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Paul Nowak
Paul Nowak first used Linux in 1995 while migrating from Sun to Linux at the University of Michigan. He used Linux in subsequent IT projects including web, telecom, telemetry and embedded projects and is currently CIO of a small professional association based in Washington D.C. |
After Ubuntu, Windows
Looks Increasingly Bad,
Increasingly Archaic,
Increasingly Unfriendly By Paul Nowak  My recent switch to a
single-boot Ubuntu setup
on my Thinkpad T60 simply
floors me on a regular
basis. Most recently it's
had to do with the
experience of maintaining
the software. Fresh from
a very long Windows 2000
experience and a
four-month Windows XP
experien... Nov. 4, 2007 07:00 AM Reads: 202,517 Replies: 90 | Will Enterprise Open
Source Scale the Walled
Gardens of the Cellular
Network Providers? By Paul Nowak  I recently wrapped up an
18-month stint on the
business subcomittee of
the Wireless Washtenaw
Initiaitive, a project to
bring wireless broadband
to the citizens of
Washtenaw County,
Michigan. It's part of a
growing movement by local
government to help
citizens par... Jul. 19, 2007 06:45 PM Reads: 8,497 Replies: 1 | Am I Seeing Python
Everywhere? By Paul Nowak  I've been a long-time
Python fan. It's a
language that's so easy
to program with that I
end up turning to it for
a great many things and I
find myself wishing for a
Python interface in
pretty much any
application that moves or
plays with data in
anyway. I also giv... May. 7, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 12,735 Replies: 2 | Opinion: Linux May Be the
Main Life Support for
Intel's Itanium By Paul Nowak It's probably not likely
that Itanium has much of
a future unless Linux
makes massive gains in
market share over the
next 5 years. 'If Intel
truly believes in
Itanium,' writes Paul
Nowak, 'then they have to
do away with Windows.
Windows is not coming to
Itanium. W... May. 19, 2005 11:00 PM Reads: 21,704 Replies: 6 | Bruce Perens on UserLinux By Paul Nowak Bruce Perens, cofounder
of the Open Source
Initiative and long-time
leader of the Debian
GNU/Linux distribution,
announced plans at the
November 2003 Desktop
Linux Consortium event in
Boston to start a project
called UserLinux.
UserLinux is to be a
Linux distribut... Mar. 16, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 24,302 Replies: 12 | Microsoft's Source Code
Leak - A Different
Perspective By Paul Nowak Microsoft needs to
consider a partial open
source model for code
development if it hopes
to survive the coming
open source onslaught,
says Paul Nowak. That's
why, he argues, the
reported source code leak
of portions of the
Windows NT and Windows
2000 operating sys... Feb. 13, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,026 Replies: 8 | The Powerful Economic
Underpinnings of OSS By Paul Nowak Open source software
(OSS) development and
use, as described by the
General Public License
(GPL) and other similar
licenses, creates
tremendous gains in the
quality and volume of
software development and
use, says Paul Nowak - in
a new application of
Garret Hardin... Oct. 17, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 18,305 Replies: 19 | 501 Things You Wanted to
Know About Switching to
OpenOffice.org from
Microsoft Office By Paul Nowak OpenOffice.org (OOo) is
an open source
replacement for the
Microsoft Office suite.
From all accounts, OOo is
gaining significant
momentum with over 16
million downloads
recorded and countless
installations from CD-ROM
according to the OOo Web
site. It's also the ... Sep. 16, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 13,739 Replies: 6 | SCO Admits To Not Knowing
Own Code History in
Recent Q&A By Paul Nowak From the start, questions
have surrounded the
process and people SCO
used to determine the
alleged code violations
in Linux, from the
phantom MIT mathematics
department team which MIT
itself cant identify to
SCO saying this week that
it has no idea what the
histo... Sep. 13, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 77,686 Replies: 65 |
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