"the very significant number of users" and "many (most) of us" - you have no evidence for these statements. It is a fact that most users are saying...
Another grammar faux pas is the improper use of "you". When sitting down down in a restaurant, for example, I get cringe when the waitress...
And NOW, folks, for Canonical's next trick...
Kubuntu is late.
Here's a pencil. Draw your own conclusions.
cf.:...
@kevinmchapman. The discussion here reflects the very significant number of users who really do like the traditional menu system and who wish to...
Er, no... It is an efficient means of finding the application/file/setting you need in one place. The icons are a simply a fallback for when you...
Isn't the provision of a text based search an admission by the developers that the mass of icons approach does not work? I don't need to use a...
"Unity and GNOME 3 both abandon the old text-based cascading menus in favour of a graphical icon-driven system."
Point truly missed. Both use a...
whs001 - Thank you, I'm glad you liked the article.
I absolutely agree with you on your first point. I should perhaps have made it clearer that...
If we allow corporate interest to dictate the way our government circumvents due process against foreign entities then we should accept the same...
I totally dislike pirating of works, I fear that artists will be deterred from creating works if they think that they are going to get ripped off....
How dare film makers, artists or anybody that invests in creativity stop us pirating their works for free. I want to be able to walk into my local...
@GrueMaster. I prefer horses for courses rather than one size fits all. I, and I suspect most other computer users, do not really wish to have...
The product that scares me every time I have to use it is the Office 2007 version of Excel.
The first bug that I found was applying the median...
Nice review and very informative. One thing I'd like to add (in reply to whs001's 1st question), the main reason to have the same interface from...
I'be been using Mint 12 since the RC came out, and I am far more happy with the Cinnamon, the Mate, and, yes (with extensions), theGnome 3...
Excellent article. One small correction, though--although a fresh installation of Linux Mint 12 will, indeed, provide the user with a version of...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
For Gnome 2 die-hards, it is possible to add icons to the bottom panel (or top top panel, if you prefer) which provide the exact Gnome 2...
Your comments would seem pretty naive and immature. Your 'solution' appears to be, "gee, let's all just give in to the hackers and give them...
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Watch your backside pal the next thing you know Open Source will be biting a lump out of it and the we can all LOL saying we told you so so many companys have said the self same thing and look at them now they almost invariabley end up supporting and recomending Linux as the answer dont say you were not warned ..
Thank you for sharing Bernard Liautaud's perspective on the evolution of Business Intelligence.
It was interesting that he dismissed open source BI as quickly as he did. A couple comments:
(a) We have found that some of our best customers are companies that have poured money into a platform but lack the resources and expertise to convert the information into actionable insights. His comment: "...The third piece is sharing information with external constituencies and partners and suppliers..." reflects one of the fundamental schisms separating BI vendors and their customers. Based on our experience in providing customer intelligence solutions to Fortune 1000 clients, partners and suppliers don't need more "information". They need insights and guidance on what to do with all their "information".
(b) On Open Source. We predict that companies are ready, willing, and able to shift their spending from annual licensing fees to investing into the actual transformation of information to actionable insights. Companies that provide an open source business intelligence platforms will exactly enable this by commoditizing the infrastructure and put the necessary focus on building intelligence. They will re-shape the ways leading companies invest in transforming their business and what they demand of their vendors.
At Loyalty Matrix, we provide Customer Intelligence to Fortune 1000 companies and are investing in the open source vision.
Matt Strain
VP, Marketing
Loyalty Matrix, Inc
San Francisco, CA
http://www.loyaltymatrix.com
Take a look at PALO www.palo.net - This is an open source OLAP server which will be similar to commercial offereing such as TM1 and MIS Alea.
Its RAM based and so should be fast and there is an excel add-in so end users should feeel comfortable with this environment.
Since it's easy to import data, report becomes a breeze and with true separation from the transaction systems they don't take a performance hit when you want to analyse data.
Additionally there are number of APIs available so users can embed it or customise it.