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Archive for February, 2012
Gartner: 16 long-held IT business practices you need to kill
Feb 14th
This story appeared on Network World at
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/101911-gartner-best-practices-252164.html
Eliminate CEO/CIO differences; abolish tech support, eliminate mega-projects just a few practices that need to go, Gartner says
ORLANDO — With CIO budgets heading for their 11th consecutive year of growing at 3% or less, it’s time to offer up some sacred cows for sacrifice.
That was the sentiment at a Gartner Symposium/ITxpo session today that outlined a number of ways IT can get out of its comfort zone and look for new ways to handle the explosion of information, collaboration and mobility. More >
Five Reasons why Windows 8 will be dead on arrival
Feb 7th
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | February 6, 2012, 9:48am PST
Summary: Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Vista will have several things in common: Both are unwanted operating system updates that will flop in the marketplace.
Some of my die-hard Windows friends are very excited by Windows 8 arrival later this year. Others fear that Windows 8 will be a repeat of Microsoft’s Vista disaster. Me? I know Windows 8 will be a Vista-sized fiasco.
Before jumping into why I think far more PC users will still be running Windows 7 in 2016 than Windows 8, let me explain that while I prefer Linux as my desktop operating system, I don’t see Windows 8 charge into a brick wall as being a pro-Linux or anti-Microsoft issue. More >
LibreOffice stats: 400 total contributors, thousands of code commits every month
Feb 5th
By Ryan Paul | Published a day ago
The Document Foundation (TDF), which launched in 2010 to develop LibreOffice, has published statistics that illustrate the project’s rapid growth. Approximately 400 total developers have contributed code to the project. The number of contributors who are active each month generally ranges from 50 to over 100.LibreOffice is a community-driven fork of the OpenOffice.org (OOo) office suite. The project started after Oracle’s acquisition of Sun with the aim of offering a better governance model and a more inclusive environment than OOo. LibreOffice quickly attracted the support of the major Linux distributors and a large number of independent developers.
The statistics released today show that the LibreOffice community is healthy and diverse. Red Hat and SUSE each account for a large chunk of development, but the volunteers collectively have a higher volume of commits than any of the corporate contributors. The total number of monthly commits tends to range from 1500-3000.
