I find this article just sad.  Basically, the article is about a study done by a “third party” that said that Windows is less confusing and better than Linux as a server platform.  There are some major problems with this “third party.” The first is that this “third party” is licensed by Microsoft.  Which means that they already like Microsoft.  The second problem is that Microsoft sponsored this study.  That means that they gave this “third party” money to do the study.  How are you supposed to be unbiased, when you are receiving funds from one of the companies you are reviewing?  Does that not sound amazingly fishy to you, or is it just me?  Novell hasn’t come out with a statement as of this writing, but I hope they do soon!

Well it looks like pandora is finally free.  I loved the service but I didn’t want to pay for it.  It is ad supported, but not too bad.

I don’t know if you guys have heard of this yet, but it seems that google released a database like web app, and then took it back. It seems odd that Google did this by “accident”. I think this was probably a way of viral advertising. By, placing this out for a couple of hours they got everyone (including me) to talk about it, and wonder what exactly it is. This is free advertising, that you can’t even pay to get. Before the site went down, somebody was able to get a screenshot, and posted it on flickr, here is what the writing says:

Post your items on Google.

Google Base is Google’s database into which you can add all types of content. We’ll host your content and make it searchable online for free.

Examples of items you can find in Google Base:

• Description of your party planning service
• Articles on current events from your website
• Listing of your used car for sale
• Database of protein structures

You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they search Google Base. In fact, based on the relevance of your items, they may also be included in the main Google search index and other Google products like Froogle and Google Local.

So, this seems to be a sort of MySQL frontend. They seem to be wanting to get into the access market these days. I find that I have no need for databases, but I know many people who swear by them when it comes to contact management. If they integrate it with gmail, so that you can do mailing headers, that would be wonderful. Google, really is cataloging everything and it will be interesting when someone hacks into their servers.