
Firefox MASSIVE FAIL – frequent, incompatible upgrades and instability
For years, I have been a dedicated Firefox user. Before Chrome, Firefox was a browser that really met my needs. Firefox was faster and more flexible than Internet Explorer. Firefox was innovative, supporting tabs, add-ons, standards, and multiple platforms. Over the years, I customized my Firefox environment to meet my needs, with add-ons that made […]

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-30
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: Microsoft gets kudos for tablets and mobile strategy. RIM does not. Microsoft does not get kudos for price paid for Yammer. Google holds I/O conference, reveals next version of Android, gives away goodies. Great tech companies to work for include Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Apple, […]

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-24
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past two weeks. Oracle America sales head leaves after trashtalking Mark Hurd and HP online. Larry buys Lanai. Oracle wins nothing in lawsuit vs Google. Oracle’s results fail to impress. BTW, @larryellison still has just one tweet … Enterprise 2.0 Gets Down to Business (SAP) “I […]

On Changing horses: Open Source Licenses, Foundations and The Software Freedom Conservancy
I was lucky enough to chat to Jason Huggins earlier last week, getting an update on Saucelabs, the commercial arm of (his) Selenium Project [related post here]. Needless to say the conversation ranged far and wide. One issue was open source foundation choices. Given the decision to “go commercial” and build a business around Selenium, […]

Red Hat the Master Packager: Open Source and the $1bn annual runrate company
A core research thesis for me is that the best packager in any tech wave wins, and wins big. The number one position in a market, with all the network dominance that implies, goes to the best packager, not the best inventor. Packaging is where you cross the chasm- where geek stuff goes mainstream. Tim […]