Monthly Archives: March 2008

Final stages of the office documents standards war

Posted on 31 March, 2008 by Stef

If you close your eyes and stay in silence for a few minutes you will hear the echo of the fight engaged by Microsoft against Google and IBM (with many more smaller allies) to dominate the future of office documents. … Continue reading →

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The power of interoperability (and geo-information)

Posted on 28 March, 2008 by Stef

I love geo-information.’  I still work on GIS, every now and then (I’ve just finished a project to map damages in Venetian buildings together with Politecnico di Milano and others) and it’s so much fun.’ ’  It’s great when you can … Continue reading →

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Celebrating Document Freedom Day 2008

Posted on 26 March, 2008 by Stef

A group of free software organizations and companies declared today the Document Freedom Day, a day dedicated to the promotion of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general. Data lock-in is a very serious issue for knowledge based economy … Continue reading →

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PyCon2, la conferenza italiana dedicata a Python

Posted on 25 March, 2008 by Stef

Dal 9 al 11 Maggio si terrà  a Firenze la seconda edizione di PyCon, conferenza dedicata al linguaggio di programmazione Python.’  È stato pubblicato il call for papers. Da aggiungere in agenda, anche per il keynote di apertura da parte … Continue reading →

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Everybody loves iPhone

Posted on 20 March, 2008 by Stef

To confirm that Jobs got everything (not!) right, Sybase jumps on the iPhone bandwagon for enterprise users. Sybase on Tuesday said it’s adding Apple iPhone support to its suite of mobile middleware, making it possible to access IBM Lotus Domino … Continue reading →

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Business schools should teach micro-management

Posted on 19 March, 2008 by Stef

I had a laugh today reading an article about Steve Jobs management style from Leander Kahney. As a business school student the article made me think of all the different management styles existing. Jobs is a control freak, a micro-manager, … Continue reading →

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Evento: Copyleft, Open Source, innovazione e creatività  alla Sapienza

Posted on 18 March, 2008 by Stef

Domani, 18 Marzo alla Facoltà  di Scienze della Comunicazione della Sapienza di Roma ci sarà  un incontro sul tema della creatività  nell’era di Internet che affronterà  le tematiche del software libero e delle licenze libere per i contenuti creativi. Durante … Continue reading →

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Give the GNU GPL an ‘A’, as in Affero

Posted on 14 March, 2008 by Stef

The GNU Affero General Public License v3 is now officially an ‘open source’ license, approved by the Open Source Initiative. Funambol started the approval process of the best license available to protect copyleft, and business based on it, from predatory … Continue reading →

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Il Comune di Milano regala Microsoft

Posted on 12 March, 2008 by Stef

Come funziona sta cosa? Il Comune di Milano “regala” a tutti i suoi cittadini residenti i prodotti non interoperabili di un monopolista? Il servizio è sperimentale, gratuito e ti permetterà  di utilizzare tutti i servizi di Windows Live tra cui: … Continue reading →

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Microsoft is changing focus, will it change attitude?

Posted on 10 March, 2008 by Stef

I’ve placed a bet that Microsoft will change radically its business model when Gates will leave his chair to Ray Ozzie, so I was trying to get a clue from Ozzie’s speech at the MIX last week. I wasn’t too … Continue reading →

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