Open Source Tactics
March 7, 2010
Open source software has some teeth. In the enterprise search sector, Lemur Consulting continues to gain ground. Most recently, the firm’s wizards have been providing substantive comments about the role of semantic methods in content processing.
The story “iPhone Lessons from Google’s Nexus One” adds another factoid to my open source note card. The main idea is that Google’s open source play with the Android operating system, while not a slam dunk, but it is in the words of the article “a really good device.” The article points out that the Nexus One underscores the challenge Apple faces; for example, improving the screen resolution, giving the user a more flexible “home screen”, notifications (real time info), multitasking, a combined inbox with multiple email accounts, and similar tweaks.
I liked the article and I realized that with Android available as open source and to date Google’s less mom-like approach to developer and applications, Google’s use of open source play may put some worm’s into Apple’s core.
The kidney punch thrown by Google at Apple is reMail, a mobile search tool. Google has made that software open source. Mobile search is another weakness for the iPhone, and here comes Google with another open source thrust. See “reMail Is Now Open Source.” But the killer play is what Google calls device seeding. Yep, become an Adroid developer and get an Adroid phone for “free”. See “Google’s Device Seeding Program Underway—Free Phones Heading Out to Developers Soon.”
Stephen E Arnold, March 7, 2010
No one paid me to write this. Since I mention open source, I will disclose non payment to 16000 Pennsylvania, where open source has some supporters.
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