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November 2008 - Posts

What Should Sun Do? Deliver Apps not Infrastructure.

Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:46 AM by loufranco
Tim Bray (Sun employee) just blogged about what he thinks Sun needs to do to reinvent itself. I think his analysis of Sun's strengths (DTrace, ZFS, HotSpot, Solaris and Storage) are right on, but I disagree with the conclusion: To my ears, these technologies Read More...
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CMS Watch Exactly Right about CMIS

Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:59 AM by loufranco
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog entry on the ISV perspective of CMIS , and made this statement of when I thought we could reasonably rely on it: The current version of SharePoint doesn't support CMIS and maybe even the next one won't (no commitment yet Read More...
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Scan to Scribd CodeProject article

Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:58 AM by loufranco
Last May, Atalasoft released 31 apps in 31 days , each free, with full source available, and made with DotImage . I wrote App #7 which was a desktop application to scan, clean, OCR and upload your documents to Scribd . This month, I went back to the project Read More...
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Document Imaging in SharePoint

Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 8:26 AM by loufranco
Over at the Document Imaging blog, there's an interesting post on 5 considerations for using SharePoint with document images. I don't agree with the first one, however: In many organizations, SharePoint projects are departmentalized and are outside of Read More...
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Selection Bias in MS/OpenSource report

Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 4:33 PM by loufranco
Just saw a report on Microsoft and Open-source stack usage in the enterprise . Its goal was: The goal of this survey is to research how open source is used within the enterprise, as well as examine the growing impact of Enterprise 2.0technologies and Read More...
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Difference between JPEG and PNG

Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:06 AM by loufranco
Succinct and effective . Here's the long version , if you want to know why. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...
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John Mancini's SharePoint Observations

Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 4:45 PM by loufranco
Over at the AIIM Blog, John Mancini shares some SharePoint observations . I was struck by the last one: I am convinced that in the end analysis, “the elephant” is not really SharePoint. I think “the elephant” is really the “mainstreaming” of this industry Read More...
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Code Camp Stamford

Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 11:01 AM by loufranco
This weekend I attended Code Camp in Stamford. It was generally at the high quality that I have seen in the past. One note to presenters -- if you have a demo, make sure you get to it -- I went to a couple of presentations where I feel like a demo would Read More...
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