Enterprise OS: How hard can it be?
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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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Low power, flat-screen nirvana with Open Source software
by Mark Taylor
I know sometimes I am inclined to rant on about ICT in UK education - how much it costs; how it is unsustainable (that was even before 'le crunch' ); how unutterably rubbish the qualifications in schools are; what...
April 8, 2009 10:48 PM Read Full Post
Open source, Twitter and narcissm
by Mark Taylor
The extract from this week's Guardian on the major upcoming Primary School curriculum review can be found in full here. A slice of it is reproduced below: ...The review of the primary school curriculum was commissioned by Schools Secretary...
March 27, 2009 10:20 AM Read Full Post
The Future of Thin-Client Computing
by Mark Taylor
An obesity crisis in the making: thin is good, slim is better, fat is best For years I have been a fan of the ‘free, open source software/terminal server/disk-less terminal’ model of computing. I am obsessed with the absurdly...
March 25, 2009 10:36 AM Read Full Post
Managed services in UK schools
by Mark Taylor
On a visit to a well run school ICT department this week I suddenly 'got' what the major issues are that are besetting school ICT. It's not that I didn't know that these were issues before, it's just that...
March 16, 2009 9:49 AM Read Full Post
Open source Domestos
by Mark Taylor
I notice that poor TomTom is in the wars, having its wealth and creative energies sapped by a spot of patent litigation from you know who. It set me thinking about those who do new stuff, and those who...
March 16, 2009 9:36 AM Read Full Post
The no-brainer: Save up to 90% of ICT costs
by Mark Taylor
If state schools and other public sector bodies adopted more Free, Open Source Software and low energy thin-client computing they would: a) suffer no reduction in their quality of provision and b) save up to 90% of their total...
March 5, 2009 10:06 AM Read Full Post
Eucalyptus: the unsung hero of Open Source?
by Mark Taylor
Eucalyptus is an open-source infrastructure for the implementation of cloud computing on computer clusters. Its name is an acronym for "Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems". The current interface is compatible with Amazon's EC2...
March 2, 2009 10:13 AM Read Full Post
Open source safety - Tories vindicated ?
by Mark Taylor
The most surprising thing about George Osborne's recent Open Source announcements was the lack of backlash. That the UK's Conservative Party, possibly the next government, have endorsed a report that they comissioned, a report that recommends Open Standards, Open...
February 16, 2009 12:56 AM Read Full Post
Debian Lenny, coming Real Soon Now!
by Mark Taylor
With the release of 'Lenny' - the latest stable branch of Debian GNU/Linux - on Saturday (yes, that's Valentine's day - don't forget!), Tom Callway speaks to the head of the Debian project, Steve MacIntyre. Why is the imminent...
February 12, 2009 4:45 PM Read Full Post
Hacker sex and open source's children
by Mark Taylor
In five years Facebook has changed the world... or so the headlines scream. The phenomenon that is net-mediated social networking really hit the mainstream with Facebook. Such social networking is not as new as Facebook, it has always been...
February 10, 2009 11:49 AM Read Full Post
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