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I think the term Web 2.0 it is a bit of a joke and apparently there are some others that feel the same way.

People are claiming that Web 2.0 is a paradigm shift of people using community and social networking software and not a technology revolution. Considering the information sharing ideals the internet was based on, I hardly call this worthy of a new version number.

Sun are open sourcing Java. People have been hounding Sun to release Java as an open source product for a long time now and finally their dreams have come true.

In 2007 you should be able to download the Java source code and compile your own open source JDK courtesy of Sun. The project is called OpenJDK.

Sun has gone open source crazy over the past few years!

Every now and then I would check the SGI website to see if they had finally fallen. Today it happened.

SGI filed for chapter 11 around May 8 2006, although they have emerged a new leaner company on October 17 2006.

I think many people will be sad, although not that surprised, to see it finally happened. SGI was a company that made a lot of computer people dream of amazing things. They also made plenty of other non-computer people dream too, being the power behind many amazing visual effects, such as movies.

SGI tried many things to fix their problem of lower cost competitors biting into their market with little success.