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Intel, which until recently had been promoting it's own "ClassMate" low-cost computing design (and criticizing Nicholas Negroponte's efforts) has now joined the One Laptop Per Child project along side AMD, Google, Red Hat and othe
Try a functional approach to testing Swing GUIs in test-driven environments
It's amazing to watch Microsoft continually be so clueless. 'Shrink-Wrapped SOA' is oxymoronic minus the oxy. Regardless of the vendor, SOA "stacks" defeat the whole purpose of having a loosely-coupled architecture. Show me a
On Competition and the Open Source Ghetto I remain frustrated by the complete lack of marketing and business sense that many open source companies continue to display. I thought that we were past the whole foolishness of competing in the ghetto among
I've been reading Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle recently. The book is interesting because it's written by Matthew Symonds, an author from The Economist, but Ellison gets to add footnotes explaining his side at th
The PHP development team officially announced PHP 4 end of life (EoL): The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will
As I posted a while back we are hiring at an alarming rate. Sadly it's not the glorious task that I had so hoped it would be. There was a week where we interviewed 40 people and hired 2 of them, which I think is actually not a bad percentage but
O'Reilly's OSCON, the original and perhaps best open source conference takes place in Portland Oregon July 23-27. I've been going to OSCON for a few years now, and it's a good place to see open source "in the wild." Yes,
Tim O'Reilly has an interesting post on why the GPLv3 took a pragmatic approach when it came to the "SaaS loophole" (i.e. SaaS apps aren't redistributed; no redistribution means SaaS vendors can use GPLv2 code with modifications a
Last week, Google stock (nasdaq:GOOG) hit an all-time high of $541 with a market cap of $169 billion (yes, with a B). That put their value higher than IBM's and on par with Cisco. Not bad for a company with an open source infrastructure. But ala