September 13, 2007
Sun slides into Windows market
IT World Canada
Shane Schick questions Sun’s timing:
”You might wonder how Sun plans to gain any advantages for Solaris by announcing a partnership with Microsoft today whereby it will offer Windows Server on its x64 hardware and some utilities.”
Party plane parking pass: $1.3M
Valleywag
Megan McCarthy reports on a new home for the Google party plane:
“The winners in this? Google founders and owners of the plane Larry Page and Sergey Brin, obviously, who now have a short seven-minute jaunt before taking off for Greenland or other exotic locations.”
The next 5 items that Google might buy from NASA
Network World
Phil McNarmara is also all over the big Google jet story:
“News that the founders of Google have bought themselves and their tricked-out Boeing 767 unique and controversial access to a NASA landing strip mere minutes from company headquarters has me thinking about what else these acquisitive billionaires might buy from our space agency.”
