Notes from Jame's Wine 2.0 Meetup...

VeriSign gets in on the user-centric identity train with an OpenID server.

VeriSign's PIP/OpenID announcement.

The Introscope team is "going in a healthy Agile direction" and looking to get even more Scrummy.

Interesting stab at areas to focus on in a geo-distributed developement world.

"Houston-based Spec's Wine Spirits & Finer Foods, known for its big-box-style stores and endless aisles of wine-and-dine options, plans to open three stores in the Austin area within a year's time."

Buying more innovation.

An interesting brain-stormer when applied to software pricing, like JES.

Oy. This is not the way to talk about open source and look like you know what you're talking about. Arguing semantics is useless, all that counts is what works and what users/devs want.

"The RDBMS software market grew 9.4 percent last year to a $14.6 billion global market, according to IDC."

"Too much management expertise tends to make companies insular.... Those people checking out your products at Target...just start to seem grubby after awhile."

"As long as the siege-masters at Oracle keep tight hold on the reins, hunches are going to be the best way to judge what’s really going on. And history will force us to draw our own conclusions."

Charles and crew release another version of Freestyle: "We're pleased to announce the release of a new version of our Freestyle Webtop Framework demo applications!"

"In fact in just the past two years, our Internet adoption rate has increased by more than 35 percent and our number of bill pay users has grown by more than 78 percent."

An interesting approach to the blog layout: recent posts at the top, static-ish info at the bottom.

Don buys a book...

Danny on the CMDB being a Semantic Web thingy...

Ups to Sun and AMD...

More importantly, as mray said, "I didn't know Google did Wine development."

Some systems management usablity from Robert: "When he found something out of the ordinary he could click and drag to view a table version of a point in time."

"For the past couple weeks I’ve been using Spirited Away. Spirited Away is a program for OS X that hides applications after they have not been brought to the foreground for a set period of time."

"I think you have too many shoes."

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