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Maybe somebody leaked is because they were already "gone." Giving 4% of the company a pink slip for their Christmas "bonus" probably affected morale somewhat. Just guessing.

http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=023000QNLD00&full_skip=1

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Apple-Android-Sales-Soar-Despite-Component-Shortages-in-Q3-692598/

Last I heard, Android was activating 200k handsets per day.

Bedwetting over whether Android or iPhone is better is reaching tidal levels.

RIM continues to decline. WebOS is not setting any sales records.

WMP7 _could_ turn things around and make MS powerful in the cell phone market - but seriously, it just looks like too little, too late to me.

The new Android wave is driven by converts, unhappy with what was out there.

I see nothing driving a WMP7 wave beyond legacy users - and that's not going to be good enough.

Even the apologists are describing Android "like the new Windows on smartphones." God forbid they come out and admit that Android is Linux and that they never got that the OSes should work for us - not polarize us into fan camps.

But I could be wrong. It's entirely possible that the best thing you could do would be to completely trust Microsoft to build a compact operating system that works swimmingly on much-less-than-desktop hardware.

Meanwhile, Android and iOS are proving to be effective at driving handsets and tablets.

There's also the sales of the first Android devices; the T-mobile G1 sold 1.5 million devices it sold before even being released. The same article mentions the iPhone 3G selling 1 million devices in 3 days. Both of these phones are comparable to WP7; it's not like they are leagues apart. They are roughly comparable.

Even better than that, the phones they're offering are the HTC Surround, LG Quantum or the Samsung Focus - not the more popular phones such as the Omnia or the HD7, which one can learn from other sources are selling like the proverbial hot cakes.

A poor attempt, really.

Yes, they have something else up their sleeve. Did anybody notice Apple's "enterprise services agreement" with Unisys? http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Apple-Unisys-Agree-to-Enterprise-Services-Deal-Report-788654/ Did anybody notice the 54% drop in Unisys's profits, along with a drop in server sales? http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Unisys-3Q-profit-sinks-54-pct-apf-3818156357.html?x=0&.v=1 So, Unisys is an enterprise computing company looking for a way to save its server business. Apple is consumer electronics company with enterprise ambitions, enterprise software, but no enterprise distribution network. Apple just announced it is dropping its server hardware line, a little over a week after announcing the deal with Unisys. I know it is fashionable to dismiss Apple's enterprise computing ambitions. I was at an Apple Developer's seminar a couple years ago where they were showing off the new version (then) of MacOS X Server. The entire focus of that seminar was on how Apple was adding features to MacOS X Server (and even licensing things from Microsoft) to make OS X Server more suitable for the enterprise. I predict Unisys will start offering MacOS X Server on Unisys server hardware soon. Apple may even end up buying Unisys.

you need to check the dates on your sources a little more closely. Both those stories you cite are from 2003, and in the computing world that's a loooooonnnng time.

You're right, I need to be more careful. When I got those links I restricted my search to only webpages updated in the past year. Looking at the "SD Times" article while the article was written on April 1, 2003 the webpage was last updated "As of October 26, 2010 03:59 PM"

According to more recent data from IDC, Oracle had 43.5 percent of the RDBMS market in 2008.

One of those sources you say is old, the eweek article, says that on 21 May 2003 Oracle had a 43% marketshare in RDBMSs. And though they don't have the marketshare stats ServerWatch has the article Top 10 Enterprise Database Systems to Consider. That is dated 20 May 2010.

I wonder how many enterprises are adopting NoSQL, infotech, reports about an InformationWeek Analytics report saying "Microsoft SQL Server Overtaking Oracle as Primary Database in Use" but that 39% of respondents are considering NoSQL, which Slashdot had some news about.

I'm sure there are plenty of happy Microsoft and IBM customers, but Oracle maintains a commanding lead.

I agree however my point has been that Oracle could lose its lead if it treats too many people poorly. As with operating systems applications have to offer what users want or they may go somewhere else. Because I got sick and tired of my PCs crashing a lot a few years ago I switched away from Windows. I'm typing this on my MacBook Pro and underneath my desk I have 2 PCs, a DEC Alpha running Windows NT4 and Redhat Linux, and another PC that only runs Linux. Actually the NT4 PC is the best I have used, I haven't had NT4 crash on me nor did I have hardware problems. And I've used from Windows 3.x to XP. When I can I'll replace my MBP with another one and for a server I'll upgrade my Linux PC.

