Enterprise OS: How hard can it be?
Mark Taylor
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Written by staff at Sirius Corporation, the Open Source services group, this blog seeks to dispel any FUD around the use of Open Source software in the Enterprise and provide perspectives on business, economics, politics, philosophy and the environment.
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Are we mis-selling 'open source'?
by Mark Taylor
I am currently re-reading an oldish book on post-Piagetian child brain development. It has proved to be a real thought provoker, ironically for me not so much about young children but about the way adults think when you get...
June 29, 2009 3:23 PM Read Full Post
Embedded Linux: Out of sight, out of mind
by Mark Taylor
Inspiration for this post came to me whilst dead-heading the roses the other evening. Across the way on the village green three boys were playing Daleks. They were in a world of their own. There was lots of exterminating...
June 22, 2009 10:15 AM Read Full Post
Death of the Linux desktops
by Mark Taylor
An apocalyptic take on the OS of the future There is sad news from the USA: 95% of netbooks (i.e. the likes of the Asus EeePC, the Dell Mini etc) are being now supplied with Windows XP rather than...
June 15, 2009 9:26 AM Read Full Post
Open standards and Becta save the world
by Mark Taylor
Why computers use electricity, lots of it. ICT-related energy consumption globally is equivalent to the entire aviation industry and accounts for fully 2% of the earth's total energy consumption. The reason is pretty simple: 20 years of exponential increase...
June 8, 2009 10:26 AM Read Full Post
Secret code and the damage it does to our society
by Mark Taylor
Transparency against malpractice Transparency is a nice word, you feel as if by being able to see through something you are less at risk and more in control. Little wonder then that it crops up a lot nowadays, usually...
May 20, 2009 10:07 AM Read Full Post
Linux, open source and Sharepoint in the public sector
by Mark Taylor
The take up of free, open source software in the public sector is painfully slow despite the Government's Open Source Action Plan...are we to blame? 'You should get out more' is a phrase worth reminding yourself of on a...
May 14, 2009 1:54 PM Read Full Post
Microsoft into all UK primary schools
by Mark Taylor
Microsoft, not content merely to dominate the UK secondary school ICT curriculum with Office 'skills,' are now set fair to introduce them to children as young as 4. This brings to mind, a phrase long attributed to the Jesuits,...
May 6, 2009 10:31 AM Read Full Post
Linux desktops... too much too late
by Mark Taylor
My marketing director's twitteration induced me to click on a link to a ZDNet article which asserted that Linux desktops, have missed the boat; Good though they are, blah. The article was fine, but what is this obsession with...
April 29, 2009 10:05 AM Read Full Post
Home Education and Open Source Software
by Mark Taylor
Home education is all the rage and for good reasons. The likes of the Daily Mail have convinced us that state-funded education has returned to all but a feral condition and the Independent school sector having priced itself out...
April 20, 2009 11:12 AM Read Full Post
Is cloud computing a threat to open source?
by Mark Taylor
Why the demise of proprietary software is creating a vacuum which is about to be filled... and we may not like it. The PC Arrives on the Desktop When I was at college the PC or personal computer had...
April 14, 2009 12:44 PM Read Full Post
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