FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Jon Talton: Austin is winning recruits among the tech elite, but that’s not Seattle’s biggest danger [The Seattle Times] Dec. 18—Civil War Gen. Philip Sheridan famously said, “If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.” The situation has obviously changed. Not only is Dallas a major corporate center and Houston, the nation’s fourth most populous city, the capital of the oil industry, but Austin is a rising tech star. Austin’s ascendency was emphasized recently when software powerhouse Oracle said it would move its headquarters there from Silicon Valley.