Falcon

they make it so hard for you to do shit that if you want to get anything done you have to pay for Oracle support or consultants -- but you don't figure that out until you're already committed.

But as I said in the post you replied to there are other vendors, such as MS, who will help you migrate to their database offerings. How about IBM, despite a slide in relational database sells, IBM passed Oracle as the largest seller of new RDBMS licenses. As SD Times says Oracle's Lead Narrows in Relational Database Market.

I didn't say it was moral, good for you, or the route to improved community(s) relationships. It is what Oracle does: make money.

No, you're not listening, er reading. You don't make money by paying billions of dollars buying a company then dumping that company's products. Nor do you as a software business make money by treating developers of your platform like shit. Oracle is foolhardy doing so. Sure right now they're the 800 pound gorilla but there are other enterprise scale databases on the market. Microsoft will even help customers transition from Oracle to SQL Server. IBM has it's own offering, DB2 as does HP. Of course there are also open source based DBMSs such as ones based on PostgreSQL, Computer Associates spin-off Ingres, and Firebird.

Falcon

I think someone has missed Windows Phone 7 and the tablets Microsoft will be releasing shortly.

Windows Phone is already out in Europe. We'll see how well it fares. Personally, I'm not impressed by the many restrictions (more than in iPhone!), but then I'm a geek. If I were buying a phone as a present for my mom, I'd look into it alongside iPhone.

HP Slate 500 (running Windows 7) is also out. It's rather telling that they've put it into business laptops and PCs section of their website, though. The reviews so far have not been all that positive, from what I've seen - it certainly does some things great (like e.g. running Outlook or other Windows software, or pen digitizer mode for handwritten notes), but as a "consumption gadget" a la iPad, it falls short - the main issue seems to be that it's not as "silky smooth" (i.e. responsive) as Apple devices. No surprise there considering the OS. Overall I'd buy one as opposed to iPad, if I weren't waiting for Notion Ink Adam already...

Just bring me something that Courier was supposed to be. I want it, I need it! Combine that with environment like Windows where everyone can freely develop their software and include things like XNA and Xbox Live and you have a wonderful product on your hands!

Somehow I suspect that, were tablets with specialized OS to come out, they'd be more aligned with Windows Phone - with respect to software restrictions as well. And did you see the list of "can't" on WP?

The RAM is soldered in

Let me just repeat that, in case it hasn't quite sunk in yet.

The RAM is soldered in/ If you buy it with 2GB, you can't upgrade it. If you buy it with 4 GB, you can't upgrade it.

However, you can upgrade the SSD.

source

Of course, it comes with a paltry 1.4 GHz Core 2 Duo (soldered in, naturally) or a 1.6 GHz C2D.

Oh, I see that my new talking points have come in from Apple.

You don't need a faster processor because it's still faster than an Atom.
You don't need to upgrade the RAM, because virtual memory on an SSD is so much faster.

Thanks, Apple! My Fanboy subscription still pays dividends!

"I think depending on how you look at it, Apple has probably increased its market share over the last year or so by a point or more. And a point of market share on a number that's about 300 million is interesting. It's an interesting amount of market share, while not necessarily being as dramatic as people would think, but we're very focused in on both Apple as a competitor, and Linux as a competitor."

and

I assume we're going to see Android-based, Linux-based laptops, in addition to phones. We'll see Google more as a competitor in the desktop operating system business than we ever have before. The seams between what's a phone operating system and a PC operating system will change, and so we have ramped the investment in the client operating system.

And, OpenOffice runs on Android mobile phones: http://www.alwaysonpc.com/aboutOpenOffice.php. That is something for Microsoft to be sleepless about.

OpenOffice on Android mobile phones. Mmmmmm. Sweet.

yes, and in that case it more clearly defines that the cake can't be eaten and still had. Except, it's still a silly saying, and rarely makes sense or helps actually clarify a situation; calling on a short saying to describe a situation should generally add clarity to the description; why say it otherwise? They're not trying to eat (take in the material components of and, destroying them, turn them in to something else...) OOo, they're trying to change the leadership to a more community-driven model.

