AJAX in particular is an important addition to Creator, because it allows for the generated Web applications to have a far richer user experience. |
AJAX, in particular, is an important addition to Creator, because it allows for the generated Web applications to have a far richer user experience. |
Commercial vendors competing in areas where there are credible, free open-source alternatives are increasingly being pressured to lower the barriers to entry to their product. |
I don't need to educate vendors on how to reach the CIO. It's more important these days to reach individual developers. |
In enterprises, the product landscape is quite fragmented--people have open-source and proprietary software running side by side. These types of deals make a significant difference even if it's just about perception. |
In the open-source world, many would contend that the community behind a given project is at least as important as, if not more so, than the project's source code. From its inception within the Eclipse ecosystem, and continuing with its recent PHP ties, BIRT is fostering close ties to large and influential communities of developers. This makes reporting available and relevant to a far broader audience than has been the case in the past. |
is about IBM not fighting the open-source tide, but choosing to ride it. |
It all comes back to the question of cannibalizing an existing business. If you determine that to some extent it's inevitable, wouldn't you prefer that you do it, instead of your competitors? |
It's definitely a big deal, ... Now with the [OpenOffice.org Base], although I have not evaluated it to the extent that I can call it 100 percent at functional parity with Access, the interface is just as usable as Access. It's quite nice. |
It's definitely a big deal. Now with the [OpenOffice.org Base], although I have not evaluated it to the extent that I can call it 100 percent at functional parity with Access, the interface is just as usable as Access. It's quite nice. |
It's more important these days to reach individual developers. |
It's very suitable for enterprises or other organizations that want to take a Java approach but don't want all the overhead that associated with higher-end commercial products, or the intricacies of enterprise Java beans or the more sophisticated J2EE features. |
Last week I had to take guests to other hotels for the first time in six years. We're struggling to find rooms for visitors to the city. |
Office 12 is a very, very nice package. If they were support ODF, they'd do very well just competing on technical merits of applications. It's very nice package. That's the shame. It doesn't have to be an anti-Microsoft thing, |
Office 12 is a very, very nice package. If they were support ODF, they'd do very well just competing on technical merits of applications. It's very nice package. That's the shame. It doesn't have to be an anti-Microsoft thing. |