Open Source
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Portland points desktop Linux at $10 billion market
“Nearly a year in the making, the OSDL and freedesktop.org today announced general availability of Portland 1.0, the first set of common interfaces for GNOME and KDE desktops.”
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Eudora switches to open source – vnunet.com
“Qualcomm has committed to basing future versions of its Eudora email client on the open source Mozilla Thunderbird application.”
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“Considered the most popular Java IDE, it provides a common UI model for working with tools and promotes rapid development of modular features based on a plug-in component model”
Office 2.0
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Info about guidelines for “Simple AJAX mashups.”
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This will be necessary, from Google or anybody else. The offline component needs to be lightweight, but don’t be sursprised to see new local installations of Python or PHP+Apache.
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tecosystems: Checking in from Office 2.0
A report from Steve O’Grady.
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Office 2.0: Where are we at and please get off my network | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
‘My favorite quote was from Shel Israel: “As far as whether it’s online or offline, most people think it’s irrelevant. They just want their stuff to work.”‘
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Office 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, and other numerological mysteries | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
“The battle for control won’t go away, but companies that figure out how to leverage various strains of 2.0 will have a competitive edge. As least, that’s how McAfee sees it, and I wouldn’t dispute that conclusion.”
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Ed Brill – The question of background, bias, and arrogance
“We have positive and negative personality traits. We are not all the same. And that, friends and others, is why the pure intellectual discussion doesn’t work for me.”
