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End of an era: Terry Shannon passes away
Terry Shannon of Shannon Knows HPC passed away a few days ago. I have been following his site for some time albeit not regularly. I used to read it when it was called Shannon knows DEC, didn’t follow it much when it was called Shannon know Compaq.
Terry was a big fan of Firefox from the early days and he took the time to join the SpreadFirefox community. He sported a Firefox button on his page
One of his blog post on the spreadfirefoxsite encourages people to think of 100 million download goal.
He also sent a newsletter to over 150K Hewlett Packard employees where he extolled the virtues of Firefox. In spite of his seniority in the trade press, he took the time and sent me a copy of the PDF he sent to HP employees
There is a disturbance in the force
The blogosphere is abuzz about the news that Apple plans to ditch IBM and move to Intel . WWDC just got a whole lot more interesting.
I am still ambivalent about this news. Whilst part of me wants to believe that Apple will “switch”, this type of news has come up far too often that it would seem like a ploy to get Apple some leverage with IBM.
Will need to seek some rumor sites who are going to transcribe the keynote in real-time.
Yusuf Goolamabbas 