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ThePortableConsultant’s increasing portablility

by @ Friday, June 6th, 2008. Filed under Emerging, Multimedia, Open Source, Reviews

The Portable Consultant has noticed that the few posts he once did about the Lexar Lightning and its portable USB applications are the most popular hits on his blog site, almost all of which come via Google. So it is with great shame that I must confess to being remiss in not informing both my […]

MySQL acquisition by Sun Microsystems good for Open Source?

by @ Monday, January 28th, 2008. Filed under Open Source

The Portable Consultant has only now noticed Developer Shed’s good overview of the acquisition of key the open source database company MySQL by Sun Microsystems.
This is certainly good for Sun. It is probably a good place for MySQL, given the alternatives. And it is most likely good for MySQL fans, whether they require the open […]

Virtual work at Sun Microsystems is a Wonderland

by @ Friday, November 16th, 2007. Filed under New Paradigms, Open Source, YukYuks

It was the spring of 2006 when The Portable Consultant first posted comments here about Second Life’s virtual world.
That was a playground (umm… for adults, you know - like Vegas).
Now we can go to work in a similar environment.
Sun has recently set up a virtual world for its teleworkers, very much like Second Life.
…and they […]

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