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SeekingAlpha Software Stocks (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Dennis Byron submits: If you follow the growth of content management software (CMS) in the enterprise software market for a living and also follow United States politics as a civic responsibility, your worlds intersected during the week of October 26. The leading related headlines in the blogosphere in terms of most frequent appearance went something like this: "White House Switches...
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SeekingAlpha Software Stocks (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Dennis Byron submits: In dueling blogoshots released in October 2009, the two Finns most associated with the MySQL database software company, which they sold to Sun ( JAVA ) in 2008 for a bazillion markaas, are urging the European Union in opposite directions when it comes to Oracle’s ( ORCL ) takeover of MySQL (by virtue of Oracle’s pending acquisition of Sun). Marten Mickos,...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
ICTR President Calls for Active National Jurisdictions Gashegu Muramira12 October 2009Kigali — The President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), has said that as the tribunal prepares to close, national jurisdictions should effectively play their role in the fight against the culture of impunity.In his address to the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday, Justice Dennis...
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SeekingAlpha Software Stocks (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Dennis Byron submits: In reading about the almost Microsoft ( MSFT ) agreement with the European Union (EU) announced October 7, I feel Microsoft investors have finally gotten a good deal from the EU regulators. The mounting opposition to the deal is my proof-point. Just as the Opera ( OPESF.PK ) company executives that started the anti-Microsoft browser complaint in EU now feel chained...
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SeekingAlpha Software Stocks (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Dennis Byron submits: The failed Norwegian browser provider, Opera ( OPESF.PK ), says it is not sure about the Microsoft ( MSFT ) proposal for a European-Union (EU)-mandated “browser ballot” to be used with Windows 7 as an alleged means to lessen Microsoft ( MSFT ) Internet Explorer (IE) market power. According to one of the UK information-technology rags (I now can't find...
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SeekingAlpha Software Stocks (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Dennis Byron submits: Red Hat ( RHT ) executives briefed financial analysts October 6. The key question I brought to the session was, “Where does Red Hat stand against its previously announced plans to gain half of market share in server operating software (see Feb 14, 2008 entry) and middleware during the 2010-2019 decade?” Complete Story »
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
... Nigerian prosecution counsel, Ibunokulu Babajide, told Trial Chamber III presided by Justice Dennis Byron, that the accused actually deserved a life imprisonment, but unfortunately would ago against the directive of the Appeals Chamber, which has decided that it should not exceed 25 years, which was imposed by the lower court.The Chamber stated clearly in its judgment that if found...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
... from prosecution and defence before Trial Chamber III of the court presided over by Judge Dennis Byron.The counsel said that Muvunyi was among the influential leaders in Butare, now Southern Province, who incited the local population to exterminate the Tutsi."A life sentence is the only punishment that befits the role he played in the 1994 Genocide," the Nigerian born prosecutor said.To...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
(Lausanne) New ICTR Appeals Judge Sworn-in 29 September 2009|| Share: Judge Carmel Agius from Malta was sworn in Monday as an Appeals Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), trying key suspects of the 1994 genocideThe swearing-in ceremony was presided over by Justice Charles Dennis Byron, President of the Tribunal and witnessed by Mr Adama Dieng, the Registrar...
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SeekingAlpha Software Stocks (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Dennis Byron submits: As described in my recent post , "Microsoft ( MSFT ) Puts 'IT Investment Research' Out of Business", Microsoft’s Windows Live and related services businesses are a train wreck. Back at the end of its 2009 fiscal year in July, Microsoft announced some reorganization changes for this group. On Tuesday September 22, Microsoft provided more details ....