This is my day-to-day blog where I put things of general interest.
Archive for April 2009
Oracle buys Sun Microsystems
In a surprise move, Oracle buys Sun Microsystems. While the purchase makes sense, as it allows Oracle to get into the hardware business, it does raise some doubts about the future of some other products Sun owns, such as OpenOffice, MySQL and Solaris.
See the story at OS news.
talk about a boring recital
There’s a performance going on of John Cage’s “As Slow As Possible” in Halberstadt, Germany. The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg was there for a rare chord change, the 7th, in the concert that started in 2001. I’d go, but the good part doesn’t happen for another couple of hundred years. I probably won’t make the ending either, in 2640.
Hear the BBC story here.
