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Tear Down This (Fire)wall!
My company sells software that allows users to login to non-Windows computers by using their Windows (Active Directory) credentials. We enable users to have a single username and password that works across all Windows, UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X systems. While there are several “vertical” markets in our space (retail, financial, government) one particularly…
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Being Open
Likewise Software (originally Centeris) has always been an open source company. We built products on top of Samba, MIT Kerberos and OpenLDAP. We’ve been frequent contributors to these projects. We employ or contract several Samba developers. For a while, we played down this aspect of our company. Our reasoning was that enterprise software companies (in…
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Programming is Fun (Again)
I’ve been programming since 1975 and, boy, are my arms tired 🙂 Throughout these times, I’ve seen numerous developments that have made programming easier or harder. Consider this: I first started programming when I was 15 years old. This was on a Univac 1108 running an interactive BASIC interpreter. As this was my first development…