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Mar29
Rumored Microsoft Cloud Offering Seems Dazed and Confused
We have written several columns lately about business applications such as office suites built to be used remotely, on your browser (herehere, and here). Google is the clears winner so far in such offerings. Microsoft is still attempting to catch up and is planning the release of a new group of on-line office-oriented application.

cloud.jpgStrictly speaking the new offering will not be very new, as it will actually be a combination of Office Live Workspaces, Windows Live One-Care, Windows Live, and MS Office applications. There is apparently a beta of this new mix of products going on right now. There is a retail component to this new offering, which would seem to be contrary to its purpose, although it may be just the off-line component of a mainly on-line product.

The rumors about this product are as confusing as they are edifying. If it is supposed to be a computing-in-the-cloud product, why is there a significant component to run on your computer? Perhaps the intent is to be able to work both online and offline and have the ability to synch the files from both ends.  Or, more likely, Microsoft itself is confused about how to tackle this marketplace and is just very busy running all the flags it has up all the flagpoles it can find.
Mar28
Datavision: An Open Source Report Writer
The business costs of database reporting tools can quickly become prohibitive for smaller businesses, especially if they must deal with multiple databases. Both having a specialized reporting tool for each one and buying one of the commercial one-size-fits-all solutions are... Continue Reading
Mar26
Survey Sees Good Future for Open Source
According to a survey on the future of Open Source software, the current less-than promising economic climate should be good for open source software. This is among a number of findings by the 2008 Future of Open Source survey led... Continue Reading
Mar25
Open Source File Compression Utility
Almost all businesses have a need to send and receive compressed files for one reason or another. Most businesses pay a site license for PKZip or WinZip. Now there are Open Source alternatives to buying these commercial products, both for... Continue Reading
Mar24
An Excellent Open Source CAD Package: BRL-CAD
Many businesses, of course, use Computer Aided Design (CAD) software for all sorts of technical and scientific purposes. There are a number of well-known commercial CAD packages available, led by the popular AutoCAD application from Autodesk. None of these are... Continue Reading
Mar23
OpenRPT Report Writer from xTuple
All of the major players in the business database world have report writing software that they will sell you to interact with their data, and there are a number of commercial packages that interact with a variety of databases. However,... Continue Reading
Mar21
Collaborating Alfresco Without SharePoint
Over the last several years, a number of businesses have availed themselves of the collaborative services of the SharePoint content management portal from Microsoft. The MS SharePoint family of products is fairly pricey, and some companies have looked around for... Continue Reading
Brainstorm Free With FreeMind
Almost all businesses rely to one degree or another on new ideas developed and perfected in brainstorming sessions and honed in more structured meeting later in the process. A number of years ago, a new type of software emerged to... Continue Reading
Mar20
Need 3D Rendering? Try Blender!
A lot of technical and scientific businesses use software for 3D modeling, animation, and rendering, including designers, engineers, and architects. The cost of commercial 3D rendering software is generally high, especially for smaller companies and those just starting out. These... Continue Reading
Software for the Evolution of Email
If your company has gone to Linux and you are really missing the features that Windows Outlook provided, you may rest easy. The same is true if you have a Mac. Similarly, if you are a Windows XP user and... Continue Reading
Mar18
Microsoft and Unified Communications
It seems that Microsoft has been playing a lot of catch-up lately.  One more are where the Redmond software giant is trying to catch up is Unified Communications. To this end, the MS Office Communications Server product is getting some... Continue Reading
Mar17
Microsoft Nears the Data Cloud
If you are in business and have not yet been tempted by computing in the clouds, it is time to take a glance upwards. The clouds are there, inhabited by the likes of Google for applications and almost a score... Continue Reading
Super-Spammer To Be Put Away
All of you who feel like your businesses are inundated with spam everyday should breathe a quiet sigh of probably mock relief. Robert Soloway, one of the most prolific spammers of all time, has entered a guilty plea to several... Continue Reading
Mar14
Oracle CRM for Blackberry
In a very interesting move, Oracle Corporation  has made one of its CRM applications available on the Blackberry mobile phone. They are calling the product Mobile Sales Assistant, and it is aimed squarely at getting sales and inventory data instantly... Continue Reading
Mar13
Email Inventor Not A Fortune Teller
Email, one of the most popular uses of business computers of all time, was invented in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson. He knew that what he was pioneering would become a very useful tool. That was, of course, why he was... Continue Reading
Mar11
Tech Finds A New Place For Cheaper
It is possible to find people on all sides of the technical outsourcing debate. Since much of the business software that you use contain some outsourced components, you should be interested in the latest trends in outsourcing. The latest trend... Continue Reading
Mar 9
Business Software Piracy Convictions
Pirates operating a ring of Web sites selling counterfeit business software have been convicted and sentenced by the Department of Justice. Two brothers, Maurice and Thomas Robberson were sentenced March 7th to 36 and 30 months, respectively, in prison as... Continue Reading
Mar 8
More On An Open Microsoft
The new Internet Explorer version is out in the open, and it is getting pretty good reviews. Still, it does not seem to be enough to convince the makers of other browsers that Microsoft should be let off the hook.... Continue Reading
Oracle Does Down Under Damage Control
There is trouble in the Australian paradise for the Oracle Corporation. Over the past year or so, some very high profile Australian Oracle clients have made some very public negative statements about the qualities of the database software. The company... Continue Reading
Mar 6
MySQL - Capabilities and Features
There was a time when most software professionals would have had little faith in a free database management system (DBMS). I believe that has changed significantly over the last decade, and that is due primarily to the success of MySQL.... Continue Reading
Mar 5
MySQL - Open Source Database Management System
One of the big changes in business software over the last decade has been the introduction of Open Source Database Management Systems (DBMS) as back ends to large corporate data systems. There was a time not long ago when all... Continue Reading
Mar 4
Why Microsoft Might Finally Go Open Source
We are all aware that Microsoft has been in trouble for years because of its anti-competitive, proprietary business mantra. These practices may well be starting to bring them more problems than benefits. There are some signs within the company that... Continue Reading
Mar 3
Microsoft Chasing Google
Microsoft is once again trying to catch up to the age of the internet. They are enhancing attempts to capture some share of the online application market by offering test of their online business programs to a wider array of... Continue Reading
Mar 1
Open Office - Finding the Comfort Zone
I understand that the technical quality of an application is of supreme importance in judging whether or not a program is right for your needs. The Open Office suite has proven to be of very high quality, indeed. (see overviews... Continue Reading

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