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- ZDNet Author Biography
Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist for nearly 25 years and has covered the online world professionally since 1985. He founded the Interactive Age Daily for CMP Media, and has written for the Chicago Tribune, Advertising Age's "NetMarketing" supplement, and dozens of other publications over the years.- more about Dana Blankenhorn »
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- Can Linux and Solaris be married?
- Nexenta its symbol is a giraffe combines the OpenSolaris kernel with Userland, the open source filesystem. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Nexenta, Linux, Sun Solaris, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Google, open source and the need for governance
- Free competition is a good model for what we want, but competition almost always devolves to monopoly or shared monopoly. What the Bells want is the antitrust police to go after Google as they go after the Bells. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Google Inc., Open Source, Government, Internet, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- To CCHIT or not to CCHIT is the question
- No single vendor or certification process can build an IT infrastructure that both enables innovation and distributes it universally. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, CCHIT, Healthcare, Open Source, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Canada not the solution either
- Canadians have access to less medical technology than patients in other countries, even though the computer networks handling back-office functions may be more effective. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Canada, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- How open should your open source business strategy be
- What Vembu and others are showing is that success in open source also requires transparency in other areas, even when it comes to development strategy, and a willingness to acknowledge what others may see as mistakes in that strategy. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Business Strategy, Sridhar Vembu, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- What might end Apple's open source pass
- What surprises me is the silence of the music industry. If this breaks that silence, then we will have a turning point. My guess is they no longer love their Cupertino overlords. Time to show it. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: DMCA, Apple Inc., Digital Media, Open Source, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- The good news about cancer
- The other good news from the less-cancer story is more important. Death rates from cancer continue to decline, have been declining for 15 years. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Cancer, Americans, Lung Cancer, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Cyberchondria or did Microsoft miss market again?
- Getting out the message that it's usually nothing would be a great start toward bringing the mass market of medical search online. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Mass Market, Microsoft Corp., Market, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- The worst word in the medical lexicon
- If ADHD, with its gifts, is a "disorder," what about every other mental or physical condition marking the "gifted?" My experience with life indicates our society sees nearly all who are gifted as disordered. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, ADHD, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Why engage in open source FUD?
- FUD is one of those things which are forced out in the open source profit press. You can test the code, you can look at it, you can see if it is right for you, you can apply it, before you sign a contract for open source services. by Dana...
- Tags: FUD, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- A future so bright Tux needs shades
- Linux represents the ultimate flight to safety in troubled times by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Mobile, Linux Foundation, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- A great time to start an open source company
- The alternatives to Maven cost millions of dollars, and it's already used by companies with up to 1,500 developers, in multiple locations, juggling 15 projects at once. You can't do that with a spreadsheet. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Project, Alligator, Apache Maven, Open Source, Project Management, It Operations, It service Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Tag you're sick
- Sometimes the technology just isn't up to your Orwellian fantasies by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Papua, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- How Daschle-care will change Health IT
- My guess is the first job of a Federal Health Board would be to seek better data on both wellness and illness. This implies the creation of vast, interlocking databases on all Americans, matched to medical transaction data. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Tom Daschle, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Trust the doctor or a computer analysis
- Do you want your doctor trusting their gut, or the decisions that come from computer analysis? by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Patient, Analysis, Computer, Clinician, Productivity, Government, Federal Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Are electronic and personal health records inevitable?
- Kolodner has written that this year represents a "tipping point" for the adoption of Electronic Health Records EHRs by doctors and hospitals and Personal Health Records PHRs by individuals. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Personal Health Record, Kolodner, E-health, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Microsoft releases Singularity under unapproved license
- The restriction on the code being "subjected" to the various terms of other licenses effectively isolates the code from being used with seemingly anything outside of this particular project. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Singularity, Blogging, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Is the era of open source legal stupidity over?
- Some SCO partisans still don't believe it, and lawyers like to get paid, but at some point in the economic cycle such arguments become an unaffordable luxury and we may well be at that point. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: SCO Group Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Where value lies in open source
- What writing open source software does is give you an opportunity to use your time to make money. Selling the software itself, in the long run, is a losing proposition since anyone can just take it. But that's the old world. Welcome to the new one. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Software, Truck, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Open source and health care reform
- The product meets a specific need that has not been met before, but the underlying solution addresses "a problem that exists across all health care," the capture and guiding of data toward a common result. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Glue, Open Source, Health Care, Acesis, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
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