Win95 and 98 were both quite ok and in succession.

Yahoo is more than just a search engine.

I agree with the Ingres option. It widely recognized, open source and in need of contributers.

Its because using that is punishment enough, no need to tax the poor soul.

And the good news is that these people are in abundance in the lead architect/team leader/technical manager positions. I can confirm their existence and numbers (did I mention abundance?) from all the organizations I have worked with.

They can't go back to Mandrake because they lost the case to Hearst who own the Mandrake comic strips.

Mandriva History about name change

I remember back when it was called Mandrake, it was the best easy Linux distro out there. The one big plus it had was the installation process, where the auto-formatter tool decided the space for the /, /home and swap mountpoints. For anybody switching from a Windows only background this was a big plus.

Plus it had drakconf, a control panel UI, and tons of neat looking applications. While its best times remain in the past, it still is a great distro (or atleast was in 2010) and deserves a look.

I'd disagree to either Windows or Office facing significant competition. The market shares of Mac or OpenOffice are nothing but blips on the radar. But MS is gaining market share in other fields - C#/VS is increasingly relevant, SQL Server is stiff competition to Oracle/DB2. Apple did create new markets, but their old ones are not money churners like before. In contrast Office has been pulling in billions for 2 decades.

Take away the iPhone product line and you cut Apple's revenue in roughly half. Source: Reuters. For the bonus, take away the iPad product line also and you get a company with a loyal but small customer base. Viable? Sure, but its not going to remain a behemoth like today only on the basis of the Mac line and iPod's.

I'd agree to this. But the reason PC was more important was that it gave rise to Open Architecture and that too from the big blue. Suddenly clones popped up everywhere ensuring the long life of the PC.

StartPage is run by the IxQuick guys. They are basically the same meta-search engine with Startpage adding Google to the fray.

Ah, but they can't stop CPAN module authors from releasing newer versions of modules depending on features found in 5.12+.

RHEL 6.1 is shipping with Perl 5.10.x which went legacy with the release of Perl 5.14 this week. Ah, moving targets! Though doesn't seem too bad since Debian Squeeze is also shipped with 5.10 in February this year.

Are you sure they are from India? Looking at their careers page, they seem to be based in Birmingham.

And the recruiter will get hundreds of replies starting with "I've been picking tea leaves since 2001 in Sri Lanka, thus fulfilling your criterion of production Ceylon experience.."