"This is something I've never seen before. It's an evil-looking thing." Whao this whole article is like an HP Lovecraft story...and it's even in New England.

"The animal, described as a 40 and 50 pound animal with 'a bushy tail, a short snout, short ears and curled fangs hanging over its lips.'"

"[W]e can't afford to drive around to look at dead things."

I believe talk.bmc.com uses them.

Brief tips on asking questions.

Q3 FY04 to Q2 FY06, broken down by product line, license, maintenance, and total revenue per qtr.

A narrative approach to explaining some Sawatsky methods.

"So what happened today? In simple terms, we are finally turning on full read and write access to the source code."

A nice, frank discusion of choosing an OSS license, in this case centering around Ingres.

"As the web turns into an operating system we see the emergence of the infrastructural elements analogous to what we have seen in the real operating systems and middleware." We keep writing the same code.

"IDC is launching a strategy group for monetizing open source. The group, called the Open Source Software Business Models (OSBM) is to be lead by Matthew Lawton."

Selling vertical focused stacks of open source. Related to IBM's recent "8 areas" of OSS.

Podcast getting more info on SML: "Sam interviewed Praerit Gart, Senior Director of the Dynamic Systems Foundation Team, to discuss the announcement and what it means to the industry and IT Professionals."

Some interesting notes on taking closed source code open.

Brief overview of different approaches to applying a set of systems management practices.

"Multi-tenancy may be the most significant paradigm shift that an architect accustomed to designing isolated, single-tenant applications has to make."

Data-model considerations for multi-tenant architectures. Check the custom fields stuff: always a divisive issue.

Fred Chong goes over his SaaS, multi-tenant book work.

"Once the software is widely used, natural customer segments begin to appear."

"Java is alive and thriving. None of the current competitors to Java have what it takes to threaten Java's dominance in the traditional web/enterprise development space in the near future."

"It may seem terribly off-putting at first, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that what they are doing is amazingly subversive. They are exposing how farcical numbers are online"

Writely now open for public access.

"We always want to enable as many languages as possible for the .Net Framework, especially the ones that our customers are demanding."

Ben Rockwood shows how an "Attack Enthusiast" responds to being called lame by IBM.

"Millions of people count on us to help protect their incomes through our disability, supplemental health, accident, long term care and life insurance."

Apple's recommended "how to get Rails working on OS X" page.

Another piece on the FBI and SAIC's failed Virtual Case File (VCF) system.

"1. Smelling of mildew or decay; musty. 2. Old-fashioned; antique." I saw this in the WashPost's latest article about the FBI's failed VCF project and thought it was a type for "futsy."