Google filed to go public today, seeking to raise $2.7 billion in an unusual auction-style offering that will give the founders rare control over the company.
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Thursday, April 29
Who cares unless you have a stake, or want one
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on Thu 29 Apr 2004 01:47 PM PDT
Virtual computing--less than meets the eye?
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Dan
on Thu 29 Apr 2004 01:44 PM PDT
Rupert Goodwins has an interesting perspective on the virtualization craze: "If you've got one server running on a computer where every resource is maxed out -- processor gasping for breath, disk heads twitching like a Los Angeles seismograph, memory chocka and networks screaming -- then virtualisation will only make things worse."
You call that a standard???
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Dan
on Thu 29 Apr 2004 01:40 PM PDT
XML pioneer Robert Glushko decries how powerful interests have distorted the standards process by derailing the work of well-established standards organizations. He also contends that the standards development in governmental organizations, such as the United Nations, is a very politicized process. Glushko offer his views on the state of technology standards following revelations that Microsoft paid travel expenses of U.N. technical committee members -- a move that critics claim gave the software giant unfair influence in pressing the case for Web services over ebXML standards within the U.N.
Spam Report Card 2004
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Dan
on Thu 29 Apr 2004 01:36 PM PDT
The basics: more than 50 percent of all e-mail is spam and it costs U.S. companies at least $1 billion per year in security and human resources expenditures, as well as lost productivity. Increasingly, virus-infected machines are used to distribute spam and perpetuate additional fraud, such as phishing. Several antispam technology approaches have been proposed in recent months. I talk with Peter Christy of NetsEdge Research about various approachs from Yahoo, Microsoft and others for fighting the plague. Video
CIOs form shared source co-op
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Dan
on Thu 29 Apr 2004 10:42 AM PDT
CIOs from companies including BestBuy, Cargill, Medtronic and Jostens figured out that they all end up writing similar code and interfaces to deal with making their IT systems work, so they formed a corporate buyer's co-op--Avalanche Corporate Technology Cooperative. Inspired by the open-source movement, the co-op members trade and improve upon one another's programs. This is an idea that will take off like wildfire, if the companies can get over their fear of losing some competitive edge. But as Nick Carr of "IT Doesn't Matter" fame points out, the IT advantage edge is rather thin.... |
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