Laptop Expansion Hinges On Superintendents' Level Of Interest

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8X8 Calls Level 3 for VoIP Expansion

8X8 Calls Level 3 for VoIP Expansion 06/09/2004 01:56 PM
Internet News Jun 9 2004 6:40PM GMT

Hinges and integration

Hinges and integration 01/07/2004 06:07 PM
At the end of the XIX century, a screw company called Stanley started selling hinges, and quickly became the largest hinge maker in the market.

Their hinges were almost the same as any other, the hinges were a mature technology, they had no price advantage, no hinge-making experience, and no manufacturing difference with the competition.

How did they do it? They packaged the screws along with the hinges. Since anyone who bought a hinge needed the screws anyway, they sold more product, and the buyer was happy because he didn´t need to find matching screws.

There´s an obvious lesson there: If the consumer always needs two products at the same time, they are not two products, they are one, and selling them together should make sense.

How can we apply that (now) obvious lesson to software development, and open development in particular?

-- Roberto Alsina

Interesting analogy, but I cannot help but suspect that the screws and hinges that Stanley made probably worked better together because they came from one source. Just like software from Microsoft is tightly integrated with the operating system and Microsoft Office. Or Apple's software is tied to their hardware.

However, Roberto has a good point. Given a base library of sufficient power and flexibility, people will not reinvent the wheel, but promote interoperatibility by sharing a common code base. This is something that PHP still needs to work on. There aren't any accepted standards for so many issues. For example, PEAR is so fruitful that it provides us with multiple templating engines and database abstraction libraries. Too fruitful perhaps?

BayStar Says Its Investment Hinges on
Changes at SCO

BayStar Says Its Investment Hinges on
Changes at SCO 04/22/2004 06:44 PM
BayStar wants SCO to change its leadership and dump everything except its Unix intellectual properity litigation—but SCO's not budging.

Hellboy™ HingeHead™ Now Appearing on
Hinges Everywhere

Hellboy™ HingeHead™ Now Appearing on
Hinges Everywhere 07/21/2004 02:30 AM
Collectible figure stands atop your door hinge and easily becomes "unhinged" to stand on its own base or roam room to room! [PRWEB Jul 21, 2004]

U.N. Vote on Sudan Hinges on China (AP)

U.N. Vote on Sudan Hinges on China (AP) 09/18/2004 03:25 AM
AP - A U.N. Security Council vote on whether to threaten sanctions against Sudan hinged on China and other opponents who fear that the specter of punishment could ruin efforts to end a crisis that has killed more than 50,000 and spawned 1.2 million refugees.

Racing scandal hinges on Betfair records

Racing scandal hinges on Betfair records 09/02/2004 08:39 AM
Traditional bookies unimpressed

BayStar Says Its Investment Hinges on
Changes at SCO (Ziff Davis)

BayStar Says Its Investment Hinges on
Changes at SCO (Ziff Davis) 04/22/2004 06:47 PM
Ziff Davis - BayStar wants SCO to change its leadership and dump everything except its Unix intellectual properity litigation—but SCO's not budging.

Microsoft: Sasser bounty hinges on
conviction

Microsoft: Sasser bounty hinges on
conviction 09/10/2004 05:01 PM
Person who fingered alleged author of virus must cool heels while waiting for cool quarter-million-dollar reward.

Allawi Effectiveness Hinges on
Credibility (Los Angeles Times)

Allawi Effectiveness Hinges on
Credibility (Los Angeles Times) 09/24/2004 05:19 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON -- Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has emerged as an impassioned witness for the defense in America's presidential election, unambiguously echoing President Bush's key arguments about Iraq and forcing Sen. John F. Kerry into the unusual position of tangling with a foreign head of state during the campaign.

Iraq's Path Hinges on Words of Enigmatic
Cleric

Iraq's Path Hinges on Words of Enigmatic
Cleric 01/24/2004 07:15 PM
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's austere home in a dusty alleyway has become a center of power to rival the U.S. occupation headquarters in Baghdad.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers' new branding
campaign hinges on its brand assurance:
Responsibility

Fujitsu Siemens Computers' new branding
campaign hinges on its brand assurance:
Responsibility 06/12/2004 06:19 AM
AME Info Jun 12 2004 11:03AM GMT

Fujitsu Siemens Computers new branding
campaign hinges on its brand assurance:
Responsibility

Fujitsu Siemens Computers new branding
campaign hinges on its brand assurance:
Responsibility 06/12/2004 04:37 AM
AME Info Jun 12 2004 8:30AM GMT

M1 3G Expansion

M1 3G Expansion 06/10/2004 11:37 AM
3G Jun 10 2004 3:36PM GMT

What EU expansion may mean for IT

What EU expansion may mean for IT 04/29/2004 11:50 AM
Computer Weekly Apr 29 2004 3:25PM GMT

In Your Best Interest

In Your Best Interest 04/19/2004 03:14 PM
Rising home prices make interest-only mortgages a popular tool for homebuyers.

Interest

Interest 07/09/2004 04:52 AM
Interest 0.9.5 (now with RPMs)

Broad expansion

Broad expansion 06/23/2004 05:31 PM
USA Today Jun 23 2004 9:50PM GMT

Apprenticeships set for expansion

Apprenticeships set for expansion 05/10/2004 04:44 AM
Apprenticeships in England are being revamped and offered to more people, including 14-year-old school students.

