All blogs from Jun 12th 2007 onwards are posted at www.kaujalgi.net
At the Interop conference in Las Vegas, Cisco CEO John Chambers talks about the need for businesses to increase productivity by implementing Web 2.0 tools such as wikis, mashups, and virtual conferencing. He also explains how Cisco used Web 2.0 principles in its $7 billion acquisition of Scientific Atlanta.
We use a lot of opensource/"free" software and services at Collabor - not just because they are free (which is cool in itself), but also because they are pretty good. Opensource has classically been associated with Linux and the famous LAMP platform - and a lot of people still think of it as a developer's toolset. Well the developers have.....well.... developed quite a few products which merit serious consideration.
At Collabor and our group companies this is what we use in addition to the development platform/ Here is our list:
Feel free to add or share your list
You see, I have a home PC which I no longer am best friends with. Well, its old and slow and still has Windows 98, has blown its power supply once - so you can imagine keeping the friendship going is a little tough. I am now with new Vista friends. Ya, I know I am mean. Its kind of like real life, where I am hardly in contact with friends from high school, but still close to guys from the MBA days and of course closest to guys who i worked with most recently.
Anyways, I thought of giving my old PC a new lease of life and loading Ubuntu 7.04 and scrapping the Win98 from the system. Kind of like "Extreme Makeover" on abc.
So I visit the Ubuntu site and download 7.04 desktop from my closest server at Northeastern U. I get a .iso file and burn a CD. When I try to install - NO GO.
Since I could not figure out the problem immediately, I downloaded the Ubuntu 6.06 version after a couple of weeks and read the installation manual (by the way, very tough to find the thing on the site). I found the part where they ask you to match the checksums to make sure the download was clean. Well the check sums did not match.
A month went by, and I downloaded 7.04 again. The checksums again don't match. What is going on, I say to myself. I am 8 weeks into this download thingy and still cannot download a clean version - I probably could have requested free CDs and got them by now. Maybe I will do that now.
So my old friend the Win98 home PC languishes in the closet, while I chum up with my 2 other laptops running Xp and Vista.
At Collabor, the company I founded and am Chairman & CEO of, we have refreshed our web presence for the Corporate website at www.collabor.com; a new blog at www.collabor.com/blog and for www.gizmorank.com - our gizmos and gadgets ranking site.
Also launched for public beta is our site www.birbal.in - our social community wrapped around comparison shopping focused on the Indian Market.
Have a look, and let us know what you think
