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FOSS Prediction Wrap-up for 2010 with a Look Back-> 0

Submitted by phyjcowl on Monday December 14 2009, @09:49AM

phyjcowl writes "It's the end of the year and demand for FOSS (Linux, databases, and enterprise apps) increased. I looked into user demand for all things FOSS by checking the inquiries my company (TEC) receives from people evaluating various types of enterprise apps. It seems that demand went up by about 2% from 2008 to 2009. The greatest increase came from people seeking applications that supported FOSS database platforms, followed by those supporting Linux, and finally at an increase of 0.5% those seeking enterprise applications that were themselves FOSS. This post considers how those increases support (or not) various analyst predictions for 2010 and beyond."
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Comment: Re:First Vote (Score 3, Insightful) 394

by phyjcowl on Sunday July 05 2009, @09:32AM (#28586273) Attached to: Pirate Party Coming To Canada

Well said. The industry must adapt and provide a service that is useful and desired by people now. It's stuck on an outmoded business model, which is no longer relevant to our times.The industry by and large refuses to recognize that its medium has changed from a discrete physical one (CD media) to the Internet.

When the music industry recognized the medium changing from vinyl to eight-track to tape to CD, it always embraceed the new medium and sold on it. It's incredibly weird that it hasn't embraced the new medium, the Internet. The musci/movie/etc. industries should long ago have become ISPs, selling access to the content they produce via the modern medium, the Internet.

Vista Strongly Recommended Against by BECTA

Submitted by Dracul on Wednesday February 14 2007, @07:09PM

Dracul writes "BECTA — the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency — have just released a report which analyses whether Vista should be adopted by UK schools

The recommendations of the report basically say it all:

The enhancements in Vista add value but do not justify its early deployment in the educational environment Early deployment [of Vista] is considered high risk and strongly recommended against

I expect higher education world wide is going to try to adopt a similar position. It will be interesting to see how hard Micro$oft fights back. The report estimates that upgrading would cost the UK schools £167 million — universities are going to be spending billions on this..."

Power-generating spacesuits

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Maggie McKee

on Wednesday February 14 2007, @07:08PM

Maggie McKee writes "Could piezoelectric sensors help power future space missions? From the article: "Astronauts' spacesuits may one day be covered in motion-sensitive proteins that could generate power from the astronauts' movement, according to futuristic research being conducted by a new lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. Such 'power skins' could also be used to coat future human bases on Mars, where they could produce energy from the Martian wind." Eventually, the biologically derived suits might even be able to heal themselves."

US Group Wants Canada Blacklisted Over Piracy 585

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 14 2007, @06:50PM
from the are-you-on-the-list dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Following up on an earlier story, the IIAA wants to add Canada to a blacklist of the worst intellectual property offenders. A powerful coalition of U.S. software, movie and music producers is urging the Bush administration to put Canada on an infamous blacklist of intellectual property villains, alongside China, Russia and Belize. 'Canada's chronic failure to modernize its copyright regime has made it a global hub for bootleg movies, pirated software and tiny microchips that allow video-game users to bypass copyright protections', the International Intellectual Property Alliance complains in a submission to the U.S. government."