AT FIRST GLANCE, the company Employease seems unremarkable. But look a little closer. Employease, which provides employee benefits administration services to more than 1,000 organizations across America, has an IT architecture chiefly built around open-source software, which makes it a rare bird—not that it was planned that way when the company was founded in 1996.

"It's been quite a surprise to me. The open-source model just seems intuitively wrong," says John Alberg, the company's cofounder, CIO, CTO and vice president of engineering. But the facts speak for themselves.

Willy heeft elk kwartier een andere favicon, //omdat het kan. Maar heel veel sites instaleren default een webserver en laten alles staan wat ze niet kennen in de docroot. Dus ook de favicon.ico van de webserver fabrikant. Nu komt de standaard van windows, maar laat ongeveer elke browser default de favicon zien in de url balk, behalve IE.

Either way, ik vind het sneu dat de webmeisters:

• niet de favicon weghalen van de webserver;
• hun eigen site niet testen met een moderne browser als bv //firefox.

Zo zijn de volgende sites in de categorie jammer:

• //postbank, (//ikoon) op //bea;
• //nrc (//ikoon) op //netscape.

En dat terwijl de mijnpostbank site best wel //moeite doet om te verbergen wat ze draaien. Bah, waren we 2 jaar geleden in een fase waar security een vinkje was in een OS, we zijn nu nog verder afgedaald, security is een ikoon.

Mhhh, dat klinkt juist wel weer goed. Security is een ikoon.

A good read regarding the license of modules in GPL based core components.

Dear friends, in recent days we have been experiencing a rather “sudden” shift in
events in the use, application and interpretation of GPL software, right in our midst, the
Postnuke CMS administration team has, redefined the scope and boundaries of the
GPL which is the license used to protect this projects code and intellectual property.
Affecting not only the intellectual rights of all the developers that have contributed to
this project but also your rights to learn, explore and advance knowledge as a user of
this technology.

Albert Heyn is duur. Heel duur. Bij AH is zelfs het statiegeld duurder...

Having survived a gruelling battle with America's trustbusters, Microsoft now faces a showdown in Europe. Meanwhile, another battle looms on the
horizon.

The announcement this week that Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates, is to receive an honorary knighthood from Britain's Queen Elizabeth II seems fitting. For Bill Gates KBE (only British citizens can take the honorific 'Sir') combines knightly philanthropy on an unprecedented scale with a long and impressive combat record.

Over the years he has seen off numerous competitors, parrying attacks from all sides and always, somehow, emerging victorious. Microsoft's most notable success -its establishment, with its Windows software, of a monopoly in desktop operating systems- has led to its fiercest battles of all, as antitrust regulators have accused it of abusing its dominant position.

source: //the economist