Jonathan Scott

Why Companies Really Turn to Open Source Software

I enjoyed your articled.

Did you say people turn to open source because their immediate goal is a common goal that can be accomplished with a commodity-like solution, and some people turn to open source like some people buy french wine and italian shoes?

Hey, You, Get Off My Cloud!

we will see more clearly through the fog [play on the word cloud] in 5 years.

Clearance Sale on Windows Servers in Q1?

UNIX-heritage servers have been losing ground slowly to Windows-based hardware

The Gathering Clouds: Reconceptualizing Data

The transition appears to be acknowledging value in sharing data rather than focusing on hiding it as a trade secret because there is synergy in sharing. There is also the simultaneous goal of hiding data as a trade secret.

The Gathering Clouds: Reconceptualizing Data

To Historian1, I wish it were that simple, but then i don't because it would be too boring.

Google’s App War with Microsoft Ramping Up

"Is Google’s App War with Microsoft Ramping Up?"
You've got Google fighting WWII against MSFT with GOOG thinking it has an advantage because GOOG has read the history books. Meanwhile MSFT is preparing for WW III and beyond because WWII is over and MSFT won.

Microsoft Be Warned: IBM Boards the Open Source Software Express

"The folks in Redmond, Wash., should take notice."

I'm sure Redmond knows more about this subject than you.

Why Isn't Microsoft More Proactive in Acquisitions?

I would like to read the perspective of someone inside MSFT. That perspective would be an interesting contrast to the above viewpoint.