Let’s take a look at Sun Microsystems, the once mighty Unix vendor and maker of servers that powered the Internet, circa 1982. And Red Hat, a company that’s been purveying Linux software since 1995. Sun sells more than $13 billion of goods and services per year, while Red Hat sells a little over $600 million. So which is worth more?
The new leadership in government is interested to let us know how our money will be spent at recovery.gov.
Calls for open source government
The secret to a more secure and cost effective government is through open source technologies and products. — Scott McNealy, co-founder Sun Microsystems
Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States. He gave a speech.
The somber and honest:
Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America — they will be met.
The lofty and resolute:
Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions — who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.
The creator of Quicksilver has released Google Quick Search Box for the Mac. It’s a little rough around the edges but quite fun to use.