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- Discussion threads 2008-10-15
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- Blog posts 2007-05-03
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- Blog posts 2006-11-06
- Million-dollar Linux
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- Discussion threads 2006-04-10
- The Java Desktop System and "real-technic"
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- Blog posts 2006-03-14
- Novell seeks to boost Linux graphics
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- Discussion threads 2006-02-06
- PowerPC, x86, and Apple pricing
- Apple's latest G5 workstation offers two dual core G5 processors at a price point no different from the older units - so low that it says something interesting abut Apple's announced plan to go x86 in the future. Here's a comparison between the latest PowerMac and IBM's closest technical equivalent:...
- Blog posts 2005-10-25
- Streaming .avi and MPEG files
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- Blog posts 2005-09-28
- IBM's Desktop vision
- As fellow blogger Chris Jablonski reported last week ( IBM's Mills touts managed clients 8/10/05), IBM's Steve Mills had some interesting things to tell the Linuxworld audience in San Francisco about its Linux desktop vision. Here's part of Chris's report: Managing clients from a platform neutral server...
- Blog posts 2005-08-16
- Why MS Office for Linux is a win-win
- In our open source blog, Dana Blankenhorn asks an important question which Microsoft ought to be asking itself: Would you buy MS Office for Linux? Let's go back a few years, to the antitrust suit brought about by the DoJ under the Clinton administration... The initial decree by Judge Jackson...
- Blog posts 2005-08-02
- The settling of old scores
- The settling of old scoresI'd like to see Sun make a profit...... before the company is considered a lasting part of a triad.This is a period in which companies can be acquired or fail. And I still can't see what Sun has to sell aside from IP that will...
- Discussion threads 2005-07-02
- Sun cools down Linux desktop plan
- Sun cools down Linux desktop planWhen are they going to understand ..... that Linux on the desktop is not a good idea. Yes, it can some cities like Munich adopting it, but that is not a big thing. Corel Linux did not catch up, neither JDS did, Lycoris failed and...
- Discussion threads 2005-06-28
- With Firefox gaining steam and a new IE on the way, can Opera survive?
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- Discussion threads 2005-04-17
- Rearden Commerce: SOA empire in the making?
- Who is Patrick Grady? That's a question that is likely to be answered many times over in the coming months as his"employee business services" company, Rearden Commerce, gathers market momentum. Grady told our own Dan Farber that it was the "extreme audacity" of the undertaking that kept him quiet about...
- Blog posts 2005-03-04
- Rearden Commerce transforms business services
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- Blog posts 2005-02-27
- ex-World Bank CTO: Desktop Linux Interrupted
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- Blog posts 2005-02-04
- ComputerWorld: IBM choking on own dog food
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- Blog posts 2005-01-25
- Less is More
- Less is MorePerfectGreat article...couldn't agree more...spot on.Did my one and only audioBlog experiment using garage band, (music/voice). I can easily pick out any sentence/segment and reuse it. The music intro/middle/end are also in separate tracks for reuse.http://www.geise.com/index.php/GD-Lab/Audio/----------If you are able to do everything in or fed in Garageband, you have...
- Discussion threads 2005-01-13
- Red Hat tries again with developer program
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- Discussion threads 2005-01-13
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