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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

IBM’s “Watson” Computing System to Challenge All Time Greatest Jeopardy! Champions - This should be entertaining and interesting to watch.
FreeBSD on Amazon EC2 - I'm somewhat surprised it has taken this long!
Hudson's Secret: Kohsuke - Eduardo offers some insight into a fantastic developer. But also shows a great example of visualizing data. Love it!
Make Data Dance - Another great article on generating value and intelligence from data. And kudos to the Bill Gates Foundation for requiring that data from projects they fund be open.

SkySQL will try to drive MySQL fork, Oracle's ouster - Not a fork yet, but supporting one (MariaDB) and not ruling out creating one.
IBM, Oracle and Java: The Q&A - @sogrady's always well written Q&A with a kind mention of the questions I sent him.
Linux Starts to Eat Microsoft’s Lunch in Servers - Shows Linux growth (79% adding more Linux vs 21% adding more Windows), but it is a lot easier to show growth when coming from behind.
Introducing Project Arcturus, Part 1: The World’s First and Only Developer Intelligence Tool - A great use of data to provide insight into developers. Kudos to RedMonk for building it. ReadWriteWeb has a review here.
Twitter mood predictions the stock market - Another fascinating use of data.
Scott McNealy Keynote Speaker at PG West - A great opportunity to hear Scott speak.

Is EMC Moving To Tackle Data Management Market? - "I’m going to recommend to EMC that they acquire both Informatica and TIBCO and challenge IBM for world domination of the information management market."
Approaches to Return Shelfware - Great idea if you are the customer, but what is in it for the vendor?
Android takes market share from everyone - Android up 4 points to 13% while all of RIM/Apple/Microsoft/Palm shrink 0.4 to 1.9 points.
Follow HTC-Columbia in the Tour De France on Google Maps - Very cool app.

IBM acquires Cast Iron Systems - IBM making more of a push into the Cloud. Another set of thoughts.
Open-source support: Can it scale? - "Enterprises turned to open source to shave money in the economic downturn and are staying with it now to drive greater innovation and productivity."
Browser market share: IE drops below 60% - Every browser other than IE shows a growth trend (Opera interestingly seems to have plateaued though), particularly Chrome.
Browsers: Does minimalist win the race? - ZDNet speculates on why IE is losing share and Chrome is gaining. A few quotes: "Tech geeks aside, people are more interested in web content than they are the browser" and "... Chrome just kind of blends into the background".
Patent Litigation Weekly: MobileMedia's Unusual Patent Infringement Campaign - Give it away free or let folks use it for free to get adoption, then swoop in and sue. Nice.
Google at a loss for what to do with cash? - They'd have to do a lot of acquisitions to spend $26.5B!
The Future of Open Data - Some interesting ideas. I have to admit that I've run across data sets where I have made changes or cleanup and what Stephen describes would work better than just sharing the Google Spreadsheet I've done in the past.
Ready for Android on your ... TV? - Not really a surprise as TV's are a natural for being connected and a platform for new types of apps.

Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy - Listen to the words.
Rimini Street Sues Oracle - The saga continues.
Gmail adds OAuth support - It is great that it opens the door to new apps, but remember, while you don't have to share your Gmail password, the 3rd party app still has full access to your e-mails.
Oracle goes all or nothing on hardware support - Closing the loopholes Sun perhaps should have years ago.
JumpBox Jumps Ahead - Open Source as a Service on Amazon EC2 - Making the cloud easier to use. And there is a great library available that includes MySQL, PostgreSQL, Tomcat, Ruby on Rails, SugarCRM, MediaWiki, phpBB, Drupal, Liferay, Wordpress, Jasper, and much more. But no GlassFish or JBoss?
Why doesn't IBM just buy Novell already? - Interesting thought. But then so is IBM buying RedHat or IBM buying Canonical.
Chipmaker sues Apple for violating multitouch patent - What goes around, comes around. Jonathan's blog on the subject is interesting as is Stephen O'Grady's reasons against software patents.

Are you stuck with Oracle's and IBM's middleware control? - I should probably do a whole piece analyzing this, but short of that, this is a good read. The role of open-source in combating the duopoly is an interesting and on-point observation.
Amazon is the Most Trusted and Recommended Brand in the U.S. - Interesting that two parcel delivery companies are in the top-10 too (FedEx and UPS).
Apple's Mac fleet gaining traction in enterprise - They were certainly popular at Sun.