It has only been a few minutes since the news of Google removing support for the H.264 video codec from Chrome in favour of WebM, a codec that Google open-sourced after their acquisition of On2, has been making the rounds. Is this significant? I guess it depends who you ask, but Chrome is certainly a browser that’s quickly gaining traction, and rightly so.
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Google Chrome Drops Support For H.264
Thursday, January 13th, 2011Is Open-Source A Viable Solution To Financial Institutions?
Thursday, December 16th, 2010A recent news story published by the Bloomberg Businessweek claimed that an Ex-Goldman Sachs programmer was found guilty of stealing certain source codes to use it for his new employer’s benefit. During the trial an argument put across by the defendant was that most of the codes that he stole were open source in nature. But the matter that caught most people’s attention was the fact that a financial institution like Goldman Sachs is also one amongst a plethora of open source code users.
More IT Managers Turning To The Cloud
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010Three-fourths of companies either currently use enterprise-grade cloud computing or plan to over the next five years, according to a new study commissioned by Savvis.
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Wave in a Box: Open Source Google Wave
Thursday, November 11th, 2010More than a year has passed since Google first introduced Google Wave to the public. With it’s initial offering being invite-only, those with accounts found little motivation to use the service in the beginning, but some people eventually co-opted the Google Wave collaboration paradigm with success. Though never considered a true threat to other well-established social networks. The collaboration aspect to Google Wave always held the promise of changing the way businesses communicate internally. (more…)
Microsoft Adopts An Open Strategy To Managing .NET
Thursday, October 14th, 2010Call it uncanny, strange or unlikely, Microsoft has made the move of going the Open-Source way — at least to manage some of its resources. In this case the idea is to incorporate one of the first editions (versions) of (more…)
Adding Social Computing Capabilities
Thursday, August 26th, 2010According to a new Forrester report, The Next Wave of Office Productivity by Sheri McLeish with Matthew Brown and Joseph Dang, Microsoft Office continues to dominate both in the enterprise and at home to no surprise. However, changes are affecting enterprise productivity strategies, such as Web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, and the consumerization of IT. Many enterprise workers use products like the iPhone and YouTube at home and they have expectations at work for similar functionality either through these tools or enterprise versions. As a loyal Mac. iTunes, and iPhone user who is still attached to Office, I was interested in where all these tools are going and appreciated getting a review copy of the report.
Useful Open Source Project Management Tools
Thursday, July 15th, 2010SOS Open Source has been used to find and select open source web-based project management with issue-tracking and time-tracking tools to manage multiple IT projects, possibly localized in Italian (or at least open for internazionalization and localization).
Installing And Running The Clojure Programming Language
Thursday, July 1st, 2010There’s a thread on the Clojure mailing list, started by folks new to Clojure, pointing out that it can be a bit daunting to get Clojure running in order to try out some basics. I figured I’d post a very short tutorial showing how to get a basic running environment and Hello World! compiled as a JAR and executable via Java.
What Is A Configuration Management Database?
Thursday, May 13th, 2010The concept of the Configuration Management Database extends back at least 15 years, to the first version of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). It has proven a provocative concept for the management of enterprise information technology, attracting enthusiastic support, vendor investment and marketing, and fierce criticism.
Start Your Process With Future State
Thursday, May 6th, 2010As I have mentioned in numerous posts over the last several months, I am finding that things like process, governance, architecture, SOA, cloud computing, and others are much easier in my new startup world than in my old corporate world that I battled in since the 80’s. Even though I never intend to return to the corporate world I feel obligated to share with my colleagues in the corporate world because I know how hard it can be innovate and promote change in established cultures. In part one on process, I recommended creating a startup atmosphere by building a small team free from the constraints of the corporate setting.