Wednesday, October 16, 2002

Questions Of Sun's Viability, Relevance Getting Louder As Losses, Layoffs Loom The 95% Drop In the summer of 2000, shares of Sun soared past 64. Now, they're trading around 3. That's 95% off the high. That means a dollar invested then is worth 5 cents today. My timing for joining Sun, october 2000,was to say the least sub-optimal :-) 5:15:54 PM      comment []

SETI@Home Faces Funding Problems [Slashdot] I don't care too much, since I'm not a believer in extraterrestrial intelligence, but what is interesting in the /. thread is the list of other projects that I find more "useful": fold proteins, cure cancer... SETI@Home was interesting in its computing model.   9:50:10 AM      comment []

blog as a Klein bottle Mark's Cycle: blog as a Klein bottle. 9:44:19 AM Google It!      comment []

Marc Barrot implements browser-based OPML transclusion. Marc Barrot can't stop tinkering with outlines. His latest hack implements Radio-outliner-style transclusion in the browser. You can see it working on his blog. Expand the activeRollers item, then expand any of the items under it -- such as, for example, my CTO blogroll. Brilliant! ... [Jon's Radio] 9:41:59 AM      comment []

XML is to Microsoft as PC was to IBM and XDocs is to Microsoft as OS/2 was to IBM 9:31:07 AM      comment []

Analysts say Sun might cut up to 8,000 jobs A reduction of 8,000 people would equal 20 percent of the company's current total workforce. No comments :-( 9:25:58 AM      comment []

Plumtree expands portal vision 9:21:33 AM      comment []

Corporate portals dig deeper into infrastructure layers. Vendors bolstering identity management, business process capabilities [InfoWorld: Top News] 9:18:35 AM      comment []