Abiword, Oh My!

July 16 2008

So in a recent blog I brought up IBM Lotus Symphony, and during the discussion that followed a mention was made about Abiword. I have to admit, I have not looked at Abiword in a VERY LONG TIME. I just checked out... read more

Speaking of OpenOffice.. Why not Lotus Symphony?

July 10 2008

I just read this little news release about the Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church moving away from Windows and Microsoft to open source solutions. Very interesting! What really causes my eye was this: Office will be the first to go. Lymbers... read more

The Death of the Desktop

July 08 2008

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The operating system on your computer is becoming less and less important. Really. In the next three to four years, I think the desktop OS will become a minimal consideration. Why? Because most... read more

OpenOffice Still Pushing

July 07 2008

The other month I blogged about OpenOffice and the fact that it tends to be marginalized in the face of free and commercial products. Most readers did not particularly like that stance. Lou Dolinar just blogged about OpenOffice, but focused instead on... read more

Open Source Hardware Routers

June 19 2008

This is by no means new news, but I just read a blog from Matthew McKenzie about WRT54G-based open source routers and it got me thinking. First though, for those not in the know, the Linksys WRT54G can be loaded with a... read more

HPC and Open Source ARE Linked

June 19 2008

Anandeep just wrote a little blog questioning the long-term link between High Performance Computing (HPC) and open source. His logic boils down to this: 1. HPC, like many other technologies, starts with the need for a small set of people to do... read more

Rdeskop Security Article

June 18 2008

I just read through “Technical Analysis: Security Considerations for rdesktop and Windows Terminal Services” at Technet. Nothing too big here. The security issues of rdesktop are no different than that of Microsoft’s mstsc.exe client. However, the paper did leave me with a... read more

More on Codeplex: Community Self-Policing

June 13 2008

A project was recently removed from Codeplex because it was not offering the source code. The project, Sandcastle, apparently violated Microsoft’s “Open Source policy”. Thus, Microsoft removed the project. That’s cool and all, but that is not what is really of note.... read more

More on the 'Microsoft and Sourceforge Blog': Codeplex!

June 12 2008

They listened! I just blogged yesterday about the UI of Codeplex (well, a bit) and apparently there is at least some effort in getting the Codeplex community to help better design the way that Codeplex works. I should add a caveat to... read more

Microsoft and Sourceforge

June 11 2008

Okay, okay, so Microsoft makes forays into open source now and then, including both Codeplex and even some sponsored projects that are hosted on Sourceforge. It looks like they made a bit of a more high-profile push, in marketing terms, by becoming... read more

Instant ON Linux

June 04 2008

Nifty! So Asus is set to have an Instant “On” Linux for a line of their notebooks. (And, yes, it supports instant “Off” as well.) Going back a few years.. well, a few decades.. the whole instant “On” concept is certainly not... read more

Virtualized Desktops Coming to You

June 03 2008

There is nothing new these days about virtualization, whether at the server- or desktop-level. Nevertheless, a recent announcement by Virtual Iron and 2X did remind me yet again that virtualization is starting to change the very foundation of how software companies, including... read more

Novell and SuSE Does Well

June 02 2008

Novell reported earnings for 2008 Q2 and they showed a profit. Not bad. You can read more here. I think it’s interesting, and telling, that much of their growth is in Linux and Identity Management. SuSE Linux continues to be a very... read more

Zimbra is not an open source Exchange substitute

May 23 2008

I just saw a note that yet another VAR is offering Open-Xchange to its client. Not a big story, but it did get me thinking about the current marketplace for open source Exchange replacements. Let’s keep in mind that the “open source”... read more

VirtualBox vs. VMware 2.0 Smackdown

May 22 2008

Speaking of VirtualBox (yes, I actually spoke about it here), Jason Perlow just wrote a good review of the two in his blog. I’ll be honest—and a little embarrassed—I didn’t even know about VirtualBox until last month. And when I read Jason’s... read more