A public service for anyone worried about the latest user ID leaks…
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(h/t Gizmodo)
Here We Go Again – June 23rd, 2011
Another antitrust investigation of a computer giant…
Reports: Google to Face Broad Antitrust Investigation from U.S. Government
When I see something like this, I start getting really cynical, based on the Microsoft experience of the late 1990s:
- Can the market be defined accurately?
- Will Google have a hand in defining the market, as it seemed Microsoft did in their case?
- What sort of lobbying clout does Google currently have?
- If this really does go to trial, and Google is found guilty, and is forced to break up, will it end up like the AT&T breakup of 1994, where to company was reconstituted of its original parts less than 20 years later under a different market definition?
There are times I’m really glad I didn’t follow my original career trajectory in antitrust economics…it all seems so pointless in the legislative environment of the last thirty years…
Posted in Business, Technology
Nothing to See Here – Move Along – June 23rd, 2011
It looks like Oracle doesn’t seem to be able to learn from its own history…
The ugly Oracle-HP divorce: Customers could get hurt
I have to take exception with one of Mr. Snyder’s main points, however. He believes that Oracle is not being “its hardball self” in giving its customers no choice in server platform other than conversion to its Sun-acquired hardware, and that they won’t (and haven’t) backed down in the face of customer complaints. He bases this on a conversation with one person, who may or may not be knowledgable in the situation. I think Mr. Snyder needs to get out more.
I know that Oracle made a tour of their major PeopleSoft clients in the eighteen months after the 2005 acquisition, and I know that they heard more than an earful from each of them regarding the feeling that they were being forced to change platforms simply because of Oracle’s corporate goals. I also know that the “Applications Unlimited” program was instituted after this tour, and wasn’t even considered until then.
This squabble between HP and Oracle looks quite familiar, and I feel it will take a similar course – Oracle will talk tough, but will ultimately relent. The question I have is – why does so much energy have to be expended on ultimately meaningless things like this?
Non-Meatless Friday – June 10th, 2011
Most web publishing design tools fill their templates with a fake Latin dialect known affectionately as “Loren ipsum.” Basically, when you’ve seen one Loren Ipsum, you’ve seen them all, which makes life pretty boring. Well, no more…Here are a couple of tools for the creative writer in all of us, courtesy of our friends at LifeHacker:
Personally, I like Fillerati a little better – you can become literate and be subliminally funny at the same time…
(h/t LifeHacker)
How Much Longer? – UPDATE – June 1st, 2011
The worm turns again, as Oracle shows it’s true intentions…
Oracle Donates OpenOffice to the Apache Software Foundation
This makes it about six weeks from abandonment to “donation”…
The question still remains – when will this happen to MySQL?
(h/t ReadWriteWeb)
Posted in General, Open Source
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt – April 19th, 2011
I realize this article is ultimately unpersuasive, for reasons explained in the article, but I find it interesting nonetheless:
The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science
Keep this in mind when you’re arguing with a friend who is taking seemingly irrational positions…
How Much Longer? – April 19th, 2011
Oracle gives up on OpenOffice after community forks the project
So, how much longer will it take to fork MySQL? And how long after that will Oracle abandon it?
(h/t ArsTechnica)
Posted in Open Source, Technology
I’m a Modernist – January 18th, 2011
The more I think about this analysis, the more I agree with it…
Posted in General
Strange But True – December 28th, 2010
It has now been six years (!) since PeopleSoft was absorbed into Oracle. How many of us that were around then ever thought this posting would be written after all this time?
Posted in Technology
More Baseline Blogging – December 24th, 2010
As promised, there are more blogs to read at Baseline Consulting should you need something to do over the holidays…
Do You Know What Your Reports Are Doing?
Also, my recent post Making It Fit made it onto the B-Eye Network! Huzzah!
Happy Holidays!
