Systems

Apparently, there is some concern that if Google staff become suddenly wealthy they may loose some of their incentive to

Beowulf celebrates 10 years of computing activity. > In late 1993, Becker and Thomas Sterling, both working at NASA’s

A 1999 article by Michael Buckland on vocabulary as a central concept in library and information science. > Vocabulary problems

We are definitely in a race … Yahoo now has a Local Yahoo [https://local.yahoo.com/] service, which aims to

Jonathan Schwartz, COO and president of Sun, has become very visible as a blogger. Here he is on technology (on

Along the lines of Google Labs, and even, dare I say, our own ResearchWorks [https://www.oclc.org/research/researchworks]

Another mention of SRU: the discovery+ project at Edinburgh has brought up an SRU demonstrator [https://tweed.lib.ed.ac.

Eric Lease Morgan has an article on SRU in the current issue. Ralph Levan gets a namecheck (Ralph’s SRU

Jonathan Schwartz notes that Sun has been experimenting with eBay as a sales channel. > We’ve been running an

> A second discontinuity for vendors is the double-edged sword of creating true interoperability while selling unique value. Customers want

Spotted on a company T-shirt recently: “we make open source affordable”.

The British Library: providing services beyond the reading rooms [pdf] [https://www.nao.org.uk/publications/nao_reports/03-04/0304879.