Banks Want to Swim With Penguin

Banks Want to Swim With Penguin. Financial institutions are turning to Linux to run their back-end operations. On Monday, Reuters announces that it's porting its popular market-data service for banks to an open-source system. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]

NASA Dismissed Advisers Who Warned About Safety

NASA Dismissed Advisers Who Warned About Safety. Some former members of an expert NASA panel now say that the agency removed them to suppress their safety warnings. By William J. Broad and Carl Hulse. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Commoditize Your Complements

Remember when I wrote that

Commoditize Your Complements Remember when I wrote that “smart companies try to commoditize their products’ complements?” We decided to take some of our own advice, here, so as of today, FogBUGZ can be run on top of MySQL, which is free, in addition to Microsoft SQL Server, which is expensive. We also support two more… Continue reading

Commoditize Your Complements

Remember when I wrote that

Bye-Bye, IRAs

Bye-Bye, IRAs. A bold proposal by the Bush administration would simplify tax-sheltered savings accounts. [The Motley Fool]