by MichaelF on July 31, 2006
Bill sits down with Matt Asay to discuss his views on commercial Open Source Software and thoughts from the first two days of OSCON.... more
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by MichaelF on July 28, 2006
While attending OSCON, Bill Hilf and Port 25 were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to sit down and interview Tim O'Reilly...... more
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by MichaelF on July 28, 2006
On day two of OSCON we snuck into the vendor fair during setup time and spent some time with Mindtouch, a Microsoft partner looking at new ways to leverage Wiki's to enhance data sharing and collaboration.... more
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by jcannon on July 28, 2006
We'll have more videos and blogs to come on OSCON2006; in fact, later today we'll be posting an interview with Mindtouch, as well as trip reports from Hank & Anandeep next week. For now - we wanted to share a few pics we snapped from the show floor for those that couldn't make it all the way to Oregon. As you can see from our first picture, the weather stayed beautiful for Day 3 at OSCON :) ... more
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by jcannon on July 26, 2006
The Microsoft Open Source Software Lab is a key advocate within Microsoft for interoperability with Open Source technologies. In order to drive discussions and engineering plans around interoperability, we need to initially build a core knowledge base in the particular technology which we can share with product and field teams. This paper is the first in a four part series on Linux networking technologies... more
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by admin on July 25, 2006
We just wrapped up the O'Reilly Executive Day here at OSCON after two days of what many would call record heat in the Pacific Northwest. With many of the Port 25 folks commuting from larger cities across the US, Portland is a welcome break. For those who haven't been before - the pic this morning from the Willamette River might give you an idea of how beautiful this place really is. ... more
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by jcannon on July 23, 2006
In technical terms, a honeypot performs a function very similar to that of a “honeypot” in the outside world: a sweet lure. A “honeypot” is a system designed with the purpose of attracting the attention of prospective attackers, to assess how they are attempting to infiltrate the machine and what they doing once they gain access. There are literally thousands of honeypot networks and systems setup... more
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by jcannon on July 23, 2006
We’ve rolled out additional updates to the site this Friday in response to feedback, and created a new section of the site: Forums. ... more
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by jcannon on July 21, 2006
Sam interviews Martin from Teamprise, a company which has developed a pretty interesting suite of client applications that can access Visual Studio Team Foundation Server from Macintosh, UNIX or Linux clients using Eclipse. The Teamprise implementation allows development teams to use the source control features as well as work item tracking from within the Eclipse IDE.... more
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by jcannon on July 18, 2006
By now, many of you have seen the Xensource announcement released today. If not, I reccomend checking it out. It describes Microsoft’s partnership with Xensource (www.xensource.com). For those who do not know anything about the technology and what they would use it for, I will give a brief description. Many years ago when processors where not so fast, memory was expensive and general computing hardware... more
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by jcannon on July 18, 2006
There is a buzz word floating out there – “business readiness”. It seems that the marketing teams here at Microsoft are trying to capture something important to organizations and people that are responsible for selecting, deploying and maintaining software for businesses. What does it really mean though?... more
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by admin on July 17, 2006
Hank just blogged about critical thinking. If I had to state my own concise definition of what lies at the heart of critical thinking, it would be a personal commitment to finding the right solution to any problem, regardless of whether or not figuring it out and the subsequent implications are easy or comfortable (in practice, this usually means being the resident skeptic right at the point everyone... more
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by jcannon on July 14, 2006
Anandeep interviews Khaled El Emam, Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Khaled's research looks very deeply at how bugs and software defects introduced in software development impact an organization after purchase and deployment. His assertion, the more bugs and issues in deployed software, the more downtime, support and maintenace costs are incurred post-purchase.... more
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by jcannon on July 13, 2006
First of all, I will not be held accountable as it relates to typo’s and confusing sentence structures. I got back a day or so ago from Europe, so I am using the Jet Lag excuse as long as I can! I am going to start my blog with a little story that happened a few weeks ago. The in-laws were in town and the wife and I decided to take them to a nice restaurant. The restaurant chosen was Salish Lodge,... more
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by jcannon on July 11, 2006
A simple question that has always perplexed me is how software and hardware OEM’s across the world simulate heterogeneous environments under lab conditions. I have witnessed several different approaches, practices and stages of this adaptation and each one of them is unique and correct in its right and merit. I guess, that leaves the “big” question which remains unanswered i.e., how do you bring a... more
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