A former Oracle employee (with financial backing from Larry Ellison) has founded a service to provide small business accounting over the Internet for a monthly fee. It will be interesting to see whether businesses will do their books online over the Web, and how this affects the PC-centric application model. It will also be interesting to see whether it actually works, as with any Internet startup, I have my doubts.
First Monday (the peer reviewed journal on the Internet) has an article about open source software, and whether it’s the first nail in the coffin of intellectual property as we know it.
Are you a software developer or do you work with software developers? If so, where does your organization fall on the Capability Maturity Model for software development?
Tomorrow both sides in the Microsoft case submit “findings of fact” to Judge Jackson. It sounds like they’re just submitting summaries of what they’ve been saying all along. Why are they called findings of fact? We all know that both sides are going to exaggerate as much as is practical to try to win. Lawyers are so arrogant.
The Merck Manual is now available in its entirety online, free of charge. (If you don’t know, the Merck Manual is an encyclopedia of diseases and disorders that’s probably used by every doctor in America.)