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8/29/2008 7:30:47 PM
In a commodity market, the cheapest producer always wins. In the partially commodified market of software, the cheapest producer isn't a software ...
Ideas 2003: Digital Audio - 26.8/29/2008 7:30:47 PM
Today, the most easily downloadable digital music sits in one of three formats: MP3, Real Audio and Windows Media Audio (.WMA). All three use ...
A Developer's Dilema: Making Open-Source Software Pay Off8/29/2008 7:30:47 PM
At I.T. conferences, Marty Roesch gets a lot of attention?and offers for drinks at the hotel bar?once attendees find out who he is.. . A typical ...
Open-source alternatives to proprietary software8/29/2008 7:30:47 PM
Proprietary Open Source Web browser Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Mozilla (based on Netscape) Web server Microsoft IIS, Netscape Apache (60 ...
The State of Open-Source Software in July 20038/29/2008 7:30:47 PM
When Linus Torvalds sat down in 1991 to write a version of Unix that would run on Intel chips, he probably didn't think too much about creating a ...
Is Microsoft Less Expensive Than Linux?8/29/2008 7:30:47 PM
Until recently, if you wanted to find someone who thought that a Windows-based program was cheaper than one based on Linux, you had to go all the ...
Open Source: The Myths of Open Source8/29/2008 7:30:47 PM
At first glance, the company Employease seems unremarkable. But look a little closer. Employease, which provides employee benefits administration ...
Q&A on Open Source with Jack Ondeck of Bristol West Insurance Group8/29/2008 7:30:47 PM
Do you use open source as your main operating system in a mission-critical environment? . As an insurance company, we need high reliability and ...
8/29/2008 3:33:02 PM
Computerworld
Microsoft Corp. today said that it made a mistake when it tagged one of its own programs as incompatible with Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, the ...
Microsoft buys European comparison shopping site for $486M8/29/2008 9:52:52 AM
Computerworld
Microsoft has agreed to buy comparison shopping business Ciao in a deal worth around US$486 million, and plans to integrate the service into its ...
Doubt cast on Seinfeld as Windows TV ads near8/28/2008 9:32:53 PM
Computerworld
For the past two-plus years, Microsoft Corp. has stood by while Apple Inc.'s "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" TV commercials treated Windows Vista like a ...
R.I.P. Exchange?8/28/2008 7:08:50 PM
Computerworld
Over the years, many of Microsoft monopolies have been successfully attacked by open source: Linux on the server; Apache for Web servers; Firefox ...