DCRE Labs maintains a number of development projects at any given time, many of them are volunteer-based community outreach and social responsibility projects. While the DCRE staff is committed to sponsoring and supporting these efforts, there are several side-projects or sub components that are available for volunteers who wish to contribute to one or more of the project requirements.

As most all non-cave dwellers have heard, Google's philosophy is "do no evil" (okay, that's not completely true and it does vary at times, granted. As of 2/15/10, the phrase is:
"You can make money without doing evil.")

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/technology/companies/04oracle.html

Sadly enough, it appears the EU has a better read on the Sun/Oracle merger than our own Justice Department.

From the NY Times in the link above:

European regulators threw up a roadblock Thursday to the proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems by the software company Oracle, indicating that the combination could squelch the growth of a popular, free corporate database software owned by Sun.

There's quite a bit of buzz today in the financial world about the Sun/Oracle merger (http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&ned=us&ncl=1337597858&topic=b)

DCRE Labs' West Coast division systems are operating normally, despite the recent fiber optic sabotage experiened throughout the Silicon Valley Area. Our staff monitored the network traffic status throughout the event and were relieved to find all main trunks remained online and operational. Increased network load due to re-routed traffic did not adversely affect operations.