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- Profile: Tall Group – Focus on training young print talent secures a…
- Suspect’s words deepen bombing mystery
- Analysis: Adidas to challenge Nike.
- Sleepycat on open source competition, licensing and development
Rewind – TV & Radio – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – Aug 4, 2005
An Australian drama usually costs $400,000-$500,000 an hour toproduce. The Americans spend 10 times as much. So, what are we watching instead? It’s not that we are desertinghome-grown TV. Sixteen of last week’s top 20 shows in Melbournewere Australian-made. It’s just that we’re not watching home-grown scripted drama. Inits place, we are watching other types of shows, especiallyfly-on-the-wall reality dramas. As a community, we are alsowatching more than ever before the day-to-day real-life dramaoffered by news and current affairs programs…
So, what are we watching instead? It’s not that we are desertinghome-grown TV. Sixteen of last week’s top 20 shows in Melbournewere Australian-made. It’s just that we’re not watching home-grown scripted drama. Inits place, we are watching other types of shows, especiallyfly-on-the-wall reality dramas. As a community, we are alsowatching more than ever before the day-to-day real-life dramaoffered by news and current affairs programs. Maybe it is the spontaneity of Big Brother and TheAmazing Race that we are craving and the opportunity to watchTV as a window on the real world. Six of last week’s top 20 shows were news and current affairsprograms, and five were reality shows of one sort or another.
Profile: Tall Group – Focus on training young print talent secures a…
Free with registration – Print Week – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 4, 2005
| Print Week (August, 2005). The Tall Group has been nurturing home-grown talent for the past 12 years, a move that ha.
Suspect’s words deepen bombing mystery
Newsday – Aug 4, 2005
One was that the July 21 blasts were copycat attacks, a frightening notion in its own right. Another was that Issac’s handlers had taught him how to throw investigators off the trail. A third possibility, which appears to be the most nefarious and likely, is that the July 21 and the July 7 bombing teams operated with no knowledge of the other, controlled by a mastermind who may have other home-grown cells of Britons ready to launch similar attacks. Frustrations mount Related links.
Analysis: Adidas to challenge Nike.
Free with registration – UPI International Intelligence – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 4, 2005
The game ended 3-0, it was not even close. Global business duels are not often fought out on the soccer pitch — and the results of the match-ups are not always representative. Although soccer still remains Adidas’ home-grown advantage, Nike has started to challenge that position. And it continues to dominate the rest. company is the "800-pound gorilla" and so far has won the trans-Atlantic sporting goods war.
Sleepycat on open source competition, licensing and development
InfoWorld – Aug 4, 2005
Sleepycat’s Berkeley DB is a best-in-class, open source database that competes on the basis of features and performance. Customers choose Berkeley DB because of technical fit for the type of application they are building, and because it’s faster than alternatives, no matter whether they are open source, proprietary or home-grown. Acquisition cost is not the primary driver. But the fact that we reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the customer’s application is sometimes a factor. Why is it sometimes better for the customer of open source software to purchase a proprietary software license for the same software? Some companies such as Sleepycat, MySQL and a few others are highly successful selling the same software under two different licenses, a no-cost open source license like the GPL and a paid commercial license. This gives customers a choice with benefits from both models.