Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
- I guess Vista isn't so bad
- I guess Vista isn't so badLittle Type-oit actually recognized a [b]Copier[/b] that XP always fussed about printing toNice that you took a level-headed toneNice that you didn't religiously rant. My take is that Vista was more an infrastructural change, for example drivers in protected mode, etc... and therein lies the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Parts of a system: beyond the e-voting case
- Parts of a system: beyond the e-voting caseGreater than what...."Server virtualization (in the PC/IBM sense of hosting multiple equivalent OS instances on one machine), for example, is extraordinarily popular right now and can definitely reduce data center cost - but almost always does so at greater cost to the business...
- Tags: Data centers, Virtualization, Murph, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., IT IS, e-voting
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
- First look at Google Chrome
- First look at Google ChromeDownloaded and took a look at chromeAnd was immediately struck by just how much annoying advertising crap ZDNet puts on their site.Inadvertently? I vote on purpose.Inadvertently? I vote on purpose. I'd believe "inadvertently" if Chrome were released a month later - but a [b]day[/b] later? No,...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Google Chrome, First Look, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Novell: Quietly developing some momentum
- Novell: Quietly developing some momentumNovell is on life support[i]He added that Microsoft is buying up to $100 million in SUSE certificates in $25 million chunks.[/i]Novell will be arround as long as M$ provides the cash.The best bet is on companies that stand on their own feet and built everything from...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- DTrace and the Linux bunker mentality
- DTrace and the Linux bunker mentalityBecause it is the Linux way Paul1) Take something good and copy it badly.2) Never, ever listen to anyone offering advice regarding usability [i]"Linux ain't no Fisher Price OS"[/i] etc.3) Spend more time arguing on the mailing lists, than actually developing and bug-testing.RE: DTrace and...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, DTrace, SCO Group Inc., Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow
- When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third party maintenance for Oracle's recently acquired PeopleSoft customers? I told him it would be an incredibly aggressive move, but that...
- Tags: Revenue, Maintenance, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- AT&T blunders on free Wi-Fi for iPhones
- AT&T just can't commit. To free Wi-Fi for iPhone 3G customers, that is. The company seems to be having a blunder-fest with announcements that iPhone 3G customers can get free Wi-Fi at its nationwide AT&T WiFi HotSpots most notably in Starbucks stores. The carrier trumpets the free service...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Card, AT&T Corp., Starbucks Corp., Apple iPhone 3G, Wireless LANs, 3G, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Rik Fairlie
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare
- Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmareRE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmareThe legal "Phalanx" is only one of several tools that Apple is heating in the furnace of hi-tech to fight the Cloners and maintain their iron grip on quality control of their hardware, which is their major...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, hardware, Thermopylae, clone nightmare
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Yahoo's open source bet is a long run thing
- Yahoo's open source bet is a long run thingYahoo's open source bet is a long run thingBad for Google, great for everyone else!"In the long run we're all dead......and for a long time."RE: Yahoo's open source bet is a long run thingIs there anything open source at all about what...
- Tags: MS API, Open sourcing, open source, Darwin, Apple Inc., Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Deskless Workers, Useless Services: Microsoft Online Misses the Mark
- I spend a lot of time tracking the deskless souls who inhabit the workworld, the factory workers, nurses and others who spend more time on their feet and less time on their butts than the rest of us. So I was all ears as Stephen Elop, Microsoft's latest Business Division...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Worker, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Many degrees of multi-tenancy
- Many degrees of multi-tenancyGood points, what many people miss is ...The cost of the more expensive hardware required to run fewer "clusters" far offsets the added licensing costs, management software costs, and people costs of running many varied smaller configurations. Think TCO, not hardware cost.RE: Many degrees of multi-tenancyI...
- Tags: Scripting languages, cloud computing, SaaS Model, DB Level, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- The value in name patients
- The value in name patientsYour assuming of course ....... that the surgery is successfull. What if he dies on the table or within 60 days after? Will people still want to use Duke?Probably won't make any difference unless...Dr. Friedman severely blunders. According to this article:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060200926.html?hpid=moreheadlinesthis is very...
- Tags: Friedman, patient, Kennedy, surgery
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Google caught "anonymously" bashing eBay
- Google caught "anonymously" bashing eBayWhose blunder?Does anyone know if this was Google's fault or the Australian commission's? Do any of the other documents have the same problem?I find it a little hard to believe that the letter would be entitled "by Google" while still inside Google; I would suspect...
- Tags: Google Inc., eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-31
- Adding up Sun's pieces
- Adding up Sun's piecesFocus on the small businessIf Sun wants to monetize their strategy have a separate sales channel focus on the SMB's that don't have deep pockets and entrenched technology and are willing to listen when someone says there is a better cheaper way of doing things.Sun has too...
- Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Servers, Murph, Sun Microsystems Inc., stock, server
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- Microsoft accidentally delivers Office Genuine nagware
- Microsoft accidentally delivers Office Genuine nagwareLaw of averages says they'll get something right someday ...Perhaps they should teach their marketing department some technical skills ....Once Again, A Major Microsloth BlunderJust in time for the weekend!It's all too much ntntaccidentally whatthere is nothing accidental about MS beside its exsitence"Accidentally"?They "accidentally"...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Keyboards, Operating systems, accidentally, Microsoft Corp., Office Genuine, Linux, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Now we can have Windows XP Home!
- Now we can have Windows XP Home!Can Anyone Say, "APPLE"Having been in and out of IT circles for more years than I care to mention, I have decided it is time to ditch Microsoft all together and figure out how to make the obscure piece of fruit work in our...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Windows XP Home!, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-04-03
- War against Web tops music biz 'screw-ups' list
- War against Web tops music biz 'screw-ups' listCheck historical facts music-on-demandYou might find the 'blunder' goes back earlier, was an industry effort, not just the record labels. In fact, it was actually easier to get a meeting/demo of DirectHit and Softplayer music search software to with VP's at the...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Web-tops music biz, Web-tops, Napster Inc., music biz
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- Man mistakenly assigned Vonage number now has to go thru PITA of requesting it back
- Man mistakenly assigned Vonage number now has to go thru PITA of requesting it backpacket8 woesafter my own bad experience with packet8 i stumbled upon your blog and this post on the Vonage number blunder. in may case, packet8 charged me a disconnection fee of $59.99 for a number that...
- Tags: Blogging, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Vonage Holdings Corp., PITA
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Toshiba delivers its Betamax address
- Toshiba delivers its Betamax addressThe writing was on the wallI think it was pretty much game over for HD-DVD once Sony bundled the BR drive in the PS3. Although that can be balanced by Sony's usual failures in introducing formats. See: Betamax, MiniDisc, Hi8, Memory stick and UMD.Too bad, I...
- Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD, Sony Corp., Sony Betamax, Toshiba Corp., Betamax address, DVD
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- Toshiba drops HD DVD
- Toshiba drops HD DVDWhich is next?At last, a useless costly format war is over. Thank God. I wonder which will be the next useless format war? Industries never learn... And we, consumers, pay the price.Greetz, Pjotr.It's over!And the winner is.. well, still no winners, I think. The HD players was...
- Tags: HD DVD, Blu-ray, Consumer electronics, HD-DVD, Blu-ray disc, DVD, DVD Price, Toshiba Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
White Papers and Webcasts
At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, Todd Glass of Heller Ehrman moderates a discussion, among tech execs, on the various solar technologies making a difference in the green movement.
We need to get back to freethinking and innovation that is core to our roots. Companies like Intel were founded on thoughts like the famous quote from Robert Noyce - "Don't be encumbered by the past, go out and do something wonderful."
