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	Top 10 completely made-up Apple rumors worth rumoring Let's face it: Apple rumor-mongering is an art form in decline. Last year, the big rumors were about when Apple would introduce copy/paste on the iPhone. Currently, it's about whether Verizon will get the iPhone and the possibility of multi-tasking in iPhone 4.0 operating system. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Windows 7 Early Adopter Case Study Learn how Dell helped a leading business services firm complete an enterprise-wide Windows 7 migration. Learn More Now In this Issue SCO Group: Die Hard 17 What Does a Paying Open Source Customer Look Like? iPad reviews begin to roll in, and the consensus is overwhelmingly positive For an industry concerned with communications, we sure do a lousy job of it Microsoft, Are they really a Monopoly? Maybe Not! Policy Implications of FCC Reliance on Faulty ISP Performance Data Is US unmanned aircraft biz too booming for its own good? How Much to Charge for Cloud Based Open Source? Why we love SUSE Studio WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Tolly Group Performance Report Tolly Report: "Citrix NetScaler with nCore Outperforms F5 BIG-IP" shows you how Citrix NetScaler beat F5 in head-to-head tests - providing 3X faster Web traffic, lower latency and higher throughput. Learn More! SCO Group: Die Hard 17 Almost two years ago I wrote in this column that the SCO Group's future was all used up. Sorry to say, just like a cliche movie character, it has turned out that the SCO Group does not die easily. But the end may finally be getting closer with this week's jury ruling in favor of SCO Group adversary Novell. Read More What Does a Paying Open Source Customer Look Like? So what does someone who pays to use open source software look like? The easy answer is they look a lot like you and I. But seriously, up until just a few years ago the idea of paying to use open source software would have been ludicrous. But as I wrote about yesterday, open source software use in the enterprise appears to be exploding. Read More iPad reviews begin to roll in, and the consensus is overwhelmingly positive On Wednesday evening, the few lucky souls graced with review models of Apple's iPad began posting their reviews of Apple's latest and greatest product. The verdict? The iPad not only lives up to the hype, but is a technological game changer. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Connecting to Better Customer Service Less than a third of surveyed IT executives believe their companies are "highly effective" at adapting to changing customer needs and priorities. Businesses that build a robust voice and data network infrastructure can achieve a high level of responsiveness, and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. Click here. For an industry concerned with communications, we sure do a lousy job of it I was reading around the site, and came across Mike Morris' latest post. For an industry concerned with communications, we sure do a lousy job of it. I've used that phrase at one job site or another a lot over the past couple of decades. Read More Microsoft, Are they really a Monopoly? Maybe Not! Hello All and Welcome to Under the Hood with Scott Honeycutt. I will be posting these blogs for the next month. I hope you like the discussions I will be doing. I will be doing different blogs each week to help promote my new book and to get some Great! Discussions going. Read More Policy Implications of FCC Reliance on Faulty ISP Performance Data The recently published FCC "Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan" cites comScore speed test results at least five times. As reported in our last posting, comScore's testing methodology and data is plagued with flaws, and the concern is that the FCC is crafting public policy using this faulty information. Read More WHITE PAPER: IBM NWW Understanding the Dynamics for Successful Delivery Over the past decade, advances in software, hardware and networking technologies have enabled more and more technology to be woven into and around physical goods – adding value to those goods even without that technology necessarily being "embedded" in any hard-wired sense. Read More Is US unmanned aircraft biz too booming for its own good? Has the highly successful but disparate unmanned aircraft strategy deployed by the military outstripped the Department of Defense's ability to handle its growth? Read More How Much to Charge for Cloud Based Open Source? xTuple develops a suite of open source ERP solutions that run on the PostgreSQL open source database. Whether they are open core, open source or based on open standards is a question we can answer another day. The truth is probably a little bit of each. But what I wanted to discuss today is their move to offering a hosted version of their software. Read More Why we love SUSE Studio Tom Henderson has tested Novell's new tool for creating SUSE instances that he says has no parallel in the industry. Read More
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