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Atlassian Embraces Open Social, Shows Strong Momentum at Summit

The Atlassian Summit 09 has just concluded in San Francisco, kicking off a busy week for coders, with Sun's Java One also happening. The 6 minute video above, shot in dynamic wobble vision from my Flip UltraHD, is of a portion of CEO...

Tags: Plug-in, Atlassian Summit 09, Mike Cannon-Brooke, Collaboration Component, Confluence 3 Confluence, Kap IT, Wiki, Collaboration, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-03

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Ice, Swine, and Sun

The last third of BIT's introduction to the Unix and Open Source Culture ran on Friday, February 27th - and drew one comment, a click-by sneering unrelated to the thing's content: The bottom line is ... Sun's SPARC...

Tags: Ice, Sun Microsystems Inc., George, Sea Ice, Junknstuff, Blogging, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Internet, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-07

Dell shuffles management deck; Focuses on global units

Dell ended 2008 with a management shakeup. The company said Wednesday that it has realigned its business to focus on four global groups: Large enterprise, public, small and medium sized business and consumer, which is already set up as a global unit. Here's a...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Mark Jarvis, Smb/Sme, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-31

Dell's new kids on the block

Motorola's Ron Garriques becomes the latest high-profile outsider brought in to help shake up the company. Michael Dell is moving quickly to overhaul his company, and turning to some new places to find answers. Dell has wasted little time cleaning house over the last few...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Cannon, Manufacturing, Strategy, Desktops, Management, Hardware, Tom Krazit, Corporate & legal, Motorola Inc.

News items 2007-02-16

Microsoft sues over source code theft

Microsoft sues over source code theftZune, iPod Was Start of HP identity theftIt was HP's decision to drop iPod technology for something else - possibly Zune - that is reported to have started HPs identity theft. Apparently the news was given to HP employees who didn't see the logic in...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2006-09-26

Sun's top software exec leaves for Adobe

Sun's top software exec leaves for AdobeWill get steam-rolled at Adobe too...What a joke this guy is. Runs an also-ran software division at an also-ran company like Sun and now goes to another company squarely in the crossfire of Microsoft. When SteveB talks about business value, he is aiming a...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Adobe PDF, Sun Microsystems Inc., software, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-03-16

Microsoft tops its earnings expectations

Microsoft tops its earnings expectationsColumbian druglords are making record earnings too!Not like it matters where the money comes from. Hey if a guy brings out a hot date to a dinner party, does it matter if he had to pay her to be there? NO! She's still hot to trot!:-)Real...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., IMNHO Dollar Bill Gates

Discussion threads 2004-10-21

Microsoft expands mainframe pitch

Microsoft expands mainframe pitchYes, give an incompetent company even more business.No thanks..Guess what, Microsoft?.. you don't have a mainframe monopoly.Translation: You will fail.Microsoft mainframes??BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!Whatever.."Mictrosoft" "Mission Critical" ===> Oxymoron;-)It will fail as usual. This futile pitch is already 5 years old.Remember the pitch since Windows 2000 Datacenter on Unisys almost...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, hardware, Microsoft Windows, Now Let, turret, mainframe, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-08-25

Week in review: Showtime for tech

Two technology expos in two cities compete for consumers' attention, with Apple unveiling new hardware and software, and gadget makers targeting the home front. Two technology expos in two cities competed for consumers' attention, with Apple Computer unveiling new hardware and software, and gadget makers targeting the...

Tags: Software, Hard Drive, Apple Macintosh, Network, Nintendo GameBoy, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Hardware, CEO, Game Boy Advance SP, Tools & Techniques, Game Players, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Steven Musil, Technology News

News items 2003-01-10

Maxtor bows out of network storage biz

A smaller-than-expected market and brand blues push the hard drive maker to scrap its network storage system product line. Hard drive maker Maxtor has discontinued sales of a network storage system product line, citing a smaller-than-expected market and difficulties establishing a brand. The company tried to...

Tags: Hard Drive, NAS, Brand, Network, Maxtor Corp., Network Storage, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Branding, Hardware, Marketing, Stephen Shankland

News items 2002-08-16

Net radio sends out distress signals

Proposed music copyright fees could mean the end of the dial for small online stations. Now they're joining the battle between big broadcasters and record labels over digital royalties. From his garage in the shadow of California's Sierra Nevada mountains, Bill Goldsmith mixes an eclectic stream of music for...

Tags: John Borland, Technology News, Warning: DOMDocument::loadXML() [domdocument.loadxml]: Empty string supplied as input in /var/opt/include/classes/traxapi.class.php on line 47, Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/opt/include/classes/traxapi.class.php on line 55

News items 2002-04-01

DOJ probes online music ventures

Napster's revenge? Microsoft and Sony's Pressplay and AOL Time Warner and RealNetworks' MusicNet are being targeted as a possible 'distribution duopoloy.' WASHINGTON--The Justice Department opened an antitrust investigation of the online-music business, focusing on two new joint ventures backed by five major record labels. The...

Tags: Venture, MusicNet, Pressplay, Label, Antitrust, Online Music, RealNetworks Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Music, Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Anna Mathews, Technology News

News items 2001-08-06

Coop's Scoop: DNS for Dummies and other tales of woe

Microsoft turns into Pratfall Central: Also, the sad saga of Excite@Home. And LinuxWorld takes the Big Apple. You won't have trouble finding companies demonstrating early versions of products with the 2.4 version of the Linux kernel at LinuxWorld in New York. Also, Dell, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and IBM are all...

Tags: Software, DNS, Transmeta Corp., Server, Microsoft Corp., Times, Coop, Axe, Tools & Techniques, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing, Charles Cooper, Technology News

News items 2001-01-27

Maxtor CEO expects layoffs from merger with Quantum

The $1.13 billion merger between Maxtor and the hard disk drive unit of Quantum Corp. will see some 10 percent of the companies' 10,000 combined staff being laid off. The announcment was made Monday by Mike Cannon, president and chief executive of Maxtor. Most of them...

Tags: Layoff, Merger, Maxtor Corp., Quantum Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, ZDNN Staff, Technology News

News items 2000-10-10

The rise and fall of Netscape

Once synonymous with the Web itself, the pioneering browser firm is now just an AOL unit. When Netscape employees first heard their company was going to be bought by America Online in November 1998, they worried whether their dogs would still be allowed in the office. A year and...

Tags: America Online Inc., Netscape Communications Corp., Web Browser, Netcenter, Crowdburst, Web Browsers, Portals, Internet, Elliot Zaret, Technology News

News items 2000-03-09