• When using open source makes you an enemy of the state
  Remember I mentioned the "Special 301" list yesterday, that US corporations can use to place pressure on places where they find it hard to compete? Well, it seems that it's being used to get the US to attack states that prefer open source software - places like Brazil and India.

I kicked off the year with an entry on SAP consulting trends – but that post was only part of the story. In that first post, I outlined the SAP trends to watch in 2010, but for service providers

Oracle User Productivity Kit 3.5 by Dirk Manuel. Packt Publishing (September 23, 2009) Cover price: $74.99 US, £49.99 UK

For the 40 years ending the 1990’s it was a big deal whenever IBM introduced new hardware.  These days, hardware announcements from any vendor rarely get much mindshare.  This is partly because new generations of faster, smaller, cheaper, more efficient machines appear predictably every two years or less. 
The new IBM Power 7 series does everything [...]