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Archive for September 15th, 2005

15 Sep

PySIG: Lloyd Kvam and Functional Programming, 9/22, Manchester

LLoyd Kvam of Venix Corporation will host a discussion and demonstration on Functional Programming at the next Python SIG meeting, held the fourth Thursday of each month at 7 PM at the Amoskeag Business Incubator.

15 Sep

MySQL announces Application and Partner of the Year

The Latest Updates from MySQL AB feed reports MySQL Announces Application and Partner of the Year Award Winners. “In his morning Keynote presentation at the MySQL Users Conference, company CEO Marten Mickos announced the winners of the 2005 Application of the Year and Partner of the Year awards.”
Impressive. This should continue to dispel the myth [...]

15 Sep

Ed Foster: Value From Microsoft Licensing Remains a Distant Vista

From Ed Foster’s column today: “Microsoft’s Software Assurance licensing program has always stood out among software maintenance plans for the unique value proposition it offers customers. You pay nearly twice as much as other vendors charge for half of what other vendors give you, and that’s if you’re lucky.”
This is somewhere between “Would you like [...]

15 Sep

Off to MerriLUG

The Merrimack Valley Linux User Group, one of the five LUGs that makes up the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group meets the third Thursday of each month at Martha’s Exchange in Nashua. Meetings commence at 7 PM, but members often gather for dinner before the meeting at 6 PM. The presenters tonight will be [...]

15 Sep

Linux on desktops? Why not?

Over at OSNews, Thom Holwerda posts Getting serious about the Linux Desktop. “In his latest column, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that Microsoft Vista is going to be so expensive that it’s going to make users think hard about switching to Linux instead. [S.J.V-N says:] “Desktop Linux is never going to have a better chance than [...]

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