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Here’s an article from the NYTimes about Oracle’s buy-out of PeopleSoft. It suggests that consolidation is happening because there are too many software companies. What happens is that the big ones buy the more vulnerable ones, extract a little technology, and, over the long run, induce the customers of the swallowed company to switch over to the products of the ...

Hello, Just wanted to drop everyone a line and let you all know that I am still alive. I just got back from getting married and spending two wonderfull weeks in Italy. What a awesome country. I am glad to see that David Collin has been holding down the fort and that even Randy Moss is starting to contribute more ...

Advertisers Muscle Into RSS It appears advertisers have discovered simple syndication. Look for ads in your RSS feeds. Remember "push" technology? It’s baaaaack!

Thanks to David Neff’s nagging–er, I mean, encouragement–I switched my home browser to Firefox. It seems really quick, like getting a jump in bandwidth. It’s also got some cool features like an RSS detector. If you’re on a site that has an RSS feed, Firefox detects it and you can subscribe with a bookmark. So you get a browser and ...