Links for 01-29-2010

• tecosystems » Sunset: The Oracle Acquisition Q&A - Good analysis as usual from Stephen. Nothing here I'd argue with.
• Dartblog: "Outsourcing: Turn the Inn Around" - Note that this is the same college that also still uses its own highly manual payroll system.
• http://www.thevirtualcircle.com/2010/01/sun-microsystems-oracles-swiss-army-knife-of-vengeance/ - A few things in here make be go huh???? but worth reading.
• The Apple iPad: It's just ahead of its time | Molly Rants - CNET News - I mostly agree with Molly. I still tend to think of this class of device as a tweener but it's also reasonable to think instead of a smartphone, tablet, and laptop as being 3 different types of devices.
• Inbox Zero is Overrated - I generally agree with all this. While many of us need to stay reasonably on top of email, we need to be aware of the cost of context switches and turn things off as appropriate.