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Anyone surprised that SCO may have to fold? They should just do it quietly in hopes of ever having jobs again. "The revenue from this business has been declining over the last several years, primarily as a result of increased competition from al
National Geographic is running a pictorial. Just be glad that you don't live in any of these places. Sumgayit, Azerbaijan; Linfen, China; Sukinda, India; Vapin, India; La Oroya, Peru; Dzerzhinsk, Russia; Noril'sk, Russia; Chernobyl, Ukraine
One of the things that struck me as I roamed the floor of the Dreamforce event (besides the fact that I find events like this to be incredibly depressing) is that there is a clear difference between companies that form a "community" and tho
Zend, a major contributor to PHP, has helped launched the Eclipse PHP Development Tools 1.0 (PDT)project this week. Since PDT is built on the Eclipse framework, hundreds of Eclipse plug-ins can be used immediately by PHP developers. This project has
InfoWorld reports: "IBM is to offer the world a free word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation program in yet another bid to upset the dominance of Microsoft's Office suite. ... IBM says it will contribute 35 programmers to the Symphony
I just read that Carl Icahn owns a 8.5% stake, worth $426.5M, in BEA. He wants to see BEA sold in order to maximize shareholder value. While I can understand this point of view, I'd like to offer another option. Transforming OSS from a threat to
Mozilla hints that $3 million in seed money for its new 'MailCo' subsidiary may be spent replacing Thunderbird developers unhappy with decision to ditch the e-mail program
Stop the presses. Hold everything. Though only rumored to exist within the mind of author Hugh Lofting, a creature that can simultaneously go both forwards and backwards has been discovered. That's right, the rarest animal of all, the highly sou
It's interesting to see that under CEO founder Jerry Chang, Yahoo is using open source to gain an advantage over rival Google. While it's too early to say whether Yahoo's use of open source will have impact, it does appear to be part o
Four open source version control systems compared