Twitter Appears Set to Raise $100 Million, Valuing It at $1 Billion

Twitter, which has no discernible revenue, is set to raise about $100 million of new funding that would value the company at around $1 billion, a person briefed on the company’s plans said Thursday.

Twitter has around 60 employees, or about 1,666,666.67 of investment per employee.

Ellison: ‘Sun losing $100 million a month’

“We have no interest in being in the hardware business,” said Ellison.

I’m sure many of Sun’s current customers wince at that statement. While they’re not going to cease production of Sun hardware altogether they’re only interested in improving it where it suits Oracles bottom line.

Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion

Once the deal is completed, Perot Systems will become Dell’s services unit…

Open Source Should Be Open To All

If today you can convince someone to use some Open-Source software package – a document creator, a presentation tool, a web browser, or even a web server – you give yourself the wedge to start pushing for an Open Source operating system.

It’s not about being in some elite club. It’s about taking control of your costs, your environment and making a choice that fits your business.

Cisco Pursues Small Business With Linux Routers

At the heart of many Cisco enterprise routers is the IOS operating system that it develops. When it comes to small business, however, Cisco isn’t pushing IOS — instead, it’s new small business router is powered by Linux.

In this case Linux helps Cisco be cheaper, easier for small and medium businesses to use and quicker to market.