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Free Software Now
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| Take-Ways · Two seem obvious: First, use Open Source. Second, if you’re doing
| a startup, and you were thinking of the Enterprise Software business model,
| think again. Because nobody’s going to be cutting those big software-license
| POs. ¶
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/13/Open-Source-Now
On Tough Times
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| Right now it feels to me like the day after Katrina hit New Orleans. We’re
| all beat up and battered, but mostly still alive and starting to think about
| maybe rebuilding. But in the background, the waters are rising and the levee
| is failing.
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/11/Tough-Times
A Good Time for Agility
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| When business is lousy, getting projects approved and budgeted is
| challenging. Which means, tough times are good times to be agile. [This is
| part of the Tough Times series.]
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/12/Tough-Times-Agility
Get In the Cloud
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| When times are tough, money is tight. Which means, you’d think, that the
| golden era of Cloud Computing, as in pay-as-you-go infrastructure, is upon
| us. It should be, but we’re not there yet.
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/10/14/Cloudy-Times
Recent:
Lock-In, the 2008 Flavor
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| So, if I want to watch the Olympics online, I need to install Microsoft
| Silverlight. And if I’m interested in good-looking new high-end compact
| cameras, I’m super-interested in the new Nikon P6000; which writes a RAW
| format that can only be read by Microsoft WIC, available only on Windows.
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| Open, non-proprietary equivalents to all of these, which do not constrain
| your customers’ choice of platform, are widely available.
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| Nikon is a competent camera company. The IOC is a competent sports
| impresario. The Chinese government is a competent authoritarian dictatorship.
| Pity they’re all so fucking stupid about technology.
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/08/10/Microsoft
Tim Bray provides a bridge between Sun and developers
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| Looking further ahead, Bray predicts a move away from Microsoft operating
| systems. "The fact is that the vast majority of office desktops are using
| Windows, the third-best platform," he says. "You can argue about the relative
| merits of modern Linuxes like Ubuntu and the Mac, but they are clearly better
| than Windows in terms of robustness, cost, performance, and a whole bunch of
| other things. For the long term, can the mainstream of business continue to
| ignore the fact that there's a better alternative than what they're running?
| If that logjam breaks, that's going to be a real change."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/133149
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