Wednesday was quite interesting, as IBM announced that it was donating a subset of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and a lot of software tools to support it to the open source community. It has apparently proposed that the Eclipse Foundation take it on as another project.
Then Apple drop us a bombshell with the new iPod that will play video – I’m sure that Steve Jobs said something about it being an idea that wouldn’t work, just like he said that Apple would not build a flash memory based player, and then 12 months later launched the flash based iPod shuffle.
And of course today, in a few hours time, the new James Bond 007 will be announced – everyone thinks they know who it will be, and Daniel Craig is in the frame, and he probably is the new Bond, for the remake of Casino Royale.