Award-winning LSI SP2600 Multicore Media Processors to Power Next-generation Wireless Infrastructure

It was a mixed experience at the Unconference made possible by Entrepreneur 27 , a group started by university students in Singapore after borrowing the concept which they experienced during their year long stint at Silicon Valley.

I am still recovering from the hangover of the event which actually did not serve alcohol! But the experience of the unconference itself was so alcoholic especially for me when I was amongst those energetic youngsters!!

Mike Elgan said "This article is for those of you who are about to download or purchase Windows Vista and install it on a PC. I'm here to talk you out of it. Just say no to LeBron James and Windows Vista -- for now. Here's why."

The title looked too blunt. But the message was clear about the state of Vista amidst the issues surrounding EU anti-trust ruling on Windows.

This review at Computer World took me through a whole new thought! In the war between Windows and Linux will the Mac emerge as a safe choice for the end users on Desktop?

Finally, two Linux groups merging to offer a better unified face to real competition!

I remembered Scott McNealy's words during Sun Developer Conference back in 2002 in Bangalore. His words were "Do not develop for any OS, not even for Solaris, develop on Java so that your investment is safe on any OS" Only visionaries dare to say this at the cost of their own business interest (Solaris).

Not sure if this gets posted as I am on a very weak connection restored today after being unable to access ITVidya for a couple of days after the internet connection in Singapore got disrupted due to under sea cable damage in Taiwan Quake.

Yes, for a moment it looked like we have gone back to medieval age! The quake might have spared the massive damage to human lives this time on boxing day. But it has definitely exposed the vulnerability of central systems in a increasingly distributed and globalized era of connectivity.

It is hard to believe when I hear that the Compiere Community is split and the splinter group has started a project named ADempiere! I would like to see, as neutrally as possible, the impact of this move, by the break away group, for the end users.

If I recollect, it was in 2001 I came across Compiere as an Open Source project and subsequently I began to admire the determination of its founder Jorg Janke to keep the project going in Open Source. It is definitely not easy for a business application like ERP, CRM and SCM to survive in an Open Source fashion like the Linux Kernel or an Operating System bundled with GNU utilities. ERP is 20-30% software and 70- 80% customization and implementation.

In our Samooha project we were looking at improving performance of boot-up time for our heavy Swing application :-)

Guess what, we just moved to Java 6 to see if things are different and we got a bonus of 20 percent additional speed to our application boot-up time!!

Looks like Java 6 has done a good job until at least we are hit with any other blocks in the near future.

The (universal) problem:
It is always amazing to see the enterprises of today, jumping into an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system without really analyzing their own understanding about an ERP or even worse what their business needs are. Most of the times SMEs tend to be over-confident and expect that their ERP should do everything for them.

The reality:

Is the title misleading? No it was not intentional but accidental that I came across a good study conducted by a company which uses this title while publishing their study. Here is the link to the article

According to me the greatest benefit from Open Source is the learning opportunity it offers and the stimulation it provides for folks like me to innovate in the Open with projects like Samooha

I was wondering how to express my excitement about Sun's recent announcement about Java! After some thoughts I decided to write it in my blog where I discuss about Samooha, the software that is making its own progress as a new generation business application platform for Small and Medium Enterprises.