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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. November 2005: Autonomy agrees to buy search technology developer Verity for $500 milllion, its third acquisition of the year after NCorp (in February) and etalk (in June).

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The Unvarnished Truth of being a Woman in Tech

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In our fifth episode of Breaking 404 , we caught up with Monica Bajaj, Senior Director of Engineering, Workday to hear out the different biases that exist in tech roles across organizations and how difficult it can get for a woman to reach a senior position, especially in tech.

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Big Iron

The Daily WTF

More disks meant more chances for failures, and each time a disk died, the vendor needed to send out a support tech to replace it. Hey,” Lesli’s boss suggested, circa late 2005. The tech started to explain, but went too fast for Erwin’s tastes. Okay,” the tech said, “so you pull up a web browser, go to the admin page.

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How Git Can Power an Exciting Future for Content Management

Netlify

Dropbox can backup files, but what about the metadata associated with the changes? In 2005 we reached the third generation of VCS with Git. With Git, you can try out an idea locally and push it to a remote server when it’s ready for review or deployment. Imagine if Apple lost the source code to iOS. Content relationships.

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Best Free and Open-Source Database Software

G2 Crowd Software

Free and open-source database tools are typically more appealing to the everyday small business and app creator, so we’ve outlined some of the best ones, according to user reviews on G2 Crowd. Using reviews from real users, our list of free database tools is ordered by highest G2 Score as of November 20, 2017. Microsoft SQL.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

While we like to talk about how fast technology moves, internet time, and all that, in reality the last major new idea in software architecture was microservices, which dates to roughly 2015. We’re skeptical about things like job displacement, at least in technology. This has been a strange year. What will those changes be?

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AoAD2 Practice: Pair Programming

James Shore

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Belshee 2005] reports interesting results from switching every 90 minutes. When a pair goes dark—talks less, lowers their voices, or doesn’t switch off with other pairs—it’s often a sign of technical difficulty. Your feedback is appreciated! Zero Friction.