Tuesday, May 07, 2002

I just caught up with my friend Jesse Liberty - he's taking a breather from his numerous O'Reilly .NET books to pick up a very buzzword compliant .NET/XML/XSLT project. Give him a call if you're looking for an authorative .NET architect or mentor. 5:13:33 PM      comment []  trackback []

Business case for open source. Well, duh. 4:55:46 PM      comment []  trackback []

California to Cancel Oracle Deal [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] There's way too much downside for the vendors involved for this not to have been inevitable. I expect other state governments with a clue to start examining their big Oracle deals. Was CA the only state without a clue? 10:39:14 AM      comment []  trackback []

From reading this Infoworld article, it appears as though there's not much that Curl does that Flash cannot. Not good for Curl. 10:14:44 AM      comment []  trackback []

OpenInteract 1.40 (Stable) [freshmeat.net] p5ee inches closer. 9:56:38 AM      comment []  trackback []

Microsoft Offers $1.33 Billion for Navision. Microsoft has offered to buy Navision, one of Europe's leading manufacturers of software, for $1.33 billion, the Danish company said today. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] Little known fact: Navision is the leading accounting software among global modelling and talent agencies. Coincidence? 9:46:49 AM      comment []  trackback []