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Microsoft has generally dominated the business market with products like Microsoft Office and Outlook. Outlook has been a particularly successful product for Microsoft, giving users an all-in-one package for managing email, contacts, and appointments, with the added benefit of integrating seamlessly with other Microsoft products.
Long-time Outlook users love the features built in, and consequently are [...]

In a recent blog, Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Product Management at Google had this to say:
At Google we believe that open systems win. They lead to more innovation, value, and freedom of choice for consumers, and a vibrant, profitable, and competitive ecosystem for businesses. Many companies will claim roughly the same thing since they [...]

In the beginning …
The web was a very simple place. A “web page” was most likely to be a “static” page, meaning what we saw was the result of just the HTML code in a single file. Modern “web pages” are dynamically generated from data stored in a database server. They are displayed using templating [...]

One of the most common questions that still seems to be floating around the web development community is, “Which program should I use for Flash development?”
The answer ultimately depends on the goal of your project. Deciding between which platform to utilize for your project’s goals is not an easy conclusion to reach. Each project has [...]

Here’s the question …. with the free browser engines out there that are clearly superior to Internet Explorer, why does Microsoft spend a small fortune to continue to develop their clearly inferior competing product, Internet Explorer?
It’s obvious that they are not interested in really fixing or improving Internet Explorer. At least not to the point where it is [...]

No doubt about it, the Internet is not kind to the innocent. There’s mischief lurking at every fork in the road.

Many of the common online dangers have a physical presence. They wind up as something on our systems that we can find and remove to regain a warm and fuzzy sense of safety—like a virus or spyware.

But there are stealthier threats out there that can sneak past even the best preventatives. It is highly likely that we have all been victimized without ever knowing it.

Open Source is one of those buzzwords that probably does not matter much to most people, but it is our bread and butter. Here at DBS, we use Open Source products to run our servers. We use it to build and manage websites. We use it for hosting, marketing campaigns and internal business applications…