Thom Holwerda Archive

Gil Amelio had been on Apple's board for less than a year before he was tapped to be Michael Spindler's successor. As CEO, he would transform Apple from the inside out, and set it up for Steve Jobs's triumphant return. Read an account of Gil Amelio's 500 days as CEO of Apple Computer here.

Those who hope Sun will open-source all of its software products anytime soon are in for a big disappointment. Sun executives, including president Jonathan Schwartz and John Loiacono, the executive vice president for software, have all repeatedly said that the company intends to open-source its entire software stack over time. However, they have not been specific about the time frame for that, which has left the impression that it is imminent. But Simon Phipps, Sun's chief open-source officer, said in an interview that this process is not going to be rushed and will not happen quickly.

"Welcome to the Script Center portal for the Microsoft Shell (also known as MSH or Monad), Microsoft’s next-generation command-line and scripting environment. We’ll be adding new content and scripts periodically - so check back with us every once in a while. We’d like to be sure we’re continuing to meet your needs, so let us know what you’d like to see here."

"On December 8, 2005, we published a story that wondered: Firefox 1.5: Not Ready For Prime Time? In response, some 450 (and climbing) InternetWeek, InformationWeek, TechWeb Pipelines, and Scot's Newsletter readers have sent details about their experiences with Firefox 1.5. A picture is emerging about Firefox 1.5 in the real world - on a small percentage of Windows, Mac, and Linux computers - that is less than positive."

"The Eclipse Foundation will make the Eclipse Web Tools Platform 1.0 release generally available the week of Dec 19th, 2005. Eclipse WTP 1.0 is an extensible, standards-based tool platform for developing J2EE and Web applications. This full version release solidifies the platform API for 3rd party extension, and accompanying major documentation improvements make WTP ready for the next-level of vendor adoption."

Aaron Siego of KDE: "It would be very nice if our X server could use OpenGL directly for its display and composition. Because then we could have hardware accelerated effects that are not only cool looking, but also very useful. Well, there is just such a project underway, called XGL. But don't hold your breath. The development of XGL has been largely removed from the community and is being done behind closed doors. Who is this company, you ask, that would take the development of something as potentially important as this out of the community and put it behind closed doors? Novell."