The Portable Consultant

The Portable Consultant has noticed that the few posts he once did about the Lexar Lightning and its portable USB applications are the most popular hits on his blog site, almost all of which come via Google. So it is with great shame that I must confess to being remiss in not informing both my […]

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 […]

Ok, The Portable Consultant spoke a tad too soon when he suggested home users pretend to be a business when ordering online.
It seems customers are demanding not to be inflicted with Microsoft Vista’s teething troubles in great enough numbers to force Dell (perhaps others?) to offer new machines preloaded with XP instead.
The Register has the […]