Server Quest

Microsoft offers an 8Bit like adventure on this page:
http://www.server-quest.com/
looks nice

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IDC, Battelle and Hinchliffe – Top 10 predictions in 2008

Frank Gens just wrote in his blog about the IDC predictions for this year
http://blogs.idc.com/ie/?p=117
Predictions
http://idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS20983407

I am working in a big software company so I should not make official predictions for 2008 in my blog…But you could also read the other predictions from
Dion Hinchcliffe  (on Web 2.0 things)
http://web2.socialcomputingmagazine.com/web_20_predictions_for_2008.htm 
or John Bartelle (on internet/IT markets)
http://battellemedia.com/archives/004172.php

There are several points the predictions [...]

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no GPhone

ok, there was no gphone announcement – bad WSJ, but Google Android an open platform for a mobile os

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Microsoft buying 5% from Facebook for $300-$500Million

Boston Globe talks about a Microsoft – Facebook deal
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/09/25/microsoft_reportedly_interested_in_stake_in_facebookcom/
So FAcebook’S overall value should be higher than $10 Billion.
They currently habe more than 39M users and is growing fast. But Facebook still lacks a german version, although this was announced some weeks ago, and so its german clone Studivz also grows

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Google and virtual worlds already this year?

As I just saw in my feedreader metaversed found a blog entry that Google could be testing virtual worlds and social plattform at university of Arizona.
.. I just needed a source to quote in my diploma thesis that I believe that the big players also try to enter the 3D world market. And so a [...]

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Innovation from Acquisitions? Google and Microsoft – an Overview

To answer the question if Google is more innovative  than Microsoft you should  include their acquisititions argumentation…
Also you should consider Google also bought Youtube, partners with MySpace and in future their own VC company Sequoia definitly will incubate more innovative companies ( http://www.sequoiacap.com/ )
For example IPTV Joost you could include in Youtube to get Google on also TV. But there are [...]

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Red Hat – Microsoft negotiations?

eWeek’s Linux Watch was talking to Paul Cormier, Red Hat’s executive VP of engineering about potential interoperability negotiations with Microsoft.
Every Linux vendor first refuse all partnerships but in the meantime the are all going to partner with MS. Is it to increase market share or prevent a potential Microsoft lawsuit due to patent right violations? [...]

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List of all Microsoft bloggers

After I found a list of SAP Bloggers, I just found one from Microsoft bloggers on “Hughpage”:
Source: http://www.thehughpage.com/Microsoft_Bloggers.

Microsoft Bloggers.
From HughPage

I’m putting together a list of Microsoft Bloggers.
For personal and professional reasons, I’m starting to watch that company more
closely. Methinks the best way to do that is to follow their bloggers.
Ah, but where to start? [...]

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Forrester Analysts claim: SAP and Microsoft are ERP innovation leaders

ERP innovation: SAP, Microsoft lead the way

By Jon Franke, News Editor
14 Jun 2007 | Source: http://searchsap.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid21_gci1260823,00.html?track=NL-137&ad=591560&asrc=EM_NLN_1588144&uid=6220928 

Quote:
“After a down period, ERP innovation is back. And it’s being led by a couple of industry giants: SAP and Microsoft.
The frenzied consolidation that gripped the enterprise resource planning (ERP) market in recent years is by no means complete, but as [...]

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read this! SAP and Google/Amazon??

from: http://cio.co.uk/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=16
Hey SAP, get on Google’s cloud
Stuart Lauchlan
Sky’s the limit, claims SAP
SAP has recently been making SaaS type noises, although they’ve scarcely been delivered with the born-again enthusiasm of a genuine Damascene conversion. You can do it, but don’t forget it’s really easy to bring it all back inhouse again, has been the general cut [...]

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