{"id":4644,"date":"2010-05-12T15:48:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T20:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2010-05-12T15:48:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T20:48:44","slug":"links-for-may-11th-through-may-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2010\/05\/12\/links-for-may-11th-through-may-12th\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for May 11th through May 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"deliciousLinks\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/preview.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-05-12\/sap-is-said-to-be-near-an-agreement-to-acquire-sybase-for-about-6-billion.html\">SAP Is Said to Be Near Agreement to Purchase Sybase for About $6 Billion<\/a><br \/>&quot;The deal could be announced as early as today or it could fall apart, said one of the people, who declined to be identified because the talks are not public.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theflashblog.com\/?p=2027\">The Flash Blog &raquo; Flash Works On Touch-Based Devices (Video)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technewsworld.com\/story\/69973.html?wlc=1273686917\">Technology News: Web Apps: Firefox 4 Steps Out of the Shadows<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/event.on24.com\/eventRegistration\/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&amp;eventid=207619&amp;sessionid=1&amp;key=627C46D4042A2C3072C0D9D79BB8C1DD&amp;partnerref=RedMonk&amp;sourcepage=register\">Event Registration (EVENT: 207619)<\/a><br \/>Fixin&#039; to hear @sogrady and ActiveState talk about porting and developing apps to the cloud:<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/25789e40-5d5e-11df-8373-00144feab49a.html\">FT.com \/ UK &#8211; SAP on lookout for large acquisitions to broaden technology horizons<\/a><br \/>&quot;M&amp;A is certainly on the agenda. But it is not relevant for us to buy market share or consolidate legacy,&quot; Mr Snabe said. If SAP were to make an acquisition, it would be to move the company forward in terms of new technology, said Mr Snabe.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sosopensource.com\/2010\/05\/11\/evaluate-open-source-software\/\">Evaluate Open Source Software<\/a><br \/>&quot;Open Source software selection starts with the creation of a short-list of open source packages, and the very next step is the evaluation of all candidates.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/websites_stop\">8 Websites You Need to Stop Building<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/clients\/\">the RedMonk client list<\/a> for clients mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAP Is Said to Be Near Agreement to Purchase Sybase for About $6 Billion&quot;The deal could be announced as early as today or it could fall apart, said one of the people, who declined to be identified because the talks are not public.&quot; The Flash Blog &raquo; Flash Works On Touch-Based Devices (Video) Technology News: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}