Why are they wanting to migrate from the parent leadership? Well, look what Oracle has done with other Open Source projects. Look at the recent things they've done that are extremely anti-open source. The fact is, there was already a growing entity that existed (go-oo) and LibreOffice is just community recognition of that. If the community is so beholden to Oracle contributions, why is Go-oo so much better than OO? They're not trying to fork the project, they're trying to ensure the project survives, versus the long list of projects that oracle has killed. MySQL's time has already passed, at this point, as has Glassfish's. OpenOffice could still be (and will still be, even without Oracle's assistance) saved.

Say, for an example, you like Firefox. Then, say Mozilla was out of funds, and decided to sell off the ownership of Firefox, and it was bought by Haliburton. And, still just for example's sake, say you hate Haliburton. Say you were one of the leaders of the Firefox project, and you decide to move away from Haliburton...not because you want to compete with yourself, not because you want there to be two projects and you have a COI, but because you merely want to move away from the grandparent ownership of your project.

BTW, my use of Mozilla as an example was on purpose, as this same thing happened there. "When AOL (Netscape's parent) drastically scaled back its involvement with Mozilla Organization, the Mozilla Foundation was launched on July 15, 2003 to ensure Mozilla could survive without Netscape. AOL assisted in the initial creation of the Mozilla Foundation, transferring hardware and intellectual property to the organization and employing a three-person team for the first three months of its existence to help with the transition and donated $2 million to the foundation over two years."

That's what LibreOffice was hoping for - they made the same exact move the Mozilla Foundation made, and were hoping that Oracle would be as good-natured about it as AOL was. Guess Oracle is getting shown up by AOL, in the end...

I for one feel it's safe to assume Iran is right

Oh geez. Iran is the same nation where beheadings are common (as is cousin and even double-cousin marriage), women have to be kept in beekeeper outfits for fear some Iranian neanderthal male will see an ankle and go on a rampage of rape and destruction...

Oh. I get it. Your post was tongue-in-cheek. Whew, for a second there I thought you were as insane as the Iranians!

I'm going with my original guess from the last time this was posted - most likely, Stuxnet was either the result of a pissed-off former Siemens employee, or of a competing PLC manufacturer somewhere in Asia or Russia getting the "bright idea" to hire on a mafia or yakuza group with some programmers (the same guys who code worms to set up botnets and run "pay us or we DDoS you, crash your system" extortion scams) to make the world think "OMG don't use Siemens, better use someone else instead, those Siemens things can't be trusted."

Yes, there are a number of reasons why this could reasonably be the case, particularly though we've had a couple of years of slow economic activity which has certainly had an effect on corporate upgrade cycles

The economy has had less of an effect on some computer companies than others. In fact, some computer companies with the ticker AAPL have enjoyed massive GROWTH, despite the economy, which others, with the ticker MSFT have had to write off entire products, to the tune of hundreds of millions after just six weeks on the market.

Guess that's why Monkey-Boy got a pay cut, eh?

The first scenario does have a different twist in that HDS actually manages from afar the local storage within the customer's firewall. We repeat: Hitachi is managing cloud-type storage inside its customers' own arrays.

The benefit, ostensibly, is that you outsource your IT mechanics and have the internal IT guy(s) do provisioning and maintenance management through the vendor(s)... sounds just like the IBM model, with the catch that, if it's standardized enough, then vendor is replaceable (not stuck on z/OS). Still not sure how this is any more secure than your garden-variety VPC, but I think it may have better availability metrics -- even if the uplink goes dark, your internal network should still be available on-site.

Source: e-week

Simon

We have to be patient with the big dinosaurs. Word travels slowly inside such a large company.

1 June 2001, Ballmer's legendary comment, "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works."

From the comments in TFA, 8 April 2002 - FUD from Juan Gonzalez, General Manager of Microsoft Peru gets shot down in flames by Congressman Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez

20 February 2003, David Stutz, retiring group program manager, "delivered a kick in the pants to his former employer" saying "Microsoft is in danger of being swept away by open source"

12 May 2004, Windows Template Library (and Windows Installer XML) posted to sourceforge. The blogosphere reels in shock. Even slashdot isn't sure what to think.

I got bored at this point, but there's lots more popcorn-hour fun and games as this large corporation tries to deal with a rapidly changing industry.

Lets privatize our most important infrastructure!

