As of this week Pluto is just a dwarf and our solar system, according to the astronomical union, only has eight planets. I know many people are upset about the decision, but really it was the right decision. Anything else would have just been confusing and would have continued the controversy. Personally I think the [...]
Read More »The big guys are increasingly getting into the open source game with preconfigured stacks and supporting services. Unisys, which recently threw its hat into the ring, is a perfect example. Matt Asay blogged about this and echoed the case made by Forrester that these fixed stacks are a good way to give their enterprise customers [...]
Read More »I was listening to a presentation the other day about open source and the advantages and was surprised to not hear the thing I consider one of the most important. The presenter seemed to me much more financially oriented as he centered around the cost savings in using open source. He also listed a number [...]
Read More »I've been at startups for my entire career and at the executive level for most of it. One of the nice things in the startup world is that the dress code has always been fairly slack. But this seems to be changing. Recently I had the misfortune of having to find a new job. One [...]
Read More »Kathy Sierra's post I am not a "woman blogger" really got me thinking about women in computer science. Kathy's point is that she's a blogger and she's a woman but she's not a woman blogger as if that's something different than a man blogger. I'm very interested in "women in computer science" – I think [...]
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