Sept. 11, 2007
Microsoft bus riders
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Todd Bishop supplements the Seattle P-I’s regular Microsoft coverage with this online journal.
”Microsoft employees may end up holding their noses a bit while surfing the Web on the company’s new bus system. The mobile wireless routers on board the company’s “Connector” employee bus system, made by Seattle-based Junxion Inc., use the open-source Linux operating system — which Microsoft has identified as one of its biggest competitive threats.”
Sun, NetApp trade legal blows
Tech Target
More legalese for you.
“Network Appliance Inc. today announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Sun Microsystems Inc. seeking damages and an injunction against Sun to prevent further distribution of Sun’s file system technology.”
The cost of being an early adopter
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.
”A good friend of mine in IBM out on the coast had a wonderful, if bitter, Facebook status message on his profile this AM: “…[Name not included to protect the innocent] is aware of the exact price of being an early adopter. $200.” Ouch. p>