Who's gonna get Sun?

It has been a rumor that Sun Microsystem is going to be acquired by someone in the IT market. IBM is one of those in the listings. Someone else suggests that perhaps Cisco should get Sun in order to keep the market balanced. If it is IBM, I see a lot of confusions to both Sun and IBM technical people as they have been doing overlapping (or, competitive) works over the years. Oh, where is Microsoft in these days? Maybe they should take Sun and ensure that the "Java" technology dies out in the next few years.....

"Green" documents

A lot of people talk about Green IT nowadays. One straightforward way is to replace the current paper documents with "electronic document" in our computers. How the government and people backup this concept takes years. But it is a promising business direction. For example, EU is now considering a proposal of asking its countries to legally support electronic document. Due to a rough estimates, these proposals could save European organisations around EUR€18 billion, although this is calculated from the standard EU cost model to give the maximum mid-term reduction potential, and the real cost-saving figure is probably more conservative, but still significant.

There are many interesting directions for new business, in the "Green IT" world.

Microsoft and Open Source

Interesting title, right?
After years and years of battle with open source community, MS is now changing its strategy towards the open source world. Throught its "Microsoft Web App Gallery," MS is deploying a "one-stop" site for all kinds of open source assets for web developers. It's a good start for the software giant to penetrate into open source developers' land. Interesting items on the site, www.microsoft.com/web/gallery, are, for example

• WordPress WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
• DotNetNuke® Community Edition DotNetNuke® is the ideal platform for building professional websites and web applications with dynamic content and interactive features.
• ScrewTurn Wiki ASP.NET-based Wiki Software; allows to build a lightweight Intranet/Internet knowledge base, supporting article versioning and rollback, a basic authorization scheme and simplified file sharing. More information.
• SilverStripe CMS Modern, user-friendly content management system. Extendable by web developers through PHP framework. More information.