Articles by Simon Phipps

i-Technology Viewpoint: "The Network is the Computer and...Open Source is its Soul" Says Simon Phipps

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 06:15:00 EDT

'I'm convinced that the reform that's needed is a root-and-branch reform of the very concept of the patent,' contends Simon Phipps. Today's software patents, Phipps believes, breach the social contract on which the concept of a patent is based.

How Will Companies Ever Make Money Off Open-Source?

Fri, 27 Aug 2004 00:00:00 EDT

The question 'How will Sun ever make money off giving so much source-code to open source' - as it did in 2000 with OpenOffice.org, has most recently with Project Looking Glass and is about to again with Solaris - is the wrong one, argues Sun's Simon Phipps. 'It's a good question,' he says, but at its heart - he argues - 'lies a misunderstanding about the nature of open source software, and once that's cleared up everything falls into place much more easily.'

It's About More Than Just the PlumbingThe Real Issues That Need to Be SolvedAre the Nontechnical Ones

Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:00:00 EST

I've described elsewhere the idea of 'swarms' - spontaneously federating devices and software services connecting over networks. Some people are now describing this concept as 'wireless Web services,' extending the group of ideas now being called services-on-demand.

A Snapshot of the Future

Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:20:00 EST

WBT is pleased to showcase some farseeing comments on the emerging new wireless Java world from our International Advisory Board member Simon Phipps, who filed the following article - wirelessly of course

Meaning, Not Markup

Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:00:00 EST

This article explores the paradox that sharing a common vocabulary can actually restrict the richness and nuances of a business paradigm.

Parallel Worlds

Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 EST

In the last few years the focus in computing has gradually moved away from the raw technology to settle on the total cost of ownership (tco) for a solution. What makes up the tco? That's hard to say, and everyone has a different answer, which usually depends on what they find easiest to fix. Most people agree that the tco isn't simply the sum of the prices of the parts that make the system, although it comes from those initially. A much greater cost arises from the cost of supporting the system in context.

More "Doubletalk" from Microsoft, Claims Simon PhippsA corrective to all the hype about C#

Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 EST

(October 25, 2002) - I'm quoted by Gavin Clark of ComputerWire in his item (syndicated by The Register) about the standardization of Microsoft's C# programming language and their moves to make their C++ compiler catch up with the standards a little. My remarks there were a little truncated and consequently unclear, so I'd like to elaborate a little.