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  • Mozilla CEO John Lilly blogs his thoughts on Google Chrome

    In a long blog post, Mozilla CEO John Lilly is rather gracious about the new competitive browser released by its partner, Google. He says that despite Chrome's appearance on the market, Google and Mozilla have recently renewed their financial arrangement. Google will contribute cash to the Mozilla cause through November 2011. Mozilla is the only major browser maker that is a non-profit organization.

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  • The SaaS model, good for prices, bad for profitability

    Columnist Richard Waters from the Financial Times argues that software-as-a-service will gut the profitability that traditional software makers tend to achieve. He says it will create a market where customers can easily switch from one supplier to another. While this is good for the customer wanting low prices, it pretty much stinks for the software companies and investors.

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  • A software user's Bill of Rights?

    Stardock, maker/distributor of the Galactic Civilizations and Impulse PC games, has drafted what it calls a PC Gamer's Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights consists of items that every gaming company should promise to its customers (like No. 4 -- Gamers shall have the right to demand that download managers and updaters not force themselves to run or be forced to load in order to play a game. or No 8. -- Gamers shall have the right to not be treated as potential criminals by developers or publishers. CNet blogger Dave Rosenberg makes a point that this Bill of Rights should really be applied and adopted by the entire software industry for all software customers -- not just PC game makers.

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  • SOA Software achieves rapid growth

    SOA Software, maker of governance software, is a barometer of the SOA industry. The company announced a 400% growth rate in the number of transactions it processes each month. It's customers now use the software to handle over 2.5 billion transactions a month, the company says. It counts Merrill Lynch, Verizon, and Pfizer as customers and is certified to work with IBM, Microsoft, SAP, and RedHat JBoss.

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    The Secret Meaning Behind Seinfeld/Gates Ad by Mitchell Ashley

    I just watched the new Microsoft Seinfeld ad. I'm stunned that it wasn't a "blown away" kind of ad. So I have to ask myself, what's going on... what are they doing with these ads- The commercial basically is this; Seinfeld see Gates at a shoe store, goes in, tries to figure...

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