Microsoft, SAP say they considered merging

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Microsoft, SAP considered merging last
year

Microsoft, SAP considered merging last
year 06/07/2004 05:23 PM
Late last year, Microsoft initiated merger discussions with SAP AG, the two companies disclosed as a trial began on the Justice Department's lawsuit to block Oracle's proposed acquisition of PeopleSoft.

Report: Google, Microsoft Discuss
Merging

Report: Google, Microsoft Discuss
Merging 10/31/2003 07:25 PM
NEW YORK -- There's a published report that Microsoft has been talking with Google about a possible combination. The New York Times ...

Microsoft and SAP considered merger

Microsoft and SAP considered merger 06/08/2004 05:53 AM
Computer Weekly Jun 8 2004 10:17AM GMT

UPDATE 4-Microsoft considered PeopleSoft
stake-e-mail

UPDATE 4-Microsoft considered PeopleSoft
stake-e-mail 06/24/2004 01:23 AM
Reuters Jun 24 2004 5:41AM GMT

Merging search results

Merging search results 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
Template snippet showing how to merge seearch results from several Movable Type blogs into one ordered list and create friendly suggestions when a search returns zero results.

Can the new Symantec make merging look
easy?

Can the new Symantec make merging look
easy? 12/19/2004 03:20 PM
Analysis Your data hopes so

Dave Winer: Merging RSS with Atom?

Dave Winer: Merging RSS with Atom? 04/09/2004 04:03 PM

Dave Winer is requesting comments on his suggesti on to merge RSS with Atom. This is obviously just a rough sketch of how the merger would work and it needs a lot of filling out, but at least it's a start. Let's hope that this time the Hatfields and the McCoys the Atom folks and the RSS folks will drop the childish bickering and personal attacks that have hindered past discussions

FWIW, if this merger actually happens, I'll certainly support it in FeedDemon.

Merging internet and phone numbers: UK
consults

Merging internet and phone numbers: UK
consults 08/23/2004 12:35 PM
Out-Law.com Aug 23 2004 5:03PM GMT

Merging Web Site Traffic Analysis
With... Sim City?

Merging Web Site Traffic Analysis
With... Sim City? 06/09/2004 10:35 AM
Dealing with large amounts of data is often difficult. For years, people have tried to come up with better graphical representations of data - which is why we see so many pie and bar charts all over the place. One developer has decided to go one step further in making website traffic analysis more visual. For anyone running a website, visitor traffic analysis often becomes something of an obsession. They want to see their stats, about who's visiting, how many people are visiting, where they're going and what they're doing on the site. Most web hosting companies offer up some very simple traffic analysis programs, but they usually don't let you dig too much into the information. There are a number of large "enterprise" level traffic analysis packages that are popular, as well as some cheaper ones that are pretty good themselves. However, they all produce the same sorts of charts and lists of data. Robert Savage thought that the data could be presented in a more intuitive way and creat ed an interface for web traffic analysis that looks more like Sim City than a traditional analysis package. The idea is that pages getting a lot of traffic look like large buildings, and people moving from one page to another hail taxi cabs, so you can see where they're going. Buses with their rooftops labeled show where people are arriving from (Google, Yahoo, etc.). The larger your website, the more it looks like a city than a small town. While it sounds (quite) gimmicky, people using it say it becomes addictive very quickly. Of course, it looks like the VisitorVille website can't take the traffic beating it must be getting - at posting time, all of its own images are broken.

Sidebar: Banks Merging Business, IT
Offices

Sidebar: Banks Merging Business, IT
Offices 04/11/2005 11:37 PM
Computerworld Apr 12 2005 4:24AM GMT

Merging Spaces: From Digital Information
Architecture to Narrative Imagination

Merging Spaces: From Digital Information
Architecture to Narrative Imagination 01/07/2003 02:46 PM

Vocada Awarded Patent for Merging Voice
Messaging, Data; First Used in Fail-safe
Medical Communications System

Vocada Awarded Patent for Merging Voice
Messaging, Data; First Used in Fail-safe
Medical Communications System 03/14/2005 04:39 PM
Vocada, Inc. has been awarded a U.S. patent on a broad-based technology and methodology that for the first time bridges voice messaging and data systems in a way that allows for categorization, archiving, retrieval, and interaction of voice messages with today’s leading-edge Internet-based data platforms. [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]

WiFi, Cellular, and Wired Networks
Merging To Form Pervasive Networks in
Homes and Offices, Says INSIGHT Research

