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Where the hell did all these Web 2.0 companies come from? I am flabbergasted by the sheer volume. Anyway, today appears to be the day of Web 2.0 rollups. Webware 100-The category distinction makes it easy to figure out if you have any interest in the
The team at Hyperic just announced their HyperFORGE site to provide developers with an easy way to create plug-ins to Hyperic HQ. They also started a plug-in of the month program to reward contributors. Good for the Hyperic team for getting HyperFORG
The DoD SoftwareTech News June 2007 (subscription required) is devoted to use of Open Source Software in DoD. A few of the most interesting facts and figures: The US Army is the single largest install base for Red Hat Linux ----As Brigadier General N
Dave Linthicum outlines six steps to follow to make a build vs. buy decision. (Spoiler: Ultimately you will probably need to do both.) With service-oriented architecture (SOA), Ajax, the enterprise service bus (ESB) and other new technologies maturin
Andy Oram posted his survey write-up on why people contribute documentation. Pretty interesting, but still a bit hard to quantify (says Andy himself.) I tend to think that people who write documentation for their own work tend to do it as habit, mayb
Consumerist is running a great piece "22 Confessions Of A Former Dell Sales Manager" that proves you're not crazy for thinking Dell pricing is arbitrary and random. We used to play a game at GLC where I would make everyone try and orde
From Mark Shuttleworth's blog--No negotiations with Microsoft in progress We have declined to discuss any agreement with Microsoft under the threat of unspecified patent infringements. Allegations of "infringement of unspecified patents&quo
Two weeks into this baby adventure I can't believe how much money we have spent and will continue to spend on our precious little monkey. Admittedly, I have used the baby as an excuse to buy a new LCD Tv (like a child of mine wouldn't have
I was in China for a couple of weeks (mostly on vacation) but I was also able to spend a few days on business in Beijing meeting with our partner there, Great Open Source, some local press and customers. This was my first trip to China and other than
We're happy to announce that we have some new members of the Open Sources team of masked banditos. Zack Urlocker of MySQL Savio Rodrigues from IBM Dave Dargo, man of mystery and intrigue Zack started the ball rolling with a post on his recent tr