Microsoft has set the pricing for the XBox 360 when it launches this year – the entry level version will be $299, and the upgraded version including a harddrive and some other add-ons will be $399.
Mac OS X on x86
I saw a copy of Mac OS X x86 runnning on a Dell laptop yesterday… I guess it didn’t have SSE2 support in the CPU so some Mac apps were not able to run, but on the whole it booted fast and seemed pretty snappy! Pretty cool!
Interview with Groovy’s project leader
If you haven’t looked at Groovy yet, here’s an interview with the project leader for the Groovy project. The interview covers a brief overview of Groovy, where the scripting language is going in the future, and what a Quarter Pounder with Cheese is really called in France 🙂
Are Linux LAMP developers moving to Java?
Evans Data research company has a report from a survey in Europe and Middle East and shows that the number of developers currently using development tools such as PHP and Perl on a Linux platform is slowing declining. The research company is speculating that these developer are moving to Java instead.