by anandeep on October 27, 2006
I loved doing development in a research and university environment. You got to write cool code, prove new ideas, break new ground and generally ended up with bragging rights to say “I did an image recognition algorithm on a multi-layer architecture implementing reactive and planning parallelism on an autonomous robot!” When I moved to industry and wrote software for day to day use – things changed... more
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by MichaelF on October 06, 2006
In the IT industry it is axiomatic that whatever is new will be old, and will then be new again! Consider the “Service Bureau” approach that was used in the mainframe days, in which an organization’s computing needs were taken care of by a “Service Bureau” that maintained the infrastructure, served up the applications and provided the support for the users. The Service Bureau typically served many... more
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by MichaelF on September 27, 2006
To continue the series of interesting people we met at OSCON Anandeep spends some time with Andreas Knab Computer Systems Engineer at the School for Instructional Technology at James Madison University. Andreas works on an Open Sourced .NET project at the University called: Madison Digital Image Database...... more
- Wednesday, September 27, 2006
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by MichaelF on September 25, 2006
Anandeep Interviews James Jech, Senior Manager of Global Alliances and Business Development from Dell Inc's Enterprise Systems Group, to discuss how the evolution of hardware has impacted how users choose an operating system and how they deploy their infrastructure...... more
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by MichaelF on August 23, 2006
My first impression about LinuxWorld 2006 was – This is BIIIIG! As I walked down the escalator in the Moscone Center in San Francisco I could see the big flashy banners, the props and the mascots from the vendors. It seemed like just another tradeshow. But how could that be, wasn’t this supposed to be “Linux”-world? ... more
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by jcannon on August 15, 2006
Hank Jenssen and myself attended the OSCON on the 27th and 28th of July. We did not attend the tutorials or the Executive briefing but were there two days of the two and a half days the sessions were in progress. We also attended the keynotes on both days (27th and 28th July). As a strategy, Hank and I discussed the sessions and their subject matter, splitting up to attend different sessions in... more
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by MichaelF on August 14, 2006
I recently attended OSCON 2006, and had a lot of fun being there. Microsoft’s presence in the Open Source World is still a novelty (to say the least), so I always got a reaction out of people at the conference when they saw my badge! ... 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 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 admin on June 28, 2006
Consider this scenario – the CIO’s office just called. They have decided to follow your recommendation and are going to use JBoss (substitute favorite open source software package here) as their application server (substitute database server/web server/whatever server here)...... more
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by admin on June 12, 2006
The peer review system is a much revered and reviled system within academic circles. Tim O’Reilly’s recent comment on Nature magazine’s fresh look at peer review piqued my interest.
Interest piquing is always bad, because its sets off the oft dangerous process of “thinking”!
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by admin on June 02, 2006
Welcome Anandeep Pannu to the OSSL. In this interview Sam and Anandeep discuss his background and role on the team, see what you can expect from Anandeep on Port 25...... more
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