Disclaimer
The content on this site is my own and does not necessarily represent my employer’s positions, strategies or opinions. I work for IBM.
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Monthly disclaimer
The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM positions, strategies or opinions, especially if they are about the guitar, fishing, gardening, carpentry, house painting, and musical tastes.
Daily Links for Wednesday, September 30, 2009 – Evening Edition
Open Source Portland Plans to Become Open Source Mecca DaniWeb Community / Sharon Fisher In its ongoing effort to become the coolest city in the U.S., the mayor of Portland, Oregon, is going to attempt tomorrow night to make it … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, News, Open Source, Politics / Government
Comments Off
Daily Links for Wednesday, September 30, 2009 – Morning Edition
Open Source Former MySQL CEO Joins Benchmark Capital – Digits – WSJ Wall Street Journal Online / Pui-Wing Tam Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos is joining venture-capital firm Benchmark Capital as an entrepreneur in residence, says Benchmark partner Kevin Harvey. … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Apple, Linux, Microsoft, ODF, Second Life, Twitter
Comments Off
Daily Links for Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Open Source IBM Make Linux For Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan InformationWeek / Paul McDougall Put another way, IBM thinks Kazakhstan and other emerging markets are better off devoting scarce resources to building out businesses and infrastructure rather than paying … Continue reading
Daily Links for Saturday, September 26, 2009
Adobe In The Crossfire InformationWeek / Thomas Claburn Apple, which competes against Adobe with a number of its professional media applications, has stymied Adobe’s mobile ambitions by refusing to allow Flash on the iPhone. Although Adobe’s CEO has confirmed that … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, September 25, 2009 – Evening Edition
Cloud IBM Supplies Cloud System for Chinese City eWeek / Chris Preimesberger IBM’s CloudBurst software and services package will be used by the local government of Dongying, China, to access software development and test resources for software startup companies via … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud
Comments Off
Daily Links for Friday, September 25, 2009 – Morning Edition
Open Source Shuttleworth: Don’t Give Up the Linux Desktop internetnews.com / Sean Michael Kerner Speaking at the LinuxCon conference late Wednesday, the Canonical founder pitched his approach for expanding Linux to provide a better user experience and broadening its appeal. … Continue reading
IBM Lotus Symphony free download
Several people have asked me about Lotus Symphony, the free office productivity suite included in the package we announced this week for Africa with Canonical (Ubuntu) and Virtual Bridges (VERDE). The primary Symphony site is here, and the download section … Continue reading
Posted in Software
Comments Off
Two photos from my trip
I was in Portland, Oregon, this last week for LinuxCon. Portland is a beautiful city and other than trying to capture a sunrise on my iPhone, I didn’t take any photos. Here are a couple from my travel to and … Continue reading
Daily Links for Thursday, September 24, 2009 – IBM/Canonical Edition
IBM Markets Wares to Africa: Company Targets Region With Low-Cost Software, Challenging Microsoft Wall Street Journal / William M. Bulkeley IBM, which has been pushing into developing markets like Africa and Asia as mature markets slow, said the package — … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, September 23, 2009 – Morning Edition
Cloud IBM, Microsoft Back Zend Open Cloud API InformationWeek / Charles Babcock Simple API will seek to counteract the tendency of each cloud to have some proprietary parts, making it difficult for an application to work with services in more … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud
Comments Off
IBM and Canonical partner on software package for Africa
The Wall Street Journal broke the story this morning of a partnership between IBM and Canonical to provide a software package for users of netbooks and other thin clients in Africa. The package, which can be configured in several ways … Continue reading
First 2010 Ubuntu Linux release to be Lucid Lynx
Mark Shuttleworth announced that the next LTS (Long Term Support) version of the Canonical Ubuntu distribution of GNU/Linux, to be released in April, 2010, is to have the nickname “Lucid Lynx.” It follows, of course, Karmic Koala. You don’t need … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Office Web Apps: The beginning of the end for Microsoft? InfoWorld / Randall C. Kennedy So when Microsoft makes noise about embracing the cloud, then delivers something designed to preserve the status quo, we feel compelled to call them on … Continue reading
Possible futures for the Linux desktop – the full list from LinuxCon
On Monday at LinuxCon 2009 I gave ten possible futures for the Linux desktop. Several articles have highlighted one or two or these, but here is the full list. Of course I added a few spoken comments, but be certain … Continue reading
My LinuxCon 2009 keynote – slides
My LinuxCon 2009 keynote is now available in PDF form as well as from SlideShare. Regarding Clouds, Mainframes, and Desktops … and Linux View more documents from Bob Sutor.
