Looks like IBM is going aggressively up against the Outlook/Exchange juggernaut. Several months ago, they made Domino, their mail server, free for any business who buys the licenses for the mail client, Notes. Now they're making Notes available for Linux.
Over at Freelock Computing, we're learning the fundamentals of business from experience. We've been doing technology for a long time, but are relatively new to business, so what we've learned is hardly innovative or new.
Sitepoint has a nice summary of when to get a merchant account, versus when to use a third-party payer such as Paypal, complete with detailed example total costs for different types of businesses.
Good introductory article on monitoring disk usage, with a nice little script to send a mail as filesystems approach their limit:
Carla Schroder covers a great network backup utility in her current series. Here's where the rubber meets the road:
Do Automated Cross-Platform Network Backups The Easy Way (Part 2)
Not to make you paranoid or anything, but here's a fascinating story of a new social engineering tactic: a new way somebody might trick you into giving away your passwords and any other sensitive stuff on your computer.
... according to Jamie Kellner, former CEO of Turner Broadcasting, in an argument that ultimately caused the demise of the ReplayTV 4000. In case you don't remember, the ReplayTV unit was essentially a Tivo that, among other things, automatically skipped commercials.
Eben Moglen on Free Software:
"The politics of open source are not anti-business or anything to be ashamed of, but a return to America's inventive roots after a period dominated by innovation-stifling monopolies."
We could be there soon. By the end of this year, if an independent survey of developers across North America is accurate.
Every day, you hear more stories about open source successes. Like this one:
Most of the document management chapter of the book focuses on revision control, on applying developer tools to manage documents. It also talks about content management using systems like Plone and wikis.
Not many people take the time to read software licenses. But you should. It's amazing how much spin some companies put in their marketing message, compared to the fine print: