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But if Congress doesn’t settle the differences between the House and Senate versions soon, it’s gonna be tax-a-palooza time.

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If you wondered what would happen to BEA stock when it went up past Oracle Corp’s bid price after Oracle refused to budge–well, it fell back down again. And with no buyers in sight, BEA might just be SOL.

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A sudden drop in Google Page Ranks for many popular sites has people thinking the Page (as in Larry Page) Rank algorithm has been jiggered again–and this time, it favors blogs less. So, maybe that explains why my ego hurts so much.


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Sun’s dev tool for Java is now available under GPL, trying to get Linux mindshare. But will anyone really care? I’m thinking…no. Also released under CDDL, NetBeans lags way behind Eclipse in most developers’ give-a-hoot metric.

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Got laid off ? eWEEK has this feature on how to dig yourself out of the rubble from an unexpected job loss and get yourself back into the tech workforce.

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Here are 10 specialized search engines you’ve probably never heard of, but should check out. That is, if you want to find the lyrics to that song that is stuck in your head, or online classifieds for that hard-to-find item, or that file download you’ve been looking for.

Wayne Rash of eWEEK has unleashed the latest Roomba in eWEEK’s Washington, DC Lab. I suppose you could say that it sucked. But since that’s what the Roomba is supposed to do…

Chris Primesburger looks at the state of Wall Street disaster recovery 6 years after 9/11/01, and it isn’t there yet. The story covers some of the ground Ed Cone and I looked at in our first story for Baseline, on how Cantor Fitzgerald recovered from the loss of its primary site at the World Trade Center in 47 hours to begin handling trades again.

SJVN is not buying claims that the Microsoft antitrust consent decree has done its job. Of course, that’s his opinion. Personally, I think Vista may do what the consent decree couldn’t… but that’s just me.

VMware’s very own conference, VMworld, is being held this week in San Francisco. And the company has some big news, including an announcement that its VMware ESX Server 3i virtualization software will be embedded in servers from Dell, HP, IBM, NEC, Fujitsu, and other hardware vendors.

But Microsoft is never happy letting someone else get all the attention, so the company has created some news of its own, announcing that it will be previewing its own virtualization technology later this month, when it pushes the first release candidate for Windows Server 2008 out the door.

The Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the virtualization technology, code-named Veridian, is a trimmed-down version of Microsoft’s attempt at keeping up with the VMwares. And it won’t be a real product until at least six months after Windows Server 2008 ships — which, if Microsoft sticks to its latest roadmap, will be in February.

But wait, not enough? Microsoft also announced that the next version of its virtual machine management software, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007, will nice with VMware and Xen–when it is released sometime next year. The first beta will be released sometime in the first quarter of 2008.

So, really, there’s not much news there. But it’s the promise of news, and enough to at least momentarily distract some from all the VMware hype in the wake of the company’s IPO.