The Portable Consultant

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win” -Ghandi
“You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.” -Arlo Guthrie

The Portable Consultant has been silent on recent developments involving Microsoft and Linux. This is not because of lack of interest - I’ve been busy working out my own […]

the open source maturity model
A couple of years ago The Portable Consultant came across Bernard Golden’s timely book Succeeding with Open Source. In it Mr. Golden sets out the criteria by which open source software, together with the communities that create it, might be measured in terms of suitability for enterprise use.
Golden describes the Open […]

domain auctioning gone mad?
Why do I find this CNN Money/Business 2.0 article on Kevin Ham, master of Internet domain names, so depressing?
He does what he does very well. To a certain extent his work serves a purpose and society values it to the amount of some $300 million.
Perhaps it’s depressing because it speaks to some […]