Worry About Integration, Not Installation
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| Proprietary software is designed to help a company make as much money as
| possible, which almost inevitably means hiding information that would make it
| easier to integrate or cooperate with competitors.
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http://ostatic.com/162392-blog/worry-about-integration-not-installation
Recent:
BitRock: Application Installation in a Networked World
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| As an aside, when I say cross-platform, I don’t mean Adobe AIR-style “sure
| we’re cross-platform - you know, Mac and Windows,” but rather truly
| cross-platform. Both dominant commercial distributions, Solaris and Linux.
| Even better, the Linux support is not limited to the dominant commercial
| distributions, in Red Hat and SuSE, but is inclusive of Debian, Ubuntu and
| other commercial and non-commercial variants.
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/02/12/bitrock-application-installation-in-a-networked-world/
Related:
Scary news for Microsoft in HP's earnings call
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| HP never saw a "Vista moment at any time over the past year" declared HP CEO
| Mark Hurd in yesterday's earnings call.
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| [...]
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| Think about that. These are markets that don't need Vista, that have no
| institutional memory of Windows (over the Mac or Linux). These are markets
| that are wide open for real competition (and real innovation).
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| Again, this is great news for every person on the planet...except Microsoft
| shareholders.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9821120-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Consultant hopes open source apps will "snap together" someday
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| Bachana recommends starting your company's open source journey at the Web
| level. "There's plenty of resources out there where you can get information
| on the different platforms available. Implement Web servers first. Hire a
| couple of really great developers that know the LAMP environment and task
| them with getting a roadmap for the back office using open source. If you
| start that way, you could map all your needs to readily available open source
| solutions out there. But it starts with getting at least one person who is a
| technologist that could support them in the back office."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/129881
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