Stories by: Jason Snyder

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    Microsoft's future No. 4: 'Oort services' scenario 25/06/2008 10:56:50

    Long adept at staving off targeted threats to its core revenue streams, by 2013 Microsoft finally fell prey to the micromarket effect. Linux on increasingly popular UMPCs (ultramobile PCs), the rise of OpenOffice in developing nations, and the customized productivity app marketplace borne of Google's App Engine application-hosting service and its Salesforce and eBay acquisitions -- all chipped deeply enough into Microsoft's core customer base that the company finally had to loosen its grip on the computing industry's once-best legal license to print money, its Office and Windows software business.
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    The state of open source: Avenues for acceptance 26/03/2008 08:10:49

    What are the next steps needed for open source as a software production methodology to reach the next level?
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    The state of open source: Zack Urlocker, MySQL 26/03/2008 08:12:54

    Viewed by many as open source's most compelling business play in the past few years, MySQL made waves this year, accepting Sun Microsystems' US$1 billion acquisition bid, opening eyes on Wall Street as to open source's potential to shake up the software industry in the process.
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    Hitachi adds data encryption to hard drive 11/05/2007 13:31:47

    Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Thursday announced availability of what it is touting as the highest-capacity, highest-performing notebook hard drive. The Travelstar 7K200 doubles the capacity of its predecessor to 200GB and includes optional data encryption technology for securing notebooks at the hard drive level.
 
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