Many people ask me how people make money out of Open Source (especially in the enterprise software space). I often give the example of Sun Microsytems who are now a company who base nearly all of their business on Open Source (a big change for them from a few years back. Sun invest a huge [...]
Some of the smallest problems are sometimes the most annoying. I had a call from a new OpenOffice.org user today who could not find the AutoSum button. I know how he feels, we sometimes get so used to a certain interfaces that we can struggle with even the smallest change. OpenOffice 3 and its earlier [...]
Accounting Software is often overlooked when discussing open source software but it is actually very well supported from finance software for micro businesses right through to ERP systems for large companies. Whether you are looking at Quickbooks or Microsoft Dynamics there is an equivalent in open source. To better explain the benefits of open source [...]
It appears that not a week goes by without a story in the newspaper about a laptop/hard drive/CD/USB stick containing sensitive and confidential data being lost or left in a train/taxi/car park. Events like this are inevitable as data becomes more and more portable. Of course we should continually work towards minimising these situations but [...]
October 15th 2008 is Blog Action Day. I have posted a blog entry for Blog Action day here http://philipoakley.org/?p=140
Every day it seams a new version of someones favourite software is released somegreatphotosoftware version 5.5.5 or thebestmusicplayer version 1,1,01. Little excitement is seen around the world except by the group fanboys and girls of that product waiting for the latest and greatest, checking the new features list for whistles and bells like children crossing [...]
Hot on the heels of Compiere’s recent new release the ever popular Openbravo has released version 2.4 promising improvements in the user interface. Openbravo is already a very pretty web based product but any improvements to usability of the web interface can only benefit users and help adoption. Keyboard operations and shortcuts have been introduced [...]
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