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Uh.., tell us something we dont already know, or that isn’t already happening.

ZDNet has this write up on Gartner saying in a report that Open Source will quietly be taking over the enterprise space in the next 3-5 years.  They are predicting more than 90% saturation by 2012 and predict that 98/99% of SaaS providers will be running Open Source software by 2011.

I dont know where they pull these numbers and predictions from but people are using Open Source A LOT already.  Who cares what the percentage is?  If saturation is 40% or 100% does it really matter?  All it comes down to is this:

Is Open Source the right solution to your problem?

Whether it is at an business application level, network/datacenter/OS level, database, management tools, etc., you look at a handfull of the possible solutions, and evaluate based on implementation and upkeep costs (or simply TCO) over the live of the project.  If Open Source is the answer great.., if its not.., fine.., maybe some hybrid approach.., nice.

The analyst orgs really annoy me.  You basically have a ton of companies with too much money on their hands and are too lazy to research stuff themselves so they rely on these guys to tell them what they should be doing.

I completely understand its part of the game, but it is just another example of a business framework that is in place and serves its purpose but people would be better served if it would just go away.

I use the ShareThis plugin to allow syndication to other site such as digg and technorati.  They are having some serious issues with their site/service right now (67 sec page load times on their site right now), so I am temporarirly disabling them.  With it turned on the page load times for Kaiyzen.com are redirkulously long while I get massive JS errors and timeouts for each post.

Will turn it back on soon once things are fixed

Mozilla CEO John Lily is whining about Apple trying to package Safari in with iTunes updates.  He complains that it is unsafe for the web and just plain wrong for Apple to be conducting themselves in this way.

While I dont completely agree with trying to sneek software onto a users computer, Lily is just being a whiner because he is afraid of the competition that Safari poses to Firefox.  He knows that as Safari adoption grows on Windows it pretty much is at the expense of Firefox and not IE.

Watchin In Treatment.., a great new show on HBO with Gabriel Byrne.., he was in Usual Suspects which may be my favorite movie of all time.

Byrne plays a psychiatrist and each episode covers one session with a patient.  In this episode he is seeing Sophie who is a teenage gymnastics phenom who tried to kill herself by riding her bike into an oncoming car.

In this episode a pizza arrives.., Byrne didnt order it, but takes it anyways, assuming that Sophie ordered it.  When she arrives she explains that she was on the bus on her way to the session and realized that she hadnt eaten anything.., this is where my annoyance and this post comes from:

Sophie: “I realized I hadnt eaten anything, so I texted Google to look up a pizza place.., and they gave me the number to call and order”

Byrne: “Google can do that?”

Sophie: “Google can do anything”

F#$kin Hell!!!  Product placement is pretty rampant, I usually dont have too big a problem with it.  One company that LOOOOOVES product placement is the big G.  Those sacks get search and maps in to whatever movie/show they can.  I was watching Crack a couple weeks ago with some friends.., ok movie.., but everytime the main character changed locations their was a Google Maps transition.

For the first time since starting to watch this show the dialog wasnt interesting.., and the drama was non existent.., it kind of reminded of the truman show where trumans wife busts out that cocoa in the one scene to slang it.  It was SOOOOO transparent that I actually laughed out loud as the lines were delivered.

Thank you Google for ruining another piece of entertainment…, I just hope the rest of the world can see through all this transparent bullshit.

A posting over at TechCrunch talks about Plaxo introducing a tool.., in a private beta now.., to scrape your contacts from Facebook.  Robert Scoble, the popular sillicon valley blogger, supposedly had his Facebook account de-activated for running Plaxo’s tool and violating Facebook’s terms of service.  His account has since been re-activated.  I HIGHLY doubt the average user would have received such swift re-activation.

The TechCrunch posting already has over 70 comments.., one from myself, so this is obviously a hot topic.

I disagree with the people out there that support Facebooks stance of locking up some pieces of information and not others.., in this case they render your email address as an image so automated scripts cannot read the information.  Plaxo would have just used the Facebook API IF it were to support access to all of the contact information.

 This is SOOOOOOO hypocritical of Facebook.  It wasnt too long ago that they were touting their openess while MySpace was shutting out flash and iframe plugins from their user accounts.

Of all places where personal information is shared and exchanged, the social networks should be the ones to allow you to take your info elsewhere as you see fit.  Afterall, they respect your privacy and provide you with the tools to say whether or not strangers can access your information.

 If you compare this to the email scenario where you have a TON of contacts in your email account that you have exchanged messages with, but are not necessarily your friends.  The recent outcry about Google Reader sharing your feeds with your contacts from Gmail is a good sign about people not considering all of their email contacts to be friends to share info with, let alone private information.

Here is a screen shot of Facebook’s import tool where they will scrape your addressbooks from all of the major email portals, and some ISP’s as well:

So…, Facebook is very concerned for your privacy and control to your information when you want to pull it out of Facebook.., but should you want to add to Facebooks data set..,

Well you better read their terms of service before you get banned.

Just left this rant over at Techcrunch on one of Ericks writeups on Radioheads new album.., just getting some thoughts out there.., most of the tech bloggers are completely ignorant.  Its kind of like how the tech bloggers like to rip on politicians who tried to talk about technology and the “pipes”.