Daily Archives: May 25, 2004

CA Open Source

By | May 25, 2004

Yahoo! News – CA Charges Into Open Source Computer Associates has always struck me as being the least interesting of all the really large software factories. They build (though more often, deliver through an acquisition) boring software for running core software at other behemoths. The only interesting thing about CA over the last few years… Read More »

SourceBeat

By | May 25, 2004

I’ve been meaning to write about SourceBeat for awhile. My friend Michael told me about this company a couple weeks ago. SourceBeat has a very interesting business model for publishing technical books. The basic idea is that you pay about $30 a year to subscribe to a book. That may seem like a lot for… Read More »