Articles by Author -- Robert Adkins

For those who are looking for inexpensive automation tools, Linux can provide various point solutions toward a more comprehensive ERP capability. The pieces include a variety of high-quality free and commercial databases, best-of-breed Web services and application server technology, and emerging commercial-quality accounting packages. Even complete ERP systems are beginning to be built in the Linux and Open Source communities.

In this workshop, Technetra speakers Robert Adkins and Alolita Sharma talk about new business models for global software products and technologies.

Eqlplus is a Linux modem combining strategy based upon IP masquerading and the kernel eql driver. Modern browsers typically open many simultaneous HTTP TCP-based connections to fetch text and images from remote servers. TCP multiplexing distributes these simultaneous connections across several active links thereby increasing the apparent bandwidth to the Web user.

Linux can only win by the right balance of humility, responsibility, and technical superiority.

Linux carries a similar promise for the global software community as the 1849 Gold Rush did for California. For software products and projects, Linux is software gold.

This author writes on the dynamics of the ‘Bazaar’ and the forces and conditions that influence it. The author contends that the Linux ‘Bazaar’ is not simply a loose collection of vendors and other proponents, motivated only by mutual recognition. The ‘Bazaar’ really operates on a larger stage. When forces of the larger stage organize around a dominant restrictive group, a reactionary force is generated in the remaining community. Over time, this reactive force propels various alternatives.

In this book review, Bob Adkins looks at “STL for C++ Programmers” and finds some excellent examples on using STL which can be adapted for the g++ environment in Linux 2.0++. The author Leen Ammeraal presents a quick and practical guide for the STL beginner, demonstrates several applications and provides excellent examples to demonstrate the power of STL.