July 21, 2010
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Portland, OR- Canonical., the company behind Ubuntu, has always had many user and developer fans. Enterprise business fans though? Not so much. Canonical hopes to change that with today’s, July 21st, launch of a virtual appliance of IBM’s DB2 Express-C … Continue reading
January 18, 2010
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Since I run my own small business, I’m very interested in health care reform. You see, my tiny — two-person — company pays more than four figures a month for health insurance. Ow! That and taxes are the two biggest … Continue reading
December 28, 2009
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On this past Christmas Day, a holiday nightmare was averted when a passenger and good luck kept a terrorist from blowing apart Northwest Airlines Flight 253 as it prepared to land in Detroit. While this story has a happy ending, … Continue reading
December 13, 2009
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The EC (European Commission), the European Union’s top competition authority, isn’t crazy about Oracle buying Sun. You might have thought it was just open-source advocates objecting to the deal out of the fear that Oracle, the world’s biggest proprietary DBMS … Continue reading
October 15, 2009
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The good news is that Microsoft says it thinks it can get most of your data back. The bad news is how the problem happened in the first place. OK, here’s the good news about the Microsoft/Sidekick data loss fiasco: … Continue reading
September 7, 2009
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Last week, I argued that the European Commission, the European Union’s top competition authority, was wasting its time delaying Oracle’s acquisition of Sun. Since then, I’ve heard from Henrik Ingo, the COO (chief operating officer) for Monty Program Ab, the … Continue reading