Oracle’s at it again! This time they are buying Hyperion Solutions Corp. Hyperion is a company that makes a lot of tools used by SAP’s customers and SAP is a big competitor for Oracle. So this acquisition is, again, a direct attack against a competitor. SAP joins the company of RedHat and MySQL.
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In the past critics of this blog have said that my Breakfast Links are only of moderate importance and they longed for me to tackle things of global significance. Well, today, my 3 loyal readers, it all changes - I will learn you of conspiracy, hope for the future and.. not so much hope…
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So Ballmer is talking about tightening the screws on the pirates to squeeze more money out of BRIC. But wallstreet is saying that Brazil/Russia/India/China is so 2006 and they’ve moved onto the new frontier with countries like Vietnam and Qatar. To bad Microsoft can’t admit that nobody’s buying Vista because there’s not much in the [...]

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Having worked through Sony’s late S series of cameras (S30, S60 and lastly S80) I was excited to read about their latest 1/1.8″ CMOS sensor. First off, I love the 1/1.8″ sensor - to my knowledge it was the largest that went into compact cameras. And second I love that it’s only 6 megapixels - [...]

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