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‘The “Cell” microprocessor, developed jointly by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba, is about to become core to what we’re calling the “Cell Broadband Engine” (“Cell/B.E.”) .’
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“Microsoft is like an out-of-condition middle-aged man (somewhat like myself) out for a rare jog. They can curse to the high heavens the pain they feel, but don’t blame it on others.”
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“Database rivals MySQL and IBM on April 25 announced plans to bring support for the MySQL open-source database to the IBM System i business computing platform.”
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“Adobe hopes to fend off Microsoft’s Expression and Silverlight technologies by opening up Flex to a larger community of developers”
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“But don’t get suckered into thinking that the choice of OOXML is magically painless. The 100% compatibility claims don’t hold water.”
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If Microsoft want Silverlight to be viable, they should make a version for Linux and either start selling it or giving it away (their choice).
There are people and businesses who might be willing to ‘buy its freedom’ … not me personally, all my spare funds go to buying food for the kids … but Mark Shuttleworth (who might want it for Ubuntu), AT&T (who might want it to drive broadband uptake), and IBM (who might want it to facilitate commercial content hosting on ‘big iron’) spring to mind as possibilities.
Otherwise it’s http://www.xiph.org/ open-source codecs and Adobe Flex all the way.