Archive for January, 2008

Oracle buys BEA

Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Posted in comment, m&a | 2 Comments »

So, BEA and Oracle have come to a price both can agree on - I did blog this a while ago, and after destroying my wordpress install have managed to ... Read more..

Sun buys MySQL

Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Posted in comment, m&a, news | No Comments »

Two major announcements to comment on today (Sun and MySQL, and Oracle and BEA)- but they both merit separate posts. Sun has acquired MySQL AB the Swedish software company behind the ... Read more..

Eek… have just given Governor a link to this blog

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 Posted in aproposofnothing, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Am bracing myself for "therapy" from a proper blogger Read more..

The EU and Microsoft – Another investigation or two…

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 Posted in ip patents and regulation | 4 Comments »

The EU has recently announced two new anti-trust investigations against Microsoft. The first is the result of a complaint by European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) in which ECIS alleges ... Read more..

Also checking out Zimbra

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in mtbtos | No Comments »

Zimbra looks like a pretty rocking collaboration suite. http://www.zimbra.com/ Read more..

Open Source Groupware

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in mtbtos | No Comments »

One of the key aspects of my Move The Business To Open Source project is that any solution has to support both Linux and Windows clients - Because I just ... Read more..

Moving from Outlook to Thunderbird

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in mtbtos | No Comments »

First post on this topic. I've been using Thunderbird to connect (via Pop3) to exchange. Of course this hasn't given me calendar - so I've been using Google Calendars with the ... Read more..

EMI – Signs of an industry in crisis

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in comment, trends | 1 Comment »

EMI is in the papers this week - Numerous pop stars are voicing their concerns over the changes that are planned by EMI's new owners (the PE firm Terra Firma). ... Read more..

Calling the Inland Revenue….

Monday, January 14th, 2008 Posted in aproposofnothing | No Comments »

Wow! I've just finished a call with the Inland Revenue, and have to say that it was one of the best calls I've ever made to a help-line. My advisor ... Read more..

About the logo…

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 Posted in aproposofnothing | No Comments »

I am very proud of my logo. I'm sure it looks amateurish, schlepped-together and pretty poor generally, but it took ages to create. Here is is in all it's .. ... Read more..