This month's Computers in Business (the IT supplement from the Sunday Business Post) has an interesting article by Barry McCall which covers the "marriage" of open and closed source solutions in the corporate environment. Some of his reflections are quite incisive: Some competing Linux distributors are blindly following a pure open source path while some proprietary vendors … [Read more...] about Open Source vs Proprietary Software – A middle ground?
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January Blues Getting You Down? – Cheer Yourself Up With Some Blacknight Gear
Just before Christmas Frank from BifSniff did a lovely graphic for us to use on some Blacknight merchandise. … [Read more...] about January Blues Getting You Down? – Cheer Yourself Up With Some Blacknight Gear
Risque Advertising – GoDaddy and the Super Bowl
Last year GoDaddy ran a "risque" advert during the Super Bowl. I put risque in inverted commas, as by European standards it would hardly have qualified as such. It may be mildly sexist, but it would hardly upset a European audience. … [Read more...] about Risque Advertising – GoDaddy and the Super Bowl
Risk Equalisation – Maintaining the monopoly?
In the runup to Christmas a new term came to the fore in the Irish media - "risk equalisation". … [Read more...] about Risk Equalisation – Maintaining the monopoly?
Google Customer Disservice – eWeek
I've posted a couple of times in the last few months about my mixed feeling towards Google. Yesterday I was contacted by an American journalist who was doing a story on Google's customer service - or rather the lack thereof. Yesterday evening was also the evening that I was heading out to meet some of the guys for a pre-Christmas drink, so I replied to the journalist's email … [Read more...] about Google Customer Disservice – eWeek