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🕑May 18, 2009 🖋John Locke 💬0

Software to be bug-free, guaranteed?

So here's what I think happened. A bunch of attorneys got really ticked about their computers crashing all the time.

🕑Mar 02, 2009 🖋John Locke 💬2

Reinventing Business

We have a fundamental problem with the structure of public companies in our business economy. For too long, public companies have been held accountable to one single standard: its stock price.

🕑Jul 24, 2008 🖋John Locke 💬0

Random thoughts on OSCON08

This week I'm at the Open Source Convention in Portland, aka OSCON. First impression, before showing up: it seems all focused on big business. Big ticket price. Lots of enterprise-related topics, and sponsors.

🕑Jul 13, 2008 🖋John Locke 💬0

An example of open source support

In my early Linux system administration days, when I was first trying to set up a mail server with spam filtering, I ran across a really puzzling bug in Dspam, the software I was trying to get working.

🕑Jul 13, 2008 🖋John Locke 💬0

The unwritten rules of open source support

What's extraordinary about the open source community is that this level of support happens all the time, every day, without charge, in hundreds, thousands of projects out there.

Operational flow
🕑Mar 31, 2008 🖋John Locke 💬20

Information Technology in Business: The big picture

Computers and information systems are essential parts of every business today. Like accounting and legal, every business needs to invest in technology to compete. Technology is both a cost of doing business, and an opportunity to do more business. Most people I talk with recognize the necessity of having a computer, an email address, and a web site, but still look at the upfront cost more than other issues.

After spending some time working with dozens of businesses, I think it's time to take a step back and look at the big picture of technology in business. Let's take a reporter's view of the topic, and ask the basic questions: who, what, where, why, when, and how much?

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