On 6/8/05, Thaddeus H. Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter, Michael, your responses were immensely helpful. > Thank you. When I called, voice mail picked up, and I > did leave a voice message combining Peter's structure > and points with Michael's solid content. Whether the > reporter Guth phones me back, indeed whether we get any > response at all, remains to be seen; but the people over > at the WSJ are some of the smartest reporters found > anywhere in the world (as far as reporters go), so we'll > give them a fair chance.
Yep -- and when a WSJ (Dow Jones) staffer really needs help understanding something, he calls up a colleague in their Moscow Bureau, who shouts across the hall to an Economist / Financial Times (Pearson) writer -- the archrivals publish jointly in Russia. :-) You're welcome -- and thanks for leading the charge. > SourceLabs is one of several start-ups trying to > position itself as a one-stop shop for businesses > that want to use open-source software. It plans to > certify that various forms of open-source software > work wll together and meet corporate computing > requirements. Suppose that "certification" will have anything to do with the LCC? I still think comprehensive test kits are a better strategy than golden binaries. > The company was founded last year by executives and > managers from Microsoft and BEA Systems Inc. Its > main financial backing came from Ignition Partners, > a venture-capital group whose co-founders include > Brad Silverberg, a former Microsoft senior vice > president who led development of the Windows > operating system, the leading competitor to Linux. I don't know who's taking a bigger gamble, Bruce or Brad. :-) Cheers, - Michael