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Serono And IVAX To Develop Oral Therapy For Multiple Sclerosis
"We are very pleased to enter into this agreement with Serono, a leading innovator in the development of drugs to treat multiple sclerosis," remarked Phillip Frost, M.D, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IVAX Corporation. "This agreement brings together our combined expertise in the development of CNS therapeutics, IVAX' capabilities for manufacturing proprietary oral pharmaceutical products and Serono's global experience in the marketing and sales of Rebif, an important treatment for multiple sclerosis."
5:52:36 PM Google It! 
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Animal house. Point. CounterPoint. Almost as bad as those election campaign adds on television. [Sam Ruby]
2 links with opposite opinions about the recent J2ee vs .NET benchmark where .NET beats J2EE.
It's the same kind of thing at stake as in election campaign: power !
4:49:31 PM Google It!
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Planting a seed.
When I was in my twenties, I did not respect authority. I colored outside the lines. When a teacher or a boss told me what they thought I should do, I asked "why?". Most didn't like this much. When I told others what to do, they didn't ask me why, nor did they particularly enjoy the experience. I found the satisfaction of being able to tell them "I told you so" later to be quite hollow.
When I was in my thirties, I did not respect authority. Telling people what to do and asking "why" continued to yield similar results with people who "ranked" higher than me. But I found that more and more people were coming to me and asking me for my opinion. Some of them even asked why. Those that did seemed to like the fact that I would try to answer the question. Once, one of the people who had sought my opinion remarked about my tendency to color outside of the lines. My response was instantaneous: "What lines?".
Now, I am forty. I still do not much respect authority. I still occasionally ask why. But mostly I plant seeds. I do things that cause other people to ask why. Generally, the response is along the lines of "why not?". When asked for clarifications, I rarely respond with generalities any more, I try to cite specifics. It doesn't always work right away, but I've learned to be patient. Trying to rush things that can't be rushed doesn't work.
I rarely have the opportunity to tell people "I told you so" any more. Instead, I now have people who come back to me and say, "it would have been more helpful had you been more direct in the first place". To which, I smile, nod politely, and resume my planting of seeds.
[Sam Ruby]
A pearl of wisdom.
I'm not 40 yet :-)
4:44:58 PM Google It!
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TMC J2EE REPORT PURE M$ FUD. Ahhhh... It seems that Rickard was on to the truth, thank goodness. He's put up a detailed rebuttal online pointing out the flaws in the report, and The Server Side has also posted more information on their forum, including this bit:
* Was Microsoft involved in this, did they fund this, where were the tests done?
Yes, Microsoft was certainly involved, as the paper describes. The Middleware Company approached Microsoft regarding performing such an experiment. Microsoft provided the lab, which was located in Seattle, funded the setup costs, and reimbursed us for expenses, including travel expenses.
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Suddenly my rantings are making sense, hey? (Crap, that's scary even to me.)
-Russ [Russell Beattie Notebook]
Mmm. It's well know that FUD's been MS' favorite tactics, and this TSS report seems to be exactly that. It disappoints me from the TSS people. Especially because it would be interesting to have a real balanced and independent benchmark performed and TSS was very well placed to provide it. I'd like to see a consultancy create one such benchmark. People like Accenture or Cap Gemini. Or some technical analysts, like the Patricia Seybold group.
Too bas Sun, BEA andf IBM were not involved.
Bah, benchmarks are often rigged anyway, and there's no standard benchmark in this area yet.
Russel's rant make sense on one point: MS uses Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt tactics, and their marketing muscles are strong.
But I still think that the java world should fight back by product excellence rather than adding more noise to the cacophony.
2:43:17 PM Google It!
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Loosely coupled with John Hagel. Reviews have started to appear of John Hagel's new book on the impact of web services on business strategy, Out of the ... [Loosely Coupled weblog]
A review of John Hagel's new book on the impact of web services on business strategy, Out of the Box.
This allowed me to discover John Hagel's weblog; I had read Net Gain a few years ago, but found it too general for my implementation hungry mind. Nonetheless as Phil states:
If you want to get your head buzzing with ideas about how web services might change the way your company does business in the future — as well as making a strong case for starting to adopt web services today — then this book should definitely be on your reading list.
So I'll start with John's weblog, and if interesting enough, will shell out the 20$ and time to read the book.
1:13:47 PM
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All about TV.