When a Salt Lake City router went offline, only government telecom contractor Harris knew that the backup card was not immediately available and one technician had access to where it was kept. Meanwhile, hundreds of aircraft and thousands of passengers were thrown off schedule as the lack of an FAA filing system left pilots submitting flight plans manually.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Networking/The-Story-Behind-FAAs-FlightPlan-System-Crash-773289/
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/FAAs-FlightPlan-System-Crashes-Again-Delays-Hundreds-of-US-Flights-199160/

Dave

Lets privatize our most important infrastructure!

When a Salt Lake City router went offline, only government telecom contractor Harris knew that the backup card was not immediately available and one technician had access to where it was kept. Meanwhile, hundreds of aircraft and thousands of passengers were thrown off schedule as the lack of an FAA filing system left pilots submitting flight plans manually.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Networking/The-Story-Behind-FAAs-FlightPlan-System-Crash-773289/
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/FAAs-FlightPlan-System-Crashes-Again-Delays-Hundreds-of-US-Flights-199160/

Dave

Nokia also outsources some of its manufacturing to Foxconn in China.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Apple-Nokia-Dell-HP-Investigating-Conditions-at-Foxconn-Site-635424/

So the .1% of the US work force that are on h1-b are the movers and shakers of the whole market eh? I find that difficult to believe.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/H1B-Visas-Less-Than-01-Percent-of-US-Workforce-Report-559488/

Sounds like a classy guy, but sadly I'm guessing this is par for the course at this level of "leadership" in most companies.

But I'll be surprised if anyone can point to anything in any version of the PDF spec which requires a conforming implementation to allow unrestricted access to the underlying OS. It may require that certain APIs be available, but I'd be very surprised if it didn't allow those APIs to return errors if code running in a PDF document attempted to use them in a way which would violate the basic integrity of the underlying OS.

There was a PDF vulnerability about a year ago that allowed execution of code. This was a design feature in PDF to run other things like media. For Windows that allowed the running of code and not just media. It didn't affect just Adobe's PDF viewer; it affected any PDF viewer on Windows. It didn't affect OS X at the time.

This man is a blight upon humanity. Example:

eWEEK.com columnist Rob Enderle is here to tell you that he has evidence that SCO has rights to Unix, that IBM's error in releasing Unix (AIX) code into Linux violated those rights and that IBM used the Linux community in an attempt to cover up that mista -- eweek

He wasn't just some tangential person either, he was deep into that shit running their propaganda errands. Explain to me why we'd ever listen to this analcyst?

And Adobe would be a fool to put any effort, funded or not, into putting Flash on a Microsoft phone product.

You go tell them that.

By the way, do you know that WP7 will not support Silverlight in the browser? Apps only... so there's plenty room for Flash. And, of course, with Flash on Android and likely other mobile platforms other than iPhone, it's a straightforward way to write cross-platform mobile apps.

Silverlight ... is designed to tie vendors to Windows instead of having platform choices which Java provides.

Why is there a simultaneous release policy for Windows and OS X for Silverlight, then?

Apple didn't create Rosetta, but a small UK company called Transitive did (which in the mean time has been acquired by IBM)

What planet are these people on?

My guess is they are from planet Microsoft. MS has a history of launching surreptitious lawsuits against its competitors. For example they provide the bulk of the funding for the SCO anti-Linux lawsuit charade. Then there was the ridiculous Psystar lawsuits against Apple and then the Turbohercules claims against IBM. The ties to MS in this last two cases are not as clear but I find it hard to believe that all these high-profile wacko law suits against Microsoft's competitors are just an coincidence.

Uh... Yes, a company perfectly has that right [to censor and spy]. No, if you are using an employer/school-provided connection, you have no rights outside the conditions of access you agreed to when you accepted employment/enrollment. (As it relates to internet access, anyway.)

Do you mean legal rights or moral rights? Clearly, people don't have a choice in whether they want to work or not, it's pretty much mandatory for survival, so there needs to be rights (hopefully) legislated, that prevents a company from treating an employee like a non-sentient being. Schooling unfortunately is also a legal requirement in most countries for people under the Age of Majority, so these people too need to be protected from over-bearing authority like government and administrative bureaucracy.

It's sad when people think that implementing security is a bad thing, just for the sake of maintaining an oppressive environment (that deems censorship and invasion of privacy as good) with (de facto) unaccountable administrators. (By de facto unaccountable administrators I mean people like the Authorities, network and otherwise, who can snoop and censor with little or no oversight from students and employees, like with the Lower Merion School District. Of course you should remember, that LMSD, in their stupidity and arrogance, largely admitted to spying, otherwise they wouldn't have been caught).

