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Virtual machine (VM) technology has been around for PCs for a long time. For me, it's been one of those technologies that I've heard about, wrote about, and even seen in demonstrations for almost as long as I can remember.
I talked with Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie prior to his interview on the stage at Vortex 2005 this morning about Microsoft supporting the Open Document Format (ODF) and addressing concerns of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Ozzie told me that supporting ODF in Office isn't a matter of principle.
Apple's new iTunes puts the difference between digital identity and presence into sharp relief. Over at Tom on Identity, Tom points out that because he lives in the UK, iTunes won't let him download songs, let alone TV shows.
A chip start-up (including 150 developers) with DEC Alpha and other fine pedigrees and focusing on power consumption has waved a red flag in front of AMD, IBM, Intel and Sun. P.
Details are only sketchy at this point, but the Massachusetts Senate Post Audit Committee has apparently called for hearing to take place at 1pm on Monday October 31st in hearing room A1 at the State House in Boston. Massachusetts' recent ratification of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as one of two standard file formats (the other is Adobe's Portable Document Format) that all state agencies must start using on January 1, 2007 is apparently one of the issues to be discussed.
Last week, I wrote a blog entry that discussed Corel's mysterious withdrawl of its support of the OpenDocument standard and FUDbusted rumors that an ancient investment in Corel by Microsoft may have had something to do with it. Today, OpenOffice.
A few weeks back when Google and Sun started dropping hints that the two were on the verge of co-announcing something big, the odds-on favorite was some sort of AJAX-based version of OpenOffice.org (OO.
Matsumura suspects that an open source UDDI registry is likely in the near future.
As long as the reach, bandwidth, and targeting of networking technologies -- particularly the wireless kind -- continues to improve on a nearly Moore's Law like pace, relational database management systems as we know them may eventually be a thing of the past. So said Gartner analysts Donald Feinberg and Ted Friedman at Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, FL during a session entitled "The Death of the Database.
After seeing the news this morning about how the CEO of Scientigo has plans to extract royalties from those who have implemented the XML specification including Microsoft, Oracle, and Amazon (actually, he could probably sue everybody), I asked the man credited with co-inventing XML -- Sun's Tim Bray -- what he thought of the news.