WiFi, Cellular, and Wired Networks
Merging To Form Pervasive Networks in
Homes and Offices, Says INSIGHT Research 12/22/2004 01:46 AM
Pervasive networks—a ubiquitous “fabric” of computing, information, entertainment, and telemetry capability tied together by high-speed wired and wireless networks—are emerging from a flurry of new communication technologies now being used in home and office networks. Though communications carriers do not offer this type of continuous communication as a service today, the piece parts are already in place. [PRWEB Dec 20, 2004]

NI councils shake-up considered

NI councils shake-up considered 07/19/2004 03:11 PM
The government is considering a reduction in the current number of 26 district councils to between five and eight.

GPRS considered useless

GPRS considered useless 12/08/2003 05:57 PM
I've played with my GPRS connection for a few days now. It really doesn't work very well at all, at least not here in Los Angeles or with my phone or with my usage. And yes, the phone is reporting decent coverage when GPRS doesn't quite work. Sometimes ssh works alright (with the ~1 second lag), but sadly it's not very consistent. Packet loss has occasionally been 20-30%, enough to combined with Other Factors make ssh not able to even...

Should ideas be considered as sources?

Should ideas be considered as sources? 09/09/2004 05:30 AM
While programming you should do lot's of decisions. The reason why you choose to implement something and something not is essential. Should it be considered as "sources" and also included with src distribution?

Amputation claim is considered

Amputation claim is considered 01/23/2004 02:19 PM
The parents of a toddler whose legs had to be amputated may sue the primary care trust involved.

Civil service BNP ban considered

Civil service BNP ban considered 09/18/2004 09:01 PM
The Home Office is considering whether to ban BNP members from working in the civil service.

Election shake-up considered

Election shake-up considered 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
The Welsh secretary considers reviewing the way Assembly Members are elected after claiming the system can be unfair.

AJAX Considered Harmful

AJAX Considered Harmful 03/17/2005 02:49 AM
I intend for this to post to be constructive, so I will focus on two specific suggestions which hopefully will serve as the seed for the development of a set of best practices for AJAX.  Here are the two humble suggestions on things that people should standardize on ...

Ack, I missed All Things Considered

Ack, I missed All Things Considered 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
PublicRadioFan.com An extensive customizable list of (almost) all public radio stations that offer streaming audio and what they have playing now and in the future.

Why Security needs to be considered in
the beginning

Why Security needs to be considered in
the beginning 12/30/2003 01:22 AM
How many of you have put in a firewall long after the network you are protecting has been well established? It seems like anything else, and maybe even more so with technology, users of the networks get very fine tuned...

Clinton Says He Never Considered
Quitting (AP)

Clinton Says He Never Considered
Quitting (AP) 06/17/2004 06:49 AM
AP - Former President Bill Clinton tells the CBS newsmagazine "60 Minutes" that he never considered resigning and is proud he fought impeachment, the outcome of his lying under oath about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

r. kelly's ill-considered self
description

r. kelly's ill-considered self
description 04/12/2004 02:19 AM
pied piper, indeed

Inheritance Considered Harmful (PDF)

Inheritance Considered Harmful (PDF) 01/14/2003 11:24 AM
It could also be argued that inheritance falls into the class of programming language features which are accepted and instigated without thorough analysis, only to be subsequently rejected when experience has shown them to be unhelpful. It would appear that encapsulation is more relevant and applicable than inheritance, and its benefits to the maintenance process are more obvious. In [12], it is suggested that in future systems, architectures based on aggregation will be more appropriate than those based on inheritance. This is particularly true of systems incorporating multiple inheritance whose structures have tended to be elaborately concocted... Lastly, contrary to what was originally thought, it may be that most OO systems are simply not amenable to the use of inheritance, and their functionality does not lend itself well to use of inheritance. -- Rachel Harrison and Steve Counsell

"tri" Not an easy article to read, but basicly it's saying complex inheritance trees (more than 3 levels in depth?) are difficult to maintain, and many designs use inheritance inappropriately. That is why the big thing in C# and Java today is generics, and why I was such a fan of templates in C++, even if the syntax was terrible. PHP has less need for generics because most of its operators and functions are polymorphic (thx to dynamic typing).

"zeldman.hc"

Clinton says he never considered
quitting

Clinton says he never considered
quitting 06/17/2004 11:50 AM

OnStar Considered Harmful

OnStar Considered Harmful 12/29/2003 09:22 PM
Frisky070802 writes "A few weeks ago Slashdot ran an article on the privacy issues in EzPass. Some of the comments referred to other things Big Brother could ...

