Hi there,
It was another late night at work for me, so there wasn't a lot of time to do things around the house. That said, Liz and I got out for a nice walk last night to enjoy the weather and made a trip to Home Depot to pick up some things for planting flowers.
Liz got a couple trays of "seed starters" so we spent some time last night planting daisy and snapdragon seeds. She also picked up some bloodmeal to sprinkle over the tulips out front to keep the rabbits away. Liz had been putting that off for a while but, when she spotted a couple nibble marks last night, I guess it wasn't going to get put off any longer.
Like I said - that was about it for last night. Tonight, I'm planning on playing some basketball with a bunch of friends. Hopefully, I won't kill myself. Then, when that's done, the NHL playoffs are starting tonight. I guess I've got a full night planned. ;-)
I did hear some rather big news in the tech industry - it's almost a week old so I must be out of the loop a bit, but here's the story: http://www.crn.com/sections/news/Top_News.asp?ArticleID=49145. Apparently, Sun Microsystems, who has been in legal battles with Microsoft for years now, has settled with Microsoft - for $1.6 billion, which should help Sun's bottom line - they had already forecast losses of roughly $800 million for the third quarter this year. Sun has been hurting for quite some time monetarily and losing market share to some other "big dogs" such as Microsoft and IBM. Not only has Sun settled their legal feud with Microsoft, the two seem to have become "best buds" overnight. Along with the legal settlement, the two have joined forces for a 10-year technology sharing pact in which they'll try to make their systems more interoperable.
Now, I'm no business genius, but it looks to me like Sun desperately needed a "big buddy" to keep them from falling by the wayside and Microsoft needed some help to fight off IBM's open-source push with Linux. Personally, I don't see open source going away any time soon, but this certanily puts a wrinkle in things. I just wonder if Microsoft is going to make things "interoperable" by simply taking over everything Sun does. :-/ We'll see, I guess.
Anyway, enough about that garbage. I'm out - talk to y'all later!
Corey
It was another late night at work for me, so there wasn't a lot of time to do things around the house. That said, Liz and I got out for a nice walk last night to enjoy the weather and made a trip to Home Depot to pick up some things for planting flowers.
Liz got a couple trays of "seed starters" so we spent some time last night planting daisy and snapdragon seeds. She also picked up some bloodmeal to sprinkle over the tulips out front to keep the rabbits away. Liz had been putting that off for a while but, when she spotted a couple nibble marks last night, I guess it wasn't going to get put off any longer.
Like I said - that was about it for last night. Tonight, I'm planning on playing some basketball with a bunch of friends. Hopefully, I won't kill myself. Then, when that's done, the NHL playoffs are starting tonight. I guess I've got a full night planned. ;-)
I did hear some rather big news in the tech industry - it's almost a week old so I must be out of the loop a bit, but here's the story: http://www.crn.com/sections/news/Top_News.asp?ArticleID=49145. Apparently, Sun Microsystems, who has been in legal battles with Microsoft for years now, has settled with Microsoft - for $1.6 billion, which should help Sun's bottom line - they had already forecast losses of roughly $800 million for the third quarter this year. Sun has been hurting for quite some time monetarily and losing market share to some other "big dogs" such as Microsoft and IBM. Not only has Sun settled their legal feud with Microsoft, the two seem to have become "best buds" overnight. Along with the legal settlement, the two have joined forces for a 10-year technology sharing pact in which they'll try to make their systems more interoperable.
Now, I'm no business genius, but it looks to me like Sun desperately needed a "big buddy" to keep them from falling by the wayside and Microsoft needed some help to fight off IBM's open-source push with Linux. Personally, I don't see open source going away any time soon, but this certanily puts a wrinkle in things. I just wonder if Microsoft is going to make things "interoperable" by simply taking over everything Sun does. :-/ We'll see, I guess.
Anyway, enough about that garbage. I'm out - talk to y'all later!
Corey
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Wednesday, April 07, 2004
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