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Current Newswire: Cracking open five of the best open source easter eggs Top 100 sites in 2010: Search giants, shopping, Facebook and a bit of porn Debian: DebConf10 & 2010 Project Leader Elections Shuttleworth heir opens up on Ubuntu biz CrossOver Linux 9: Run Windows apps without Windows HP Deskjet D2680 Review KDESC 4.3+: Video, Music, Image and Document Preview in Dolphin Testing The Different Ubuntu 10.04 Kernels Turn Firefox into an Ebook Reader with EPUBReader The Microsoft Elephant in the Open Source Room HPC Linux Administrator (IL) Next Step Systems US-IL-Chicago Post A Job | Post A Resume The 10 biggest failures in IT history Nov 1, 2009, 08 :03 UTC (12 Talkback[s]) (10645 reads) (Other stories by Jack Wallen) "1: Windows Vista What a disaster! Could Microsoft have assembled a bigger failure if it tried? Well, possibly. But Microsoft wasn’t trying to make a failure — it was trying to make the best of the best. The result was the worst of the best. "2: NeXT I have to qualify this entry, because NeXT did inspire a lot of software for the Linux desktop (such as AfterStep), and the NeXTSTEP did eventually become the foundation of OS X. So NeXT wasn’t a complete flop. "3: BeOS" Complete Story Related Stories: Microsoft to users: Don't switch to Vista(May 17, 2009) The 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the Last Decade(May 15, 2009) The sad case of technology education in the United States(May 01, 2009) Killing With Kindness(May 30, 2008) The Incompleteness Theory Of Open Source, Continued(Dec 04, 2007) In Search of a Quality Kernel(Nov 22, 2007) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   Y2K was a success    Nomen Publicus Nov 1, 2009, 09:16:13     and Ubuntu?    MAH Nov 1, 2009, 09:16:53     Stallman - OpenSource? what a mess    markit Nov 1, 2009, 09:32:58     Even bigger : this article    Matt Casters Nov 1, 2009, 10:30:08     failures?    John Helms Nov 1, 2009, 12:28:21     Gratuitous swipe at Stallman...    cjm Nov 1, 2009, 13:01:08     Richard Stallman    Kurt Nov 1, 2009, 13:12:14     Dumb article    David F. Skoll Nov 1, 2009, 22:19:03     No credibility    Chris Nov 1, 2009, 23:57:23     re: failures?    Rex Bachmann Nov 2, 2009, 01:53:07     Alpha and PaRISC got killed    Pietro Pesci Feltri Nov 2, 2009, 03:55:24     Re: Y2K was a success    Rufus Polson Nov 2, 2009, 04:11:20     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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