Amazon.com purchased three companies today, one of which hasn’t even released a product! How do I get in on that? They acquired Alexa Internet, which provides the technology behind the What’s Related feature in Netscape, and is affiliated with Brewster Kahle’s efforts to “archive the Internet.” These acquisitions all seem to be part of Amazon.com’s plans of world domination, but I’m lost trying to figure out how it all relates.
The local business rag has an article on Red Hat that talks about their impending IPO. By the way, Red Hat 6.0 (announced today) includes 30 days of free phone support for installation questions.
No matter how interesting his ideas on software modeling and object-oriented design are, this interview proves that Grady Booch is an idiot.
More on the Internet standards process: The Tao of the IETF.
My computer fails to keep accurate time. It loses about 10 minutes a day. I don’t know who to blame, ASUS, who made my motherboard, or Microsoft, who made Windows 98. My computer at work running Windows NT Workstation keeps perfect time; it’s a Compaq.