Links for June 1st through June 3rd

• More details about Capgemini's G-cloud pilot – Inside Outsourcing
• Lean Times Require Lean Thinking
• The Lean Startup
  Run your startup like a dog fight.
• Zynga acquires Austin gaming company | Statesman Business Blog
• HP move cloaks IT service weakness
• Texas offers Formula 1 $250M to move Grand Prix to Austin
  I think this is too weird to actually happen. F1 must be using Austin as a bargining chip for some other place.
• Wherefore Art Thou, Austin Investors? | AustinStartup
  I don't think very many tech people in Austin is happy with the local funding scene.
• Chip makers form Linaro Linux group
  Enacting project "No Chip Left Behind": "The member companies will unite their open source engineering resources in Linaro and will contribute to a wide range of open source projects. Linaro will partner with the Linux Foundation to align on core operating principles, according to a statement…. Linaro plans to create developer tools for Linux makers so they can take better advantage of the complex chips made by the founding members of the group, mainly chips with Arm processing cores. The chips are complex because smartphones and other small gadgets require a lot of technology to be work and remain connected to networks and the Web all the time. Chip makers often say software developers could make much better use of the power inside the chips."
• HP's Palm buy was all about WebOS
• How Sybase rescued itself and became worth $6 billion
• Engine Yard expands Rails apps cloud services
• The leading themes of IT management in 2010
  Holy crap! Look at how many real comments he got!
• 1M Users – Why it Matters. – Spiceworks Community
• Welcome to Myphonehas
  "Supported by our powerful Ratings and Recommendations engine and Social Integration Gateway the Myphonehas platform presents a retail store that runs on your desktop and mobile browser, uploads your phone’s address book over the air and turns your friends into virtual shopping companions. It also allows you to add friends from your favourite social networks like Facebook or Google."
• Incomplete Thought: The DevOps Disconnect | Rational Survivability
• Oracle adds support for open source R language | Applications – InfoWorld
• SAP Ventures Sinks Cash Into Instant-on Platform Vendor – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership
• WSO2 Launches WSO2 Stratos Open Source Cloud Computing Platform for Enterprise Application Development | Business Wire
• Opscode Brings on Two New Technical Evangelists
  Congrats to those two: it should be a fun job.
• SAP invests $10M in DeviceVM’s browser-and-cloud OS
• HP to cut 9,000 jobs, automate enterprise service business – BusinessWeek
• On Microsoft: is the sky falling? Remember Netware?
  "The sky is not falling yet. Microsoft’s platform is still an important one. Follow the trends though, and they all seem to point to a lesser role for the company in the coming decade than in the last one. Windows 7 surprised us with its quality. We need a few more surprises of equal or greater significance before that perception will change."
• Foxconn Workers Say `Meaningless' Life Spurs Suicides
  “The fundamental problem for Foxconn and other Chinese factories is that their business model relies on a low-cost workforce sourced from rural areas of China,” said Pun Ngai, a professor of applied social sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. “Due to its size, Foxconn has to be that much tougher than other factories, and has to become more emotionally detached from its employees than others.”
• Mobile Payments Startup Boku Launches In-App Billing Library For Android
• SaaSGrid Express: irresponsible or indispensable?
• Steve Jobs Explains His World at All Things D – Tech Talk – CBS News
• Quotes From Ann Richards
  "I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any."
• Windows Server in Your Mixed Environments
  "Challenged by a mixed environment? Working in silos? Microsoft understands. Use the unifying power of Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V and System Center to bring harmony to your environment."

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