And I suppose Foxconn mined and refined the elements used in my iMac? Oh, so then some other company TRULY makes everything for Apple then!

Most of my non technical friends believe they have a "Dell" or "HP" computer, and "windows" is just "the thing" inside the screen, they have essentially no idea about other Operating Systems such as Linux, its just "windows" and "those Apple computers". They know that Apple computers are Apple inside and "out".

Funnily enough, Steve Jobs considered the TOTAL vertical approach:

"Remember Steve Jobs "sand" concept for the creation of personal computers? About the time he lent his star power to the creation of the original Macintosh back in the early 80s, Apples founder famously described his dream factory: an oceanfront site that would haul raw beach sand in one end, cook up its own silicon and deliver fully configured PCs out the other end. This vision of vertical integration and rugged self-sufficiency is a cornerstone of Apples culture that has informed the companys every move during Jobs two tenures there." http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Apple/Mac-Market-Built-on-Sand/

Ok, I guess that wasn't clear/enough context. There is of course more to the article and to Google's quoted statements...

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Google-Denies-Revenue-Sharing-For-Android-Mobile-Apps-336067/

Here's another key bit, and my point:

"We share revenue on search, not on mobile applications. The same is true for non-Android devices that use Google as the default search engine."

ie. yes, they get advertising revenue from apps, but it is NOT is Android-specific. App developers can use Google advertising on Blackberry or iPhone apps as well, and Google in fact has several native apps (Google Voice Search, Google Earth) in the iPhone, etc.

In fact, they even have an AdSense developer kit for iPhone (as well as Android, of course!) I'm sure they'd be happy to support Palm's (HP's?) WebOS, etc if they ever became relevant.

http://www.google.com/ads/mobileapps/

Yet you continue to assume people buy Apple products just for the 'cool factor' when obviously they buy them because the features fit their needs. Although i'm certain there are people who buy them as a popular/fad item, those kinds of fads do fade and they move on to something else. Given that the satisfaction rate with Apple products and the % of folks who would buy again are tops in the industry, I wouldn't classify it as a 'fad' purchase.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Apple-Again-Tops-HP-Dell-in-Customer-Satisfaction-377579/

While most Android is open sourced there are key components needed by cellphones which are not (eg. the radio protocol stack).

Wrong. This was initially true, but with the release of the G1, Google released the entire Android system under the Apache license, "including the heretofore unavailable network and telephony layers."

Actually I think that the perfect match for Palm would be Nintendo. In order for Nintendo to remain relevant in the mobile gaming market, they need to build devices that can compete with the iPad/Phone/Pod.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Midmarket/Nintendo-Shrugs-off-Threat-from-Apple-iPhone-Game-Center-477183/

Nintendo is big on usability. So the WebOS would be a good fit.

You wrote ". Look carefully at the photograph (provided by the parents, I might add.) Who goes to sleep with their laptop turned on and the camera pointed right at their face, so that it's perfectly centered in the frame and just well lit enough to show it clearly?"

    If you read this article you will discover that the judge has proposed that each student be shown the photos that were taken of them. There is no discussion that I've read of suggesting that the school ever publicly release the photos. Indeed, that makes sense, since the school never should have taken the photos in the first place.

    So, the only photos you will ever see, are ones released by the kids and their parents. As far as a perfectly framed photo, it's simple. Take a randomly framed picture every fifteen minutes until you have hundreds of photos. Most of them won't be any good, but there will be a few gems in there.

    Now, if you were the lawyer for the family and had all the photos taken of your client, which one would you release?

Reformatting the hard disk is not enough. The rootkid could hide on some device's firmare or even the graphics card memory. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Black-Hat-Demonstrations-Shatter-Hardware-Hacking-Myths/

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/02/16/google-now-shipping-60000-android-handsets-per-day/ Google and their hardware partners are now shipping 60,000 Android handsets each day. While Apple is shipping a measly 90,000. Yeah, obviously Apple is soooo doomed.

WalMart has one of the largest Teradata installs, it doesn't use SQL.

IIS is actually pretty damn good. I think there's more to this story than you're letting on here. Was his server a shared host? Or perhaps just even older than yours?

