TameBear: Microsoft WatchKeeping an eye on monopoly power in the software industry. A TameBear weblog.(Untitled)- August 29, 2005 What Business Can Learn from Open Source: Among the valuable insights in this philosophical piece are these gems:1) 52% of companies are replacing Windows servers with Linux servers. ("... anyone proposing to run Windows on servers should be prepared to explain what they know about servers that Google, Yahoo, and Amazon don't.")2) The emergence of really good open source (usually free) software is a Darwinian process that results from so-called "amateurs" who work for free because they love...http://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/microsoftWatch/2005/08/29.html#a733 (Untitled)- August 17, 2005 Zotob Worm Forks Into a Dozen Variants: Security firms first spotted the emergence of the Zotob worm this past Sunday, and by Wednesday it's classified as the fastest-spreading Windows computer virus ever. Some dozen variants have emerged. Unpatched Windows98, Windows ME, Windows2000 and WindowsXP computers are vulnerable. Macintosh computers are immune. Zotob is a "network worm," meaning it can spread to vulnerable computers without any action on the part of the computer user, other than...http://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/microsoftWatch/2005/08/17.html#a730 (Untitled)- August 17, 2005 One Thousand Switcher Stampede: News of the Henrico County School District's $50 iBook sale gained international attention when price-conscious switchers stampeded the sales hall for the chance to snap up the Mac OS X consumer laptops at bargain basement prices. Which was dumber: selling the iBooks so cheap or switching to all Dell laptops instead of Apple BBC News via MyAppleMenuhttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/microsoftWatch/2005/08/17.html#a729 |