Joint Ops Expansion

Joint Ops Expansion 09/16/2004 06:56 PM
Techzonez Sep 16 2004 10:41PM GMT

an interest in preservation

an interest in preservation 04/15/2004 03:49 PM
The Counter Clinton Library A tax exempt reaction to the Clinton Library being built in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Human interest

Human interest 12/09/2003 10:57 AM
It's much easier to write software if you don't have to allow for human uncertainty, so most software engineers don't ...

FC Now: Vended Interest

FC Now: Vended Interest 09/20/2004 12:16 PM
This spring, Charles Fishman took a look in ongoing developments in airline kiosks and other self-service options. But when you look at this online gallery...

Of local interest

Of local interest 04/07/2005 10:31 PM
Two sites that are new to me: Healdsburg Central: Healdsburg's Community Calendar. I'm not sure where this fits into the picture, as there are already two other "what's happening" sites, but my guess is that they're trying to be less...

VZ Wireless' 3G Expansion Spree

VZ Wireless' 3G Expansion Spree 06/24/2005 09:27 PM
Internet News Jun 25 2005 1:37AM GMT

Community Wi-Fi Needs Expansion,
Coordination

Community Wi-Fi Needs Expansion,
Coordination 05/24/2004 12:47 PM
Paul Andrews writes in The Seattle Times about the notion of a public coordinating board for municipal wireless: Andrews thinks that towns and cities could be well served by planning policies and deployment, whether public or public/private partnerships, to better ensure comprehensive coverage rather than a patchwork....

Argosy Gambles on Expansion

Argosy Gambles on Expansion 06/23/2004 12:31 PM
A $75-million expansion project will improve Argosy's offering in Kansas City.

Wrinkle in U-NII Expansion Plans

Wrinkle in U-NII Expansion Plans 11/13/2003 02:51 PM
Dewayne Hendricks noticed an interesting omission from the agenda of the FCC's Open Meeting today: Commissioners had planned to discuss adding 255 MHz to the 5 GHz band and Hendricks says observers expected the item to pass. But the item was dropped from the agenda. Wonder why... That additional 255 MHz should translate into as many as 12 additional nonoverlapping channels for 802.11a, which already has 12 nonoverlapping channels. In a talk with Atheros that Glenn had recently, the company noted that bonding channels in 802.11a to create multiple channel throughput of 108 Mbps or higher has enormous potential because of the lack of channel overlap....

Mind Expansion by Mikael

Mind Expansion by Mikael 03/24/2005 04:50 PM
The Rails (& Ruby) hype is becoming deafening to the point that I can’t ignore it; while poking around I came across the home of one Mikael Brockman, yet another precocious Scandinavian hacker (what’s going on up there?). Anyhow, I’d always vaguely understood continuations and knew that smart people thought they were great, but I looked at the code from his essay Continuation s on the Web and thought “I can’t believe that does what he says”, but it turns out that OS X comes with Ruby and yes, it does what he says. But I had to spend a long time looking at it to see why. Will this kind of idiom ever enter the mainstream? I’m not sure, but internalizing it will make you a little smarter.

IRCd Expansion Pack

IRCd Expansion Pack 12/06/2003 04:31 PM
Scarecrow UnrealIRCD Module 0.0.5 Released

Expansion scheme for university

Expansion scheme for university 05/04/2004 11:04 AM
Cambridge University puts forward proposals which could see three new colleges built.

La rápida expansión de OpenOffice

La rápida expansión de OpenOffice 12/20/2003 01:20 PM

Universe Expansion Is Accelerating

Universe Expansion Is Accelerating 05/19/2004 12:15 AM
Free Internet Press May 19 2004 5:10AM GMT

Expansion Cards Getting Makeover

Expansion Cards Getting Makeover 02/19/2003 12:54 PM
PCMCIA is teaming with other technology work groups to create a new PC expansion card specification that supports new bus technologies and will enable interoperability between desktop and wireless systems.

Why Motorola May See Further Margin
Expansion

Why Motorola May See Further Margin
Expansion 08/11/2004 03:39 PM
Forbes Aug 11 2004 7:54PM GMT

'Health fears' over EU expansion

'Health fears' over EU expansion 04/22/2004 08:11 PM
Doctors have warned the expansion of the European Union could adversely affect health across Europe.

BT focuses on global expansion

BT focuses on global expansion 06/02/2004 10:03 AM
Computer Weekly Jun 2 2004 2:16PM GMT

3G CDMA2000 1X Network Expansion

3G CDMA2000 1X Network Expansion 01/08/2004 08:38 PM
3G Jan 8 2004 5:24AM ET

McDonald's plans Wi-Fi expansion

McDonald's plans Wi-Fi expansion 04/13/2004 04:45 AM
McDonald's today is expected to announce today that it plans to expand its wireless Internet service using Wayport to more of its restaurants, reports The Wall Street Journal (paid subscription required)...

Conflicts of Interest Linger

Conflicts of Interest Linger 05/28/2004 09:35 AM
Many CFOs may not know enough accounting to do their jobs right.
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