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Failed New Zealand Deal With Microsoft Good News for Linux?

Microsoft’s recently failed contract renewal with the country of New Zealand is being hailed by blogs and news outlets as a big opportunity for other open source solutions to move in. I’m not quite ready to break out the champagne and streamers. Why would the country walk away from a …

SaaS: Providing a Different Kind of Free

For a couple of years now the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Richard Stallman have been speaking out against Software as a Service (SaaS) warning that one gives up some amount of freedom since the software is no longer on one’s machine. The FSF stands up for free as in …

Microsoft Implements App Store for Servers

Microsoft has seen the successes of the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch and has created one of their own. Their app store, however, is for server-side web-based software. The store, named Web App Gallery, will allow users to select software to install and then it configures …

The Evolving Intuit

I’ve been noticing lately a great trend in Intuit that I never would have expected from the company. Sometime last month, Intuit announced support for the iPhone on its online service. I tried out the demo on my iPod Touch and it looks great. Quickbooks has historically been a mostly …