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The Linux Foundation has been promising a video of the debate among Linux, Windows and Solaris devotees at its recent collaboration summit. But it has not been released yet that I can find. Perhaps... More >
Enterprise software pushing products clients don’t need? I hope your arm feels better after all that twisting, but I can’t help glomming onto this building nonsequitur blogo-debate about enterprise ... More >
I promised that the Oracle/Sun combination would be fodder for a series of blog posts. And I will not disappoint (or I will bore you, depending on your perspective). The big picture as I ment... More >
Oracle buying Sun looks a little odd at first glance. Isn’t it just a software leader buying a dying systems supplier? It's more because it answers a long-outstanding question in information technolo... More >
I posted earlier my fear of attempts to Europeanize enterprise software . The only thing worse would be to let the U.S. government get too involved in manipulating the software market. Unfortu... More >
I was very bullish on the Red Hat Exchange (RHX) when it was launched two years ago but it never played out as I thought it might. I saw it as a one-stop shop for applications certified to work in th... More >
Andy Updegrove is an attorney with a practice representing various IT companies, standards efforts and standards consortia, according to his Web site. He is part of a group of vehement advocates for ... More >
The Linux Foundation announced April 8 its annual sponsorship of independent IDC predictions about how the Linux ecosystem will grow over time. The answer is "a lot" but exactly what you'd expect in ... More >
Agresso recently sponsored some interesting research by CFO magazine affiliate, CFO Research. (CFO is in turn part of the The Economist Group.) The research — available on Agresso’s web site for f... More >
In Should You Expect More Innovation in ERP? I wrote about the news — or lack of same — that came out of Microsoft’s mid-March Convergence user conference (if you weren’t in New Orleans, you can ge... More >
When the headline “The Next Big ERP Innovator: Microsoft” popped up in a Google alert this week, I figured it must have been a five- or seven- or nine-year-old posting. Perhaps it was from 2000 whe... More >
Gene Quinn at IPWatchdog made this provocative statement on April 2: “Open Source Race to Zero May Destroy Software Industry. ” I don’t think it's likely, but it is a trend worth watching and a b... More >
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