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The Cheerios Kerfluffle

The Cheerios KerfluffleUltimately General Mills will winAs long as their claims are true and they can back it up and they say they can, ultimately the government cannot stop General Mills from making the claim. General Hills may have to jump through some legal hoops to do so, but the...

Tags: Federal government, Government, Vertical industries, Benefits, Dana, General Mills Inc., FDA

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

The Obama lesson to Rupert Murdoch

The Obama lesson to Rupert Murdoch"I learn from criticism"There certainly is no shortage of that around here. I visit here often but it's not out of loyalty, more like a junkie getting his fix. I would really like to kick the habit and move on to looking and...

Tags: Government, Tools & Techniques, Games, OPEN SOURCE, Planetside, Obama, Rupert Murdoch, Dana

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

The Oracle-buys-Sun thing - 'Snorkel' - what's the deal with that?

"Thanks Larry for finally putting us out of our misery." -Tony Baer There's been a firehose of commentary to be found about today's announcement that Oracle intends to buy Sun, so I won't add to the noise. But I will point to some insightful remarks...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Dana, Miko, Programming Languages, Java, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Middleware, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Why is Microsoft slowing the health IT train?

Why is Microsoft slowing the health IT train?Because they want us all to dieas they have a deal with the government that they receive a burial tax in addition to the funural home being legally required by a new law to purchase a copy of Vista ultimate to be placed...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Vertical industries, health-IT, Dana, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-15

Funny is hard

Funny is hardLet not thy heart be troubled DanaYou aren't going to hit the ball out of the ballpark everytime and funny is subjective so its ok if you make mistakes--that's what they put erasers on pencils for.Those who have been reading your blog as long as I have, understand...

Tags: Irregardless, Dana

Discussion threads 2008-12-22

Desktop Linux buy or rent and the home market

Desktop Linux buy or rent and the home marketEnterprise is were the money is ....... and IBM's core competencies. For startup businesses and those expanding but trying to reduce costs through a centralized model IBM's offerings could be just the right combination for increased productivity and a reduction of overheard....

Tags: desktop Linux, Dana, desktop, dumb terminal, home market, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-12-08

Can Linux and Solaris be married?

Can Linux and Solaris be married?Where Linux beats out other *nix competitors mostis in driver support. Just about any off-the-shelf hardware can be made to work and work well with Linux. That, plus the fact that you'd be dealing with another single entity if you chose Solaris, is why OEMs...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Dana, Sun Solaris, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., ZFS, Nexenta

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

End the open source obsession with Microsoft

End the open source obsession with MicrosoftM$ must GPL its codeand that will open communication with OSS.So Microsoft doesn't engage in this?[i]That scene did not happen. More likely some mid-level bureaucrat dealing with this particular show decided to show off his or her power.[/i]Most likely it did happen at the...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source obsession, open source, Dana

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

How cut the nation's health care bill 12%

How cut the nation's health care bill 12%wellnessno smoking, no alchol, no beer, no bigmacs no fried foods, slipery slop, ya what else do they wantoh yea removed anyone over the age of 50 perfect world - get a real jobStressStress adds to obesity.Many factors cause stress.Instead of entering the...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Food & Beverage, Dana, health care, insurance, food

Discussion threads 2008-10-31

John Galt is dead or Linus shrugs

John Galt is dead or Linus shrugsLinux isn't a good example.It's expense reduction vs Unix for servers, funded by lower staffing costs.A better example is a product like OpenOffice.org, proprietary software given to a project as a desperation play because the former owner4 couldn't make a profit. And hopes...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Dana, Whole Community, John Galt, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Linus

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

Where the Linux laptops live

Where the Linux laptops liveMore to the point, what % of Amazon's laptop sales are linux machines?NTShould be titled: 1/3 of amazon.com laptops are available with linuxThe Asus eee (EeE, eEE, Eee, whatever) machines have a choice of windows xp or linux so simply citing a sale of an eee...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux laptop, Dana, Linux-version, Linux, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-08-29

The biggest open source threat to Microsoft

The biggest open source threat to MicrosoftDid he.......no...False alarm. He didn't buy a Laptop. Never mind. ;)What makes it different from Wine then?or Mono for that matter? I had worked on Win-OS2, which is a Windows 3 inside OS/2, during OS/2's heydays. It failed miserably even with IBM's...

Tags: Operating systems, cloud computing, Storage management, Linux, Dana, open source, Face it Linux, Microsoft Windows, operating system, virtualization, HPCC, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

Can drugs break the chemical chain of memory? Should they?

Can drugs break the chemical chain of memory? Should they?Wow, a powerful question...Dana;Excellent question. A very thought-provoking question indeed.First, allow me to tell you a bit about myself and then I'll go from there. I suffered a nearly fatal motorcycle accident where I was left for dead. A hit and...

Tags: Talk about ignorance, addiction, addict, memory, Dana

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

Microsoft's Dana Perino problem with open source

Microsoft's Dana Perino problem with open sourceDoing some campaining for the Democrats today?As all I see is you using your technical blog as a way to talk down the Republicans, maybe "help the cause" a bit?Oh well, I guess anyone that has to beg for a free Linux laptop might...

Tags: Linux, Dana Perino, Dana Perino problem, Dana, open source, Microsoft Corp., laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-07-31

House Effect bad for patients

House Effect bad for patientsIt has been my experiencethat most people who think they're brilliant really aren't.House isn't actingIt's somebody's small town in a real world dilemma.Putting this on TV must have been the lesser of two evils.Come on now---he's a psycho---There is a difference......between brilliance and omniscience. Since...

Tags: House Effect, patient, Dana

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

Lack of RFID standards leads to media panic

Lack of RFID standards leads to media panicActive vs. Passive RFID DevicesIn addition to the comments above, it was not clear from the article I read whether the researchers were testing only active RFID or both active and passive RFID. The author of the article I read also implied...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Dana, RFID, RFID Standards, media

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

The march of Progress: another SOA mega-deal

IONA to become subsidiary of Progress Software by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Progress Software Corp., Iona Technologies, SOA, Dana, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-06-25

Carriers delay Google Android launch

Carriers delay Google Android launchGovernment would be even worseActually, we would still have all the above problems you mentioned plus the delays caused by these added layers:1. Political posturing by a bunch of lawmakers who know little about technology2. Lobbyist working for big business who are going to do anything...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Vertical industries, WIRELESS, Google Android launch, Google Inc., Google Android, Dana, government, IEEE 802.11, carrier

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Closed spectrum means closed source

Closed spectrum means closed sourceYawn... where's the anti-MS rant that zealots loved to feast on.Oh, well.Do you want to.......get on a plane when air traffic control doesn't have exclusive use of its frequencies (voice, radar, Nav aids)?...watch television when you have a crummy picture or no picture because the TV...

Tags: Aerospace & Defense, TVs, spectrum mean

Discussion threads 2008-06-13

Do we need another CERT?

Yes. Google's backing of oCERT is a major milestone in the history of open source. It's not that I have anything against the Computer Emergency Response TeamCERT at Carnegie-Mellon. They do important work, not only in identifying risks but in educating people on them. ...

Tags: Vulnerability, CERT, Windows Machine, Dana, Security, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-06