Hi Guys, I would like to explain a few shortcomings of RoR before answering this: 1. Ruby and Rails both are extremely memory intensive 2. There are serious...
Hi all: Tough economic situation often hurts startups, even the most promising ones. Agami Systems shutdown was a total surprise. i stumbled upon some of these...
In my perspective, the economic climate should not dictate whether an idea should be pursued or not. By economic climate I mean standard recession-growth...
... In principle, very true ! ... You are absolutely right. The Sage has bought $3 bn stake in GE or can for that matter any company that has signed fat...
Hi: Given the current economic situation in Northern America, i have been thinking about the fallout of the layoffs (also potential layoffs) in IT companies. ...
A couple of things... It starts in North America but it is likely to permeate across the global economy. Europe to Russia to Asia.... Which just makes NA the...
I am not convinced that the foreign reserves of most major countries will shift from the $ to the Euro anytime soon. Maybe $ to Gold but the Euro... not so...
Asymmetric technologies are ones that attain a competitive edge for the executor/implementer. The term actually comes from military strategy... where war...
... Ok cool. So the trajectory looks like North America --> Europe --> Russia --> Asia ... Not really true. The 35% includes the 'priciest' people as well ! My...
Hi all: Sun has . annual sales of USD 14 billion . vast intellectual property portfolio . USD 2 billion of cash reserves and yet has a market cap of just USD 4...
Negative revenue trends and net losses every quarter will hammer market value, regardless of the stock. As a sector, Sun is part of the tech group and...
Thats a fantastic write-up Zubin, just in one line "good technology but bad marketing" I always wished Java could do better on the desktop, but kept waiting...
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Hi: An interesting article at 451 Group, on VC Funding for Open Source startups. The analysis is shown on a quarter by quarter basis, for the years 2004, 2005,...
... Should Apple acquire SUN microsystems ? Interesting read at http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2008/11/would_apple_acq.html thanks Saifi....
... Hi Jeremy: When you say, FairPlay, guess you are referring to DRM technology by Apple. "FairPlay does not affect the ability of the file itself to be ...
Hi all: TechCrunch.com has a site with trends and information on Layoffs. Take a look at http://www.techcrunch.com/layoffs/ Offcourse, the other community...
Hi all: Roger Burkhardt is president and CEO of Ingres. A look at a few 2009 open source market predictions that he believes will re-shape the software market...
Hi: Mr. Cyrus Driver, MD of Mumbai based PE fund, has written an interesting article on VCCircle about '2009 Will be year of buyouts in India". Take a look at ...
Hi all: Accel Partners and Erasmic Venture Fund Team Up, Launch Accel India Venture Fund. Accel India Venture Fund will seek to work with India's best ...
Hi all: Funambol is an interesting Open Source startup. Business an Open Source startup in the business of pushing emails to the mobiles. VC Castile Ventures...
Hi all: A very detailed, thought provoking and pragmatic writeup by Jason Calacanis on managing startups in tough times. Please do read the entire thing. ...
Hi all: 'Lords of Finance: The Bankers who broke the World' is a very interesting book authored by Liaquat Ahamed. Mr. Liaquat Ahamed is a former world bank...
This is what caused the current recession The formula that killed wallstreet http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_quant?currentPage=1 ... -- ...
Not sure where the issue is. If you had something capable of attaining traction in the retail/analytics space and were experiencing a slow-down, then you would...
Hi all: What is your take on this observation ? "A lot of web 2.0 stuff consists of making desktop applications run inside a browser". eg. gee here is Yahoo...
I disagree. Web 2.0, to me, is the advent of the participative web. Meebo made IM more accessible and inclusive to the general internet population. That's what...
Scott, To recap what we had discussed at our last meeting, we were trying to determine who would be the most interested in an open source based business model...
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