Posts tagged with "ibm"

I have absolutely no clue as to why David Heinemeier Hanson would hold any suspicious thoughts toward Sun. To me, given the big boys in the playground, they are the good guys. But reading it made me realize that I have not heard of IBM in a very, very long time.

Big Blue was quite quick to join the Java bandwagon, remember VisualAge for Java? But in the new world of dynamic languages IBM, apart from a few developerWorks articles, is not to be heard from.

For the love of software development - what the hell is this about? IBM, anyone?

IBM vs. Amazon: " The Internet has been amazingly quiet about IBM’s litigation against Amazon. It feels to me like maybe the biggest Internet story of, well, maybe, ever. I haven’t gone and read the IBM patents yet, because reading patents always depresses me. If the titles mean anything (not always a sure bet), this might mean that IBM has finally managed to figure out how to set up that Internet Tollbooth that we’ve always been afraid of. If you’re interested in ‘Presenting Applications in an Interactive Service’, ‘Storing Data in an Interactive Network’, ‘Presenting Advertising in an Interactive Service’, ‘Adjusting Hypertext Links with Weighted User Goals and Activities’, or ‘Ordering Items Using an Electronic Catalogue’, apparently IBM thinks you need to pay them for the right to do any of those things. If the courts agree with them, it’s time for me to find a new line of work.

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Why on earth doesn’t Sun provide a Java Communications API for Linux?

Good thing IBM does.

Some time ago I got a new IBM X40. It is now running Ubuntu Hoary and I must say that it is really an excellent piece of hardware. Everything but the SD card reader works out of the box, which of course also goes to show what a great distro Ubuntu is. Get’em both.