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Ed Daniel

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• Feisty?

  Posted: 20 Apr 2007 at 01:53 by Ed Daniel

  Mark Shuttleworth launched the Ubuntu Foundation on July 1, 2005 following the first release of Ubuntu, a Debian-based operating system in October 2004.  Today the latest version of this has been released known as "Feisty Fawn".It's quite a journey to observe and for the last coup

• Multimedia-based requirements analysis can bring a spotlight on healthcare in UK

  Posted: 12 Apr 2007 at 11:54 by Ed Daniel

  Last night I attended a very interesting talk at the British Computer Society on open source technology and health care. Here's some links that were shared during the talk.So why multimedia requirements analysis you may ask - well during the Q&A I was keen to highlight that there currently d

• Pros and cons of software selling model "cheap product, expensive support"

  Posted: 02 Feb 2007 at 14:45 by Ed Daniel

  I came across this LinkedIn Answer post today:"Can anyone suggest a good set (or source) of pros and cons of "sell cheap/free, support for money" approach? Like Oracle do, for example. The software i'm talking about is for financial services industry, and quite expensive. I'm

• Java set free

  Posted: 13 Nov 2006 at 17:48 by Ed Daniel

  This is quite a milestone for the IT industry and community as a whole. Big pay-off too for those who have been betting on this move.After countless pressure from various quarters - notably IBM - SUN will now fulfil its promise made by their new CEO, Jonathan Schwarz - to release Java under GPL.One

• Mueller's "No Lobbyists As Such - The War over Software Patents in the European Union" now available

  Posted: 08 Jun 2006 at 18:57 by Ed Daniel

  Florian Mueller, the founder of the award-winning NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign, has published his memoir-style book, "No Lobbyists As Such - The War over Software Patents in the European Union", on the Internet. On 377 pages, Mueller tells the story of the legislative process that ended in July la

• Mueller's "No Lobbyists As Such - The War over Software Patents in the European Union" now available

  Posted: 08 Jun 2006 at 12:57

  Florian Mueller, the founder of the award-winning NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign, has published his memoir-style book, "No Lobbyists As Such - The War over Software Patents in the European Union", on the Internet. On 377 pages, Mueller tells the story of the legislative process that ended in July la

• Inspirations on Singularity and opportunities with Empathy

  Posted: 07 Jun 2006 at 19:40 by Ed Daniel

  One of the areas that has kept my interest and curiousity in recent years is that of collective consciousness.  Having seen the power of online portals and how they improve collaboration it was fascinating to see how these web presences evolved - document sharing, forums, text chat rooms, blogs

• Bruce Sterling in London

  Posted: 24 May 2006 at 07:03 by Ed Daniel

  I recently had the fortune to attend a talk by Bruce Sterling, here in London hosted by the New Statesman.  It was thanks to Dave Green, who publicised the event at NTK, that this came to my attention.  With the kind help of the New Statesman's online manager, Kathryn Corrick, I was sent

• Lee's logo-fest of Web 2.0

  Posted: 27 Feb 2006 at 08:47 by Ed Daniel

  Lee Wilkins of Podcast.com has kindly put together this Web 2.0 logo montage - couldn't resist borrowing it!    Do you know what each of them does?  You ought to!   My favourite is Podzinger who license some smart voice technology to deliver their offering.       U

• Lee's logo-fest of Web 2.0

  Posted: 27 Feb 2006 at 03:47 by Edward Daniel

  Lee Wilkins of Podcast.com has kindly put together this Web 2.0 logo montage - couldn't resist borrowing it!    Do you know what each of them does?  You ought to!   My favourite is Podzinger who license some smart voice technology to deliver their offering.  

• Patent headaches

  Posted: 23 Feb 2006 at 20:32 by Ed Daniel

  I've just caught sight of an article over at the Inquirer that is rather alarming, extract here:   "Balthaser Online says getting the patent means that it can license nearly any rich-media Internet application across a broad range of devices and networks. It means that anyone who wants to use F

• Patent headaches

  Posted: 23 Feb 2006 at 15:32 by Edward Daniel

  I've just caught sight of an article over at the Inquirer that is rather alarming, extract here:   "Balthaser Online says getting the patent means that it can license nearly any rich-media Internet application across a broad range of devices and networks. It means that anyone who wants to use F

• AfterMail acquired by Quest Software

  Posted: 06 Jan 2006 at 13:51 by Ed Daniel

  "Quest Software has acquired AfterMail Limited. The quality of the AfterMail team as well as the depth and completeness of the AfterMail product were key factors in our decision to proceed with this acquisition. Quest is a mature, rapidly growing, worldwide company, with a broad range of products th

• AfterMail acquired by Quest Software

  Posted: 06 Jan 2006 at 08:51 by Edward Daniel

  "Quest Software has acquired AfterMail Limited. The quality of the AfterMail team as well as the depth and completeness of the AfterMail product were key factors in our decision to proceed with this acquisition. Quest is a mature, rapidly growing, worldwide company, with a broad range of products th

• Good luck Peter

  Posted: 05 Jan 2006 at 06:21 by Ed Daniel

  Peter Quinn recently resigned as CIO of Massachusetts citing the following in a memo to his staffers dated Dec. 24, he wrote, "Many of these events have been very disruptive and harmful to my personal well-being, my family and many of my closest friends. This is a burden I will no longer carry." Man

• Good luck Peter

  Posted: 05 Jan 2006 at 01:21 by Edward Daniel

  Peter Quinn recently resigned as CIO of Massachusetts citing the following in a memo to his staffers dated Dec. 24, he wrote, "Many of these events have been very disruptive and harmful to my personal well-being, my family and many of my closest friends. This is a burden I will no longer carry." Man

• Eco-responsibility and Niagara

  Posted: 13 Dec 2005 at 18:42 by Ed Daniel

  Last week I attended the SUN launch of their latest SPARC processor, Niagara.  Considering this blog is .NET focused you might all ask what am I doing straying into this territory. The answer is need-to-know.  So what did I learn... Background: when I attended the Information Age lunc

• Eco-responsibility and Niagara

  Posted: 13 Dec 2005 at 13:42 by Edward Daniel

  Last week I attended the SUN launch of their latest SPARC processor, Niagara.  Considering this blog is .NET focused you might all ask what am I doing straying into this territory. The answer is need-to-know.  So what did I learn... Background: when I attended the Information Age lunc

• Waking up to Solaris

  Posted: 05 Dec 2005 at 22:11 by Ed Daniel

  I've been at odds for sometime as to what I should write about following the rather exciting few months we've had recently.  It all began back in August when I asked members of the SalePlane network for a few words about their optimism with regard to their own businesses following my concern at

• Waking up to Solaris

  Posted: 05 Dec 2005 at 17:11 by Edward Daniel

  I've been at odds for sometime as to what I should write about following the rather exciting few months we've had recently.  It all began back in August when I asked members of the SalePlane network for a few words about their optimism with regard to their own businesses following my concern at