Google playing proprietary games with open source? by ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn -- Is Google starting to play proprietary games with open source?

P.S. Starting to be meanie Goog :P

ERP on a budget: Is it possible? by ZDNet's Larry Dignan -- For mid-sized businesses the notion of ERP and budgets is an oxymoron, but it doesn’t have to be that way if companies document all costs, consider SaaS and customize less. That was part of the message from Robert Anderson, an analyst at Gartner. Anderson speaking at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando Tuesday. The title of [...]

Microsoft’s Iain McDonald: It’s the end of a (Longhorn) era by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley -- I had a chance to meet one of the true Windows veterans, Iain McDonald, Director of Project Management for Windows Server, earlier this year. We didn't talk a whole lot about Windows Server 2008. Instead, we touched on everything from his hobbies (motorcycles and guitars), to the "worst project ever run," -- which, in McDonald's opinion, was Windows 2000. Here's Part 1 of the Q&A.

We’ve gone through the equivalent amount of time with Vista and it hasn’t got any of those black eyes, which says to me, I think we’ve done pretty well with that. -- Iain McDonald

P.S. Black eyes've never been good for anyone ^^

Job interviews in Second Life? Uh oh. by ZDNet's Larry Dignan -- The Wall Street Journal reports that some companies are using Second Life for job interviews. Uh oh, I may have to take back all of those critical Second Life comments. Why burn virtual bridges? The WSJ cites some poor chef who spent six hours learning how to dress his avatar and get around in Second Life. [...]

P.S. you must be kidding -_-"

How to REALLY erase a hard drive by ZDNet's Robin Harris -- You may already know that “deleting” a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data? No? Then read on. What do you mean “delete” doesn’t delete? File information is maintained in a directory so your operating system can find it. All that [...]