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Submission + - Tesla missing $1.4 Billion (jalopnik.com)

Submitted by head_dunce on Saturday March 22, 2025 @12:08PM

head_dunce writes: Typically, it's considered a big problem if someone loses $1.4 billion. That is, after all, a whole lot of money, at least to poors like you and me. So it's understandable that you wouldÂreadÂtheÂnew Financial Times report claiming Tesla can't account for a missing $1.4 billion and be worried something's wrong with the federal government's favorite automaker.

Read More: https://www.jalopnik.com/18154...

Submission + - Yandex says it repelled biggest DDoS attack in history (yahoo.com)

Submitted by head_dunce on Thursday September 09, 2021 @02:17PM

head_dunce writes: "Our experts did manage to repel a record attack of nearly 22 million requests per second (RPS). This is the biggest known attack in the history of the internet," Yandex said in a statement.

Submission + - Congress takes up online sales tax (internetretailer.com)

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head_dunce

on Thursday February 14, 2013 @07:53PM

head_dunce writes: "A bill introduced Thursday by a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers seeks to make it easier for states to collect sales taxes stemming from online purchases. Amazon is among the e-retailers supporting the proposal, while a lobbying group representing eBay and Overstock.com stands opposed."

Submission + - Dear Bill Gates, Glyn Moody, and Gartner analysts: it's time to eat crow. (yahoo.com)

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head_dunce

on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @05:37PM

head_dunce writes: "Now that Red Hat has officially posted more than a billion dollars in revenue, ($1.13 billion to be exact), the company's PR department sent this funny list of quotes predicting doom. For instance, "We think of Linux as a competitor in the student and hobbyist market but I really don't think in the commercial market we'll see it in any significant way." Bill Gates, 2001."

Submission + - First billion dollar open source software vendor (yahoo.com) 1

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head_dunce

on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @04:14PM

head_dunce writes: "Red Hat is coming out way on top in this economy. Total revenue and subscription revenue for this quarter is up 28% year-over-year. Jim Whitehurst, President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat said, "Based on the strong first half results, we believe Red Hat remains well positioned to finish fiscal 2012 as the first billion dollar open source software vendor.”"

Submission + - World's Smallest Hot Rod

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head_dunce

on Thursday January 21, 2010 @11:52PM

head_dunce writes: "A new nanodragster has been built that measures about 50,000 times thinner than a human hair and going at speeds of up .0005 inches per hour while doing a wheelie! Maybe the NHRA should stand for Nano-Hot Rod Association?"

Submission + - Red Hat: Stand alone or get bought? 1

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head_dunce

on Friday March 27, 2009 @12:54PM

head_dunce writes: "So it seems that this economy has inspired a lot of businesses to move to Linux with Red Hat posting profits that beat everyone's expectations. Looks like there's a dark side to being a highly profitable company in a down economy though, now there is talks of Citigroup and Oracle wanting to buy Red Hat. For a while now we've been watching Yahoo fend off Carl Icann and Steve Ballmer so that Yahoo could stay independent, but the fight seems to be a huge distraction for Yahoo with lots of energy (and money) invested. — My question is, will Red Hat stay independent? And if there was a company to buy Red Hat, what company would make for a good parent?"

Submission + - Red Hat to Enter the Desktop Market

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head_dunce

on Friday August 03, 2007 @11:18AM

head_dunce writes: "It looks like Red Hat is going to release their Global Desktop Linux in September and give Ubuntu a challenge for the Linux desktop market. I'm a little confused by the article though, it claims Red Hat Global Desktop "would be sold with a one-year subscription to security updates." Shouldn't the security updates be open, and the customer support be subscription based?"

Submission + - Dell to offer more Linux PCs

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head_dunce

on Thursday July 26, 2007 @05:07PM

head_dunce writes: "According to this article, Mark Shuttleworth from the Ubuntu camp says Dell is seeing a demand for the Linux based PC and, "There are additional offerings in the pipeline."

I'm starting to see flashbacks of the days when Microsoft partnered up with IBM to gain control of the desktop market. Will other Linux flavors find there way to the likes of Lenovo or HP, etc, or will Ubuntu claim the desktop market working with other PC manufacturers?"

Submission + - Michael Dell returns to CEO role at Dell

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head_dunce

on Wednesday January 31, 2007 @07:29PM

head_dunce writes: "It looks like Michael Dell is jumping back into the big chair at Dell because his company is slipping under the direction of Kevin Rollins. I wonder if they should be looking outside the company for new ideas, or if going back to basics is what needs to be done?"

Submission + - Red Hat Sales Surge

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head_dunce

on Thursday December 21, 2006 @09:54PM

head_dunce writes: "Red Hat reported on it's third quarter earnings, and it did quite a bit better than expected even with the Oracle and SuSE/Microsoft new kids on the block.

From the conference call:

CFO Charlie Peters said that the company is "cautiously optimistic that competitive efforts by some of the largest technology companies in the world are actually expanding our opportunity."

Trip Chowdhry, managing director Global Equities Research, said Oracle has misread the market for open source software. "Oracle thinks Linux support is a cost issue; it isn't. It's a business issue."

So it looks like all these companies trying to be like Red Hat has only validated Linux in big business. And all it takes is one tech support call to Microsoft to understand the value of support. Congrats to Red Hat!"

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