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Is Microsoft Irrelevant?
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| At OSCON, a top software architect questions Microsoft’s relevance as Linux
| and open source march on into the enterprise and the overall computing
| landscape.
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| Is Microsoft irrelevant?
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| That's what Brian Aker, director of architecture at Sun Microsystems' MySQL,
| called the software giant in an onstage Q&A during the opening day of
| keynotes and sessions at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention here July 23.
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| [...]
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| O'Reilly chuckled at the response and offered a bit of an apology to any in
| the audience from Microsoft. After all, Microsoft is a top-level Diamond
| Sponsor of OSCON this year.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Is-Microsoft-Irrelevant/
OSCON: O'Reilly bullish on open source
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| Tim O'Reilly (you know the guy who runs the big tech publisher) is still
| bullish on the prospect of open source.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/07/oscon-oreilly-bullish-on-open.html
Google and Ubuntu stealng the show.
OSCON : Google Melange will spice up SoC
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| So Google is developing a new collaboration platform called Melange (based on
| the concept of Melange / spice from Frank Herbert's Dune novels). Google Open
| Source Program Manager Chris DiBona was creditted by Hawthorne for coming up
| with the name.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/07/oscon-google-melange-will-spic.html
Google announce Melange project for open source collaboration
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| GSoC and GHOP already have applications to manage interaction between
| participants, but these applications run on systems within Google's
| infrastructure and are developed solely by them. With Melange, Google aims to
| move the process into the open, firstly by developing Melange as an open
| source project and secondly, by hosting Melange on the Google App Engine.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Google-announce-Melange-project-for-open-source-collaboration--/news/111163
Related:
P. Graham: Microsoft is Dead
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| A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking
| to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo.
| I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of
| Microsoft. That was why they'd positioned themselves as a "media
| company" instead of a technology company. Then I looked at his face
| and realized he didn't understand. It was as if I'd told him how much
| girls liked Barry Manilow in the mid 80s. Barry who?
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| Microsoft? He didn't say anything, but I could tell he didn't quite
| believe anyone would be frightened of them.
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http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
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