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 …
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 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 …
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 …