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Friday, November 08, 2002

InformationWeek > Open-Source Software > Microsoft Memo Questions Effectiveness Of Its Anti-Open-Source Marketing Efforts > November 7, 2002 - Microsoft believes many of its efforts to market its products against Linux and open source are backfiring, according to an internal memo leaked and posted on the Internet.
Particularly ineffective tactics include legal arguments and name-calling, the memo says. Top Microsoft executives have called open source a "cancer." The company says it needs instead to focus marketing on total cost of ownership.
10:15:27 AM

MySQL AB Settles With NuSphere

MySQL AB Settles With NuSphere
Posted by chrisd on Thursday November 07, @06:08PM
from the exclamation-point dept.
PCM2 writes "It appears that MySQL AB has settled its dispute with NuSphere over use of the MySQL trademarks. CEO Marten Mickos has punctuated the occasion with a donation to the FSF -- but there's no mention of what the actual terms of the settlement were, and there's no statement on NuSphere's site either (yet)."

[Slashdot]

9:51:50 AM

Key Internet server moved for security. One of the servers that let people navigate the Net is relocated. The move comes just weeks after an attack on the machines, but the server's overseer says the plan had been in place. [CNET News.com]
9:49:34 AM

Diamonds? Who Cares? Give Me HDTV. If there's a segment of the population that really wants digital television, it's women. According to a recent study, women prefer a DTV than a 1-karat diamond ring. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]
9:35:45 AM

Magazines to publish on tablet PC. Six major magazine publishers plan to don a new image for tablet PCs, creating digital facsimiles of their periodicals and pushing the fold on Web advertising. [CNET News.com]
9:26:40 AM

Nokia to license RIM software. A pact between the two companies completes a licensing trifecta for Research In Motion, which also announced deals with Palm and Handspring this week. [CNET News.com]
9:25:06 AM