From the Truthiness dept.:
...While Richard Stallman is a staunch critic of anything closed and non-Free, his ire seems mostly directed towards DRM and Microsoft. However, a lesser known fact is that he often talks about Apple's Mac OS X too in his speeches. During those speeches, he repeatedly claimed Mac OS X contained a backdoor which allowed Apple to forcibly impose software changes upon users. Stallman has now posted a retraction for those claims.
Published Sep 30, 2009 - 07:40 AM
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From the Clash of the Titans dept.:
Intel has formally entered the smartphone fight, giving a bullish demonstration at IDF of an Atom-based phone running the latest incarnation of its mobile Linux-based OS, dubbed Moblin for MIDs (mobile internet devices) v2.1.
Happy Birthday To You dept.:
The computer world is notorious for its obsession with what is new - largely thanks to the relentless engine of Moore's Law that endlessly presents programmers with more powerful machines.
Given such permanent change, anything that survives for more than one generation of processors deserves a nod.
Published Aug 21, 2009 - 07:29 AM
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From the Back to the Past? dept.:
Mr. Andreessen is backing a start-up called RockMelt, staffed with some of his close associates, that is building a new Internet browser, according to people with knowledge of his investment.
...Mr. Andreessen suggested the new browser would be different, saying that most other browsers had not kept pace with the evolution of the Web, which had grown from an array of static Web pages into a network of complex Web sites and applications. “There are all kinds of things that you would do differently if you are building a browser from scratch,” Mr. Andreessen said.
Published Aug 17, 2009 - 08:28 AM
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From the Standards (no not that standards) dept.:
Standard and Poor’s announced that Red Hat would join the S&P 500 as of the close of trading on Friday. Red Hat replaces lender CIT Group, which had a market capitalization below $275 million, ranking it 500th in the index.
From the Up on the Down Side dept.:
Software company Red Hat Inc reported a 7 percent rise in quarterly profit onWednesday, bucking an industry trend of declining earnings, as margins widened under the scrutiny of its cost-conscious CEO.
Operating margin rose to 23.4 percent from 21.8 percent a year earlier, after excluding stock compensation and amortization expenses. That was better than the 23 percent the company projected three months ago.
Published Jun 25, 2009 - 07:52 AM
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From the There's a SF Book Title There Somewhere dept.:
April 20, 2009 Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt.
"We expect this acquisition to be accretive to Oracle's earnings by at least 15 cents on a non-GAAP basis in the first full year after closing. We estimate that the acquired business will contribute over $1.5 billion to Oracle's non-GAAP operating profit in the first year, increasing to over $2 billion in the second year. This would make the Sun acquisition more profitable in per share contribution in the first year than we had planned for the acquisitions of BEA, PeopleSoft and Siebel combined," said Oracle President Safra Catz.
Published Apr 20, 2009 - 10:47 AM
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From the 7 Billion "Nah"s! dept.:
IBM's talks to acquire smaller computer and software rival Sun Microsystems Inc broke down on Sunday after Sun rejected IBM's $7 billion offer, a source with knowledge of the matter said.
Published Apr 06, 2009 - 11:01 AM
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From the IBMySQL dept.:
IBM is reportedly in talks to acquire struggling Sun Microsystems for at least $6.5 billion, giving it new weapons against market rivals Hewlett-Packard and the increasingly aggressive Cisco Systems.
Sun, which reorganized into three business units and laid off more than 6,000 employees last fall after reporting a nearly $2 billion loss, has been struggling to find its place in the marketplace as the demand for its high-end servers and storage devices declines.
Published Mar 18, 2009 - 04:56 PM
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From the Nostradamus dept.:
...When budgets are tight, the best option is to make use of the technologies you already have and the ones you can get for free. For today's business applications, that means the Web, which will continue its rise as the dominant development platform.
While the Web itself won't lose any popularity, however, expect a little less emphasis on the "Web 2.0" moniker in 2009. For starters, it hardly means anything anymore -- if it ever did. But AJAX and related technologies still haven't proven their value for a lot of enterprise applications, beyond adding UI flash. What Web 2.0 capabilities do make their way into business applications will be the result of open source toolkits such as Dojo, while proprietary products are likely to fall by the wayside -- and that means the marketing hype will cool down a little, too.
Note: Also, Java goes more open, Silverlight still sucks.
Published Jan 05, 2009 - 07:43 AM
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