Tag Archives: commentary

Marriage made in hell

Which is worse? A marriage of convenience or a marriage of necessity? If pundits can have it their way, they would probably bet against both.Just for the purpose of illustration, let’s take a closer look at the tussle between The SCO Group and the Linux camp. To SCO, the open-source movement is probably a marriage… Read More »

Apples and Oranges

Somehow, I have immense sympathy for these two fruits. They are often abused as metaphors (“apple of my eye”) and much maligned (“rotten apples”). Ok, maybe the oranges were the unfortunate victims of this association. Nonetheless, I am tempted to have another dig at these hapless species. The reason is simple. The Singapore government has… Read More »

Wanted: Cybersecurity expert

The job of a cybersecurity administrator is unrewarding, to say the least. You get absolutely no credit for your successes (who’d know anyway?), whereas the slightest slip-up often gets magnified to epic proportion.In the aftermath of September 11, the tech industry jumped at the chance to marshal its strongest ideas in the war against terrorism.… Read More »

Content is king?

Someone (it could be one of those bullish analysts) once said that content is, and always will be, king on the Internet. But that was during the heady days of the dotcom craze, when every commerce and information Web site seemed to be using content management (CM) systems to underpin their grand plans.When the dotcom… Read More »