Global Strategy and Business

OI Unix Open Enterprise Systems such as Oi UNIX (formally Sun's Opensolaris),Fedora,BSD,and Susie were all destined to create a new low cost sever market in 2011.This has still yet to happen in 2012.BSC Consulting puts forward some suggestions on how the Open source model needs to change to compete with proprietary systems in 2012.Arguing that Open source needs to deliver the same product experience as proprietary systems whilst defining Open source processes as the customer choice. The notion that the Open source route is sheltered from a customer focus is clearly untrue. Theoretically Open source should be the preferred product in recessionary times been relatively less effected by the economic cycle.Urging a change from a developer dominant community to a wider community skills base with defined traits.Producing a defined strategy to develop and dominate a market segment.Building  business professionals within the business or community.Use professional marketeers to innova...

The business man who helped Apple to challenge the personal computing, mobile device and music industries status quo has died. Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs died aged 56 in California. Fans and employees gathered at the Apple campus in Cupertino California to remember him. Steve jobs will always be remembered as the co-founder of Apple Mac and took the opportunity of setting a niche strategy around the products to differentiate his offerings with design innovation and usability. Open source communities also attribute him for promoting their designs and software to the wider world. The range of products revolutionized consumer computing design with the help of English designers and challenged the dominance of Microsoft in the personal computing market. He also challenged the music industry to reinvent itself online. Towards the end of his career he saw Google Open source vendor as his chief competitor.Much criticism was published in the press in this battle against Google. Battli...

The Competition Commission (CC) the independent public body which conducts inquiries into mergers, and competition announced on Wednesday a reiteration of its ruling for Spanish-owned airports operator BAA to sell two more airports which may include London Stansted. BAA has two years to divest further assets.London Gatwick has already been sold out of the group but. Stansted,Edinburgh or Glasgow airports are under the spotlight which form part of the Spanish Group Ferrovial in 2006.It was hoped sale of Gatwick to US investment fund Global Infrastructure Partners for 1.51 billion pounds in late 2009 would stave off the further sale of its UK assets.The sale of terminal five at Heathrow to a third party was resisted. This comes soon after the public condemnation of the way it handled flights out of the Heathrow at Christmas 2010. http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has announced a total of 21 Enterprise Zones throughout the UK as a strategy to create jobs.Businesses operating in these zones will be able to claim 100 per cent discounts on high speed broadband through the tax system.The London Mayor Boris Johnson will be tasked to identify where in capital enterprise zones will be established.It is thought to follow areas of high unemployment or areas effected by high public sector job losses. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors have initially responded with the following statement. "It is not clear how effective new enterprise zones will be in stimulating long term sustainable development beyond an initial boost. While the tax breaks and changes to planning restrictions may draw short term investment into an area they also have a number of downsides. The total cost to Government can be expensive and there often needs to be other public investment in areas such as transport inf...

IT Pro  have reported certain IT security breaches which link Iran to attacks aimed at sites run by tech giants including Microsoft and Google. “Countries in North Africa and the Gulf region are facing popular protests and many commentators have identified the internet and in particular social networking sites as a major organising tool for the protests.” Cyber attacks are ongoing issues for large corporations as they achieve global reach many of which are reported to be politically motivated.

One major problem with using Opensolaris was the lack of drivers for mobile 3G modems However with the development of tethering on Android (Froyo 2.2 and above) Openindiana can now been used very easily with laptops on the 3G/4G networks. In Android go to settings,wireless networks,check the boxes marked tethering and mobile networks.This will create a mobile hotspot from your Android Phone. In OI go to the network section at the top right of the screen and manually select the HTC network in this case.You may have to wait a few seconds for it to configure. A notification will show at the top of your screen to show you are connected to the 3 G network via your Android phone.

Open source and cloud computing are all in the tech news these days in a bid to convince us to go into the cloud.Cloud.com lauches a product presentation of their new offering http://open.cloud.com