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September 10, 2008

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:50 PM/EST

Hadron - Apply Directly To Your Quanta

When someone goes about checking the fundamental building blocks to my reality, I often find myself wanting a little more assurance in the range of "impossible" for galactic destruction.

July 16, 2008

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:10 PM/EST

SAP Customers Unite! (Don't Believe the Hype)

SAP may have finally jumped the shark, arguably sinking further into irrelevancy by imposing a single-tier pricing structure for maintenance of SAP ERP that will send small and midsize customers to rivals like Salesforce.com and NetSuite--including those who might have...

July 8, 2008

Tuesday, July 08, 2008 11:43 AM/EST

Diane Greene a Femme Fatality

Call it sexism. Call it a double-standard. Call it the glass parachute shattering on the walkway of VMware headquarters. Just don't call it business as usual--unless, of course, we're talking about the fate of female tech executives. Diane Greene got...

June 20, 2008

Friday, June 20, 2008 10:44 AM/EST

The Trojan Social Open-Source Drop-Down

UPDATED June 23, 2008 My wife is in charge of online donations for a large international relief agency, and she recently received a strongly worded e-mail from the leader of a pro-Israeli group accusing her organization of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism,...

June 12, 2008

Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:55 PM/EST

Microsoft Windows Guru Tweaks Vista

How bad are the social fractures at Microsoft? Microsoft Technical Fellow and Windows guru Mark Russinovich couldn't help poking fun at Vista throughout a troubleshooting session he led today at Tech Ed in Orlando. The question is whether this is...

March 25, 2008

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:56 PM/EST

Resolution #4: Google's Day of Infamy

Google has clearly identified itself as an agent of evil. Witness its recommendation to shareholders to vote "no" on Resolution #4. The Resolution, contained in the company's proxy statement which it just published, is pretty straightforward. Sponsored by the New...

February 27, 2008

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:06 AM/EST

Timing is Everything

The world is ganging up on Microsoft to ruin its big day. Think it's all just a coincidence? Adobe just happened to take Air out of beta this week (taking the air out of Microsoft's Silverlight component of Visual Studio...

December 4, 2007

Tuesday, December 04, 2007 2:13 PM/EST

If Micosoft Really Buys SAP

Someone at either Microsoft or SAP is floating the rumor that the former may acquire the latter. As a rule, any such rumor is about as reliable as a rumor involving a baseball trade. If it has any substance, the...

October 12, 2007

Friday, October 12, 2007 2:58 PM/EST

Fleury to BEA: Sell! Sell! Sell!

BEA told Oracle it can take its offer and stuff it... with more dollars. But it seems that BEA has got itself in a fine pickle, and I'm not sure it will have any choice but to accept Oracle's bid....

September 30, 2007

Sunday, September 30, 2007 10:24 AM/EST

AT&T Won't Abide Criticism

A pair of legal notices seem to indicate that AT&T will cut off Internet service to any customer that "disparages its reputation." A document entitled "AT&T Legal Policy" notes that the company reserves the right to terminate Internet service to...



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