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Microsoft to Offer Sales Support for Novell’s Suse Linux… Huh? Did I hear that right? Yep, there it is again: Linux to work with Windows.

Web App Vulnerabilities Over Buffer Overflows

This should be an eye opener to many. In September Mitre reported that web application vulnerabilities are claiming the top three spots on their CVE request list, beating out Buffer Overflows.

Adobe Announces Acrobat 8 Software
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Adobe Announces Availability of Acrobat 8 Software to Rave Reviews from Customers! It’s a great new release (we’ve been using it internally for a while and I am very impressed with this new version).

OSS Trickle Down

If I understand Dana’s point correctly here, he’s saying that as open source vendors start getting a larger part of the corporate IT budget, less money is spent on commercial vendors, thereby reducing how much those commercial vendors have to spend on R&D for future innovations.

Microsoft Sues Counterfeit Software Auctioneers

Microsoft has announced a series of legal actions taken in a continued effort to curb piracy of its widely used Windows and Office software packages. The company is specifically targeting online auctioneers who offer counterfeit or tampered versions of the software.

How to Sell Social Software
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An awful lot of social software vendors operate under the old field of dreams theory that “if you build it, they will come.”

Homophily and Social Software Design

Nat Torkington has a great post on homophily and social software design.

Project Managers: Charge for Performance to Increase Profits

You’re a stellar project manager, yet you’re only making an average wage. Well, it’s about time you make more. This article digs outlines my approach to a performance-based fee structure It won’t work for all clients, but for those it does work for you’ll see your profits soar.

Get Your Mac On With Google

The days of the Mac OS being a forgotten platform by Google’s developers have been dwindling, and the company has taken a couple of new steps toward being more inclusive of Mac users.

Europe: VARs Win With Software, Services

Solution VARs in Europe have found a bounty of over $22 billion in sales last year through services and software.

Microsoft Deploys Live Search On Nokia

Microsoft and Nokia reached an agreement that will place Live Search into Nokia’s Mobile Search platform, which will make Live Search available to users of Nokia’s high-end N Series multimedia phone and S60-compatible devices.

The Lessons of Software, Services, CRM and ERP

Applying the “P” to sales performance management and other new markets…

Thoughts on my del.icio.us Network

When the del.icio.us team recently added social networking features, I kind of groaned to myself. I didn’t look at it very closely because I was busy and half feared that I’d discover a case of annoying social software and that would make me sad.

Help-desk Knowledge Base Importance

Knowledge management is a concept, whereby, companies organize and present information to their customers regarding product usage.

Ingres Christens Project Icebreaker

The open source database company Ingres teamed with another open source player to deliver Icebreaker, a way to place database services on a server with no operating system required.

What Makes a Good Audio Conference Call?

When making conference calls, it’s important to make sure first of all that everyone is seeing eye to eye on the technology that’s going to be used.

Promotion via Social Networking, Search and Bookmarking
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If you have been trying to get traffic to your site without paying for it, you must know by now that participating in online communities is one of the best ways.

ChronoPay Gets Smiley With Finnish Software

European Internet payment service provider ChronoPay, announced a strategic partnership with Finnish software company Smilehouse, agreeing to add the company’s software applications to its line of products available to European clients.

Software Development Fallacies to Avoid

In this article I’m going to explain the top 10 software development fallacies my company avoids.

CRM Software is Nice, But It’s No Rosie Jetson

CRM software has evolved into a helpful tool with broad use and appeal. But it’s no Rosie Jetson. Let me explain.

Ancient Unix

I had noticed The Computer History Simulation Project some time ago, but I never got around to doing anything with it. This July Fourth, with nothing else pressing me, I decided to take a more in depth look.