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The Business of Software
The bug “event horizon”
Black holes are fearsome astronomical phenomenon that are so dense and have a gravity well so deep that their infinitely-large mass is compressed into an infinitely small space. Anything that approaches these monsters is almost certain to be sucked into the hole, and there is a region surrounding each of them where escape is impossible, [...]
Saving Microsoft
The last few years have been trying times for Microsoft. Late to jump on the web bandwagon, they’ve never owned that platform the way they owned the desktop. Internet Explorer remains a decidedly un-sexy choice for web browsing, and Microsoft might never recover from the black eye that was Vista. Office now faces some really [...]
Quora Blocks Startup Search Engines
According to an article on ReadWriteWeb, Q&A site Quora is blocking search engines from indexing its site — all, that is, except for Google, Bing, and a couple other big players. If this is true, this is a really chilling development for the competitive landscape of the Internet. Image via CrunchBase Google is plenty big [...]
How *not* to help your users
I got an email this afternoon from “VMWare Communities.” You’ve seen emails like this, I’m sure — here’s your status, and some stuff you might be interested in, and so on. Emails like this are generally intended to strengthen a connect with customers, which is great — normally. In this case, though, there was a section of [...]
Choosing an open-source platform
As an architect, I’m sometimes asked to evaluate and/or choose platforms for software, web sites, and so on. As you might imagine, choosing a platform can be an enterprise-critical decision, and one of the big forks in this road is whether to consider open-source software. I’m not going to touch that debate here – this [...]
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