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Slashdot | Paris Accelerates Move to Open Source

Paris is moving to open-source software a little faster than originally intended. As a part of the strategy to 'reduce its dependence on suppliers' they anticipate replacing both server and desktop applications with free and open-source software.

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Bud posted this on November 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

ROI or ROE?

"That's what Google did," Lefkowitz said. "The scarce resource there is the expertise." Sounds like what we have been saying for years.

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Bud posted this on August 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

In Defense of Free

Because free is a great way to make money. You just have to know how you are going to get paid for being free.

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Bud posted this on July 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Thought leaders or out of touch with the masses

Suggests that all of the people using firefox are out of touch with the masses and will pay for it. I wonder if all of these enterprise people in their silos are not out of touch with the masses.

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Bud posted this on February 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Craigslist is a Community, Not an Application

So the value is in the community, not in the software used to create it.

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Bud posted this on February 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Transparency and the Turning Tide

Will Solaris 10 turn the tide for Sun. They're launching on a viral strategy that could be termed "adopt for free, then upgrade for money"

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Bud posted this on February 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

firefox is a major new browser player

A nice pointer at how firefox is rising in the charts. The question is the extent to which it can penetrate standardized organizations.

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Bud posted this on February 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

On Being Open

I sort of wonder if we will really get an open office format. It makes a lot of sense to me, but habit is so hard to break.

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Bud posted this on January 29, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

20% of the uk defecting to firefox?

Once the numbers start to look this good, more site designers will be willing to adopt web standards. This will only quicken the decline for non-standards compliant browsers like IE.

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Bud posted this on January 26, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

the graphs (part 1)

more firefox stats.

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Bud posted this on January 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

the graphs (part 2)

Interesting notes on the trends in firefox downloads. I can remember when this was considered a completely geeky thing. Now, everyone is doing it.

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Bud posted this on January 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Slew of Fears Slows Open-Source Uptake

People want someone to be responsible for whether the software works or not. An opportunity for local software integrators?

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Bud posted this on January 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Internet Explorer Use Keeps Falling

Interesting how firefox keeps plowing ahead. I think it is because innovation keeps on happening on the web. Just staying static is not enough to keep market share (the apparent IE strategy). Once switched, do you switch back?

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Bud posted this on January 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

the firefox solution

I like the idea of an open standards-compliant platform

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Bud posted this on January 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

portable firefox breaks 100,000 downlaods

Browsers are the interface to all things web. Organizations have a hell of a time migrating login profiles for people as they move from station to station. This seems like a nice non-proprietary, decentralized way of achieving that purpose.

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