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Submission + - Google Gets Its iPhone Voice (infoworld.com) 1

Submitted by snydeq on Tuesday January 26, 2010 @02:54PM

snydeq writes: Google has found a way to let iPhone owners use Google Voice, launching a Google Voice Web app that runs on iPhone 3.0 OS devices, as well as on Palm WebOS devices. The Google Voice application leverages HTML 5's functionality for running sophisticated Web applications on a browser at speeds matching those of native applications, Google said. The Google Voice-iPhone conflict is one of several issues putting the companies on a collision course, the latest of which involves Apple potentially courting Microsoft to tap Bing as the iPhone's default search.

Submission + - Is Apache or GPL better for open-source business? (ibiblio.org)

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mjasay

on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @09:03AM

mjasay writes: "While the GPL powers as much as 77% of all Sourceforge projects, Eric Raymond argues that the GPL is "a confession of fear and weakness" that "slows down open-source adoption" because of the fear and uncertainty the GPL provokes. Raymond's argument seems to be that if openness is the winning strategy, an argument Michael Tiemann advocates, wouldn't it make sense to use the most open license? Geir Magnusson of the Apache Software Foundation suggests that there are few "pure" GPL-only open-source projects as GPL-prone developers have to "modify it in some way to get around the enforcement of Freedom(SM) in GPL so people can use the project." But the real benefit of Apache-style licensing may not be for developers at all, and rather accrue to businesses hoping to drive adoption of their products: Apache licensing may encourage broader, deeper adoption than the GPL. In sum, the old GPL vs. BSD/Apache debate may not be about developer preferences so much as new business realities."

Music Execs Say Apple's DRM Hurting Industry 405

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 01, 2007 @02:56PM from the reference-the-pot-and-the-kettle's-similar-color-here dept.

EMB Numbers writes "C-Net says last year saw a 131 percent jump in digital sales, but overall the industry still saw about a 4 percent decline in revenue. Some executives at this week's Digital Music Forum East conference lashed out at Jobs, blaming Apple and its CEO for their troubles. The impression at the conference was that Jobs' call three weeks ago for DRM-free music was anything but sincere. As the article puts it, 'Apple has maintained a stranglehold on the digital music industry by locking up iTunes music with DRM ... and "it's causing everybody else who is participating in the marketplace — the other service providers, the labels, the users — a lot of pain. If they could simply open it up, everybody would love them.""

Comment MS Shop (Score 1) 367

by BenTheManager on Monday May 16, 2005 @04:12PM (#12546917) Attached to: Updating Free Software in the Enterprise?

I also run a small MS shop, servicing about 150 desktops and about 15 servers, all MS.

I too have been looking to make a migration, but there is no straight forward solution.

We also use SUS and Group Policy to push updates and security settings.

If a migration was to be feasable, a stepped approach would have to be taken.

First start changing client apps on Windows desktop, then change desktop OS. Such as Firefox for IE, Openoffice for MS Office. It would be very helpful to be able to use Group Policy and SUS for maintaining those apps!

Same on server side, port .Net apps to Mono running on Apache on Windows (yikes!) than move OSs. The other option would be to port the app and run on new server. Course, one of the apps has been done with Java, so no probs there. :)

I know I can run Samba for shares and printers and the like, but what about services like MS Exchange. Apps will have to be moved from MS SQL Server to Postgres or the likes.

Big job! Plenty of costs involved. Then there's training! Talk about vendor lockin.

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