IBM Adopts Open Development Internally
This is very good news. I'm sure it has and will benefit IBM, but don't most of the major players already do this? Sun has projects on java.net as well as jxta.org and jini.org. According to Joe Beda the entire code base is open to all of Google, and Google is now providing code.google.com.
Better late than never.
James Govenor spread the link love to me in this post, and today I read more about Attention.XML from Steve Gillmor in this post (the chat log between Gillmor and Kevin Werbach is particularly enlightening).
Working as the web works, both Govenor and Gillmor are pondering the same problem...or is it a feature? Nevertheless, Govenor notes that I point to him pointing to Tim Bray. And then I read from Gillmor that Attention will help me by sorting entries "first chronological, then reputational filter, then throw out duplicates." This makes me think that my link would be filtered because I would be classified as a duplicate...I'm obviously not in Gillmor's or Govenor's reputation filter; and if that's the case would Govenor have noticed that I was reading him before I read Tim Bray[1]? Who knows.
I definately like the time-saving objective of Attention.XML but will an observation like Govenor's get lost, maybe not. Maybe it will be more obvious.
[1] Why did I reference James Govenor rather than Tim Bray? A couple of reasons. First, I read the guys from Red Monk often because they talk about the industry in general. Bray doesn't seem to be as general. So, I guess you could say that I use the Red Monk filter. Second, J comes before T in FeedDemon.
In Windows and UNIX Remain the Safe Choice for SAP Customers AMR Research reports that
Microsoft Windows retained 51.3%, and UNIX settled at 41% of the cumulative global market share for Operating Systems (OSs) of SAP customer production system database servers at the end of 2004.
Beyond the headlines, we read that
Windows NT was the second database server OS supported by SAP, but it is the most popular customer OS...
From Cerf Says Symmetry is Beautiful,
Persevering, Cerf said, "the concept of P2P was part of the original design of the protocol. It was not part of the protocol that preceded it, NCP, which was built on a client server architecture."The P2P principal is key to the Internet's success. "P2P was built in on purpose. Although you need flow control to connect a handheld device on a GPRS connection to a supercomputer running on gigabit lines, they connect to each other."