I live in Europe and work in the States for the last four years. Aside the blank looks people here are giving me when hearing this, there’s another kind of blank “looks” that sometimes I sensing coming from across the Atlantic. It’s about using Open Source Software (OSS) in business. Often times, people associate OSS […]
Archive for June, 2006
Open Source Is Freedom, Business, even Capitalism (if you want)
Filed in: Securing Your e.Biz Things Web Applications
Exploding Laptops: Don’t Keep Them on Your Lap
As usually, I was just laying on the sofa with my laptop on my lap.
Thinking and typing and reading. Waiting for a chap to come, thus not likely in the mood to start really working on some project.
Then here it came: Dell laptop explodes at Japanese conference. As there were not enough threats out […]
Filed in: Securing Your e.Biz Things
Two English-to-IT e-Business Translators
Are you angry on your IT people for not doing what you’ve been telling them? Do you think that they can’t (or won’t) understand your words, ideas, thoughts? Have such tensions became a daily matter challenging your e-business? If so, then it looks like you have to take a human relations approach to solve these […]
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Google Spreadsheet is Here
Since yesterday I’ve been playing some with my new Google Spreadsheet. Now go figure when did you thought of such a thing: do calculations, tables and charts in Firefox, a web browser… No Microsoft Excel, no Open Office Spreadsheet, just Google Spreadsheets, right in everyone’s browser. And it works with formulas, simple ones like: Sum […]
Filed in: Things Web Applications
Ubuntu Linux Powering Your Small Biz
Today I played a lil bit with Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake. That’s a Debian based Linux distro. Oh yeah, in plain English: that’s the desktop OS you want for the PCs sitting in your small shop. Don’t wait for expensive vaporware. Don’t believe in corporate marketing blah. Just be smart and give Ubuntu a try. […]
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