run reader feedback. But since we haven't had any
reader feedback since before Thanksgiving (Thursday of last week, for those
of you outside the U.S.), we're going to keep this Friday issue of RCPU fairly
short and hopefully somewhat sweet. Don't let us down during this festive season,
though -- an e-mail to RCPU (at
[email protected]
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Posted by Lee Pender on November 30, 20070 comments
Lawyers for a couple of people suing Microsoft over its use of the couplet
"Vista capable" on PCs say that
even
folks in Redmond
had no idea what the phrase meant.
Posted by Lee Pender on November 29, 20071 comments
Visa and Weyerhaeuser are
sick
and tired of these pesky states
that want the government to keep monitoring
Microsoft for antitrust violations.
Everybody now, in your best English accent from Pink Floyd's "The Wall":
"We don't need your supervision...We don't need government control...No
extension of the antitrust deal...Hey, government, leave Microsoft alone!"
Posted by Lee Pender on November 29, 20074 comments
All the leaves really are brown, and the sky...well, it was blue today in Greater
Boston, but not as blue as it's about to be in California for either Microsoft
or Google. The Golden State, always on the cutting edge (seriously), is moving
its e-mail, messaging and -- when, exactly, did this become a verb, or even
a gerund? -- "calendaring" to a hosted model. And it looks as though
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Posted by Lee Pender on November 29, 20070 comments
Apparently, XP with beta Service Pack 3
trumps
Vista
, even with the new operating system's first service pack in place.
Please, don't even pretend to be surprised by this (not that you were pretending).
Actually, it sort of makes sense -- XP is a much more mature platform, and it's
already on SP3. Vista will come along...in time. We hope.
Posted by Lee Pender on November 28, 20070 comments
Robert Lendvai was as confused as anybody when he read RCPU's declaration that
IBM's planned buyout of Cognos meant the
end
of business intelligence
as we know it. The chief marketing office of Blink
Logic, an Ottawa-based BI firm, even had a bit of a career crisis: "I wondered
whether maybe I should resign," Lendvai said.
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Posted by Lee Pender on November 28, 20070 comments
The owner of z4 Technologies (what, you haven't heard of it?) will soon be
a
wealthier
man
.
Posted by Lee Pender on November 28, 20070 comments
Just like a petulant 10-year-old trying to talk his way out of trouble, Microsoft
has
really
learned its lesson
this time! No more problems with WGA! No more nasty outages!
And this time, we mean it.
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Posted by Lee Pender on November 28, 20070 comments
The word "vulnerability" in reference to a software security issue
always makes us giggle a little -- it sounds more like somebody's endless craving
for sweets, or something someone would say on the first date after a particularly
nasty end to a prior relationship. "I'm just feeling very vulnerable --
kind of like Windows when a hacker
takes
control of a workstation
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Posted by Lee Pender on November 27, 20070 comments