Archive for November 2006

Services and Expanding Borders, Sun, MS, Novell, Red Hat, Oracle, and the Others

By Joshua Chalifour, 8 November 2006

A few short comments as I wake up to the morning’s catch. It sounds like Sun is about to make a move, which may effect the field in which the Novell/Microsoft situation took root. But first, a Forbes article frames the Microsoft/Novell agreement as a Novellian surrender. Is it? I think the telling part of [...]

Slow Erosion toward Open

By Joshua Chalifour, 3 November 2006

In the slew of posts today on the Microsoft/Novell agreement, I think one of the most interesting comes from David Berlind. David draws out locomotion methods of large companies like Google or Microsoft. In particular the issue of disruptive technologies. The established companies have to, one way or another, embrace these disruptions quickly, and there [...]

Oh NOvell

By Joshua Chalifour, 3 November 2006

Novell and Microsoft, what are you doing? The news is out, Novell and Microsoft are partnering for the sake of office document interoperability, virtualization, and service oriented arch smoothness. After reading the press, I’m left with a few irksome thoughts on what this amounts to. In spite of the potential upside to what this agreement [...]

Odyssey of the Oracle Hero

By Joshua Chalifour, 1 November 2006

A few years ago, during the dot-com era, I had an idea for a lyric poem. I thought, Larry Ellison, you have more money than you’ll ever use, why not pay me to shadow you for a year. And I’ll write a lyric poem about you. In the old days Homer went around recording the [...]