Working together on a project. See collaborative software.
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- Hosted software development: an emerging market [interview and podcast]
- Note: Click the player above to hear my podcast interview on hosted development with Jeffrey Walker and Jeff Leyser from Atlassian Software. Hosted software as a service (SaaS) development solutions have become an important option for mainstream programmers. These products range from straightforward offsite storage, such as...
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- A conversation with Charles Phillips, president Oracle
- This morning I participated in a round table conversation with Charles Phillips, president of Oracle, discussing his take on Enterprise 2.0 technologies and how they apply to Oracle's view of the enterprise applications space. While there was nothing earth shatteringly new in what he said, some nuggets emerged. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Samba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward Microsoft
- Samba's forthcoming version 3.2 release capitalizes on Microsoft's interoperability commitments while also guarding against patent covenants that threaten the GPL. Samba 3.2, which is expected to be released in roughly one month's time, offers improved integration with the Active Directory in Windows Server 2003 and recently released...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Government IT failures: "Room for improvement" [interview and podcast]
- Given the size, scope and frequency of government IT failures, it's important to understand the dynamics underlying these projects. To learn more about federal IT, I interviewed two federal systems experts from CA, developer of the Clarity project portfolio management (PPM) solution. Gil...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Free software great and small
- They envision a world with Linux running on the smallest embedded devices to the largest supercomputer clusters, and all possible devices in between. It's only a matter of time before even desktop Linux becomes the mass market. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those...
- News items 2008-05-07
- Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun
- At the opening day of JavaOne on May 6, Sun officials began laying out their vision for a future cloud-computing platform, code-named Hydrazine, that Sun plans to field against competitive offerings from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others. Robert Brewin, Sun Chief Technology Officer and Distinguished Engineer, described...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- ePals provides safe student collaboration tools
- ePals provides safe student collaboration toolsePals emailThe district I currently work in uses the ePals email for student use. Students can access it from home or school to email other students and faculty. Since it is protected, many of the concerns surrounding email in school are eliminated. ...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- SAP aims to make upgrades easier; Rolls out enhancement packages; Touts analytics
- Henning Kagermann, co-CEO of SAP, wants to do away with the upgrade-go-round with its upcoming Business Suite 7.0 with "enhancement packages," small optional updates designed to add functionality to enterprise resource planning applications. Enhancement packages are small SOA-enabled packs that can add new functionality to SAP's Business...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- News to know: SAP; Hacking NASA; Apple; OpenSolaris
- Notable headlines: Nate McFeters: Hacking NASA: One small step for man, one giant leap for hackers? Common misconceptions about database security Sapphire 2008: Dennis Howlett: The changing SAP culture Larry Dignan: SAP's Apotheker: Business ByDesign costs led...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- ePals provides safe student collaboration tools
- Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak with Ed Fish, CEO of ePals Corporation. I first heard about ePals through Intel, who recently announced that they would provide hooks to ePals' services on their Classmate PCs. While it's easy to describe ePals as "the world's largest social network...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Stallman hopes to save children from proprietary software
- Stallman hopes to save children from proprietary softwareA comment and a typo to correctFirst the typo:[i]Sugar, even on Windows, always *was* and always will be open source. [/i]At least I think that's what you meant to say.[i]But let’s not throw babies out with bathwaters. Just because Ferraris are fun cars...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Stallman hopes to save children from proprietary software
- George Ou pointed me in the direction of Stallman's comments relating to Windows on the OLPC project, though I did nothing about it because my head was (figuratively) on fire. I then saw Christopher Dawson's response to Stallman's comments, and so I figured that I'd throw my two cents in...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Four Reasons To Skip Web Conferences
- Four Reasons To Skip Web Conferencesthis is the problem with forks in general"...can hiccup for all sorts of reasons."When we don't all pick one way to do things, we, at best, over complicate the task. All too often we end up just not using the technology and we lose all...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Four Reasons To Skip Web Conferences
- Remember when PowerPoints were first created how we were flooded with every special effect in the PowerPoint pail? Text would come swooping in from the right. Clip art would fade-in out of thin air. Sometimes, I would get downright dizzy watching the damn show. The only...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Adobe shoots for 'create once, present anywhere' value with worthy Open Screen Project
- Trying to deliver rich content effectively to the stubbornly heterogeneous end-user device tiers has produced more tears than triumphs. Adobe is aiming to fix that with the ambitious and inclusive Open Screen Project, which today throws adobe's considerable installed base weight behind an industry-collaboration movement to standardize interface delivery. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbentsThose are all smart arguementsApple, Salesforce.com, Google, VMWare, Amazon:They're companies who were supposed to die and/or who grew from nothing. If it's a forgone conclusion that the big IT guy landscape is cemented, then we should all just give up and go home. The...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents
- It's not often I find myself fundamentally disagreeing with Sam Lawrence. He's a smart guy with a great marketing head. But on this post he's over-reaching in my opinion. His basic argument says this: The big IT vendors aren't taking social software seriously. They can't. Not even if they...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- TeamLeader 2008 (exe)
- This full featured team management and collaboration software makes it easy to manage people, tasks and documents from your desktop. Use TeamLeader to track who's doing what, communicate with other team members, share documents, track due dates, manage file versions, manage contacts, route forms, and other teamwork activities. Includes all...
- Software downloads 2008-04-30
- Will Egnyte set you alight?
- When I first heard about Egnyte I was underwhelmed. How many more file storage systems do we need? That was a gross under estimation of what Egnyte can deliver for the smaller business. Described by Vineet Jain, the company's CEO as 'information infrastructure', the company sees storage as one of...
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Want Intel's newest chip? Buy an iMac
- Want Intel's newest chip? Buy an iMacOnly an Apple ....... fanboy would consider running an overclocked laptop CPU in their desktop a good thing. My God you guys are starved for technology.RE: Want Intel's newest chip? Buy an iMacLOL! The Vista thing is going fine. And I wouldn't own...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
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