"The acquisition of TogetherSoft will add that company's ControlCenter product to the Borland product line. ControlCenter is a software development collaboration and modeling tool that enables software developers to coordinate their development efforts."

And Borland also gets WebGain Studio, which includes the Java development tool formerly called VisualCafe (one of the first Java IDE's I believe), which TogetherSoft recently purchased. WebGain Studio was a direct competitor to Borland's JBuilder. So I think that's a big part of the story: that Borland has effectively taken another Java IDE off the market. But why isn't this mentioned in the InfoWorld article? In looking around, others do mention this, but I guess the loss of competition is not that big a deal to the press. And I guess it's not that big a deal with an industry pioneering product like VisualCafe bites the dust. I guess it makes Java IDE decisions easier for IT shops.
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1. I'm an early person anyway, and now I get earlier light. Light itself isn't necessarily better since I kind of like the implied 'quiet' that a dark morning brings. I just get to appreciate the light more since I'm usually up early anyway.
2. It's so much easier to get the kids up and out for school (now that they are both that age). Their bodies think it's a hour later AND it's light when I'm trying to drag them (little she not so much as bigger he) out of bed and started. An added bonus is that the evening seems to come quicker and I have less push-back getting them to bed when it's already been dark for hours.

Jeff L. brought up the fact that we really aren't in a farm economy anymore so why hang with the time change anachronism (nice word). And my answer is that I am now a farmer of children. Raising, cultivating, trying hard not to ruin before harvest, picking bugs off of themm, making no money from them, etc. My life is the farm economy.
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