Anthony's Blog

The Nature of Learning (and Remembering)

For the past several months, Ive been serving as an Algebra tutor for my friends child. This kid is very gifted intellectually, but he suffers from pretty severe ADHD, and unfortunately Algebra is his last class of the day, right about the time whe

Posted: May. 17, 2008 05:55 PM

SOA as a Business Strategy

Below is the beginning of an article Jim Irwin and myself wrote for SOA World on how the real play with SOA is business agility. Although you may not have heard of Jim Irwin, he is one of the brightest minds in the SOA world quietly behind the sc

Posted: Mar. 1, 2008 05:07 PM

$1,000,000,000 acquisition

Sun's purchase of MySQL for a cool $1 billion is all the buzz today and rightfully so. I think this news goes to show the power, visibility and growth in adoption of open source. And in this particular case MySQL.As enterprises continually seek compe

Posted: Jan. 16, 2008 04:37 PM

Web 2.0 and Generational Uptake

Are there generational differences in business that result in operational challenges? You bet! Let me explain.I recently attended a wonderful seminar hosted by Kim Huggins, Owner and President of K HR Solutions on the subject of Generations at Work.

Posted: Dec. 1, 2007 05:36 PM

The Ultimate in Customer Service

How can you not be impressed with the way Apple packages their products? Its obvious they put a lot of effort into the user experience all the way through to the opening of the boxes and the packaging of the components. But now Ive personally exp

Posted: Nov. 23, 2007 06:22 PM

Hybrid environments the realm of Open Source

It is very rare that I come across a datacenter environment that is purely one technology. By that, I mean that most infrastructures are composed of some hybrid mix of legacy (old proprietary), commercial, and open source components. Why is that?We

Posted: Oct. 29, 2007 09:52 AM

GTC East 2007 Business & Technology for Government

Its been awhile since I traveled to Albany. And, this time of the year, seeing the leaves changing colors along the Hudson was absolutely spectacular. This is the 19th year for the event, obviously highlighting New Yorks leading-edge efforts at stu

Posted: Oct. 3, 2007 03:16 PM

Enterprise Open Source Magazine article

Enterprise Open Source magazine just published an article I wrote on business adoption of open source solutions for mission-critical applications. The article analyzes the results of a study that Unisys commissioned from Forrester Consulting. Based o

Posted: Sep. 24, 2007 10:26 AM

Model of Mass-Collaboration

Many of my blog posts have focused on the business benefits of open source. But perhaps even more significant is how the open source model of mass collaboration is changing the way the world works. Some of you know that Im working on a book on thi

Posted: Aug. 28, 2007 08:59 PM

The CIO Conundrum

I call it the CIO Conundrum, and it goes something like this: you are the CIO of a large company and each year, your budget is, on average, decreasing by about 4%. And, most of the money youre allocated (perhaps 70% of more) is used to maintain yo

Posted: Jul. 21, 2007 04:05 PM

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	PowerBuilder Editorial - "There You Go Again" By Bruce Armstrong Franck Fasolin wrote: I have been using PB for 16 years and I am still waiting for a tool that would let my developer team conceive, develop and maintain applications with as much productivity as PB does. I have been looking to new business applications developement tools hopin...
	After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Increasingly Bad, Increasingly Archaic, Increasingly Unfriendly By Paul Nowak Toner Cartridges wrote: there are many ubuntu based linux distributions that are user friendly. i especially like the cd-rom bootable versions like freespire so I don't have to forego my windows permanently.
	Xandros: An Excellent Desktop Replacement By Steve Suehring Chris wrote: I have had issues installing Xandros 4 on several PC's. My Dell office pc SX 270 went almost perfect. One of my home boxes at the beginning of the installation it said that no hard disk were detected - funny Fedora 9 and Vista worked fine. On my 64 bit Vista PC ...
	Sun Puts MySQL on an "All You Can Eat" Plan By Maureen O'Gara Dave L. wrote: The link to the comparison chart in your article did not work. Instead, the following link is correct: http://www.sun.c om/software/products/mysq l/popup.jsp?info=1 HTH!
	Web 2.0 Journal Case Study: Transcending E-mail as a Platform for Multi-Person Collaboration By Chris Yeh Alice McLane wrote: Email is still the most popular project collaboration tool - this is right. But its many draw backs are not the reason to give up on your favouite communication medium. As, you have noticed in your article, SaaS are offering more and more options for colla...