Jon’s Network

What are the 5 things someone needs to be web-savvy? I’m not talking CSS or PHP type stuff. I’m talking beginner. Our world is separating into two groups: those that are web-savvy and those that aren’t. Those that “speak web” will benefit from the tremendous leverage the web provides. Those that [...]

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Many vendors promote their "purpose-built" appliances and closed software as a value to the customer.  These vendors have the "plug and play" advantage and you can "set it and forget it".

I haven’t been in the industry very long (5 years), but I imagine this appliance trend caught on after Cisco began producing purpose-built routers [...]

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Take 30 minutes and read an excellent presentation given at EclipseCon last week by Brent C. Williams, (temporarily) independent equity research analyst The slides are posted at Stephesblog, a great blog on open source and the software business.

My favorite slide:

Myths of Open Source Business Models

It’s a “weaker” business model than [...]

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Dell wants more information to help them decide how to go to market with Linux.  You can complete the survey here and, among other things, let them know which distribution you prefer.

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Here is some more scathing commentary referencing the failure of buggy OneCare to protect adequately against viruses.

Like Dell, it looks like HP is considering shipping Linux machines again.

Roughly Drafted says Apple is beating Microsoft by nabbing the most profitable sectors of the market , noting that Apples imminent domination over Microsoft is similar to [...]

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Alan Shimel asked whether or not Vista was compelling enough.  I wondered the same thing after I read this article that discusses the indefinite moratorium on all Vista upgrades for the U.S. DOT.  Similarly, (and here) the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency warned:

…there are no "must-have" features in Vista and that "technical, financial and [...]

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