CDC Software withdraws offer to buy Chordiant (San Francisco Chronicle)
CDC Software Corp., a Chinese business software developer, said Thursday that it withdrew a recent offer to buy Chordiant Software Inc. and sold its 1.3 percent stake in the company. Earlier this month, CDC Software offered to buy all outstanding sha

IBM software: big, blue and boring in the 2010s (The Register)
Wheres the next Wladawsky-Berger? Comment IBMs vision for software aint what it used to be. Biggie Blues venerable software biz will doubtlessly roll right along into the new decade - make no mistake - but wheres the drive and risk taking that made t

Torvalds Warns Linux is Getting Bloated (LinuxPlanet)
As the Linux kernel is becoming increasingly larger and more complex, Linux founder Linus Torvalds says his job is getting easier. Speaking on a panel at the LinuxCon conference, Torvalds told the audience that kernel development model is working bet

Rochester area endures spotty job growth (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Labor Day 2009: High unemployment will linger, but jobs are still out there.

Simmering for decades, engineers grudge explodes (The Bryan-College Station Eagle)
AUSTIN, Texas -- In the California where Joe Stack started out as a fresh-from-college software engineer, fighting the tax man was, quite literally, a religion.Back in the 1970s and 80s, California was not just the center of the "silicon revolut