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I loved this presentation by David Heinemeier Hansson of 37Signals. His topic? How to make money as an online software company.
It’s interesting how closely some of Heinemeier Hansson’s ideas map to the commercial open-source world, in which charging for one’s value is, as Roberto Galoppini suggests, not always straightforward.
As Larry summarizes, enterprises have been conditioned [...]
Last week, I attended another InfiniBand event, Techforum ‘08. It was also in Las Vegas. More modest digs at Harrah’s reflected that InfiniBand hasn’t exactly lived up to those past hopes. However, the fact that there even was a TechForum ‘08 also reflects that InfiniBand is still with us–primarily as a server connect for high [...]
“I think it was a one-off response to a particular situation,” the band’s lead singer Thom Yorke told The Hollywood Reporter. “It was one of those things where we were in the position of everyone asking us what we were going to do. I don’t think it would have the same significance now anyway, if [...]
I wrote a few weeks back that Google has discovered developers and, as part of that, has significantly invested in open source.
I’m not sure what happened, but give full credit to Chris DiBona and others at Google who have agitated for greater open-source participation at Google. It’s amazing to see how open source is finally [...]
“We are disappointed that the Administration has been resistant to this effort and has opposed additional enforcement authority, such as civil enforcement in copyright cases where the violation rises to the level of criminal activity,” the letter says.
However, many at the forum still expressed their misgivings over the agreement. A representative from Google said the [...]
The Journal
quotes a banker who said the nine-year-old joint venture could be valued at between $3.12 billion and $4.65 billion.
The joint venture did $10.3 billion in sales last year, but Siemens CEO Peter Loscher apparently isn’t pleased overall with the performance of FSC, which never found a real foothold in the U.S. in the face [...]
Britt Wehrman, director of product development for T-Mobile says the service, which launched a little over a year ago, has been a big success. The company hasn’t disclosed subscriber numbers for the service, but Wehrman said that 45 percent of the hot-spot customers are leaving competitors to get the T-Mobile service. T-Mobile currently has eight [...]
“This agreement with Sun Microsystems is another important milestone in our strategy to secure broad-scale distribution for our search offering, enabling millions more people to experience the benefits of Live Search,” Microsoft senior vice president Yusuf Mehdi said in a statement. “With the vast array of Java software-based Web applications that are downloaded every month, [...]
