Articles by Timothy R. Butler

Timothy R. Butler is Editor-in-Chief of Open for Business. He also serves as a pastor at Little Hills Church and FaithTree Christian Fellowship.

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Mac OS X: An Apple a Day keeps the Penguins Away?

By Timothy R. Butler | Oct 05, 2002 at 6:33 PM

Today marks our first anniversary here at Open for Business. For the occasion, Editor-in-Chief Timothy R. Butler considers one of the most prominent arguments against adopting a Free Software desktop: Apple's Mac OS X.

Mandrake 9.0 Released, RedHat 8.0 to Follow

By Timothy R. Butler | Sep 25, 2002 at 11:44 PM

MandrakeSoft announced the availablity of its new ninth generation distribution today. The distribution offers lots of great features over previous releases, including KDE 3.0.3, GNOME 2.0, and XFree86 4.2.1. Leaks about the impending release of RedHat's major upgrade surfaced today as well, amid major controversy.

Jabbering along with tkcJabber

By Timothy R. Butler | Sep 19, 2002 at 8:47 PM

Since its public release early this year, the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 has been lauded as an extremely powerful PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). Even the general media, such as eWEEK and MSNBC, have noted how the Zaurus is almost like a laptop in a smaller form factor. Especially now with the advent of Sharp Mobile Services, the SL-5500, with its retractable keyboard, seems well suited to mobile communications.

Free Software Does Matter

By Timothy R. Butler | Sep 16, 2002 at 4:04 PM

Asunción, Paraguay - When I first saw the editorial by Timothy R. Butler,
“The Inconsequentiality of Open Source,”
I read it slowly, and
pondered about the point so well made by him. Tim was, and still is,
dead on right. I congratulated him publicly, and I have no reasons to
withdraw my commendation to Tim for his excellent article. Yet,
somehow I felt uneasy about the ideas expressed, and not in the sense
of them being wrong, but there was the lingering feeling that
something else needed to be said in order to round out Tim's point.
Finally, and after much thinking about it, I came out with some
thoughts that maybe I can share and use them for complementing Tim's
ideas.

The Inconsequentiality of Open Source

By Timothy R. Butler | Sep 11, 2002 at 12:02 AM
Reading the title of the piece, I am sure you are wondering if I am out of my mind. With Open for Business being a site for those interested in adopting Free Software/Open Source in the enterprise, you would not expect me to claim that this sector is inconsequential. Unlike the way it sounds however, this piece is not written to argue against Open Source. Instead, this piece is meant to consider something much more critical.

Do We Still Need Microsoft?

By Timothy R. Butler | Sep 03, 2002 at 3:29 PM
There has been a flurry of announcements in recent weeks concerning Linux on the corporate desktop. Red Hat announced a new focus on desktop Linux to complement their server-focused offerings. Sun Microsystems announced a move into low-cost desktop systems running Linux, competing with such companies as Dell. These announcements seem to suggest these companies now believe Linux has matured to the point where it makes sense to run on a corporate desktop.

KDE 3.1 Beta 1 Released

By Timothy R. Butler | Aug 21, 2002 at 10:56 PM

The KDE Project announced the availability of KDE 3.1 Beta 1 today. This release, which marks the second test release
of the KDE 3.1 series, offers many improvements and bug fixes over KDE 3.0, which was release in early April. KDE, which stands for K Desktop Environment, is a popular desktop user interface for Linux and UNIX systems.

TrollTech Moves toward Qt 3.1

By Timothy R. Butler | Aug 16, 2002 at 12:24 AM

A story in ComputerWorld talks about TrollTech's upcoming Qt 3.1 beta. Qt is a multi-platform development toolkit made famous by the KDE desktop environment, and more recently, by the Sharp Zaurus PDA. Qt 3.1 gains integration with the Mac Appearance Manager, support for antialiased text, and user settings. OpenGL support has also been greatly improved, with hardware acceleration now in place.

It's Good to be Home(Base) Again

By Timothy R. Butler | Aug 13, 2002 at 1:04 PM

In our review of OEone's HomeBase 1.2 release ( OEone HomeBase Offers Computing, Simplified), we noted that HomeBase was probably the most innovative interface released since the advent of the GUI. OEone HomeBase Desktop is the only package we know of that has pulled off a simplification of the user interface without “dumbing down” the system.

The Desktop Dilemma

By Timothy R. Butler | Aug 10, 2002 at 4:55 PM

As the economic downturn has taken its toll on GNU/Linux companies, many surviving companies have decided to move away from the desktop market, and focus on the server instead. This escalated to an alarming pace after the death of Eazel, a startup that created the Nautilus file manager, and while the focus-on-server mania has calmed down lately, it is still very much alive. Yet, it seems to me, that focusing on the server will in the end cause these companies to lose not only the desktop, but the server as well.

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