Diamond Age Solutions News for the IT Industry

Thu Apr 7 22:01:07 NZST 2005

Today Index

IBM says companies need to 'balance their proprietary approach to IP with a much more open, collaborative approach' and accept the implications of OSS:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651,39194154,00.htm

Microsoft turns its "Get The Facts" campaign away from Linux TCO issues and starts to claim better reliability:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1782996,00.asp

Microsoft to turn off the blocking of SP2 updates on the 12th April:
http://blog.informationweek.com/windows/archives/002597.htm

Caltech researchers create DNA sequences that spontaneously form the famous Sierpinski triangle fractal:
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2005/040605/Programmed_DNA_forms_fractal_040605.html

And finally. It appears that NZ's mass immunisation may have been done with an overpriced, untested, 2nd-hand Norwegian vaccine that was deemed ineffective:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0502/S00064.htm

News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.