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Just booked for a weekend in London, thought it would be a nice break.

I tried to get in at the County Hall Premier Inn, but alas that is fully booked up. But I managed to get somewhere just a bit further down the river. And it so happens that the new place is right next to Borough Market, the famous central London foodie haunt.

So having never been there before, can anyone offer any recommendations, of must-do’s?

Interesting post here on the Capgemini CTO blog, contemplating a future (if I read the post correctly) where licenced software products are a thing of the past.

It’s interesting in the fact that this has come from Capgemini, one of the big consultancies beloved of big business, are they ‘getting it’? This is where Open Source comes into it’s own, in value added services and support costs.

I am reminded by a statement from Mark Shuttleworth a few years back where he claimed that he saw the day some years in the future where the Open Source model would be the dominant model of software development and also delivery.

Just want to echo PerfDave’s post on the Hacienda exhibition at the Urbis. I have been a few times and always found it really interesting.

Loots of interesting stuff there, and like PerfDave says, you could spend hours there. So I would encourage you to get down there and check it out before it goes.

I see Microsoft are making a bid for Yahoo, they are obviously looking to respond to the growing power that is Google, and so Yahoo seems like a good buy.

What is just as interesting and not good news, is that Yahoo recently bought Zimbra, the most promising of the Exchange alternatives out there. So by acquiring Yahoo, Microsoft will also get Zimbra and promptly bury it, in favour of the 500-Pound Gorilla that is Exchange.

My request to the board of Yahoo, don’t do it, but if you do, ensure that Zimbra stay’s open!