links for 2006-10-06

What’s better with SOA?

interesting ServerSide debate of Cote’s recent “What’s different about SOA?” piece

(tags: SOA Cote RedMonk ServerSide ESB programming)
GullFOSS

the OO.o gang responds to Luis

(tags: OO.o Villa Firefox extensions plugins performance)
Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

“It’s pretty astounding that OO.o on Win32 takes 13 seconds to cold start, where MSWord takes ~3 seconds; in fact Word can cold-start quicker than we can warm-start, a little depressing.” – Novell’s Michael Meeks comments on the OO.o boot time

(tags: boot Meeks Novell OO.o performance Microsoft Office Word)
MLB World Series Contenders | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

comedy (thanks, Bob)

(tags: via:Bob baseball WorldSeries Onion)
Ted Leung on the air : Offices and Aerons

first Kathy and now Ted describe the benefits of nice office furniture; to each their own, but i’m quite happy with my $65 Staples Aeron clone – if i’ve got a couple of hundred dollars to spend, i’d rather get better hardware

(tags: chairs office home furniture cost Aeron Sierra Leung)

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By sogrady

— October 5, 2006 at 11:22 pm

http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor james governor

better hardware? what do you *need* man? you are running topline AMD gear, and a slinky x60 thinkpad for when you’re on the road.
http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady stephen o’grady

topline AMD gear? you mean our server?

basically my argument is simple. i just watched a mastercard commercial that talked about office supplies. the ergonomic office chair was $650, and the laptops were $999. being quite happy with my $65 dollar chair, budgetwise i’d much rather get a 1600 laptop and spend 60 on the chair.

i’m in the distinct minority, though, i suspect.

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