decisions

Linux User & Developer: "Every other year there is a fresh commitment that open source solutions will be preferred for government funded projects.

The logic for these decisions is well understood, but is soon forgotten when the monopoly comes calling."

MakeTechEasier: "The basic idea of the Ubuntu SDR is that the stock Ubuntu is great, but some of the decisions regarding included software may not be ideal."

The Microsoft Internet Explorer team on Wednesday described some of the decisions being made to accommodate the ECMAScript 5 spec in Internet Explorer 9.

Standards Blog: "In this blog entry, I'll give my impressions of how the CodePlex Foundation is developing, and (as before) my opinions on how effective the decisions being made are likely to be in achieving the Foundation's goals."

An Antic Disposition: "Part I showed how Microsoft, despite their promises that control of OOXML would be handed over to an independent, international committee, have instead stuffed the committee that maintains OOXML (JTC1/SC34/WG4) with Microsoft employees.

And in Part II I looked at how the final published text of OOXML failed to account for all BRM decisions, and described the steps that ISO was taking to remedy this obvious procedural flaw."

PCLinuxOS: "The New PCLinuxOS Magazine, which comprises volunteers from the PCLinuxOS community is proud to announce the release of it's July 2009 edition.

This edition brought forth several decisions from the new crew to bring it forth to a monthly release and the selection of a new Chief Editor, Paul Arnote aka parnote."

PHP Builder: "In any given computer language (PHP is no exception) there has to be a way to allow the running code to decide between doing 2 different things.

If there wasn't then software would not be able to adapt based on operating conditions, or it wouldn't be able to decide between two different users."

Forget the glossy data sheets and single number benchmarks. Get the right information to make the right decisions.