I recently went through some Solaris training to better familiarize myself with some aspects of Solaris. The instructor was mildly experienced and had spent many years servicing Sun hardware. This particular instructor had been drinking the Sun kool-aid for a long time and was not appraised of the alternatives that have become available such as [...]
From the economic rubble, open source will emerge stronger. Computerworld has an excellent article with the CEO of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst. “I’ve had a couple of conversations with CIOs who said “we’re a Microsoft shop and we don’t use any open source whatsoever, but we’re already getting pressure to reduce our operating costs and [...]
Kevin Rose, Digg founder talks about what Digg is doing to advance their vision for news. One interesting goal is for Digg to increase the scope of their taxonomy so that niche content is doesn’t fall through the cracks.