Name that house
On Friday and Saturday I was in eastern New York / western Massachusetts. Can you name the house I’m standing in front of in the photo and its significance? [Answer: Big Pink, as in this.]
Posted in Travel
2 Comments
Daily Links for Wednesday, September 16, 2009 – Evening Edition
Open Source Linux and Virtualization Will March Forward Together OSTATIC / Sam Dean This trend is not just here to stay–it’s growing quickly. Virtual environments can mean fewer servers, lower fees for software licenses, reduced need for space for servers, … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, September 16, 2009 – Morning Edition
Open Source Is Cloud Computing Killing Open Source? ebizQ / Andre Yee Depending on the cloud computing service, I find that open source is complementary, rather than competitive with the cloud based model. If that’s true, even though cloud computing … Continue reading
iPhone, photos, and ColorSplash
I recently got an iPhone and have been having a good time playing with it. One of the cool applications I installed is called ColorSplash. Essentially it allows you to take or reuse an existing photo, converts it to black … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Open Source Virtualization tips total-cost scales for Linux CNet / Matt Asay Virtualization may offer a significant advantage to Linux in the decade-old debate over Linux vs. Windows total cost of ownership (TCO). A new Gabriel Consulting Group survey (PDF) … Continue reading
Why Oracle and Red Hat are “in it”
A couple of weeks ago and now on the Sun website, Oracle’s CEO Larry Ellison stated that “We’re in it to win it.” Red Hat’s response is “We’re in it to share it.” Red Hat has a video on the … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, September 14, 2009
IBM Adds Widgets to Symphony Office Suite internetnews.com / Larry Barrett: This latest iteration lets users drag and drop widgets into Lotus Symphony. IBM developers say this feature distinguishes it from static office productivity tools such as Microsoft Word and … Continue reading
My interview with Amanda McPherson of the Linux Foundation
Amanda McPherson has posted the text of a Q&A she and I did ahead of LinuxCon next week. From the intro: In the run up to LinuxCon, we’ve sat down with a number of the conference’s keynote speakers. This week … Continue reading
Another book read on my Hugo and Nebula award winners list
I just finished reading Forever Peace (Remembering Tomorrow) by Joe Haldeman and checked it off on my list of Hugo and Nebula award winners for novels. I decided a while ago that since I read a lot of science fiction … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, September 11, 2009
Open Source Linux Foundation to Microsoft: stop secretly attacking Linux ars technica / Ryan Paul Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin issued a scathing condemnation of Microsoft’s recent attempts to unload Linux-related patents to patent trolls. He calls for the … Continue reading
“Use” vs. “Utilize”
This entry is one in a series that tackles issues of proper word use and grammar in English. The incorrect yet increasingly common use of “utilize” instead of the simpler “use” is well documented in several places around the web. … Continue reading
Daily Links for Thursday, September 10, 2009
Open Source BrainShare Returns! Novell / John Dragoon (CMO) It’s with great excitement that we are announcing the return of BrainShare in 2010. Not only will BrainShare return to Salt Lake City, Utah where it’s been for more than 20 … Continue reading
Links for Wednesday, September 9, 2009 – “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” Edition
Open Source Microsoft trains Best Buy “Linux assassins” ZDNet / Adrian Kingsley-Hughes As I worked my way through the screenshots I was disturbed by the increasing amounts of FUD that was being used under the guise of “information” to discredit … Continue reading
Links for Wednesday, September 9, 2009 – OIN Edition
Open Source Microsoft rivals to purchase 22 patents to defend Linux ComputerWorld / Elizabeth Montalbano A group of Linux proponents will purchase patents formerly held by Microsoft in an effort to defend distributors of the open-source OS against the ongoing … Continue reading
