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The Oracle Tax is progressive

The Fortunate 1000 are far more likely to pay the "Oracle Tax" of a proprietary database than other firms, making this one of the few true progressive taxes in our business system. (The picture is of Oracle's headquarters, aka the Ellison Kremlin, the Capitol of LarryWorld.) ...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Tool, Oracle Tax, Fortunate 1000, Graham, Productivity, Storage, Taxes, Databases, Open Source, Hardware, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-03

Google Apps 'founder' Rajen Sheth: We dialog with users through new code

Google Apps 'founder' Rajen Sheth: We dialog with users through new codeSoundBarely audible with sound on laptop and video up to max. What's wrong?GrahamThe sound is working fine for meGraham, I tested here on a couple of systems without a problem at all. David

Tags: Rajen Sheth, Graham, Google Apps, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-12-20

"We've toasted so many of these (VoIP) networks...

  Marty Graham of Wired.com's Threat Level blog writes about an interview he had with VoIP open source security tool VoIP Hopper's  co-developer Jason Ostrom. Apparently Ostrom and business partner John Kindervag used the VoIP Hopper tool to do some penetration testing of supposedly...

Tags: Network, VLAN, Graham, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-21

Is Microsoft still worthy of the 'Evil Empire' crown?

Is Microsoft still worthy of the 'Evil Empire' crown?Time, place, and weaponsGraham is right on one thing: the fear factor is much less than it was.Overall, though, it's much like the blind men and the elephant: what you think depends on what part your hand is on. In Graham's...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Evil Empire, Graham

Discussion threads 2007-04-08

Graham on Web 2.0 investing: VCs are no angels

Graham on Web 2.0 investing: VCs are no angelsI may be off base, but...It seems to me tht if someone can't self finance 3 months of living expences while they develop their idea, just maybe they shouldn't in the business. That isn't meant to be cruel, just pointing out...

Tags: Graham, Web 2.0, Web

Discussion threads 2006-09-04

Graham on Web 2.0 investing: VCs are no angels

Paul Graham, YCombinator, has spoken; in a TechCrunch Q & A.Of particular note is Graham’s immediate reaction to the posting of the interview; In a comment at the post, Graham noted what he considers an “inaccuracy” with the TechCrunch headline:Though the intro calls me a VC, that’s not really accurate....

Tags: TechCrunch, Paul Graham, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-09-03

Database sales bouncing back

Database sales bouncing backBest News: Per Gartner, Linux tops the lists of many database shoppers.Linux gaining rapidly in the enterprise:"According to Gartner's study, Linux tops the lists of many database shoppers. Sales of database software on Linux systems nearly doubled in 2003, to nearly $300 million, Gartner said. That's still...

Tags: Sales strategy, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Sales force management, Linux, sales, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., database, Unix, Graham, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2004-05-26

Additional Resources

DJ your Independence Day party with your Mac

If you're having people over to your house this weekend to celebrate Independence day (04 July, here in the U.S.) – a few tunes are probably in order. Luckily the Mac is one of the best platforms for creating a great party environment thanks to its vast music playback options,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Radio, Apple iTunes, Music, Pandora, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Lasers detecting explosives from 20 meters away

Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL researchers have developed a super-sensitive explosives detector which uses a laser and a device that converts reflected light into sound. Interestingly, the technique they've used is based on earlier works of Alexander Graham Bell in the late 1880s. In their experiments, the researchers used three...

Tags: Technique, Detection, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Laser, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-27

Fired Director of IT accused of destroying organ donor information of former company

Here's a story that will make you absolutely sick.  I used to live in Houston, time to time I still check out the Houston Chronicle... which I did this morning.  I was interested in reading more about the altercation between the Astros pitcher and general manager, but then I stumbled...

Tags: Organ, Houston, Agency, Advertising & Promotion, Backups, Hacking, Marketing, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-26

WSJ cleverly coins 'Motorborg', creates jealous blogger

The Wall Street Journal reported recently on Inrix, Inc., a Kirkland, Washington-based Microsoft spinoff that tracks speeds on 100,000 miles of US highway using data from GPS-enabled fleet vehicles, toll booths, road sensors...and citizens' mobile devices. The data is sold to a variety of companies (including MapQuest, Dash, and...

