Does Microsoft have an open-source strategy — beyond finding new ways to thwart Linux and other non-proprietary wares?
Sam Ramji, Microsoft’s Director of Platform Technology Strategy and the company’s Open Source Software Lab, says it does. And it’s a lot less touchy-feely than this definition, which is on the Microsoft Open Source Web site: “The Microsoft [...]
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp., the world’s biggest software maker, made an unsolicited $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo! Inc. to challenge Google Inc.’s dominance in Internet search services and advertising.
The $31 a share bid of cash or Microsoft stock is 62 percent more than Yahoo’s closing price yesterday. Yahoo had dropped 18 percent this [...]
This was just on CNN that Microsoft as bid a rather large number to purchase Yahoo, experts claim the large number is to prevent any of the other companies to bid(see google). More as the news rolls in. But I hope that these early reports are wrong, however with the announced layoffs at Yahoo it [...]
The oil sands of Alberta have created an oil boom in the Canadian province.
And how much oil is there? Estimates bounced around for years until 1999, when Alberta got serious about determining its potential. Based on data from 56,000 wells and 6,000 core samples, the Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) came up with an astonishing [...]
