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	Oracle to reward Hurd handsomely once legal clouds clear This morning we learn what Mark Hurd's going to earn from Oracle after the legal briefs and press releases stop flying around and he gets to settle into a corner office. Yesterday we learned that Oracle boss Larry Ellison just can't help himself when it comes to chest-thumping threats, empty though they may be. While HP's legal team is suing to keep Hurd from joining Ellison's inner circle, Ellison... Read More WHITE PAPER: F5 Networks, Inc. Geolocation and Application Delivery Both business and technical stakeholders will find value and a broad range of uses for the highly accurate data available from a trusted third-party geolocation provider, especially when the data is integrated into a Unified Application and Data Delivery platform. Read now! In this Issue Behind the Groupon phenomenon Kindle owner on her continuing love of 'real' books Calling all Fedora packrats and swag collectors Have a ball with today's 'mysterious' Google doodle Kindle owner on her continuing love of 'real' books WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Securing Virtualized Data Centers Download this HP White Paper to learn how to protect your high value virtual assets with a combination of purpose-built IPS platforms and enterprise-class management solutions. Read Now Behind the Groupon phenomenon While it's nice to know there's still plenty of "wish I'd thought of that" room on the Internet, there's something oddly unsettling about the truly astronomical success of Groupon, which is built on a not at all complicated idea. Must be this: Dang, I wish I'd thought of that. From a Forbes story: Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Standalone Data Reduction Technologies Data reduction technologies provide reliable and highly scalable storage solutions - with proven management and ease use that enable higher capacity utilization with less budget, time and energy. Learn about these technologies and how HP solutions can improve storage capacity utilization. Read Now Kindle owner on her continuing love of 'real' books Slate today has an anti-Kindle rant from a 26-year-old fellow and I must say that I found his reasoning not all that compelling. However, a comment on the piece from a Kindle owner does fit nicely into my own thinking about the future of print, so I thought I'd share it with you here. I'm a 30-year-old book junkie. I started reading before my older brother and books became my safe haven as a child.... Read More WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power The Business Imperative to Gain Data Center Insight To manage costs, capacity and operations, today's dynamic data centers require new tools to understand assets and their use in order to deliver consistent, reliable and fast service to the business. Learn how with field-proven Avocent MergePoint® Infrastructure Explorer software. Read Now Calling all Fedora packrats and swag collectors If you are still holding on to an old Fedora CD, T-shirt, logo-emblazoned mouse pad - or pretty much anything bearing the trademark - Red Hat would appreciate your assistance in asserting the Fedora community's legal rights. "Old" for this purpose is pre-Jan. 30, 2007. Paul Frields writes to the Fedora Project mailing list: Read More Have a ball with today's 'mysterious' Google doodle It's not often that Google's daily doodle makes me utter a "Yikes," but today is one of those days. The six Google letters are formed simply enough with colored balls - blue, green, orange and red - of various sizes. The exclamation was uttered when my curser came in contact with the assemblage: Chaos ensued as the balls bounced about the page before reassembling in their assigned spots. Read More Kindle owner on her continuing love of 'real' books Slate today has an anti-Kindle rant from a 26-year-old fellow and I must say that I found his reasoning not all that compelling. However, a comment on the piece from a Kindle owner does fit nicely into my own thinking about the future of print, so I thought I'd share it with you here. I'm a 30-year-old book junkie. I started reading before my older brother and books became my safe haven as a child.... Read More
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