This is in line with a trend I have been watching for. In this case, it appears the NZ government is taking a very balanced approach to open source in government.
It seems that Novell is also providing support for JBoss and MySQL… something that I was not aware of. That would indicate Novell’s advantage over some other Linux providers.
As well, Novell offers what I see as a very well rounded collection of software and services – many for the back-end and some proprietary – that provide for integration with existing & legacy systems. I feel that differentiator should place them in the lead if and when open source moves to this stage of adoption in the private sector.
In any case, Novell is in a different position from Red Hat. Today Red Hat is considered by many to be in the lead. It will be interesting to see which approach works better in the long term.
Dave Slusher, of the Evil Genius podcasts, made mention recently that he drove without turning on his car radio because all he needed was loaded into his iPod Shuffle.
This would seem to support my own perception that car radio is being replaced by mp3 player devices and that satellite broadcasting, a latecomer to Canada, is now competing with free podcasts.
The provide a link to a Boston Globe story which gives examples of how photos were distributed.
The story, however, doesn’t give links to the publicly available photos that it mentions!
So, on one extreme a seminal event in the development of the Internet, wireless communications, and journalism while at the other we have a newspaper’s story that did not provide online readers with the freely available links to pictures mentioned.
sigh…
ECM infrastructure architecture… and unrelated matters.
