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Novell and Capgemini team up on open source

by @ Tuesday, June 5th, 2007. Filed under Open Source, Reviews

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 [...]

XP Reloaded – Dell responds to customer demand

by @ Tuesday, April 24th, 2007. Filed under Infrastructure Architecture, Reviews

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 [...]

How to avoid Microsoft Vista problems when buying a new PC or notebook

by @ Wednesday, April 18th, 2007. Filed under Infrastructure Architecture, Reviews

The Portable Consultant may need a new notebook soon and is quite dismayed by the growing pile of Microsoft Vista problems. Thankfully there are ways to buy a new computer with Microsoft XP installed… …pretend you are a business! If you visit a web site such as Dell.com that has the option of indentifying yourself [...]

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