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Roland Gesthuizen

Surface: Is it 'Microsoft's iPad', or something else? | ZDNet - 0 views

www.zdnet.com/d-or-something-else-7000007020

microsoft surface ipad zdnet review

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 08 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Who would have thought starving partners of support would yield bad results?
  • For me, the Surface is a "Wordbook", a new device form-factor for running Word in ultra-portable, cloud-connected mode that also happens to be one degree away from a market ready post-PC tablet.
  • Does the market actually want a device that runs Office first, and does all the other tablet tasks second? Hardly.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 08 Nov 12
     
    "Now that I actually own an Surface, it's clear to me what it's about. Spoiler: it's not an iPad."
Roland Gesthuizen

I hate Ubuntu, but my mother-in-law loves it | ZDNet - 0 views

www.zdnet.com/...20373

userinterface software linux blog zdnet

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 29 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 29 Apr 12
     
    Ubuntu's Unity GUI isn't my speed. But that doesn't matter for the majority of end-users.
Roland Gesthuizen

Apple, Microsoft, VMware: Everyone's building open-source software | ZDNet - 0 views

www.zdnet.com/pen-source-software-7000003441

opensource microsoft vmware apple zdnet

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 08 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Gartner reported that on average, 29% of deployed code was open source, and that by 2015 at least 95% of mainstream IT organizations will leverage open source solutions within mission critical software deployments
  • “Open collaborative development via communities is widely understood and accepted, and corporate IT organizations are realizing that these characteristics can be applied to improve their internal development as well, and many are looking to apply them to enhance their own internal methods, typically in conjunction with adopting agile or lean methodologies.”
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 08 Sep 12
     
    "Zemlin said that all successful tech companies are now using and contributing to open source communities. "Besides the usual suspects--Amazon, Google, IBM-- there are companies that you may not think of as being big open-source companies, even competitors, now admit that they must participate in open source."
Roland Gesthuizen

Mobility's lesser-known fact: It's not just about BYOD | ZDNet - 0 views

www.zdnet.com/...not-just-about-byod-7000016866

BYOD hardware workplace zdnet mLearning

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 25 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 25 Jul 13
     
    "Much like cloud computing and big data, bring your own device has become an irritating buzzword that is being tossed around with unrelenting vigour in the IT industry, but mobility isn't just about BYOD."
Roland Gesthuizen

Teachers: Please stop prohibiting the use of Wikipedia | ZDNet - 0 views

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wikipedia education censorship ZDNet filtering blog

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 06 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 06 Nov 10
     
    "This plea doesn't apply to the teachers (or administrators, for that matter) who have figured out that Wikipedia is an incredible knowledge store, cornucopia of primary sources, and go-to site for most the free world. Rather, this plea is for those who, instead of teaching students about Internet site credibility, fact checking, verification, and crowdsourcing, choose to simply prohibit the use of Wikipedia."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 06 Nov 10
     
    Interesting blog post that explains the sillyness behind filtering Wikipedia from students doing classroom research.
Roland Gesthuizen

To the space station and beyond with Linux | ZDNet - 0 views

www.zdnet.com/d-beyond-with-linux-7000014958

linux NASA spacecraft ISS

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 07 May 13 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 07 May 13
     
    "NASA really has decided to drop Windows from the laptops on the International Space Station (ISS) in favor of Linux and the first humanoid robot in space, R2, really is powered by Linux."
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