April 3, 2009
by sjvn01
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By this time next week, IBM will have bought Sun at a cut-rate price. I’d long thought Sun was going to down for the count, so the news that IBM was moving in didn’t surprise me. What happens next though? … Continue reading
October 15, 2008
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I like Chrome, Google’s beta Web browser, a lot. It boasted the fastest Web-rendering engine I’d ever seen, until now. Starting last night, there’s a new Web speed-demon, Firefox 3.1 beta 1. I know, I know. Some people aren’t seeing … Continue reading
September 2, 2008
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I like the idea of Google Chrome, a lot. But, then I like a lot of ideas, and then the reality turns out to be another matter entirely. Once in a great while, though, something comes along that lives up … Continue reading
September 2, 2008
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The real Labor Day storm wasn’t Gustav, it was Google’s announcement, by comic book no less, that it was releasing its own Web browser: Chrome. So why is Google doing this? First, off let me tell what it’s not. It’s … Continue reading
June 4, 2008
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Would you to talk to some of the biggest names in open source? No, not me! You know how to talk to me and I’m not exactly a big—or even middle-sized—open-source developer or executive anyway.
January 12, 2007
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When you think programming languages and Linux, the languages that tend to come to mind are C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python and, lately, Ruby. But, Java probably doesn’t enter your mind at all — that’s because until recently Java was … Continue reading