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Glyn Moody
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Glyn Moody's look at all levels of the enterprise open source stack. The blog will look at the organisations that are embracing open source, old and new alike (start-ups welcome), and the communities of users and developers that have formed around them (or not, as the case may be).
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When Will They Ever Learn?
by Glyn Moody
As already mentioned below, one of the abiding mysteries is why the UK's adoption of open source is so pathetic when compared to our continental cousins. This is pretty much across the board: in industry, government – and education....
April 18, 2008 4:25 PM Read Full Post
OpenOffice.org Storms Away – on the Continent
by Glyn Moody
Some people get sniffy about OpenOffice.org, calling it mickey mouse in comparison to the “serious” and “grown-up” Microsoft Office. That may have been a vaguely plausible jibe for version 1, but I've found version 2 to be incredibly fast...
April 18, 2008 8:36 AM Read Full Post
How Microsoft Will Play the ISO Card
by Glyn Moody
One of the arguments adduced in favour of making OOXML an ISO standard was that it would place control of the former in the hands of an independent ISO group, which was a much better situation than the present...
April 16, 2008 9:41 AM Read Full Post
ISO Ill at Ease Over OOXML
by Glyn Moody
The nominal approval of OOXML last month unleashed an unprecedented outpouring of anger, with much of that ire directed at the ISO for failing to uphold basic standards during the process. This has prompted it to respond with a...
April 15, 2008 4:58 PM Read Full Post
Life in Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Glyn Moody
If you want to see why closed software is doomed, consider this: Nine out of ten software-as-a-service providers will rely on open source software by 2010 to save money, but the cost savings likely won't be passed onto customers,...
April 15, 2008 3:47 PM Read Full Post
Don't be Neutral about Net Neutrality
by Glyn Moody
It was with a certain smugness that I viewed the heated US debates about “net neutrality” - the concept that Internet traffic should be delivered from end to end without paying any attention to what that traffic represented. I...
April 14, 2008 1:49 PM Read Full Post
Wikimedia Foundation Makes Huge Discovery: The Blog
by Glyn Moody
What took them so long? The blog is a chance for us to engage in a less formal discussion, and to bring up the sorts of topics that may not fit in a press release, or are too interesting...
April 14, 2008 9:42 AM Read Full Post
Compiz is Cool – and Why That Matters
by Glyn Moody
One of the most vexed questions within the open source world is when, if ever, GNU/Linux will take off on the desktop. Strangely, this isn't really about capabilities: as someone who has Ubuntu running on both of his main...
April 11, 2008 10:18 AM Read Full Post
Open Enterprise Interview: Rich Guth
by Glyn Moody
One of the most interesting trends in computing over the last few years has been the increasing number of companies that sell proprietary software moving to embrace open source in some form. One of the less well-known examples is...
April 10, 2008 3:39 PM Read Full Post
Is Microsoft Now Banned from EU Contracts?
by Glyn Moody
That's what an MEP from the German Green party wants to know. According to Heide Rühle's press release (as reported by Henning Schürig): Mit einer schriftlichen Anfrage an die Kommission wollen wir wissen, ob Microsoft nicht von laufenden oder...
April 10, 2008 7:30 AM Read Full Post
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