Links for December 2nd through December 3rd

A little something extra…

I got myself stuck in looking at the last 10 years of tech news in Austin – the kind of thing you end up doing as we come up on 2010. Google News is fantastic for this with their Archive. Most of the content requires payment, so I don’t read it, but there are some nice finds, like the old Austin days links below. I like this Austin-y talk of personal extravagance in the dot.com days by Spike Gillespie from March 2001:

For me, extravagance equaled other things: Getting a Chango’s mahi mahi burrito whenever the hell I wanted one, handing out wads of cash to my strapped friends (“Here, keep it!”), overcompensating to my kid for all the years I had to say, “Sorry honey, we can’t, we’re broke.” Oh, and I bought toilet paper — my favorite name brand — in bulk.

Yup, adding guacamole to everything on them fancy burritos is a special kind of Hill Country luxury ;>

The Links

• Phurnace Recognized as a “Comprehensive Solution” in the Automation Space
• Enterprise Quickstart SUSE Powered Virtual Appliance | GroundWork OpenSource
  "Enterprise Quick Start SUSE Powered Virtual Appliance: for environments monitoring up to 100 devices, annual service charge of $59. This virtual appliance combines GroundWork Monitor Enterprise with a fully supported version of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 from Novell."
• Broke.com: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Austin Tech Bust – AustinChronicle.com
• Austin, We Have a Problem – The New York Times
• 'Road Rage' Case Highlights Cyclist Vs. Driver Tension
  "The impact severed Peterson's nose and separated Stoehr's shoulder. Christopher Thomas Thompson, the driver of the car and a former emergency room doctor, was arrested and put on trial. The jury found him guilty of six felonies, including assault with a deadly weapon: his car. Thompson now faces 10 years in prison."
• IBM buys database security firm Guardium
  "Guardium makes technology for provides real-time monitoring of database activity, allowing companies to detect fraud, outside attacks and other illegal activities."
• Droid Nears Its Million-Device Target
• IBM Stays Tops as Server Market Stabilizes, Gartner Says
  "IBM took 31.7 percent of server revenue in the three months to Oct. 31, up a fraction from last year, while HP's share stayed more or less flat at 30.2 percent, Gartner said. They were followed at a distance by Dell, Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu. Server revenue overall dropped 15.5 percent from the third quarter last year, to $10.7 billion. But it was up by 10.2 percent compared to the second quarter this year, Gartner said."
• The rise of the cloud platform

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