Saturday June 24, 2006 links for 2006-06-25
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Sometimes they really are out to get you (this happened just down the road from my home).
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I thought that throwing something into my garden voluntarily made it mine, too.
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"No standard should be approved without a reference implementation ... No standard should be approved without having been used to implement a few projects of realistic complexity." More reasons ODF gets it right.
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A useful insight in this article is that successful businesses of the future will target workloads that are growing faster than Moore's Law as that's where there's value over and above commodity to be monetised.
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I think this is a big deal too. I hope for a world where having a "standard" will imply all the parties to its creation have been compelled to issue non-assert covenants like this as a condition of participation.
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Andy digs through the MA RFI responses. Most interesting phrase: "even though the MS XMLRS may be fully unencumbered ... a number of the features ... are not available for implementation by other developers".
Posted by webmink
( Jun 24 2006, 06:17:39 PM PDT )
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Gone but not forgotten
It's hard to see colleagues move on for any reason, but one of the good things about Sun is that we often find people returning later - indeed, some of our key leadership right now are re-hires. Sun has always had a policy of not re-allocating employee serial numbers so that people can come back.
There's a radical new step emerging though. Sun alumni can now apply to have their blogs aggregated at the new community.sun.com aggregator page by filling out a form, staying part of Sun's extended family. I hope we'll see a broad spread of blogs syndicated there - there are so many people I want to stay in touch with, Geoff Arnold included. No reason why turning in your badge means I have to stop respecting your considered opinion (assuming I did before!).
Posted by webmink
( Jun 24 2006, 07:36:38 AM PDT )
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