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Right now, watching CNN-International doesn't do it. They have these weird foreign anchors... I used to live in Atlanta and had a friend who worked for CNNi. I got a tour of their studios, etc. It's all based out of Atlanta, why the HELL do they have heavily accented anchors when the main viewing audience is Americans??? All their news is 100% US-oriented, it's not like someone from here is going to watch and think "ooh boy, here's where I'm going to get my news." I have problems with CNN anyways. Live in Atlanta and you realize how local it really is. They'll have a spot on some international incident, then walk downstairs and interview some idiot on the street in Georgia about his feelings. Please.
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-Russ [Russell Beattie Notebook]
I never liked CNN's pretense at being a global media altogether. When traveling abroad I prefer the BBC. Maybe this is just a European bias I have :-)
Russel's point of view as an American who used to live in Atlanta just reinforces this opinion.
1:07:16 PM Google It!
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Yahoo Moving to PHP [Slashdot]
Michael Radwin's presentation about Yahoo's switch from C++ to PHP is a good complement to Tim O'Reilly's discussion about the types of Free Software Businesses.
In the few categories that Tim identifies it seems to me that Yahoo is switching from the 2nd to the first:
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Company relies on free software and additional proprietary software or other IP, and thinks of itself as part of the F/OSS community even though not all its software is free.
Examples: Collab.Net, Sleepycat, Aladdin, O'Reilly
Company relies heavily on free software and additional proprietary software, but disregards free software ideology and doesn't think of itself as part of the F/OSS community.
Examples: Google, Amazon, TiVo
But as Michael recognizes (the preso viewer he uses is full of javascript and is not RESTful at all, so I can't link the exact slide, http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002_files/slide0062.htm redirects back to the first page. Looking at the source a link with a target="PPTSld" should work ): they don't give back much to the open source yet.
• We customize Open Source software we use
– often improvements are not sent back
– many are gross Y!-specific hacks
• Improving our relationship with OS community
– FreeBSD (Peter Wemm)
– Apache (Sander van Zoest)
– PHP (Rasmus Lerdorf)
– MySQL (Jeremy Zawodny)
The fact that they did not choose java because:
- But… you can’t really use Java w/o threads
- Threads support on FreeBSD is not great
Looks to me like a poor excuse: they could host the java stuff on Linux boxes instead of BSD.
On the other hand I understand the necessity to standardize on one OS for deployment.
Then maybe invest to make threads in java on BSD better performing.
This all reminded me the discussions we had at Netcenter in 1999, when I was working there. Netscape also had its own proprietary template engine, implemented in C++, with a proprietary template language. I was advocating to move all that crap to java servlets.
In retropect I think I was maybe a little too young and did not look at the scaling requirements well enough. On the other hand I don't think the Netcenter engine guys did any benchmarks of the java servlet containers at that time to see how they scaled.
I wonder what they use now.
10:28:25 AM Google It!
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Vignette to acquire portal vendor Epicentric. Deal is worth #32 million in cash and stock [InfoWorld: Top News]
Gartner promised consolidation in the portal market this year: here we go !
Integrated Content management seems to be a requirement for portals these days, so I guess this makes a good combination. IBM, BEA and Plumtree have CMS in their portal.
9:45:26 AM Google It!
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Laptop Go Kaboom.
My laptop died today, thanks to Visual Studio .NET. It crashed and took the machine down with it, and when I tried to reboot, it said to me:
[The .NET Guy]
Never happens with Java IDEs :-)
9:17:34 AM
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http://www.day.com/en/company/2002/jsr168.html
Day, a Swiss content management company, hired Roy Fielding (the guy from W3C and Apache, who formalized REST) as Chief Scientist last february.
It seems they participate in JSR 168 and fully understand its future impact.
“JSR-168 support is an integral part of Day’s vision because it allows businesses to manage all their content where it resides,” said Roy Fielding, Chief Scientist, Day. “JSR-168 and JSR-170 represent the first steps toward establishing a layer of content services between Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems and Portal products.”
The integration of the JSR-168 and JSR-170 standards provide true interoperability. Finally, new systems can be seamlessly connected with a company’s existing content management systems. Furthermore, engineers can focus their efforts on aligning software with JSR standards, instead of the myriad of other standards that have made EAI and Portals such popular industries.
I need to take a closer look at their product.
9:08:52 AM Google It!
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Club vs. Lojack solutions. This whole discussion on comment spamming seems like it borders on other domains as well. Not necessarily domains where the problems have been solved, but domains where smart people have done lots of good thinking. (1804 words) [dive into mark]
Very interesting discussion about the ways to avoid comment spamming, and the philosophy underlying them.
8:49:45 AM Google It!
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