News for Monday, February 27 2006

Developer News

If Oracle can buy out Open Source, why not Microsoft?

Oracle seems to be hell-bent on controlling the dominant Open Source database platform MySQL to make sure it stays in its place and not encroach on the Enterprise database market, but what if Microsoft started doing the same thing? (Read More)

Google Page Creator (BETA)

Now Google is in the hosting business. 100MB for your stuff at googlepages.com. (Read More)

NASA Detects 'Totally New' Mystery Explosion Nearby

Oh my god! We're all going to die. What? 440 million light years away? OK, we're safe.. (Read More)

Hot Threads

How did Bob come to be?

Join FOB (Friends of Bob) today. (Read More)

That Crystal Reports Guy...

He visits me in my dreams (Read More)

Industry News

Ask Jeeves to unveil improvements, new brand

Does anyone still "Ask Jeeves?" (Read More)

OpenView Throws Its Hat into the CMDB Ring

On Feb 27th, HP will become the last of the big four enterprise management providers to announce its strategy for creating a common configuration management database scheme. (Read More)

Blackberry hearing ends without resolution

Millions of thumbs still awaiting a final resolution. (Read More)

Design firm gets Web rich media patent

The US Patent Office just granted a web design firm called Balthaser a patent on "methods, systems and processes for the design and creation of rich-media applications via the Internet." Oh, boy. Another round of lawsuits. (Read More)