Big Time

IBM is buying Rational. This is big. Very big. This makes IBM the leader in software development tools. This also means that the leading SCM and process modeling tools that people use with Microsoft will now have incentive to use more IBM tools. Should be interesting to see how this plays. IBM's stock took a hit (probably on short term cash outlay, long term this is a win).

I work for a technology company. I don't expect everyone to know everything about technology. I am, however, astounded at the number of people who come around saying "My bookmark for X doesn't work anymore, do I need to reinstall something? Can you come fix my computer?" It's a freaking URL. Try just entering the main URL for the site? What's truly frightening is when a WEB DEVELOPER comes to me and can't figure out why they can't use their bookmark to the development server. Argh!