Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
I can’t say that any of these picks are surprising. After poring over the Silicon Valley 150 list, there are several candidates. But I think there are three companies that are in particular peril heading into 2009 — Advanced Micro Devices, Sun Microsystems and Palm. [From O'Brien: The three valley companies most vulnerable in 2009 [...]
It was long thought that open source would represent the biggest challenge to traditional database vendors, but fast forward to today and the law of orthogonal technology innovation kicks into high gear as hosted databases go from a “wouldn’t that be pretty cool” to very real offerings. Microsoft has begun signing up testers for SQL [...]