Here's an example benchmark: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Apache-20-Holds-Its-Own-in-Performance-Tests/
Admittedly it's an old test (8 years!), and since then, IIS has improved significantly (and no doubt Apache has too). I don't think that the IIS version in that test even uses IO completion ports (and say what you like about the proprietry-ness of MS, they allow any application, including the Windows version of Apache, to use them too).
But even in this old test, they don't struggle with the load you claim IIS struggles with.

As I recall, it was proven that Microsoft arranged the Baystar investment by eWeek.

As for whose money sits in the Baystar Capital investment pool, there is no public disclosure requirement of such things for private equity firms and hedge funds. And it's a large fund, so it's clearly not just Microsoft people's money, but given the nature of the relationship documented between Baystar and the Microsoft people who brought this deal to them, I can assure you there's some money from senior Microsoft people there, at the very least.

In any case, the guys at Baystar realized they were pawns in a big game after a short while and pulled out what they could. See this story.

Basically they wrote off $37M of their investment for some common stock in SCO (hahaha). Which went on to finance SCO's legal actions for several more years before they finally went kaput.

Baystar, having invested over $1.5B in equity deals since inception, this was a relatively small write-off. Probably an annoying blip in their overall results, part of the price of cultivating their relationships with Microsoft senior executives.

Matt: First off, it's critical to understand that Canonical doesn't make decisions at the cost of usability. Ever. Usability is our cardinal virtue.

The Yahoo! deal is not at the cost of usability. Yahoo! is an excellent and wildly popular search engine with many many millions of users. We are very pleased to have reached an agreement that will pump additional revenue into the community compared to the existing default. For those worried about Microsoft's involvement with Yahoo!, it is trivially easy to switch to Google or other alternatives.

Really? So this means that Canonical is convinced that Yahoo is at least as good as Google, Bing, etc.

I'd be interested in seeing what studies support that conclusion because I couldn't find any. I could find some data suggesting the opposite though:

• Blind Search
• uTest

the majority operating system

ReadyDrive

As of last month, Windows XP still held two-thirds of market share; Windows Vista and Windows 7 combined made up about one-fourth. Of these, compro01 pointed out that ReadyDrive requires Windows Vista or higher.

Well, that's what Apple claim. There are two problems with this.

The first one is, how does Apple know what other companies are required to pay? This article claims the agreements are secret and I see no reason to disbelieve that, it'd be standard for this sort of thing.

The second problem is that Apple have sadly established a track record in the last few years of being flexible with the truth, whereas Nokia have not. For example, covering up issues with Jobs' health and playing cute with the FCC over Google iPhone apps. In constrast the only time I read about Nokia in the news is when they've done something cool, like launching a new product.

Simply put, some companies have more credibility than others, and Apple is on the losing side in this one.

eWeek has a screenshot of the apology.

Yahoo will be bing soon.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsoft-Yahoo-Delay-Search-Deal-to-Dot-Is-Cross-Ts-599609/

Has nothing to do with the iPod. Here's the story:
http://blogs.eweek.com/applewatch/content/macbook/is_apples_mac_u_pic_worth_a_thousand_words.html

Thank you kindly for sharing your thoughts and for letting your readers decide if Side Wiki looked to Reframe It as an example to follow when they entered the market. We're flattered by the similarities to our pre-existing product from 2008. We're exhilarated by the challenge presented by Google to work even harder, and we expect our forthcoming release of our technology to knock the socks off of anything in the space. Bobby Fishkin CEO of reframeit.com

source Umm.. he doesn't seem to be considering any sort of legal action to me.

I was expecting some damning evidence from the comparison shots, but it just looks like Google made their own implementation of the same features. Copying features happens, and it's not illegal.

Looks like Google is working on a version of that same app for the iPhone...

The thing people forget is Google benefits from the iPhone as much as Android.

I wonder who pays these gentlemen. And, again, who pays those who pay them...

Blackduck is founded and stocked by Microsoft employees. Though it would be damning enough in this context to point out that it is an active Microsoft partner.

SCO was a pre-existing company re-purposed several times, turned pump-n-dump, turned sock puppet. Blackduck was founded from the beginning for the activities it is engaged in.

I My boss forces me to work with .Net but thanks to Mono

Astroturfer, you are now obligated by the FTC to disclose payment for trolling.
Your kind doesn't belong here. Get out.