Day: June 30, 2006

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Updated

    Few updates worth noting from last night/this morning. 1) Added a new option in the Add/Delete Field Utility to allow users to insert a field into the last position in a record 2) Corrected a problem that allows new fields to be added/deleted after a non-numeric field has been added to a record 3) Corrected…

  • Red Hat Patent lawsuit and its far reaching consequences

    I seen that Red Hat has recently found themselves ensnared in a patent lawsuit stemming from their purchase of JBoss.  The lawsuit is centered around the Hibernate 3 technologies — or technologies that deal with object-oriented access to a relational database.  The story can be found here: http://www.infoq.com/news/RedHat-Sued-Due-to-Hibernate-3-O My assumption, looking over this lawsuit, is that there will likely be much prior art to pull from to hopefully invalidate this particular claim.  However, in a worse case scenero (i.e., the patent is upheld), frameworks made popular by languages like Ruby and Python would be…