With rumors of an impending Sun-IBM merger becoming more intense late last week, the next big question mark pertains to what happens to Sun’s vast product line, which has hardware and software that overlaps with a lot of IBM’s own product lines.
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I was presenting to a full house at the Pentaho Partner summit yesterday talking about open source’s inflection point. Over the last nine to twelve months, we’ve seen a change happening, what I call the perfect storm for open source:
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At the McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) conference three weeks ago, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer said that so far he had only one brief chat over the phone with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz, whose company’s search business he covets. But Ballmer added that “I’m sure when it’s appropriate, we’ll have a chance to [...]
the_insult_dog writes “Computerworld has an article up (with videos) about some of the coolest Easter eggs and other software surprises, ranging from full-featured games to strange messages from robots. What other eggs are out there? What’s the coolest egg ever?”
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User-generated ratings site Yelp has been on a tear of late. But while users have embraced the site, small businesses, who are the target of sometimes-scathing reviews, have grumbled about not being able to counter critiques they feel are inaccurate or even intentionally negative.
Now, the company is giving businesses the chance to fire back, [...]
Sweden’s tax authorities are cracking down on unreported webcam stripper income. They estimate that hundreds of Swedish women are dodging the law, resulting in a tax loss of about 40m Swedish kronor (£3.3m) annually. The search involves tax officials examining stripper websites, hours upon hours, for completely legitimate purposes. A slightly disheveled project leader said [...]
palegray.net writes “Inspired by a recent Ask Slashdot, I’ve written a step-by-step tutorial for setting up an Openfire server on Debian Linux, for those interested in running their own open source collaboration server. Aimed at those just getting started with collaboration software, the tutorial shows precisely how to get Openfire up and running quickly on [...]
aleph60 writes “A German researcher is about to resurrect the first fully electronic general-purpose stored-program computer, the Manchester Mark 1 (1948). The functional replica will run the source code of an original program from 1952 by Christopher Strachey, whose sole purpose was generating love letters; it is historically interesting as one of the first examples [...]
—LAT’s large front page ad draws protests from editorial staff: About 100 staffers at the struggling Tribune Company paper have petitioned LAT Publisher Eddy Hartenstein “strenuously” objecting to a large front page ad for the new NBC cop show Southland. The ad includes a column that resembles a news article. One unidentified staffer summed up [...]
Digital ad agency MRM Worldwide has been laying off some of its New York employees—about 15 over the past month and another five to 10 this week, according to ClickZ. The cuts span creative, account and project-management divisions. The layoffs come amid the most difficult year on record for online advertising. Many publishers expect display [...]
