(Untitled)- April 18, 2007 Re: Open Source To Microsoft's Rescue I read Joe Panettieri's musings on why Microsoft needs open source software with interest. The line "Microsoft's Windows empire was built upon third-party application support" made me view the article in a subtly different light. I think Joe is actually claiming that third party application support for Windows has withered. Perhaps because Microsoft has successfully out-competed most of their third-party vendors Regardless,.http://radio.weblogs.com/0130781/2007/04/18.html#a215 (Untitled)- April 13, 2007 Running Over two years ago the company I then worked for was taken over by FransiscoPartners, a venture capital firm. Suddenly, after years of lethargy, I started to run. With hindsight I guess that I was showing that I still was in control of my life, no matter what strange decision making the new managerial team might be doing. I still run to this day. Or should I say 'plod'. I have never broken the 5 minutes a kilometre barrier, and still start to run out out of breath after the first few...http://radio.weblogs.com/0130781/2007/04/13.html#a214 (Untitled)- April 11, 2007 Alas, poor CLO! On returning from a wonderful holiday in Melbourne I learnt that Aderant have finally admitted that they are terminating CLO, the product on which I used to work when in their employ. Given that the entire development team responsible for creating CLO were retrenched in one fell swoop just on two years ago I have to wonder at their delay in making this announcement. I found no clue in the scripted Power-point that they put up on their web site (http:www.aderant.comwebcast )....http://radio.weblogs.com/0130781/2007/04/11.html#a213 |