In a broadside attack on Microsoft’s announcement of Silverlight, a new competitor to Adobe’s Flash software, Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen unleashed a vitriolic attack on the Seattle based company’s reputation for support multiple platforms. "Even though they say Silverlight is going to be cross-platform, and maybe the first will be, I’m not sure our...
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Adobe has pretty much been a technology follower over the last few years. It was visibly shocked when Apple stole a march on it with Aperture, beating it to the market with its copycat Lightroom product by over a year. More recently Adobe has even admitted that its decision in a ‘fit-of-pique’ to drop...
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At the beginning of this month the odds were pretty much 50/50 that the Bank of England would leave rates on hold as the CPI fell to 2.7 percent. Today the office of national statistics published the latest figures that show the CPI has jumped a massive 0.4 percent to 3.1 percent. This also...
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A few years ago the standard lending criteria for the average UK borrower was a simple 2.5x the combined income or 3.25x the largest income. Then came tales of offers of  whopping 4x the largest income, now we hear that in many cases banks are willing to offer 6x income for the average borrower...
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Canonical Ltd, the lead sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced that users of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS edition (Long Term Support) can now download and deploy IBM DB2 9. The simplified deployment process and ease-of-use of Ubuntu, combined with IBM DB2 9 data server software, will enable companies to develop and deploy data servers at a...
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Whilst France is currently in the throws of a vicious election campaign, it seems that quietly in the background another victory has taken place. The victory isn’t just for freedom, it seems that the victory is for free software.On Friday the French National Assembly choose to use Linux and not Microsoft for the 577...
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