As someone who started a small business and employed a PBX-in-a-box system can attest, this type of innovation is a godsend to small businesses and start-ups. The real key to this technology taking off however, will be service providers incorporating it into their offerings to small businesses. I think that there could be a very lucrative business model selling services to small-biz/start-ups that allow them to have big-biz type amenities (PBXs, etc...) at lower prices (enabled by OpenSource software). I *believe* that the guys who perform small-biz networking on the cheap could easily add this technology to their offerings and it would be rapidly adopted by their customers. "Hey Jim, I just got done installing the extra PC and the WiFi network for you. I was wondering if you've ever thought of installing a professional phone system. You know, there are these OpenSource technologies that will provide close to full PBX functionality with a third of the cost. Interested in hearing more about it?" Very easy sale.
Personally, I want our government to confirm the identity of anyone receiving official identification docutments. The text of the bill just says that state governments will have to start doing things that I assumed they did already. Corporations have much more information on us than this puny bill requires the government to collect. Why do you think the Dept. of Homeland Security is now one of the biggest customers of many large commercial consumer databases?
Section 203 of the bill requires the linking of motor vehicle databases including all moving violations. Remember the days of speeding through Wyoming or Texas, paying the fine right there when you got caught and not having to report it back on your home state insurance? Well, those days are over.
Corel is RedHerring's enemy #1 right now. This is not the first anti-Corel story they have written. Their "Investment Editor" R. Scott Raynovich wrote a scathing review of Corel about a month ago. He stated that Corel was "jumping on the Linux bandwagon", which seems kind of weird considering they've been porting their office suite for over a year now. RedHerring's major problem is with Corel's management. And they have some valid points there, but I think RedHerring is underestimating Corel's technology and Linux effort. The question is whether the management issues are real and will outweigh their Linux development effort. Rarely have I seen a company the target of so many negative articles by one source.
Because it will allow LNUX to remain very close to the Linux development community -- which is essential to the biz plan (as enumerated in their prospectus) of being a leading provider of linux based solutions . From that viewpoint, the benefits are obvious. JWK
If you read LNUX's prospectus, then you will notice that their goal is to become the premier provider of integrated Linux-based SOLUTIONS. This implies that they have aspirations far beyond being a box provider. In this context, SourceForge makes sense. This will allow LNUX to maintain its intimacy with the Linux community and future Linux development. Their success will depend greatly on the SourceForge platform attaining preeminent status in the OpenSource development community.
Uh...actually you can. What you're forgetting is that you can use stock to buy companies. It's done all the time, usually under the moniker of "stock-for-stock" transactions. As long as the acquisitions are additive, investors will not punish the company for minor dilution. So, in a sense, RHAT does have a very real currency.
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As someone who started a small business and employed a PBX-in-a-box system can attest, this type of innovation is a godsend to small businesses and start-ups. The real key to this technology taking off however, will be service providers incorporating it into their offerings to small businesses. I think that there could be a very lucrative business model selling services to small-biz/start-ups that allow them to have big-biz type amenities (PBXs, etc...) at lower prices (enabled by OpenSource software). I *believe* that the guys who perform small-biz networking on the cheap could easily add this technology to their offerings and it would be rapidly adopted by their customers. "Hey Jim, I just got done installing the extra PC and the WiFi network for you. I was wondering if you've ever thought of installing a professional phone system. You know, there are these OpenSource technologies that will provide close to full PBX functionality with a third of the cost. Interested in hearing more about it?"
Very easy sale.
Personally, I want our government to confirm the identity of anyone receiving official identification docutments. The text of the bill just says that state governments will have to start doing things that I assumed they did already. Corporations have much more information on us than this puny bill requires the government to collect. Why do you think the Dept. of Homeland Security is now one of the biggest customers of many large commercial consumer databases?
Section 203 of the bill requires the linking of motor vehicle databases including all moving violations.
Remember the days of speeding through Wyoming or Texas, paying the fine right there when you got caught and not having to report it back on your home state insurance?
Well, those days are over.
Corel is RedHerring's enemy #1 right now. This is not the first anti-Corel story they have written. Their "Investment Editor" R. Scott Raynovich wrote a scathing review of Corel about a month ago. He stated that Corel was "jumping on the Linux bandwagon", which seems kind of weird considering they've been porting their office suite for over a year now.
RedHerring's major problem is with Corel's management. And they have some valid points there, but I think RedHerring is underestimating Corel's technology and Linux effort. The question is whether the management issues are real and will outweigh their Linux development effort.
Rarely have I seen a company the target of so many negative articles by one source.
Because it will allow LNUX to remain very close to the Linux development community -- which is essential to the biz plan (as enumerated in their prospectus) of being a leading provider of linux based solutions . From that viewpoint, the benefits are obvious.
JWK
If you read LNUX's prospectus, then you will notice that their goal is to become the premier provider of integrated Linux-based SOLUTIONS. This implies that they have aspirations far beyond being a box provider. In this context, SourceForge makes sense. This will allow LNUX to maintain its intimacy with the Linux community and future Linux development. Their success will depend greatly on the SourceForge platform attaining preeminent status in the OpenSource development community.
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That assumption has been made by a lot of companies recently if you look at the recent state of some mergers (see WebMD-Healtheon).
Uh...actually you can. What you're forgetting is that you can use stock to buy companies. It's done all the time, usually under the moniker of "stock-for-stock" transactions. As long as the acquisitions are additive, investors will not punish the company for minor dilution. So, in a sense, RHAT does have a very real currency.
Why wouldn't RHAT buy Corel?