January 16th, 2007 by
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It might be the most publicized and monitored technology release this year, but it will be awhile before Microsoft’s Windows Vista makes an enterprise mark, according to a monthly report on the state of the tech job market published Jan. 10 by New York-based Dice, an IT careers site.
When asked how quickly they expected their companies to upgrade to Vista, 63 percent of tech professionals responding to the report’s topic poll said it would be quite awhile, as Vista needs to prove itself before they feel good about upgrading.
Twenty-three percent responded that their company will not be upgrading any sooner than usual, or accelerating their upgrade cycle just for Vista.
A mere 13 percent of companies had made specific plans to upgrade their operating system to Vista; 8 percent said they’d be doing so relatively soon, and likely within the next 12 months; and just 5 percent said they’d be doing so almost immediately, delaying other projects.
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January 16th, 2007 by
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More software companies are finding that the best way to make money with software is to give it away, cherry-picking open-source software practices for commercial gain. On Monday, a small software company called Aras will release the code of its design application–written entirely with Microsoft technologies–and shift to an open-source business model. For a small company faced with tepid growth, letting anyone download its application for free was a risk worth taking.
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January 16th, 2007 by
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Ubuntu 7.04 Herd 2 released. The primary focus during the time from Herd 1 has been the re-merging of changes from Debian and inclusion of new versions of applications. Notably, we have upgraded the…
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January 16th, 2007 by
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Criminals! Privately, Hollywood admits DRM isnt about piracy Access control technologies such as DRM create scarcity where there is immeasurable abundance, that is, in a world of digital reproduction. The early years saw tech such as CSS tapped to prevent the copying of DVDs, but DRM has become much more than that. Its now a behavioral modification [...]
(But when are they gonna learn? Baldy)
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