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Bharath Duggirala is IBM’s newest blogger over at developerWorks. He’s a young technologist working on support for WebSphere Community Edition/Geronimo over in India. He’s just put up his first entry externally after having an internal blog for quite a while. Stay tuned: I think he’ll be yet another important voice from within the company that [...]
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I’ve now been blogging for more than two years and I’m still deciding exactly what I want to say and when. Here are a number of considerations and thoughts about what goes into this.While a lot of the content reflects my work at IBM, I also talk about personal things that interest me. Sometimes the [...]
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Here are some links to stories that broke today regarding the Microsoft/Novell deal:InfoWorld: “OIN speaks out on the Novell/Microsoft pact”Here is part of the OIN statement:“Customers can only benefit from greater interoperability between Linux and Microsoft products. In fact, interoperability has long been a known requirement, and is a key driver behind Linux.“Unfortunately, embedded in [...]
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No wonder people were confused. See “Open Letter to the Community from Novell” and “Microsoft Statement on Novell Agreement”. © Robert S. Sutor for Bob Sutor's Open Blog, 2006. Posted under: Patents, Linux. Permalink | No comments | Add to del.icio.us
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HR-XML blog » Web 3.0The next big thing. Again.(tags: semanticweb)The Sorting Algorithm Demo“The animations on this page illustrate a number of different sequential and parallel sorting algorithms.”(tags: algorithms sorting programming java sort)Microsoft Watch - Business Applications - PDF and XPS: When Acronyms Compete“PDF and XPS are both essentially containers for representing digital content in a [...]
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This is the second version of this entry. In the first, I think I mentioned Java too often and in ways that opened myself up for criticism as a heretic, even though it wasn’t really my intention to find fault. This is especially true because the history of Java-the-phenomenon is very long and involves so [...]
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Artificial life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia“Artificial life, also known as alife or a-life, is the study of life, or more specifically the evolution of life, through the use of artificial models or artifacts.”(tags: alife wikipedia) © Robert S. Sutor for Bob Sutor's Open Blog, 2006. Posted under: del.icio.us Links. Permalink | [...]
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Google hires spreadsheet company founders | InfoWorld | News | 2006-11-17 | By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service“Israeli browser-based spreadsheet service iRows will close Dec. 31 and its founders will join Google”(tags: google spreadsheet Office2.0)Calacanis to leave AOL after CEO change | InfoWorld | News | 2006-11-17 | By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service“Weblogs [...]
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It was a great trip, but after ten days of travel with only 18 hours home, it’s good to be back. My red-eye from Salt Lake City to Newark was delayed for an hour and a half, but I made my connection. I could tell this morning that some people were already traveling as part [...]
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Open source directions: IBM’s Bob Sutor on best practices - Network World“The discussion ranged from how a company can balance open source and proprietary software development to what Novell and Microsoft are doing.”(tags: novell microsoft opensource standards)Travel NEWS » Campaign travel pays off (Cortez Journal)Interesting, this Bob Sutor is not me.(tags: politics)[satire] Republicans Blame Election [...]
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Sun picks GPL license for Java code | Tech News on ZDNet“After years of requests and debates, Sun Microsystems is ready to release Java source code under a Linux-friendly license.”(tags: gpl java sun)ongoing · Java Is Free“Anyone who tries to predict the long-term future effects of Free Java is braver than me.”(tags: gpl java sun)After [...]
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This is the most authoritative source I have found for concert and set list information for Dylan. © Robert S. Sutor for Bob Sutor's Open Blog, 2006. Posted under: Dylan, Music. Permalink | No comments | Add to del.icio.us
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So I’m sitting here at an airport wondering why the heck they are blaring music into the terminal. I already had to move away from some construction, which I understand, but I can’t imagine most of the traveling business people really want to be hearing Hall and Oates rather than their teleconferences. (Dylan I would [...]
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I gave a keynote talk last Friday at the University of Texas School of Law conference on the “Frontiers of Intellectual Property.” There was a bit of confusion about whether I could project some slides and, as it turned out, I could not. So I just talked for about 30 minutes glancing at my presentation [...]
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