Software. Commons. James Governor’s Monkchips » Open Source Hardware: Distribution. I recently asked about a RedMonk innovation match-making service.
I didn’t get so much as a morsel of feedback on the idea from my colleagues, so I assume it was a duff idea. Or maybe they just don’t read my blog. Ric liked the notion though, so perhaps I am not completely batshit. I think IBM Systems and Technology Group and other hardware vendors could benefit from engaging with RedMonk in order to discover compelling early stage opportunities at an earlier stage. Why not give some zSeries mainframe capacity to Linden Labs, say, but before it got famous. Merging corporations with co-ops an. Nick Hortovanyi : How important is Microsoft Office in your busi. People who know me, know that I have be preparing for a dramatically reduced Microsoft business world. Don't get me wrong, I think Microsoft has their place, I'm just not certain for how much longer. We don't use Microsoft Exchange or Outlook and do not run any servers that run Microsoft operating systems.
This has caused me grief as I have not been able to deploy some IBM software like Lotus Sametime, apparently the Linux Intel version is not too far away. On the desktop, I'm on the verge of completely cutting over to Open Office, as it performs over 95% of the activities that in general I need to do. Have been checking out the office capabilities in the new Lotus Notes 8 client, I believe IBM has called them "Productivity Editors".