So, after weeks of speculation, it’s finally public – Oracle are buying Sun Microsystems. About six months ago the rumours started in earnest that Sun was going to be sold to one or more of EMC, IBM, HP, Fujitsu… By March, the hot bet was that IBM was going to buy Sun for USD 6.5bn. [...]
An interesting article in The Guardian today prompted me to draw up this little quiz. Each Ethical Hero in the left hand column has ended up selling out – literally if not figuratively – to a Corporate Zero in the right hand column. Can you match the correct pairs? Ethical Heroes Corporate Zeroes a. Ben [...]
Benchmarking software is a thankless task. It takes hours,days, weeks… to set up automated tests, months to try and make sense of the results, and then seconds for everyone plus dog to trash your results. Congratulations to Andrew Z for making the attempt to benchmark OpenOffice.org 3.0 on various platforms and present the results on [...]
Despite Microsoft’s claims to be coming more accepting of open source, this progression in their thinking has yet to reach the designers of their MS-Office software, a competitor to OpenOffice.org. This screenshot clearly shows the ‘Warning: Open source’ message repeated multiple times as a user goes to press the ‘Open Source’ button. So, despite the [...]
