zumbrunn.com - Free-trade accord with japan edges closer

Free-trade accord with japan edges closer

The Swiss government has been seeking for years to convince the Japanese of the benefits of a bilateral trade accord. Japan is Switzerland's third-largest trade partner after the United States and the European Union. There seems to be new momentum behind achieving free trade agreements with the USA and now with Japan.

18.04.2005, 18:21

The Unix wars

"In their day, Pyramid, SCO, Apollo, DEC, Sun, Silicon Graphics, Gould and others fought ferocious scorched-earth wars trying to win customers' minds and money."

"Why is all this relevant? Because the UNIX wars didn't end and, consequently, the "last man standing" is still Microsoft / Intel. "

"Windows is a monopoly because short-sighted open source geeks and UNIX weenies were too busy squabbling over whether RPM was better than build-from-source or Gnome versus KDE, etc, ad nauseam."

"Let me make a prediction for you: The open source movement is not going to hurt Microsoft to any significant degree. But it'll put Sun out of business. Good move, guys! Now, do you hear the sound of distant laughter from Redmond?"

http://www.ranum.com/editorials/divide-conquer/

07.03.2005, 19:20

New aspects of woven apps

Hmm, interesting thought : "I haven't heard anyone mention this aspect of AOP , could it be used to provide entry points that purchasers of an app could use to customize the app?"

12.07.2004, 13:26

Alan Kay's wisdom guiding the OpenLaszlo roadmap towards Mocha?

Found this on the OpenLaszlo roadmap page: "Paraphrasing Alan Kay: simple applications should be easy, and complex applications should be possible."

Based on its current roadmap and since Laszlo is now open under the CPL, it looks like a good candidate for future integration in the Mocha universe.

28.02.2005, 10:29

Big Bang

If time is the fourth dimension then that neutralizes or stretches the other three and you are left with nothing or everything - depending on the perspective - which certainly would explain it all :-)

24.04.2004, 16:00

More Java Harmony

Andrew Roberts offers a recap of the Sun Java / Apache Harmony situation including these quotes of Dalibor Topic:

"Apache Software Foundation, an organisation that's been quite successful at writing, maintaining and encouraging donations of Free Software written in the Java programming language eventually started thinking that a full J2SE implementation might be a good thing to have under Apache's umbrella as well, beside a huge chunk of the stack above it."

"These days, there is an almost full Free Software stack, going from the Linux kernel, to the supporting GNU libraries from one side, and going from certified, compatible enterprise software development and deployment environments and their supporting libraries from the other side, like JBoss or JOnAS. The only remaining non-free card in that software stack is a fully compatible Free Software runtime for programs and libraries written in the Java programming language."

10.06.2005, 07:53