<<There are classic rules of thumb used in buy/build decisions. Buy in situations of parity. Build for competi-tive advantage/differentiation. In a buy...
<<The base-level Office Live lets small businesses sign up for a free domain registration, and a free web site, plus multiple Live Mail accounts with up to 2...
<<Oracle Corp.'s acquisition of Innobase OY is largely an effort to disrupt rival database vendor MySQL AB and is a testament to the growing momentum of open...
<<The TDM community has been dragged into the frenetic world of VoIP and SIP. Traditional operators need to make massive investments; the fixed and mobile...
<<"While we've led with great capabilities in Messenger & Communicator, it was Skype, not us, who made VoIP broadly popular and created a new category," Ozzie...
<<Drawing from one of the names — VisiCalc — that gave birth to the PC industry, electronic spreadsheet co-inventor Dan Bricklin has gone public with an...
<<Does Google know what it's doing ? Probably not. And therein may lie its genius. I went round the "Googleplex" in Silicon Valley California four years after...
<<THE winner takes all, it is widely supposed in computing circles. Indeed, geeks have coined a word, "Googlearchy", for the way in which search engines...
<<The mysteries of dark matter, multiple dimensions and even the conditions following the Big Bang could be solved with the help of the world's biggest...
25/11/2005 Ken Young, vnunet.com <http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2146751/300-gb-disc-set-challenge-dvd> A computer disc about the size of a DVD that can...
<<A team at Heriot-Watt University is using optoelectronics to help solve one of the biggest obstacles facing computer systems today. This work, part of the...
Thanks, Robin, for that. I think major advances in hardware adn comms technology are very relevant to this Group as they affect software platform architecture...
<<Having belatedly committed itself to a software-as-a-service future, Microsoft Corp is trying to make up for lost time with a small stream of related...
<<The city of Paris is accelerating its move to free and open-source software as part of a strategy to reduce its dependence on suppliers. It plans to replace...
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<<Cisco's AON announcement in June and IBM's acquisition of Data Power in October will foster a new wave of innovation for software companies and enterprises...
<<In June 2005, Apple announced a brilliant strategy. They decided to abandon the IBM PowerPC processors to move to the Intel engine. Can you imagine the...
<<CBR's latest survey into attitudes towards grid computing indicates that understanding of the concepts and technologies is growing, while the problems that...
<<USERS WILL will be able to install Microsoft Windows on their new MacInteltosh systems, but Apple will not offer a Mac running Windows. According to Phil...
<<Whatever the name – Grid Computing, Utility Computing, the Adaptive Enterprise, the Agile Enterprise, Capacity On Demand – the concept is very attractive...
<<The Register, a U.K.-based technology news site, reported Tuesday that the Mountain View, Calif., search engine was developing its own Linux distribution...
<<As one of the co-organizers of Mashup Camp, I'm getting a lot of inquiries via email and from the press about what mashups are and why they're getting so...
<< Nexidia, an established company in search and speech analysis, introduced Nexidia Developer Edition, which lets rich media (video and audio) content...
... The folks at Lucene might have something to say about this being a "step forward" - their open source search engine has done all this for ages! -- All the...
Keith, I am sure the respective PR/marketing people at these companies were not counting on you to burst their bubble :) What was this opensource product...
<<Microsoft may not make flawless software, but its proprietary strategy is hard to fault. In particular, Microsoft has mastered desktop lock-in, undermining...
http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html _____ From: n-gaa@yahoogroups.com [mailto:n-gaa@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gervas Douglas Sent: Thursday,...
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Interesting and disturbing article really - how is it that Microsoft gets the blame for this persons poor approach to the migration? Two hoots that they...
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... The search engine is Lucene <http://lucene.apache.org/>, an Apache project. Some of the cool things Lucene can do are described here ...
<<Oracle is in talks to buy at least three open-source software companies in deals that could be valued at more than $600 million, BusinessWeek Online has...