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Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment In an exclusive interview, former MySQL boss and silicon.com Agenda Setter, Marten Mickos talks to Tim Ferguson about the state of open source, Oracle's plans to buy Sun Microsystems and the value of working with people... [19 Nov 2009]
Google's Eric Schmidt on search, Android and all things Wave
News The Google boss also touched on the company's upcoming OS, Chrome, saying: "We hope to release the first open source version of Chrome OS later this year, the year 2009. Last week saw silicon.com sister site CNET... [16 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.09.09
Round-Up Another downside - finding out way too much about what your boss gets up to at weekends and who their freaky friends are. Leaving the Halloween terrors behind us, let's talk of an issue similarly likely to strike horror... [30 Oct 2009]
Digital Dilemmas: Should I add my boss as a Facebook friend?
Comment It doesn't matter a fig whether the colleague in question is your boss or someone you dimly recall walking past in the hall on your way to the canteen. Action: Only add your boss, your... [28 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.10.09
Round-Up How many times have you heard a tale of woe that features 1) an incriminating photo from an office party and/or 2) a comment on the skills of a co-worker along the lines of "witless, talentless buffoon of a man" and 3) ends with a shake... [16 Oct 2009]
BBC names new CIO as part of tech shake-up
News The other major part of Hall's role will be to better communicate the BBC's technology strategy to third-party tech suppliers to help them when pitching for business - an initiative instigated by her new boss, BBC CTO,... [09 Oct 2009]
Amazon will be king of the cloud: Mark Shuttleworth
News Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth has said Amazon will emerge as triumphant in the battle for the cloud. Shuttleworth told a BT open source event yesterday that Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, or a closely related platform, will become... [06 Oct 2009]
Former MySQL boss joins Benchmark Capital
News Marten Mickos, the one-time chief executive of MySQL who left about a year after Sun Microsystems acquired the open source database company, has joined Benchmark Capital as an entrepreneur in residence. [01 Oct 2009]
Marc Benioff
AS Profile He's a protégé of Larry Ellison, having worked at Oracle prior to founding Salesforce.com in 1999, and the Oracle boss still has a stake in the company. As head of Salesforce.com, the software-as-a-service CRM company he... [29 Sep 2009]
Larry Ellison
AS Profile Meanwhile, the Oracle boss will take a base salary of $1 in the 2010 fiscal year - a pay cut of $999,999 from 2008. As CEO of Oracle, Ellison hasn't made it onto the Agenda Setters list as much as you might expect. [29 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.09.09
Round-Up INNOV8 2.0 is a web-based game that has players battling to avoid a grilling from the IT director, rather than facing death at the hands of a three-headed end-of-level boss. Microsoft, eh? It seems like there's any... [11 Sep 2009]
Photos: Game over for boring business training
Photo INNOV8 2.0 is an online game that has players fighting to avoid a grilling from the IT director rather than death at the hands of an end-of-level boss. Forget storming Martian bases or battling advancing armies, the... [08 Sep 2009]
Third of techies check their work email every day on holiday
News It seems many people find it hard to forget about work completely when they're on holiday. The latest silicon.com poll, which asked how often people check their work email while vacationing, found more than a third of respondents (35 per... [07 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.08.09
Round-Up Gone are the days when slacking in the office would encompass doodling, staring into space and elaborate daydreams about what to say to the boss upon winning the lottery. Loafing is now actually really hard work, what... [28 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.08.09
Round-Up Cricket and cream teas in the air-conditioned oasis of the server room, while the boss thinks you're doing a major systems upgrade. Ah, the lazy days of summer in the IT department. With the office deserted for the... [21 Aug 2009]
