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The spat between Microsoft and Google over a
single software engineer emblemizes a shifting trend. Whereas once engineering talent flocked to Microsoft or Sun, now
Google and Yahoo! are creating what Businees Week
speculates is a brain drain. Can two companies really snap up all the available talent, creating headaches for the
rest of the tech industry? Well, last quarter Google hired 230 engineers. In this an in other ways, the Internet has
become the operating system. [via
Slashdot]
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