/// Tag Archives: open source
Will Apple Lose Its Way Again To “Engineering”?
February 02, 2012
We are clearly in the web age an era that has turned everyone into readers and publishers of free content. In this era we have...
Where’s The Commercial Support For Open Source?
January 26, 2012
Over the past few years, open source solutions have been growing in popularity within the enterprise. This article looks at the benefits and challenges of...
Are we on course to a technology bubble?
November 04, 2011
Very recently I had a long chat with a fellow tweeter on the subject of technology bubbles, and whether we are entering a new one...
Open source technology has breathed new life into the software market
April 01, 2011
One of the main forces of the open source world is the active participation of the user community. The community can be defined as a...
Open source is to blame for unsecure Google Android apps
February 28, 2011
Research by a US university undergraduate that has revealed that Google Android apps are sending user credentials in the clear comes as no surprise. According to...
Expressor Software introduces Standard Edition
February 22, 2011
I wrote a little while ago about expressor’s introduction of a Community Edition and the use of semantic types. While I concentrated in that article...
Open source and the future of the cloud
February 07, 2011
I just read a blog post about Amazon’s use of Oracle in the cloud that I can only call stupid. Just stupid. The post implies that open...
Linux Or Windows Hosting?
December 14, 2010
While your PC is highly likely to run Windows as its operating system, in hosting terms, the more common operating system is Linux. But why? Linux...
Social Apps Need To Grow Socially, Not By Pushy Salespeople
December 01, 2010
I just saw that Yammer landed a cool $25 million in new funding. While that says a lot about the economy and the interest...
WordPress, Windows, WebsiteSpark: The Future Of Blogging
November 11, 2010
Wordpress is one of the most widely used blogging platforms on the web today. It is also one of the most popular open-source blogging, publishing,...
Too Small For SOA?
October 14, 2010
How big do you need to be to use a Service Oriented Architecture? That’s a question I’d never really thought about until recently. I’ve...
Private Email And Personal Devices Continue To Threaten IT Security
August 09, 2010
According to a survey by Sourcefire – an open source network intrusion detection system – 96% of senior managers and directors use personal devices...
User Experience Analytics (UEA)
May 05, 2010
For companies that treat their web sites as another piece of marketing collateral, creating a good looking site is their end-game. For anyone that treats...
Modified Websites Pushing Trojans On The Rise
April 27, 2010
For the past couple of weeks, owners of Web sites have been hit with a wave of attacks that surreptitiously infect unsuspecting visitors...
FeelHome Gives Access To Your Files On Your PC Not External Servers
March 25, 2010
If you want to have access to your files from wherever you are in the world or want colleagues to have access to your files...
