The New York Times reports that Spam is back, probably for good this time. The average seven-day spam volume during the latter half of March is now at roughly the same levels as October of last year – around 94 percent of all e-mail – according to the antispam company Postini, a division of Google.
For the first time in 23 years Microsoft saw quarterly sales fall. The company has had a difficult time combating slumping demand for its Windows operating system, as the economic slowdown has dragged PC sales down 7% to 9%, according to Microsoft’s estimates. * CNN Reports: Microsoft’s quarterly sales fall One of the factors listed [...]
It broke last week that IBM is in talks to buy SUN. At first glance this is hard to understand, the two have competing operating systems and chip architectures. They operate in similar markets and SUN has considerable intellectual property and a consulting division which may be of interest to IBM. Reuters: Sun talks to [...]
In a surprise move Sun Microsystems has been purchased by Oracle. This means Oracle owns Java, MySQL, Solaris and all of Sun’s services and consulting business. Wither Oracle Unbreakable Linux? Oracle Corp. snapped up computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. for $7.4 billion Monday, pouncing on an opportunity that opened up after rival [...]