GnomeMeeting 1.0!
Readers who've been checking in for a while know that VoIP is a personal technology interest of mine. That's why the announcement of GnomeMeeting's 1.0 software release is a piece of great news....
View ArticleSCO confirms ''Halloween X'' memo, denies Microsoft involvement
According to this article in eWeek, SCO admits the "Halloween" memo is authentic, but SCO, Microsoft and Baystar Capital, the firms implicated in the message deny the conclusions drawn by Eric Raymond....
View ArticleStuzt's essay on ''commodity software''
(Link via Slashdot) David Stutz wrote an intriguing essay about the history of global commodities (i.e., sugar, oil, cotton, etc.) and the emerging "commodification" of software. Software, he points...
View ArticleIT Worker? Don't like your job? Take a number.
The City and Guilds of London Institute posted a survery on its website about the happiness of workers in various fields. Turns out only 14% of IT workers are "very happy" in their jobs while...
View ArticleThe sky is falling!
The European Union is set to fine Microsoft a whopping $615 million for antitrust abuses."This ruling is yet another example of the EU assaulting a successful American industry and policies that...
View ArticleGreat preview of GNOME 2.6
Ars Technica has a great preview including lots of screen shots of the improved GNOME 2.6 desktop which is set to be released tomorrow April 1, 2004. If you're like me and tend to "upgrade" GNOME...
View ArticleOfficial GNOME 2.6 release webpages
No April Fool's Joke... here're the GNOME 2.6 Release Notes. They look great and detail all the new improvements in my favorite Free desktop environment.
View ArticleMobile phones on airplanes
The Economist reports on a new technology called "pico-cells." These cellular points of presence allow one to use a cell phone on board an airplane without interfering with ground based cellular...
View ArticleBlogging in business?
The Economist reports on a growing trend of business blogging, both as an internal medium for employees and an external medium for customer communication. For those of us into blogging already, this is...
View ArticleModernizing the IRS: a case study in failure
Today's object lesson in enormous, complex project implementation... CIO Magazine has a long, revealing article about the IRS' woes in trying to modernize its business systems. According to the...
View ArticlePacBell Park's new WiFi system
The San Jose Mercury News published a "man-on-the-street" article which gets fan reaction to Pacific Bell Park's new WiFi hotspot enabled baseball park. Unsurprisingly, some fans liked it, some fans...
View ArticleThe Economist: What now, Scott McNealy?
The Economist has a great analysis of the recent Sun v. Microsoft settlement. Read it here. Key grafs:Microsoft and Sun have a new common enemy: Linux, an operating system that competes with Windows...
View ArticleAT&T Wireless: Failed CRM upgrade cost $100 million in lost revenues
The latest CIO Magazine has a superbly cautionary tale of project management done in the worst possible way. According to the article, the project problems may have cost the company upto $1
View ArticleNovell: The ''quiet'' IT company
There's some interesting articles in Business Week about Linux about a month ago. Here's one that sizes up Red Hat competitor Novell. For a long time I think the IT punditariat saw Novell as the...
View Article4 years later, what's changed?
Everything! It's ironic to me to be writing this entry while my primary job duties generally involve Windows Server 2003. At home, I use Macs (my Mac Book Pro is currently booted into Windows XP, but...
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