Archive for June 9th, 2008I really like this list of the top-ten Linus Torvalds’ quotes, as compiled by Computer Business Review. Linux is Linux in large part because Linus is Linus: A strong personality but disarming and approachable. That latter attribute plays out in my top-two favorite quotes:
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NASFAA - National Association of Student Financial Aid AdministratorsPosted by: admin in Financial NewsNASFAA - National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators Shopping results for financial Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Countrywide Financial - Home Loans - Equity Loan Mortgages … Northwestern Mutual Financial Network IMF Global Financial Stability Report, A Report on Market … FSTC | Financial Services Technology Consortium Filed under: Financials and analyticals, Raising money, Investments, Value and lack thereof Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LEH) has in effect set itself up for a future takeunder, or so its pricing and trading seems. The business itself has few proprietary operations, and all of its assets walk in the doors early in the morning and leave at night. The investment banking and trading firm is raising approximately $6 billion to shore up its balance sheet. It is a solid amount of capital, but it is very bad news that the brokerage had to raise that much. Lehman’s loss for the last quarter is now reported as about $2.8 billion. Not so long ago, estimates were for that number to be $300 million. That leaves Wall Street wondering what other firms are facing. It is hard to envision Lehman’s losses could be eight times greater than expected without results being very poor at other firms trading and investment banking firms. Lehman likely needs this capital because is still bleeding in the current quarter and may be damaged more through the rest of the year. The company may come out and state that it doesn’t need any more capital and that this is it, but we’ve heard that song over and over. In fact, on Wall Street 2008 might be the year of “Brother can you spare a few billion in change?” for major investment banks and lending institutions. Most firms on Wall Street put money into the same mortgage paper, LBO loans, CDOs and CLOs, and other derivatives to one extent or another. Lehman’s shares traded at a 52-week high of $82.00. In mid-May, it was trading in the mid-$40’s. Lehman closed at $32.29 Friday. Shares are trading around $29.50 or $29.60 in pre-market after having traded around $28.00 in earlier pre-market trading. I really like this list of the top-ten Linus Torvalds’ quotes, as compiled by Personal Business Review. Linux is Linux in huge part because Linus is Linus: A strong personality but disarming and approachable. That latter attribute plays out in my top-two favorite quotes:
Scott Morris has compiled a list of 100 Linux migrations. Needless to say, this list, while welcome, is a drop in the proverbial bucket. There have been tens of thousands of Linux migrations. Linux is so pervasive in enterprises that it’s furniture at this point: Everyone needs it. Everyone … FINANCIAL REHABILITATION INCORPORATED Financial Advisor Magazine Division of Financial Assistance Wells Fargo Financial Canada - Financial Products for Canadian Home | Office of Financial Aid | Michigan State University Financial Affairs - FAU Financial Aid Office - Montgomery College MD LPL Financial: LPL Financial Home Office of Student Financial Aid & Scholarship Services Financial Aid at Southwestern Assemblies of God University Financial Aid - Illinois Say University home | Nationwide Financial Network® | joinNFN.com
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Microsoft dumps Sandcastle, does right by open sourcePosted by: admin in Business and PoliticsWhen I texted Sam Ramji to let him know about Sandcastle, and he quickly texted back that he would look into it, I figured that a) it hadn’t yet hit anyone’s radar at Microsoft and b) that he’d fix it. Fix it, he did. As Mary Jo Foley notes, it was “doubtful [that] Microsoft was willing to risk the wrath of the OSI over a documentation compiler.” I’d go one step further. Once alerted to Sandcastle’s violation and to the importance thereof, it was doubtful that Microsoft’s Sam Ramji and Co. would be interested in the code, however important/non-important it might be. Sam gets open source. He’s not always supported in this understanding by the larger Microsoft entity, but Sam gets it. His apology to the OSI is direct, concise, and appropriate:
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