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Oracle Ups PeopleSoft Offer Again
Oracle confirms bid for bigger PeopleSoft | CNET News.com: Since PeopleSoft has swallowed J.D. Edwards, it's become a little fatter for the feast. Consequently, Larry coughed up another billion. "Oracle reaffirmed its bid to acquire PeopleSoft Thursday, following the successful completion of PeopleSoft's offer for J.D. Edwards last week that ...
Published: July 25, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
Oracle Pushes the Issue
Oracle ups PeopleSoft offer: Larry's not messing around. The offer is up from $16 to $19.50. Analysts were saying that they'd need at least $20 per share to make it happen. And, not surprisingly, Oracle has filed a lawsuit against PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards for resisting the takeover attempt. Oracle ...
Published: June 18, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 970
Star Trek Will Return
Report: 'Star Trek' set for '08 revival: Good stuff. The as-yet-untitled "Star Trek" feature, the 11th since 1979, is aiming for a fall 2008 release [...] The project will be directed by J.J. Abrams, whose Tom Cruise vehicle "Mission: Impossible III" will be released by Paramount on May 5. Abrams, ...
Published: April 21, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 963
Duplicate Line
Here's something that I have in EditPlus, but I haven't found in other editors: a "duplicate line" shortcut. In EditPlus, you can have your cursor in a line, hit CTRL-J, and the line will be copied immediately underneath the current line. Hit CTRL-J four or five times and you get ...
Published: March 13, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 934
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Int. J. of Web Based Communities - IJWBC: Your phpBB install finally has a scientific journal. The IJWBC is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. It offers state of the art to practitioners such as communication managers, officers of public information services, web masters and of course those who are responsible for ...
Published: December 17, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 869
One Merger Down, One to Go
PeopleSoft Acquires J.D. Edwards: This part is done, which may or may not just fatten the calf for the Oracle butcher. It's like the picture of the little fish about to get eaten by the bigger fish, which is, in turn, about to get eaten by a shark.
Published: July 18, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 867
Supreme Court Arguments in MP3
OYEZ: Toss out that directory of J-Lo tracks, baby, because the oral arguments of the U.S. Supreme Court have arrived. Get them here on MP3. Too bad the content is licensed under Creative Commons, because it'd be awfully funny to listen to arguments about pirating music on a pirated MP3. ...
Published: August 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 863
Oracle / PeopleSoft Antitrust Suit
Connecticut joins Oracle fracas: It's like a soap opera. Connecticut's attorney general announced Wednesday that he plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Oracle, seeking to defeat the company's proposed buyout of rival PeopleSoft. We count four lawsuits now: Oracle v. PeopleSoft, PeopleSoft v. Oracle, J.D. Edwards v. Oracle, and ...
Published: June 18, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 862
More Linked Servers for SQL
Microsoft Extends SQL Server Reach: This is cool, though only SQL geeks would care. "Microsoft Corp. will extend the distributed capabilities of its SQL Server 2000 database to over 50 popular, proprietary databases and packaged applications, such as SAP R/3, SAP BW, J.D. Edwards, Siebel and PeopleSoft." Now they just ...
Published: June 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 862
Oceanic Airlines
I'm pretty addicted to the TV show "Lost." The first season has wrapped up and left some amazing cliffhangers. I finally got all the episodes watched (thanks BitLord), and I started looking around to see what was on the Web to hold me over until fall. It turns out that ...
Published: June 13, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 853
The Wikipedia War Over Dumbledore's Sexuality
J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, dropped a bombshell on fans this morning when she announced that Albus Dumbledore had been gay all along. This was also a bombshell to Wikipedia, for different reasons, and the result is fascinating to follow. Some people apparently ran right to their ...
Published: October 20, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 853
SAP's Plan
Ringside at PeopleSoft Bout, SAP Hopes to Share in the Prize: Good article about how SAP is trying to poach customers from the Oracle / Peoplesoft mess. "By positioning itself as a safe haven, SAP hopes to pick up the storm-tossed customers of its three main competitors, Oracle, PeopleSoft and ...
Published: June 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 841
The New Jersey Porn Connection
Link to porn site baffles N.J. governor's aides: This is kind of funny, in a perverse kind of way. A state Commerce and Economic Growth Commission Web site link to its "business resource center" took viewers Tuesday afternoon and maybe for much longer to full-color, hard-core teen pornography. ...
Published: June 23, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 840
Oracle Beaten on PeopleSoft?
PeopleSoft CEO: Oracle saga is over: The CEO of PeopleSoft is claiming that the Oracle bid is dead in the water. "As far as Conway is concerned, Oracle lost steam in July, after PeopleSoft sealed its $1.8 billion purchase of J.D Edwards. Oracle had initially wished to stop that deal, ...
