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SUN Microsystems’s CEO On Open Source Software

SUN Microsystems’s CEO On Open Source Software

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Jonathan Schwartz continues in his blog about the benefits of free softwares. He aptly puts – “Free software has no pirates”. Schwartz asks companies to consider the pirates simply as users who cannot afford your software.

Leveraging the Social Graph: Inside Facebook

Leveraging the Social Graph: Inside Facebook

Why Facebook was so interesting in 2007?
 
Well apart from the stake that Microsoft bought, Facebook had a free platform that allowed developers to create applications and basically distribute it through Facebook “virally”. This leveraged a lot of share of mind for consumers – socially.
 
Surojit Niyogi from Appizer  lent some insights at Proto.in
 
Facebook I think is growing so quickly because of [...]

“Father of Java” named as a member of the order of Canada

"Father of Java" Receives Prestigious Canadian HonorJames Gosling Named as a Member of the Order of Canada by Java News Desk(February 22, 2007) - Sun VP & Fellow James Gosling, the "Father of Java," pictured here talking with Jeremy Geelan on SYS-CON.TV at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, has just [...]