One of IBM’s senior venture capital investment authorities is encouraging software start-ups to follow the money, and back the LAMP open source stack.

Netscape 8 is the first major upgrade to the once-dominant browser since 2002, but disables XML (used by RSS feeds amongst other things).

The free toolbar, released Tuesday, was downloaded more than 60,000 times within hours of its release, according to Netcraft Internet Services Developer Paul Mutton. By comparison, the company’s antiphishing toolbar for Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser has been downloaded around 100,000 times since its release earlier this year, he said.

It’s time to throw out the rituals of the printed page, and to engage the medium of the web and its own nature.

Even if you’re a micro-business you need a good team around you – not just employees – to help you create a compliment of skills that will enable you to succeed. Nobody should expect to be able to do everything from the vision, through the operations, right through to the stationery ordering. You’ll only get so far if you do, but there just aren’t enough hours in the day to truly reach the performance levels you set out to achieve!