Archive for May, 2010

Microsoft Starts to Share

Friday, May 14th, 2010

I always have thought of Microsoft as Open Source in many ways. I know it may sound odd on several fronts, especially for a guy like me who has been using UNIX flavored operating systems since the early 1980s.

But I’ve also been using PC-Windows and Apple Macintoshes since the early 1980s, so I think my views are informed by a pretty wide set of data sources. (more…)

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Where’s My Flying Car … and an Efficient IT Market?

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Where’s My Flying Car & an Efficient IT Market?Trust is a double-edged sword.  If you trust in the right things and the right people, you can accomplish much more than you ever could alone.  In falling for myths and liars, you fail not only yourself, but also all those who trusted you.  Today’s subject is how our misplaced trust eats away at the crown jewels of American industry – putting IT services on the same complacent path that greatly contributed to the last mainstay of the country’s wealth — auto manufacturing. (more…)

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