http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/categories/industryBuzz/ Copyright 2002 Jon Udell Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:36:51 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 <P><STRONG>He Who Controls the Bootloader</STRONG></P> <P>Slashdot reports that <A href="http://slashdot.org/articles/02/02/19/2226257.shtml?tid=87">Be is suing MS</A>. The&nbsp;item&nbsp;cites Scot Hacker' excellent BYTE.com piece, <A href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1115/byt20010824s0001/0827_hacker.html">He Who Controls the Bootloader</A>.</P> <P><A href="http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-4,1884731/">The Cost of Poor Data</A>. Data Warehousing Institute suggests $600B lost each year [<A href="http://www.line56.com/news/">Line56: B2B News</A>] </P> <P>Even if you&nbsp;knock&nbsp;an order of magnitude off that probably ridiculous estimate,&nbsp;&nbsp;that still leaves a serious opportunity for Hailstorm, or another technology that canonicalizes basic personal information. </P> Line56: B2B News Halcyon Software's <A href="http://www.byte.com/tangledthreads/thread.jsp?forum=260&amp;thread=8896">Java-based .NET emulator</A> is available for trial. <P>Roger Sessions' Software Fortress Model:</P> <P><A href="http://www.byte.com/tangledthreads/thread.jsp?forum=260&thread=8341">http://www.byte.com/tangledthreads/thread.jsp?forum=260&thread=8341</A></P> <P>AOL buying RedHat? </P> <P><A href="http://www.byte.com/tangledthreads/thread.jsp?forum=263&amp;thread=8266">http://www.byte.com/tangledthreads/thread.jsp?forum=263&amp;thread=8266</A> </P> <P>Some kind of buglet there. </P> <P>a&amp;b</P> <P>a&amp;amp;b</P> <P>a&amp;amp;amp;b</P> <P><A href="http://a&amp;b">http://a&amp;b</A></P> <P><A href="http://a&amp;amp;b">http://a&amp;amp;b</A></P> <P><A href="http://a&amp;amp;amp;b">http://a&amp;amp;amp;b</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P>