This Year In IT: More Comedy Than Tragedy

Ah, ain't it grand when life just hands you fresh fodder? When lawsuits, cat fights, and competitive swipes don't fuel angst, but a bit of release, laughter, levity? Whether it's Microsoft Kinect causing bodily injury, the irony of Larry Ellison sitting on a jury trial as foreman, the Pope tweeting, Oracle suing everyone, VMWare jacking up its prices only to have to respond to customer anger, patent wars, or President Obama gathering technology CEOs for a dinner, there's more comedy than tragedy.

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Each year at our annual InformationWeek 500 awards ceremony, I kick things off with my own attempt at a monologue, riffing on some of the news from the year so far.