Month: June 2006

Computerworld – Er Danmark et Microsoft-protektorat, Fogh?

Hold da op, nu skal jeg samle min kæbe op fra gulvet, det må siges at være en leder med bid i fra Computerworld.

Jeg bryder mig nu ikke om at IBM bliver fremhævet som et firma der står for åbenhed, men alt i alt en imponerende leder, udtryk for noget der er sjældent i Danske IT medier, nemlig en HOLDNING!

Respekt!

Citat fra lederens konklusion:

Danmark er kort sagt i dag et globalt mønstereksempel som Microsoft-protektorat.

Intet under, at Steve Ballmer for to år siden begejstret proklamerede: ”I want the whole world to be Danish!”

Det er muligt, at vi som nation er bedst tjent med at møde den digitale fremtid med afsæt i en innovationsplatform, som er ejet af Microsoft.

Det kan ikke udelukkes. Microsoft leverer klart et vigtigt bidrag til Danmark.

Men hvis – og dette er et stort men og hvis – vi skal være et rent Microsoftland, så mangler vi at forhandle betingelserne for den suverænitetsafgivelse, det lægger op til.

Hvad Fogh er i gang med nu, ligner ikke forhandlinger, men derimod en betingelsesløs kapitulation.

Det er hverken godt diplomatisk håndværk eller godt købmandskab.

Under alle omstændigheder taler vi her om så væsentlige rammebetingelser for vores fælles fremtid, at det anstændigvis kræver en offentlig debat.

Christiansborg, quo vadis?

Hvis man er til konspirations teorier…Hvor var det lige nuværende Kronprinsesse Mary arbejdede da hun var – “hemmeligt” – i Danmark.

Mobile phone companies join forces on Linux | CNET News.com

According to CNET NEWS.COM, several mobile handset makers are joining forces to develop Linux based smart phones.

This is great news, I guess especially Motorola was upset by the license fees they had to pay Apple for the iTunes logo on the ill-fated iTunes ROKR phone, and the less than perfect support from Apple. Remember the Steve Jobs Keynote from the introduction of the ROKR, where Steve tried to demonstrate one of the key features, the fact that the music would be automatically paused and resumed during incoming calls, and it didn’t work.

The new ROKR E2 is soon to launch in Europe, and it looks quite cool, at least much nicer than the original ROKR.

I hope for an open platform, with complete community involvement, but that is probably hoping for too much.

Welcome to Bandit – Bandit-project.org
Bandit is a promissing project, sponsored by Novell, that aims to solve one of the major headaches of open source systems, indentity management, which is implemented in thousands of different systems.

This is one of the “missing” open source projects.

Quote form the Bandit website:

Bandit is a system of loosely-coupled components that provide consistent identity services and creates a community that organizes and standardizes identity-related technologies in an open way, promoting both interoperability and collaboration..

It implements open standard protocols and specifications such that identity services can be constructed, accessed, and integrated from multiple identity sources. The Bandit system supports many authentication methods and provides user-centric credential management. On this base of a common identity model, Bandit is building additional services needed for Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and for the emission of records to verify compliance with higher level policies.