- Don't Mean To Be Alarmist, But The Odds Are Increasing That Microsoft's Business Will Just Completely Collapse
A bit over the top, but a good reference for the sentiment: "The desktop PC isn't the center of anyone's universe anymore. The Internet is. And the Internet doesn't require Windows." - Austin Hadoop Users / Austin Semantic Web joint meeting
- Dell thinking about shipping Google's Chrome OS on netbooks
- Check Out The New York Fed's Amazing Comic Book Guide To Inflation
- Adobe MAX registration is open!
- Liferay Announces New Social, UI and Educational Tools
- The 'Design with Liferay' Program will Rally the Liferay Community
- Opscode Closes $11 Million Series B Round
"We are witnessing a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make world-class IT infrastructure available to the masses," said Sunil Dhaliwal a General Partner at Battery Ventures. "While legacy vendors have made billions solving discrete automation problems for very large organizations, the future belongs to those that can deliver simple, scalable automation to any IT user, regardless of their size or sophistication. As a founding investor in data center automation pioneer BladeLogic, we understand the enormity of this shift, and are tremendously excited to support Opscode in making it a reality. They have the team, the technology and the market momentum needed to truly democratize infrastructure management." - Opscode Unveils Funding, Hosted Platform
- Opscode Gets $11M to Take on IBM and HP Management Software
$11m funding and launching their SaaS configuration management service. - Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud Web site
- Miley Cyrus gambles $1bn in switch from sweet teen to raunchy star
"Episodes of Hannah Montana are likely to remain a staple of television for years to come; as long as Cyrus does not descend into a Spears-style disaster. And not every child star crashes and burns. Spears's former boyfriend, Timberlake, has consciously used overt sexuality as one of his selling points, and has sold almost 20 million albums." - Roach, O'Neill Say China Shows Confidence in Recovery With Yuan Decision
“The Chinese are increasingly confident they can make this adjustment to a domestic-driven economy rather than the one relying on exporting low-value-added stuff to the rest of the world,” O’Neill said. - A VC: IPOs Just Aren't What They Used To Be
"I believe that the IPO exit is appropriate for only the very best companies, maybe one or two companies per fund, which would be the top 5 or 10 percent of our portfolio. For every other company, I think liquidity offerings followed by an eventual sale transaction is the best outcome. The cost is just too high and the benefits are just too low for most companies these days." - China Signals It Will End Yuan's Peg to Dollar, Citing Economic Recovery
"A more flexible currency would give China more freedom to decide on monetary policy and reduce inflationary pressures by lowering import costs." I don't really understand what this means, of course, nor what the desires and effects are. - Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinetic Is Wonderful (MSFT)
"There's something very special about using Microsoft's Kinect system, something that separates it from every other combination of software and hardware I've ever used. Kinect adapts and accommodates the user. I'm not learning it; it's learning me." - Why Everyone Wins When Cloud Computing Meets the Channel
- Zenoss on FLOSS Weekly
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