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Diane's Fishys Screensaver (zip)

The Diane's Fishys Screensaver displays a beautiful aquarium with lots of fishes floating around in the water. The Diane's Fishys Screensaver will display lots of little fishes swimming around in an aquarium next to a couple of big yellow ones. The Diane's Fishys Screensaver will give you the option to...

Tags: Screensaver, Aquarium, Diane

Software downloads 2007-12-05

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VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale

VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and moraleWe need better Wall Street analystsI frequently see the phrase "fell short of Wall Street analysts predictions", as if a company did not do as well as it should have, and has a negative connotation.I'm seeing this phrase with increasing frequency, these...

Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale

updated: VMWare, whose recent headlines have included an ousted CEO and a re-pricing of its employee stock options, reported second-quarter earnings of $92 million, or 23 cents per share, up from $52 million, or 16 cents per share, for the same quarter a year ago. Revenues were $456 million, an...

Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-22

VMWare employees to receive new pricing on underwater stock options

The last thing any employee wants is stock options that are "under water." But that's exactly what some VMWare employees who were issued options after the August IPO are stuck with. After the IPO, VMWare's stock climbed and climbed - from $57.71 on its first day to about $125 in...

Tags: Stock Option, Employee, Stock, VMware Inc., Pricing Strategy, Investment, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Diane Greene out, Paul Maritz to lead VMware

While working in San Francisco, I received quite a number of telephone calls from journalists around the world. Since I was "off the grid" for the project, I had no idea what was going on. I finally returned to my hotel room and could read my messages, I learned that...

Tags: Board, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Paul Maritz, Corporate Governance, Desktop Virtualization, Open Source, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-10

Accomplice Task Management Software (msi)

Task management software to get things done. "Effective enough to become a habit" Chris Shipley. Over 30,000 users! Software to manage to-dos, goals and notes, and then share and track information with teams. Integrates with MS Outlook and PDA's. Activities may be sub-tasked, prioritized, scheduled, delegated and tracked. Supporting information...

Tags: Software, Activity, Accomplice, Vertabase Project Management Software, Tools & Techniques, PDAs, Management, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-07-10

EMC taps ex Microsofter Maritz to fend off Microsoft Hyper-V

It takes one to know one.  At least that's what EMC hopes as it appoints former Microsofter Paul Maritz to head up its lucrative VMWare unit, not coincidentally on the same day that Microsoft formally released its much anticipated Hyper-V to market. The departure of longtime...

Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Did open source make Green go at VMWare?

Diane Green Greene has been shown the door at VMWare, the company she founded. Another victim of open source? Possibly. Ironically, Green Greene told our Dan Farber two years ago "the industry goes at Microsoft's cadence," and she's being replaced by a former Microsoft executive,...

Tags: VMware Inc., Diane Green Greene, Virtualization, Open Source, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-08

VMware: CEO Greene out; Revenue light

VMware on Tuesday swapped CEOs and said that its revenue growth would fall short of expectations. In a statement, VMware said that CEO Diane Greene has departed. She will be replaced by Paul Maritz right effective immediately. Maritz will also be president and sit on VMware's board....

Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Views from VMware's Analyst Day

Yesterday I attended a VMware analyst briefing in good ol' Beantown, a.k.a. Boston, Massachusetts. Having had the opportunity to speak with the executives of well over 120 companies offering something in the realm of virtualization technology, I came to the event with a fairly neutral viewpoint. Although I was ready...

Tags: VMware Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-19

How healthy is John McCain?

How healthy is John McCain?Doesn't matter anyway.The question you should ask is how cranky are his policies and the viewpoints of his vice president. After all that person will step in if John keels over. Besides you should have blogged on his viewpoints on tech to make it related.The problem...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Obama, John McCain

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

How healthy is John McCain?

Here's a late Friday news dump and question for you. Just how healthy is John McCain? To hear the U.S. press write it, after getting a three-hour look at over 1,200 pages of documents, pretty good: A clean bill of health,...

Tags: John McCain, Medication, Vertigo, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-30

VMware targets long-term deals; pursues lock-in strategy

VMware's first quarter results got the company out of Wall Street's penalty box and highlighted how the virtualization leader is trying to sign customers up to long-term licensing deals to fend off a potential pricing pressure from rivals such as Citrix and Microsoft. VMware after the closing...

Tags: Strategy, Revenue, Customer, Agreement, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operational Accounting, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-23

Animal dung and climate change

As it is Sunday, it's time for a light story. According to a Northern Arizona University NAU news release, Jim Read is one of the world's foremost authorities on animal dung. In Been there, dung that, Mead says that 'although I don't think anyone is keeping track, I suspect we...

Tags: Animal, Northern Arizona University, Jim Mead, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-17

News to know: Microsoft's new language; Yahoo saga; Apple; Vulnerability counts

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft declares its modeling love with a new language, ‘D' Larry Dignan: Yahoo's conundrum: White knights are hard to find Dan Farber: Mitch Kapor: Microsoft+Yahoo, major integration challenge David Morgenstern: Will Microsoft support Windows on Macs?...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-02-06

Discover Financial Services CIO: Diane Offereins

Diane Offereins, CIO at Discover Financial Services speaks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about the company's underdog role in the financial services industry. She also talks about deploying new technologies that will help spur growth and gain efficiencies, such as virtualization, web services, and mobile payments. by Administrator

Tags: CIO, Discover Financial Services, Payment, Operational Accounting, Virtualization, Strategy, Finance, Hardware, Management, Administrator

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Discover tests mobile payments

Diane Offereins, CIO at Discover Financial Services talks about how the company is experimenting with new contactless payment technologies for example using a customer's cell phone to make credit card transactions. by Administrator

Tags: Payment, Contactless Payment, Mobile, Operational Accounting, Finance, Administrator

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Discover's new call center web app

Diane Offereins, CIO at Discover Financial Services discusses how the company is making the company's web site and customer call center more seamless by sharing technologies between the two entities. by Administrator

Tags: Web, Call-center, Call Centers, Channel Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Administrator

Blog posts 2008-02-05

A scrappy innovator

Diane Offereins, CIO at Discover Financial Services describes how the company competes against Visa, MasterCard and American Express by emphasizing programs that use the company's credit and debit networks. by Administrator

Tags: Discover Financial Services, Networking, Administrator

Blog posts 2008-02-05

The big pharma credibility gap

Whenever I visit my family doctor the candyman is there. The candyman is my nickname for my doctor's drug rep, or "detail man." His candy consists of samples. Sometimes, if my symptoms are right, I get some. Candymen may have more to do with your medical visit than...

Tags: Generic, Industry, Doctor, Fiction, Candyman, Oxfam, Strategy, Corporate Law, Management, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-17