OsOpinion::
If the virtualization futurists get their way, the operating system could become largely irrelevant. Linux on Windows. Windows running Mac. Everything working together in one big IT soup. Someday, we’ll look back at the OS wars and wonder what all the fuss was about. Continue »
Archive for March, 2003
Sometimes an OS is nothing
Tough times for Infiniband
CNet News.com :: Things haven’t been easy for InfiniBand start-ups, as larger companies such as Intel backed away from InfiniBand and existing technologies were extended instead of extinguished. This week, InfiniBand switch maker InfiniSwitch merged with InfiniBand management software maker Lane15. Lane15 argued it had “the grand, generic InfiniBand management to any vendor’s equipment. It just really hasn’t gained the traction everybody was hoping,” Freund said. With the merger, Lane15’s strategy is more strongly tied to just the InfiniSwitch products, he said, a smarter if less ambitious strategy. Continue »
WorldCom or WorldCon
But while Rome was burning, the Neros were busy with their orgies. Money flowed like champagne at company events like the one in 1998, when about 60 to 150 people gathered for a long weekend at a castle a few miles away from Windsor Castle. It was a weekend to build company morale and bring people from different companies acquired by WorldCom together. One executive who was there talks about senior executives climbing poles and breaking expensive croquet sets. Things got out of hand when some executives decided to go to London in a cab and moon the pedestrians! Continue »
World Cup shambles
The Observer :: on the botched politics, naked compromise, rain and numerical dyslexia contributing in part to the elimination of some of the best teams from this World Cup, the organisers must hope the next tournament does not turn into another Mickey Mouse affair. Continue »
England year of discontent
The Observer :: England’s winter of discontent cost them the Ashes, their place among the World Cup elite, their one-day captain and their credibility in the eyes of cricket’s world governing body. Vic Marks on the initial steps which must be taken Continue »
Huw Richards: In some sports, giants fall harder
International Herald Tribune :: The desire to see the little guy come out on top is an sentiment old and elemental as humanity. It is why David and Goliath is among the most resonant of biblical tales, and the films of Charles Chaplin were so universally popular. Continue »
The death of a cricket dream was inevitable
Harare Daily News :: If the Zimbabwe team had swept past Kenya, to reach the Cricket World Cup semi-finals in South Africa, it would have been hailed as a remarkable feat for the players. Continue »
Kenya and cricket - tall tales of the unexpected
The Age :: The rank outsiders from the non-Test playing nation of Kenya have made this a World Cup to remember, as Greg Baum reports.A fairytale has come true in Africa. Some say Kenya’s advance to the World Cup semi-finals cheapens the game. But surely we have not grown so weary and cynical of sports cheat and liars so as not ever to believe it when something is made of nothing. Continue »
Even Stevens!
Outlook India :: In a reversal of roles from India’s tour of New Zealand, the Kiwi batsmen squirm as the fury of the Zaheer Khan-led pace brigade spells their virtual ouster from the World Cup. Continue »
