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By Mark R. Hinkle  It is with some sadness that I am writing my last editorial for Enterprise Open Source Magazine. As the founding editor-in-chief of this magazine and a past contributor to its predecessor, I am going to miss it. However, all things must end and this chapter of my writing career, I am h... Nov. 14, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 6,918 | By Mark R. Hinkle  During my career I have had the privilege and the misfortune to be involved with quite a few nascent businesses. Some have been small, with no more than five or ten employees. To this day they still have that many or less. Others grew from 50 employees to over 10,000 in a very short ti... Sep. 19, 2007 03:30 PM Reads: 7,690 | By Mark R. Hinkle  Open source owes its success to a large group of people who have a shared set of values about which they feel strongly. Mainstream society probably lacks any real understanding of the things that matter to them in the world of open source. It's ironic that the term came from a fictitio... Jul. 15, 2007 03:30 PM Reads: 11,354 | By Mark R. Hinkle  There was a time when you couldn't shut me up about the Linux desktop. I was a fanatic. In 2000, I made the switch to a full-time virus-free Linux desktop and weeks of crash-free computing. I was a zealot. However, I did suffer from a few of the alternative operating systems shortcomin... May. 31, 2007 03:30 PM Reads: 13,512 Replies: 1 | By Douglas Levin These days, executives realize that there are 'new school' ways of acquiring a company with a software asset. For all of the immeasurable benefits it has brought to the development community, open source technology has added a complex variable to relevant parties calculating the M&A eq... May. 15, 2007 05:30 PM Reads: 10,487 Replies: 1 | By Mark R. Hinkle  I had originally written an editorial for this month's issue titled, 'Is Commercialization Killing Open Source?' Then I read William Hurley's blog (http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-whurley/whurley/opensville). William or as his friends call him, 'whurley,' is the chief architect of open ... May. 4, 2007 07:45 AM Reads: 24,187 Replies: 2 | By Mark R. Hinkle  Of late there has been a lot of buzz around what constitutes open source software. Industry leaders and pundits alike have weighed in on the 'openness' of certain software and companies' business models. The generally recognized test for open source software is the Open Source Definiti... Mar. 29, 2007 06:15 PM Reads: 9,240 | By Mark R. Hinkle  Blogs are a great platform for people to espouse their passions (not unlike editorials). They are different than traditional news outlets because they may be objective, opinionated, and even wrong. Interestingly enough, each of these behaviors is frequently rewarded equally. Mar. 6, 2007 01:00 PM Reads: 11,337 | By Mark R. Hinkle  The other day I was driving down the highway when I passed an American classic, a 1965 Ford Mustang. As I waxed nostalgic, I realized that there will never be another era in history where we will appreciate automobiles like those produced in the 1950s and 1960s. No matter what their me... Feb. 13, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 11,348 | By Mark R. Hinkle  This has been an exciting month for proponents of the Linux server. Two of the world's largest software companies have started to provide Linux support and services. As you probably already know, on October 25, Oracle announced that they would be selling their own derivative of Red Hat... Jan. 3, 2007 10:45 AM Reads: 12,793 | By Mark R. Hinkle  Let me preface this discussion with the disclaimer that I am not the typical desktop user. I am technical; I am mobile and travel frequently; I support and use software that runs on multiple operating systems; and I am an incessant tinkerer. Now that we got that out of the way, let me ... Nov. 3, 2006 11:00 AM Reads: 11,123 | By Mark R. Hinkle  First, Internet access will be the core telecom service of the future. Not only will essentially everyone in the developed world be connected to the Internet, but more and more applications will migrate to the Internet. In our homes we will use a variety of devices which communicate vi... Aug. 4, 2006 04:00 PM Reads: 14,045 Replies: 2 | By Mark R. Hinkle  In the 1964 Bob Dylan song The Time's They are A-Changin' it says, 'Come gather 'round people, wherever you roam and admit that the waters around you have grown, And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you is worth savin' then you better start swimmin' O... Jul. 6, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 13,384 |
YOUR FEEDBACK  | By Joe Ruck Nick Kelly wrote: Interesting article from a oracle ERP developers point of view I note that you could decide to write a saas application with open source technology eg Linux operating system, Postgresql database and a scripting langauge rendering html pages. The weak point is still the same and that is creating a bu... | | By James Irwin Bíró Tamás wrote: Great article. I hope many enterprise customers read it. My comment is that the term open source, is too generic. This mistake is often made by many people.
Open source software can be quite different, first, they can be low level as OS-es, databases; they can be lightweight like libraries or co... | | By Coach Wei arun wrote: Hi
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Please look into... | | By James Hamilton Joe Zibrosky wrote: What in the world does this have to do with opensource? Once again, losers like you feel free to inject your political biases in places where they don't belong. What a jerk. | | By Maureen O'Gara Gregor Rosenauer wrote: well, not what's your take on this? Did I miss a second page of this article or something? Seems a bit unfinished... |
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