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Clue wrangling

Submitted by doc on Tue, 04/20/2004 - 23:29.

In The Cluetrain Manifesto we said markets are getting smarter faster than most companies. In the July issue of Linux Journal I wrote How Linux Helps Make Smart Companies Smarter. At the O'Reilly Open Source Convention I gave a talk called DIY-IT: How Open Source is turning IT into a Do-IT-Yourself marketplace. All those, in their own ways, tell why I wanted to do this journal.

'm looking for more background documents along the same line. If any of ya'll have some, point us to them.

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standards-based single sign-on

Submitted by dmarti on Wed, 04/21/2004 - 23:56.

Here's a great concrete example -- you can do a company-wide directory service in a platform-neutral way without lock-in.

OpenLDAP Everywhere

Directory seems to be the intersection where many of the vendors are trying to put the tollbooth. OpenLDAP is the customer-friendly alternative.

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2002-09-29:Why Linux will conquer the world

Submitted by NZheretic on Wed, 04/21/2004 - 03:28.

It's an old article ( with a few updated links)

The GPL and similar licenses gives the inevitable strategic victory in the battle for mindshare with Microsoft. Microsoft's recent additions generate little for its end customers beyond its ability to lock it's customers into Microsoft's own products. Few of Microsoft's Internet exposed servers or clients are designed or implemented with security in mind, whereas Linux has range of security-compatible products ( securer servers & applications , chroot & LSM etc ) from which *END* organizations and individuals can *USE* to generate revenue. Enough of that revenue will be spent to make alliances with third parties to collectively develop new functionality, as well as directly suport the development infrastructure that has assisted in over one billion (a Gigabuck) worth of development to freely available source code available in Linux distributions today. (http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/)

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Horace Greeley (1811-1872), Editor of the New York Tribune in an editorial in 1841 said:

Do not lounge in the cities! There is room and health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers and imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.

In the same way, I urge you to...

Do not lounge on the Microsoft platform! There is room and scope on Linux, away from the crowds of idlers and imbeciles, Go open, before you are fitted for no life but that of the helpdesk.



But more importantly, by 1871 Horace Greeley also wrote: "This Daniel Boone business is about played out."

In the same way, the last decade's Linux customer base can be seen as the self reliant pioneers. The "Do It Yourself" attitude and habit was learned from a time when "doing for themselves" was the only option. This is no longer the case, there are plenty new settlers and far many more willing to migrate, who are all too willing to pay for hardware, support, customization, collective development and even quality proprietary licensed products.


NZheretic Aka David Mohring

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shame on SUN

Submitted by stock on Wed, 04/21/2004 - 02:36.


Sun gets $2 billion and now is about to layoff 30% of their staff.
Why do these Corporations do these things? Do they only talk to the board of directors? Are employee's and customers just a nuisance
which every corporation has to swallow and deal with?


Did those Business School educated kiddo's, who emerge like Jonathan Schwartz alike CEO's, never do some business by their own?
Where did Bill Joy go? Where did the BSD oldtimers go , who had all the nice ideas for Sun Microsystems? What about Mister java?


Sun is doomed, for sure.


Robert

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