Debuggers Considered Harmful

Debuggers Considered Harmful 12/02/2003 01:55 AM
Robert C. Martin: As debuggers have grown in power and capability, they have become more and more harmful to the process of software development.

mod_rewrite considered harmful

mod_rewrite considered harmful 01/16/2003 06:06 AM
Mark Pilgrim is replacing CSS hiding with mod_rewrite. There's just one problem: caching proxies.

Apple considered Intel

Apple considered Intel 10/29/2003 02:21 AM
A story on Macrumors.com notes that Apple did indeed consider moving to Intel processors, but determined the change in system architecture might be too slow and would "deeply affect its current customer base." The result of this determination was the PowerPC 970, which was a 12 to 18 month collaborative effort between IBM and Apple and provided a far better solution than moving to Intel's architecture. The article notes that "IBM has committed to provide several generations...

cch (Classic Considered Harmful)

cch (Classic Considered Harmful) 12/29/2002 03:29 PM
We’ve switched to OS X and we’ll never go back. The cause of our quasi-religious conversion? Memory management and UNIX stability. Because of the way

dch (Death Considered Harmful)

dch (Death Considered Harmful) 12/29/2002 03:29 PM
When they kick at your front door, how you gonna come? Joe Strummer, singer/guitarist of The Clash, has died at 50. Also dead at 50,

Powell Says Never Considered Resigning
Over Iraq

Powell Says Never Considered Resigning
Over Iraq 04/27/2004 12:21 AM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 27 2004 4:45AM GMT

Buffett Considered Witness in AIG Probe
(AP)

Buffett Considered Witness in AIG Probe
(AP) 04/11/2005 05:56 AM
AP - Federal and state probes into insurance giant American International Group Inc. have apparently landed an illustrious witness — billionaire investor Warren Buffett.

DMCA challenge to be considered this
week

DMCA challenge to be considered this
week 05/10/2004 12:09 AM
Spearheaded by Representatives Rick Boucher (HR-D) and John Doolittle (HR-D), H.R. 107 seeks to explicitly define consumer's rights in a limited number of areas.

Copying Apple: When Is It Considered
Ripping Off?

Copying Apple: When Is It Considered
Ripping Off? 02/10/2004 02:43 AM
(2 Guys, A Mac, And A Website via MyAppleMenu)

"High-Level" Considered Meaningless

"High-Level" Considered Meaningless 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
Once upon a time, the adjective "high-level", applied to a programming language, denoted an increased degree of expressive power, implying not only economy of expression -- terseness -- but an ability to encode new abstractions encapsulating notions not actually envisioned by the language designers themselves. In the decades since the lambda calculus was first elucidated, and embodied to increasing degrees in the LISPs and their successors, language designers have learned to enable many different kinds of abstraction, and have increasingly concentrated on providing the scaffolding needed to manage the complexity that comes with such power.

New Domains Considered Harmful, Says Tim
Berners-Lee

New Domains Considered Harmful, Says Tim
Berners-Lee 05/19/2004 01:14 PM
As lots of folks are pushing to get ICANN to expand the number of top level domains (so people an get more than just .com, .net, etc.), Tim Berners-Lee is argung against the idea, saying that current proposals are really just a racket to get more money out of companies. The original idea was that the domain name space (really just the .com space) was getting too crowded and good names were increasingly difficult to come by. However, instead of really expanding the market, adding .biz and .info mostly just made companies feel the need to buy up the same domains they already owned the .com for. If anything, he considers it domain "inflation" - devaluing existing domains. He is particularly against the idea of a .mobi domain name specifically for wireless content, agreeing with us that there's really no need for it and it will make things more confusing. Increasingly, mobile phones and devices are able to access the entire internet without any problems. There's no reason they need a specific separate TLD all their own. He's also against the idea of the .xxx domain, pointing out (as always) that figuring out exactly what is porn is quite subjective. That's true, but as long as no one is forced into the .xxx domain, it might make sense for certain sites that want the domain. He's not entirely against new TLDs, but wants them to have a specific purpose - such as mapping to telephone numbers, which some groups have proposed as well.

Blue LEDs Considered Harmful

Blue LEDs Considered Harmful 06/05/2005 11:30 PM
Wired: Backlash Brews Over Blue LEDs Some researchers report that, at night, even low-level blue light may be enough to...
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