Tags: Wall Street Journal, Sensor, Blogger, Dash, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Ed Gottsman

Blog posts 2008-05-05

UFO News (gadget)

Direct links to George Noory of Coast to Coast Am reaching 20 million listeners each night, Jeff Rense his radio show reaches 15 million listeners each night and 78 of the top UFO, Alien abduction, Cattle mutilation and Crop circle researchers on this planet starting with Mar Allin, Colin Andrews,...

Tags: Horn, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-04-16

Laser scanning robot 3D-R1 used to map mines

A UK-based company, 3D Laser Mapping, has developed robots equipped with lasers to automatically scan mines. Its latest mission was to create a 3D map of the San Jose silver mine in Mexico. The remote survey vehicle RSV 3D-R1 weighs about 135 kilograms and is 0.6 meter high. It...

Tags: 3D, Laser, 3D-R1, 3DLM, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-04-10

Open source market making arrives with Marketcetera

It can be tougher than getting the winning bid in at an eBay auction. Traders who want to automate what they do and get the best price have long been saddled with proprietary systems like Bloomberg to run their algorithms. No more. Now there's...

Tags: Trader, Eclipse, Day Trader, Open Source, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-07

We know SOA depends on cultural shifts, but -- like the weather -- we still don't do much about it

Recent observations on SearchSOA.com on lack of meaningful SOA adoption suggest that the technologies and techniques have amounted to but a mere improvement on EAI. Some conveniently calling it EAI 2.0, but admit the effects are not yet wide nor deep. We have yet to see SOA...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, End-game, Sides, Profits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Sprint and T-Mobile: A disaster in waiting

Sprint and T-Mobile: A disaster in waitingNO MORE MERGERSAs of late, almost every merger in the last 5 years hasn't made sense, nor have many been successful. While on the other hand, we do look at IBM spinning off their PC division and watch them fly with it.Sprint spun...

Tags: Cellular phones, Mergers & Acquisitions, Graham Ruck, Sprint Communications, T-Mobile, CDMA

Discussion threads 2008-03-07

Sprint and T-Mobile: A disaster in waiting

What do you get when you combine one struggling carrier Sprint with an innovative but smallish one (T-Mobile)? A wireless train wreck. On Thursday, a Merrill Lynch telecom analyst Graham Ruck pitched an idea that Sprint and T-Mobile's parent Deutsche Telekom should merge amid the wireless price...

Tags: Risk, Idea, T-Mobile, Sprint Communications, Mergers & Acquisitions, Wireless, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-07

Heather Graham Sexy Screensaver (exe)

Free Sexy, High Quality Heather Graham Screensaver featuring over 25 high resolution pictures and wallpapers of her in tight outfits, skimpy bikinis and lingerie (non-nude). Screensaver includes 40 configurable transition effects, and totally customizable timing, shuffling, and image resizing settings. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Screensaver, Sexy Free ScreenSavers

Software downloads 2008-02-26

BidShift uses Saas to right nursing shortage

Every trade show I attend features little gems, and HIMSS 2008 is no exception. One such gem is BidShift, which is tucked behind the giant Cerner booth. It's Software as a Service SaaS applied to the nursing shortage. Here's how CEO Graham Barnes right explained...

Tags: Hospital, Nurse, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-25

Even SSL Gmail can get sidejacked

When Robert Graham demonstrated how Web 2.0 wasn't safe at last year's Blackhat, it was thought that at least the SSL mode HTTPS of Google Gmail would be spared from sidejacking.  That presumption now appears to be false according to this updated blog posting from Graham.  Even with SSL enabled,...

Tags: Google Gmail, HTTP, SSL, Cookie, Sidejacking, E-mail Providers, Web 2.0, Ssl/Tls, Authentication/Encryption, Network Security, Security, Internet, Networking, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-01-31