[ MSWL - Project Management ]

Social Enterprise and Business

Lets say that social enterprise is about take popular social media tools like blogs, wikis, forums, real-time communication platforms, etc., and use them for internal collaboration, project management and overall feel-good business practices.

It seems that in practice, a lot of companies have found that actually using this stuff does not guarantee happiness and productivity to their organization. Usually appear stumbling blocks that won't accept to moving forward on a project unless there's a meeting or memos in between - the very things social enterprise practices are trying to eliminate.

There's the issue of figuring when and for what social enterprise should be used? Employees may get confused over when and how they're supposed to turn to the social media platform in their day-to-day jobs. And if only some workers engage with the platform, its utility is greatly reduced.

"You Can't Force Workers To Be Social" - Enterprises can't just switch and turn on a social network, it is only possible as users find these tools helpful and engaging for their daily activities. Social media tools do make it easier to establish those connections, but it's not something you can force.

So in general, it is pretty important to implement a proper change management to gradually incorporate social enterprise tools and practices in business.

Source: http://readwrite.com/2013/01/25/social-enterprise-is-not-living-up-to-its-promise

[ MSWL - Economic Aspects ]

Mercado de teléfonos inteligentes en 2012

Según la consultora IHS iSuppli, los resultados de un estudio efectuado en 2012 señalan que Samsung ha superado a Apple y a los demás competidores en el mercado de los teléfonos inteligentes a través de sus dispositivos con sistema operativo android, abarcando un 28% del mercado y seguido por Apple con un 20%.

Fuente: http://globovision.com/articulo/samsung-amplio-su-ventaja-en-el-mercado-movil-en-2012-segun-estudio

[ MSWL - Economic Aspects ]

IBM chooses Red Hat Linux for supercomputers

IBM has chosen Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as the operating system for its parallel BlueGene/Q and Power 775 supercomputers. On the one hand based on the excellent performance of the linux-kernel, on the other one because of the cut-throat price that Linux infrastructure offers.

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/19/ibm_redhat_linux_supers_loadleveler

[ MSWL - Economic Aspects ]

Unix to Linux and Cloud Migration

An interesting interview to the general manager of Red Hat India region, explaining how they have grown with the adoption of kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) technology and incentivating companies to migrate from Unix-based to Linux infrastructure. KVM is a robust open standard-based choice for companies and enterprises nowadays.

Source: http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/interviews/1086-migration-from-unix-to-linux-and-cloud-are-key-driving-factors-for-our-business

[ MSWL - Economic Aspects ]

Apple-Foursquare data sharing deal

Apple Inc. has the intention to integrate local data from Foursquare Labs Inc. into their mapping application. Strategic agreements such as this, reveals the Apple's concern to compete in the market of the current product lider Google Maps, also seeking independence from the latter application in their iPhone devices.


Is noteworthy that since March 2012, Foursquare Labs stopped using Google Maps as its geo-location platform, changing to OpenStreetMap (OSM), wich is a project based on Open Database License (ODbL).

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324907204578186074223787936.html

[ MSWL - Economic Aspects ]

THQ Is Looking At Bringing Their Games To Linux

Similar to the previous post, this time THQ Inc. (Toy Head-Quarters), a North American video & PC games developer company, is evaluating the option to get into the Linux field. Curious thing about this company is that they make money using the "Humble Bundles" method.

"Humble Bundles" are a series of video game collections that are sold and distributed online at a price determined by the purchaser, so in a certain way THQ have used unusual tecniques since the beginning, maybe incursion into an Open Source platform is another unusual strategy over other video games companies.

Source: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1NDM

[ MSWL - Economic Aspects ]

Gaming on Linux

Recently Roccat, a games maker company with headquarters in Germany, has reaffirmed its commitment to support the Linux platform, specifically at keep developing their own Linux kernel-based drivers. They also have the intention to get to the U.S. market, which has a great volume of users.

This could be a strategy to spread out the company's name globally as possible, and make business in other gaming fields than PC like consoles. In any case, it is important to remark that companies like Roccat are aware of the impact that FLOSS communities are capable of when it is about to broadcast a product, so they contributes to free projects and also gets benefit from it

Source: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/roccat_reaffirms_commitment_linux2012?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co