Technology
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Forecast: Cloudy, Definitely Not Sunny
I can’t seem to resist commenting on industry anachronisms, but Sun’s latest quarterly disappointment raises a question that I have not seen the commentariat comment upon. How has the MySQL acquisition by Sun impacted the relationship with Sun’s biggest historical partner, Oracle? I may be misjudging Oracle’s leadership, history and culture, but my guess is…
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IBM Pulls Late April Fool’s Prank?
“Enterprise-Class Second Life” Some days the jokes write themselves. Did they mean “Second-Class Enterprise Life”? It’s like Second Life, only more expensive, with even fewer people, and minus the interesting bits? Can “Enterprise-Class World of Warcraft” be far behind? “Enterprise-Class Grand Theft Auto”? Imagine the resplendently rendered virtual bus that drives up to your virtual…
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Book Review: The Big Switch
Nick Carr made his name with the provocative Harvard Business Review article “IT Doesn’t Matter” (free version here), its expansion into a less definitively titled book Does IT Matter? and his generally erudite blog. The charge of irrelevance hit the industry hard and elicited mostly incoherent and ineffective rebuttals (e.g. “hogwash”), which hampered real discussion…