Oct. 16, 2007
A sample of Microsoft Live events
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Todd Bishop supplements the Seattle P-I’s regular Microsoft coverage with this online journal.
”Microsoft is launching a Web-based service for organizing events and remembering them afterward – trying to move further into the highly competitive areas of social networking and online photo sharing.”
Why Oracle pulled the trigger on BEA
Tech Target
Barbara Darrow says just when you thought Oracle might be settling down, the company makes a $6.6 billion bid for BEA Systems, the app server power.
“Such a move has been rumored on and off for some time, but apparently it finally got the stamp of approval up on the eleventh floor in Redwood Shores.”
Lady Madonna
Turbo Blog
Todd Watson is in his 15th year with IBM. He began his career working on two software magazines, for which he wrote on a variety of business technology topics before joining IBM’s Internet division in 1995.
”All in all it’s just a…’nother brick crumbling…out of the music industry’s…wall. Okay, so I’m not Roger Waters. Yes, the Queen Music Bee herself, Lady Madonna, has followed in the treble-cleffed footprints of Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails. And, not very much like a virgin, but with mucho celebration, I’m sure, Madonna is setting off across the great unknown oceans towards LiveNation, only to leave the Old World of Warner Music in her rearview mirror to cash in on a 10-year, $120M touring, recording, and merchandising deal. “
