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Open Source has won precisely because we no longer notice it
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 24/11/2010
» Open source has won. Oh, how time flies. When I started writing in Database in May 2003, my first column was about how the ICT Ministry had got the budget PC programme all wrong. ICT Minister Surapong had announced his great success at negotiating the inclusion of Windows XP and Office XP at just 1,500 baht, a 90 percent discount. He saw it as success. I saw it as capitulation.
Easing the healthcare burden with technology
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 24/11/2010
» Cisco HealthPresence at first looks like a video-conferencing system with some clinical tools attached, but it is just one component of Cisco's portfolio of healthcare solutions that build on its existing network, radio and unified communications all the way through to voice and video expertise that will soon change the way healthcare is delivered.
Experience, as well as content, is key in electronic publishing
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 25/08/2010
» Electronic publishing is as radical a change as when broadcasting graduated from radio to television. Adobe is now talking to operations and C-level executives rather than the artists about how it can help make businesses run better, while through embedded business intelligence as well as how the Flash and Air platforms have evolved to make for a better reader experience in a world where content and experience, not just content, is now king.
Marketing depts ready for change
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 04/08/2010
» Every marketing department agrees that social media is changing marketing, but few are quite sure what the change will entail. Speaking to journalists in Bangkok, Nick Smith, global managing director for marketing transformation at Accenture, spoke of a survey of 400 CMOs (chief marketing officers), 20 percent of which are in the Asia-Pacific region, and how only 18 percent believe they are ready for change.