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There SHOULD be a "glass ceiling" for Marketing and Sales guys

I vote "third ark".

InlawBiker writes "Another hardware vendor offers Linux on their machines. Dell's Ubuntu offering to the general public was big news, but this news is more intriguing. What's interesting about this is it's aimed at "large enterprise customers." One might surmise that corporate customers have been asking for it, and now Lenovo is delivering."
http://laptoping.com/lenovo-thinkpad-t61-r61-suse-sled-10.html

InlawBiker writes "In a follow-up to the earlier article "Interpol Unscrambles Doctored Photo In Manhunt", the New York Times is reporting that the man with the swirled face has been identified and caught. He is being held in Bangkok Thailand. The story on Interpol showing the unswirled photo was also featured on 60 Minutes.

"Canadian pedophile suspect Christopher Neil, focus of a global hunt that ended in rural Thailand on Friday, will be charged with molesting underage children after being tracked down through his boyfriend's phone."
Here is the story at nytimes.com."
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-interpol-paedophile.html

Thom Yorke's representative told me that the band have "decided not to give out any figures" for sales of Radiohead's In Rainbows album, but that isn't stopping people from making their best guesses based on what little information is available.

The Seminal estimates that Radiohead sold about $10 million-worth of albums as of 10/12, assuming that their source was correct that approximately 1.2 million people downloaded the album from the site, and that the average price paid per album was $8 (we heard that number too, but also heard that a later, more accurate average was $5, which would result in $6 million in revenue instead).
http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/10/estimates-radio.html

AlexGr writes "Jeff Gould has a post in Interop News about the difficult economics of Windows-to-Linux desktop migrations in big organizations like government agencies. The most interesting point is that while Linux migration may not make much financial sense short term, in the long term — or very long term — the switch can yield cost savings by virtue of the fact that it breaks Microsoft's proprietary lock-in. In other words, you pay through the teeth to move to Linux now, but you get that investment back eventually because you no longer have to pay monopoly rent to Microsoft. This argument makes perfect sense, but economic theory and empirical observation of real-world software industry behavior both suggest that it might not work in practice. http://www.interopnews.com/news/debating-the-economics-of-windows-to-linux-migration.html"
http://www.interopnews.com/news/debating-the-economics-of-windows-to-linux-migration.html