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- Ubuntu 9.10 = easiest, cheapest upgrade ever
- Worst OS ever! You should read what Dana Blankhorn had to say about your beloved linux! I'll give you a hint, its not good. I can't believe they would release a distro with known harddrive bugs. I'm going to laugh at you when you lose all your data due...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Ubuntu, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- SharePoint Statistics: The Real Reason Behind SharePoint's Price Tag
- Governance and TrainingFrom my experience, the technology is not expensive, when compared to most DMS / ECM / portal solutions. The costs come later, further down the road, when mistakes have already been made and the reputation of the solution is allready marred.It's almost too easy to get a...
- Tags: Collaboration, Content management, Groupware, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, SharePoint Statistics
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Fads vs Business Value: Knowledge Management & Enterprise 2.0
- Anyone with a computer and access to stock photos can put together a slide presentation and upload it to sites such as slideshare, and sometimes it seems like everyone and his brother is doing just that on social media, enterprise 2.0 and other 2.0-ish subjects. ...
- Tags: Knowledge, Training, Originality, Knowledge Management, Harassment, Strategy, Training And Certification, Business Intelligence, E-learning, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Management, Data Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-27
- Probably the most awful, soul destroying thing I've ever seen
- wow those were just AWFUL..thats about 6 minutes of my life i wont get back. CHEESE CITY! lol.RE: Probably the most awful, soul destroying thing I've ever seenYou are goddammed right. IT feels like I am watching the cast of Barney, as they keep nodding their heads at each...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Blonde, video, second video, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Students vs. Google Apps vs. Office Web Apps
- Buyer bewareBefore people get too excited about Office Web Apps, they need to remember that:- Google's strength comes from its ability to create quality, innovative products, based on open standards. Google has even established the "Data Liberation Front" (http://www.dataliberation.org/), to make it easy to migrate user data in & out...
- Tags: cloud computing, Google Inc., Office Web Apps, Office Web, Web application, Microsoft Office, Google Apps, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- VMFS-3, How Do I Despise Thee
- Sounds bad... How about Red Hat's new stuff?A nasty experience... Have a glass of fine cognac to recover. No ice (the horror!), no mixing barbaric, at the perfect temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. Cheers. :-)How about Red Hat's new virtualization stuff in RHEL 5.4? Is that a better alternative?http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=1234Salut, Pjotr.RE:...
- Tags: Virtualization, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, UNIX, Operating systems, KVM, VMFS-3, vSphere, VMware Inc., RHEL 5.4, Red Hat Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-04
- JD Edwards certification woes
- Andy Klee takes a stern look at JD Edwards certification: I'm here to tell you that the JDE certification program is on life support. It barely exists. JDE employees cannot be certified, and neither can JDE clients. Only business partners are eligible to take certification exams. ...
- Tags: Certification, Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Andy Klee, EBS Certification, JDE World, JDE Customer, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Top 10 Risks of Offshore Outsourcing
- Minimize your risk!Very in-depth and informative article! Outsourcing should be done in baby steps. Before jumping into bed with an outsourcing company and transitioning an entire department make sure you know what you want to accomplish by outsourcing.There direct saving and in-direct saving due to the time and energy...
- Tags: Managed hosting, outsourcing, baby step, offshore outsourcing
- Discussion threads 2009-08-17
- See why one CIO is migrating all Treos to iPhones
- See why one CIO is migrating all Treos to iPhonesLater than Apple?[i]because they always do what apple does only later and worse.[/i]Better check that timeline of yours. HTC, Nokia, and Samsung all had full screen touch screen cell phones [b]before[/b] Apple did. Sorry but history doesn't support you, it is...
- Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Touch Pro, Palm Treo, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- Goodbye, SOX?
- Goodbye, SOX?What! No!The "Credit Crunch" meant nothing to me, but kill SOX and who will pay my outrageous SOX consulting fees.I'll be ruined!It's about time.Sarbox is a failure. The Siemens corruption case was in complliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.You don't have to look far to see that Congress knows nothing about...
- Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Sarbox, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, goodbye
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft
- Cloud vs sand: Google vs MicrosoftGeeks make it right.Marketers make it look right.Which one do you want behind your business?Google may look like Sun in 20 years but then Microsoft will look like DRI. I can imagine a similar report with far different findings to be release from Microsoft....
- Tags: Data centers, E-mail servers, Now Let, Who-ever, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., server
- Discussion threads 2009-05-05
- 10 skills developers will need in the next five years
- 10 skills developers will need in the next five yearsYou forgot one thing!You need to be able to work for the same or less hourly wage than someone in India, Russia, or China. Qualifications are one thing, but CEOs always go for cheaper. Being able to work for...
- Tags: .NET, Scripting languages, Application servers, Programming languages, Middleware, Development tools, Microsoft .NET, skills developer, Ruby, Java, Adobe Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-09
- iPhone could morph into a table at WWDC
- iPhone could morph into a table at WWDCI've been waiting for a small tablet.I always liked the idea of tablet PCs, but all the ones I tried were a little bulky, and not enough software to justify them (OneNote, though, is almost that justification).I had a couple of PDAs way...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Keyboards, iPhone platform, Apple iPhone, tablet, GIMME, WWDC, netbook, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- Memo to Google
- Memo to Google Natural Evolution of Software, Not DevolutionTwo important innovations since the times of time-sharing: multitasking and virtualization. Whereas time sharing was marked by batch jobs run serially, multitasking allowed for sharing of computing power between concurrent program processes and virtualization took that one step further and allowed...
- Tags: Mainframes, Virtualization, cloud computing, operating system, IT IS, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-24
- Remembering whose money it is
- Remembering whose money it isIBM in talks to buy Sun Microsystems RudyWhat if the rumour is true........ http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52H1GS20090318Comon Man!Murph! You there man?!? Stop tying the Ethernet cable as a noose and talk to us.Its not so bad! Really! I welcome you with open arms my brother! The fact that...
- Tags: Blogging, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-18
- Microsoft sued over Vista-to-XP downgrade policy
- Microsoft sued over Vista-to-XP downgrade policySince XP was available at retailwhen she bought it, there should have been no extra fee.However, i have no idea how it will turn out. If I did, I'd take it to Vegas and bet big.What Lenovo does is not MS FaultMS will promote the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., OEM, Lenovo Group Ltd., Microsoft Windows XP, General Motors Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2009-02-13
- What Microsoft still does not understand
- What Microsoft still does not understandCan we please End this zero cost distribution myth already. Bits are electricity. It takes money to make them. It takes money to move them. It takes money to store them. I wouldn't compare IBM and Microsoft. Because...1. MS doesn't manufacture computerts2. MS is not...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, F/OSS, Microsoft Corp., software, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-02-10
- Focus on success: HubSpot's rapid growth
- HubSpot seems to be everyone's favorite marketing firm these days -- or at least the favorite of many. The firm, which charged into the market two years ago, now has more than 1,000 customers leveraging its inbound marketing services. I know I'm not alone in being fascinated by HubSpot so...
- Tags: HubSpot, Q., Marketing Research, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
- Why aren
- Why arenIt should at least be in the datacenter.I have worked in public ed at one of the largest districts in the country. Open source should have easily been in the data center but it wasn't and I'll tell you why.No real study was done when there came a time...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Linux, Microsoft Corp., administrator, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-01-28
- Are IT workers sabotaging the office to get ahead?
- White collar employees across the nation are trying every and any way possible to get ahead in the office hierarchy -- including trying to sabotage office productivity so they can come to the "rescue" and gain favor and attention. Let's take "Jake." Jake...
- Tags: Job, Employee, Jake, Munchausen, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-01-16
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