In general, open source refers to any program whose source code is made available for use or modification as users or other developers see fit.(it.jhu.edu/glossary/mno.html)
This is a less-confusing name for what is also called 'free software'. It...
"Radical innovation never originates with the market leader" -- Jim Utterback, MIT
Did you know Mitch Kapor tried to license 1-2-3 to IBM for $3,5-million in the 1980s? They told him that hardware was a multibillion-dollar industry, and that the m...
It's very tempting to think that your piece of software is very unique. In fact, why would you have a need for this software, if someone else thought about it already?
As the old saying goes: "There's nothing new under the sun." And it's quite tru...
That's a powerful image of Africa's most advanced country...
Power outages in South Africa has had everyone up in arms for the past couple weeks. A simple search on M&G, The Times or Thought Leader will give you its history and interestin...
When was the last time you thought “I love the company I work for?” Google came out tops in a recent Fortune magazine “Best Companies to work for in the US” survey. They were lauded for their generous employee benefits and facilities. These t...
Every time I write about privacy and security on the internet I get a whole bunch of people who accuse me of paranoia. They maintain I am looking for conspiracy theories -- if you have nothing to hide, then why worry who is following you on the inter...
This is the kind of business about which people dream and fantasise. Facebook was launched in February 2004. In November 2007 it was reported that Microsoft bought a 1,6% share of the company for $240-million. You can do the sums to check out how muc...
A somewhat radical new way of thinking about software projects and how to manage customers through them.
Introduction
I have been doing software-development work for my entire career. That, to my horror, is somewhere close to 12 years now, which ...
Last Friday I had the joy of going live with code that improved the execution time of an existing piece of code by 422%, and moved it from a batch process (which took more than 30 minutes to run, and only ran three times per day) to an online real-ti...
