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It can't be easy being Fedora; the once cream of the crop release being entirely overshadowed by the young upstart that is Ubuntu. Times have changed and things have been increasingly hard for Fedora - forever slipping in the Distrowatch popularity chart.
In late November, many thousands of Sun Microsystems employees got the word that effective January 4, their services will no longer be required. While the cuts were expected, the extent of the layoffs are more far-reaching than might be expected.
It's a radical departure, this news from Microsoft (MSFT) that openness between its products and the rest of the universe is more than a hollow platitude. To take Microsoft at its Word, given this release, is to open an era of an entirely new Microsoft. But is it?
Sun reported a nightmare quarter, elicited more cold Java analogies than I can count and announced layoffs due to a weak economy. Can open source move the needle at Sun and spark some growth? In a word: No.
"Shares of Microsoft (MSFT) fell to a new 52 week low after an unexpected earnings miss. Let’s take a look at the headline news followed by a discussion..."
Additional information about potential causes of layoffs and an example of how Novell employees become drones for a paycheck, accepting nonsensical policies in the process
I want to address the recent layoffs that have taken place at Novell. As is very obvious by now, there have been layoffs at Novell, and some of them did hit contributors to the openSUSE community employed by Novell.
"Though big, the first one--the programme organised on the occasion of Software Freedom Day-- was overshadowed. I guess there wont be much media coverage. May be because it's a bit technical. Why to waste time for knowledge and technical stuff? There were only a few people..."