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[SpikeTues] CA offloads Ingres, Pirates on the open sea, Interview with Google's Open Source Guy, Christmas Fact#47
The new kids on the VC 'Menlo Park' block, Garnett & Helfrich Capital, have gone and snapped up the rights to the open source database Ingres from Computer Associates. This is a move by CA to streamline their business and get rid of a lot of the applications it acquired during its take-over spree in the 90's. Ingres itself was purchased in 1994 from Ask/Ingres Inc.
I am not sure if you caught the story last week about a cruise ship that was attacked by pirates. In a moment of true hollywood style madness, pirates in Somalia attack a cruise ship of 300 people with machine guns and bazooka's. Yet the captain managed to avoid any injury by speeding away from the pirates. What I don't quite understand is how? How can a cruise ship out run anything?! Where the pirates in a row boat? Or where they still using long ships and the wind suddenly dropped?
InternetNews has published an interview with Chris DiBona, Google's Open Source Program Manager. Looking past the fact that the photo of Chris they have used bears a spooky resemblence to the chap from the CBS show KingOfQueens, there is some interesting nuggets that fall out of this interview, but on the whole its a fairly wishy-washy page filler interview. For example, their Summer-of-Code event last summer had some hiccups with regards to student visa's being invalidated if they entered, and they are still undecided if the experience is to be repeated next year.
Countdown to Christmas Fact#47:
A beautiful Saxon maiden named Rowena presented Prince Vortigen with a bowl of wine and toasted him with the words "waes hael". Over the centuries, a great deal of ceremony developed around the custom of drinking wassail. This developed over the years to not only being the tradition of toasting, but also as the basis of caroling, going around one's neighbors singing and toasting their health.
Courtesy of http://home4christmas.com/ctrad2.html
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