July 2007 - Posts

The Story of Being: BeOS
19 July 07 01:28 PM | jvast | 2 Comments   

Way back in 1991 a small company created a new Operating System called BeOS. The timeline is similar to Linux and almost as interesting, but it's a story wrought of high hopes and failure. (Ok, not ultimate failure as it has been newly resurrected as Read More...

Filed under: Lunch Topics, Open Source, Community, Operating Systems, BeOS

If its .NET – Kick It
13 July 07 05:48 PM | jvast | 1 Comments   

So this week I came across a cool new site. DotNetKicks.com This last week Gavin Joyce open-sourced the code base and I'd like to help drive traffic to the site. Not because he took the code base Open Source. I like the concept. The concept is similar Read More...

Filed under: Open Source, .NET, Community

Hey, Hey, …. Get Off of my Cloud!
11 July 07 11:03 AM | jvast | 2 Comments   

Yesterday at the Worldwide Partner Conference Steve Ballmer announced that Microsoft will be entering the software services space and launched MSCRM Live. The reaction seems to run the gamut from downright surprise to outright consternation even though Read More...

Filed under: GISV, Microsoft, Business, SaaS

Open Source and Mono Desklets
03 July 07 03:06 PM | jvast | 6 Comments   

I run Ubuntu on my main desktop machine at home and I've been watching Mono for quite a while. I was elated when the Microsoft-Novell agreement was put into place this fall because it meant Mono was getting something like an "official stamp of approval". Read More...

Filed under: GPL3, MoonLight, Open Source, .NET, Mono

Interview: Paul Andrew on WF
02 July 07 11:18 AM | jvast | 3 Comments   

Video Interview: Paul Andrew on Workflow Foundation In this interview I caught a few minutes of Paul's time to talk about Workflow Foundation or WF for short. Paul moved to Redmond from down under to take a role on the Evangelism team covering WF and Read More...