Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
What on earth is wrong with the corporate world? People are buying other companies they should stay away from, believe me. Take Oracle and Sun. Oracle bought Sun to get their hands on Java, and to turn themselves into an IBM-style one stop shop. Fail. James Gosling has left, many of the key Sun Players have left, and all they’ve got left is some blue colours and some open source software. And Oracle really don’t understand open source. If they did, they wouldn’t be charging for the OpenOffice plugin…
And there’s more. Hp wants to buy Palm. (more…)
Tags: acquisition, Apple, BenQ, business, DEC, Digital, HP, IBM, Java, merger, Microsoft, Motorola, OpenOffice, OpenView, ORACLE, Palm, SGS Thomson, Siemens, Sun, VIA
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
The Semi-Automatic Ground Equipment computer (known as SAGE) was a 1950s IBM product – computers as cold war weaponry! On The Internet Archivea 12 minute 1956 documentary about it… Don’t forget to read the comments too – some are fascinating!
Interesting footnote: some of the parts later got “recycled” to use as the computer in the cult sci-fi series “The Time Tunnel” 
Tags: cold war, IBM, mainframe, Sage
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