Hi everyone, been a while since I chimed in. I have to agree with Brian. Are we going to be "me too" to microsoft or move our technology ahead?
What about worrying about Sun's involvement in Linux and Open Source now that they've been bought? (Community One really sucked this year) What about the problems with wider adoption of Linux and the Open Source solutions that run on it? Just my 2 cents... - John Richmond IV ----------------- Randr, Inc. 951-369-3427 951-787-8683 Fax www.randrinc.com On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 08:35 -0700, Brian Friday wrote: > I think I'm tired of analyzing ever puff of air MS produces and > wishing we spent more time on honing the technology we use. > > You can't lead by following MS and you can't innovate if your only > goal is to stop MS because you have no other focus. > > - Brian > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Chris Thomas<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Looks like Microsoft and Yahoo finally strike a deal. Even though it is not > > a merger, it is still a big deal. Yahoo is going to use Microsofts search > > technology (Bing?). Yahoo used Hadoop to take the webpages they crawled and > > indexed them. > > http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/hadoop/2008/02/yahoo-worlds-largest-production-hadoop.html > > > > Yahoo was one of the biggest contributors to the project. What will their > > role be now? Because of the search deal Rasmus, the creator of the PHP > > language, might be leaving Yahoo, one of the biggest PHP shops. > > http://twitter.com/rasmus/status/2908526145 > > > > There are also the concenrs about less competiton in the search market. The > > MSFT - YHOO still needs to be approved by the Federal Trade Commission. > > > > What do you guys think about the deal? > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LinuxUsers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