Published: August 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 835
Google's CEO Joins Apple's Board of Directors
At yesterday's meeting of Apple's board of directors, Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, was elected to the board. Link. Schmidt joins the uber-elite crew of Bill Campbell, Chairman and former CEO of Intuit Corp., Millard Drexler, Chairman and CEO of J. Crew, Albert Gore Jr., Former Vice ...
Published: August 30, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 832
Simple Searches Work Best
No 'ifs,' 'ands' or 'buts': simple queries work best: A new study indicates that complicated, boolean-laden Google searches are no more effective than simple searches. "Our research shows that query operators, commonly thought to narrow searches, don't return more relevant results and don't reduce the number of non-relevant results," said ...
Published: December 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 830
Well, Maybe A Little Evil
The Onion redesigned this week, and they have a great article on Google: Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't Index "Google finally has what it needs to catalog the DNA of every organism on Earth," said analyst Imran Kahn of J.P. Morgan Chase. "Of course, some people ...
Published: August 31, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 830
Sun Tries to Poach AIX Customers
Sun Sets Sights on IBM's AIX Customers: In the SCO/IBM drama, Sun is playing the role that SAP is playing in the Oracle/PeopleSoft production: Moving to profit from SCO Group's revocation of IBM's Unix license (which IBM denies SCO has the right to do), Sun Microsystems charged in to play ...
Published: June 18, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 820
Media Downloads via RSS
Payloads for RSS: A long time ago (in Internet time), there was a short-lived start-up called LoadTV. You installed the LoadTV viewer, subscribed to some channels which had content you wanted to see, and it downloaded full-motion video in the background all day long. The best part was that whatever ...
Published: August 5, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 800
A Bird's-Eye View of the Blackout
Update: Upon further review, this is probably a fake. See below. Update of the Update: It almost certainly IS a fake, but NOAA News has the real thing. (Thanks Keith!) Very cool. You can see how Toronto, Ottawa, Cleveland and Detroit basically disappear. After taking a closer look at this ...
Published: August 22, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 797
Changing Layout Based On Resolution
Sorry, Stu Nichols, but you now have to share the title of Diabolical Mastermind with Cameron Adams over at Man In Blue for this crazy bit of CSS/JS magic. Cameron is dynamically changing the page layout based on the user's screen resolution and browser size, just by changing the stylesheet ...
Published: September 21, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 788
Whatever Happened to Kioken Design?
A friend asked me today about a design firm that was very flamboyant at the peak of the bubble Kioken Design. They were based in New York, and they did sites for J. Lo, Puff Daddy (as he was named at the time), and others (I would link, but ...
Published: June 26, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 778
Depressing News About Offshore Outsourcing
Tech Workers' Losing Fight to Match Overseas Wages: Here's an awfully depressing article about overseas outsourcing that counters some of the more positive news we'd been hearing. Stocking shelves and hauling boxes on the graveyard shift at Target was something Ed Marx never imagined he would be doing. After ...
Published: November 23, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 772
A Web Site Is Like An Onion...
...it's all about layers. A List Apart has put out two great new articles on the use of JavaScript in web design. In 'JavaScript Triggers', Peter-Paul Koch (of Quirksmode fame) makes an interesting point: There are 3 big layers to an HTML page: structure, appearance, and behavior. CSS is great ...
Published: February 1, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 771
Dobbertin Surface Orbiter
Rick Dobbertin is an old school hot rodder turned global explorer. Back in the 80s, he made some amazing street machines that I drooled over in the pages of Hot Rod and Car Craft, including a mind-bending Pontiac J-2000 that still defies all description (yes, those are two superchargers, ...
Published: January 19, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 771
The RIAA's Fight Will Never End
Whatever Will Be Will Be Free on the Internet: I ve always had two universal truths about music swapping: It s illegal. The music industry better figure out a way to live with it, because there s no way to stop it. You can t stick toothpaste back in the tube. Close one music ...
Published: September 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 753
Fabian Pascal is Smarter Than Me
The legendary Fabian Pascal showed up yesterday to tell us all that we were stupid over in the relational data model post. Specifically, his comment was: None of you know the relational model, which is why you think current products are relational, which they are not. This whole thread is ...
Published: September 3, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 745
Thoughts on PowerPoint
The Level of Discourse Continues to Slide: This is a short but interesting piece on the "damage" that PowerPoint has done to discourse and presentation skills in the last ten years. "Once upon a time, a party host could send dread through the room by saying, 'Let me show you ...
Published: October 26, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 738
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