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- Avaya CEO: Microsoft Live Communications server is "cheap dial tone"
- Avaya CEO Donald Peterson has some surprising things to say about Microsoft. In an interview posted today on the Computerworld Australia site, the enterprise telephony vendor and developer's CEO says that Microsoft's Live Communications Server is a direct competitor to some of Avaya's VoIP-oriented software offerings."Microsoft's Live Communication Server does...
- Tags: Avaya Inc., Donald Peterson
- Blog posts 2005-05-26
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- Ticking bombs in enterprise land
- I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKenna where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...
- Tags: Software, Audit, Francine, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Debut of Hyper-V, departure of Gates usher in new era for Microsoft
- Debut of Hyper-V, departure of Gates usher in new era for MicrosoftNot even Bill gates is happy with MicrosoftStrange that you should incessantly spin them as compelling..... or are you being adequately compensated (free money, not software)?Bill Gates Sends Angry Email to Microsoft http://www.lockergnome.com/digged/2008/06/25/bill-gates-sends-angry-email-to-microsoft/Wednesday, June 25th,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Virtualization, cloud computing, Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the most
- Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the mostBrilliance = Techie + Financial ManagerialI think one of the reasons Microsoft has been so succesful is that Bill Gates was adept not necessarily the best at both spectrums: the techie and the business side. Witness General Motors under the "Smith" bean counter tenure:...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Recruitment & Selection, Mergers & Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- The Apprentice Los Angeles (zip)
- Compete for the opportunity of a lifetime with the legendary Donald Trump and his children, Ivanka and Don Jr. Play against 12 of your favorite contestants. Battle it out in the boardroom. Combine Action and Strategy to Win! Serve customers efficiently. Oversee a team of helpers. Manage your time and...
- Tags: Legacy Interactive, Team Management, Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2008-06-20
- Literate programming
- Literate programming*blink*Full time programers don't do this? I learned FORTRAN around 1980 and the text required "a structured and disciplined style." That may not be the same thing as "literate programming" but it seems close. I know I have a hard time getting statisticians to document their project specific analysis...
- Tags: Development tools, programming, programmer
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Thinking about multicore and software
- Informit.com recently ran a fascinating Andrew Binstock interview with Donald Knuth touching on some of the same topics we discuss here - programming methods, the value of open source, and the links between programming and hardware change. I want to get...
- Tags: Software, Job, T2, Multi-core, Hardware, Multi-threading, Tim Bray, Open Source, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Michael Dell's 2008 compensation almost halved, but security tab remains
- Dell CEO Michael Dell saw his total compensation in fiscal 2008 fall to $2.33 million from $4.5 million in 2007 as his stock option awards fell. However, Dell's security bill topped $1 million for the second year in a row. According to Dell's proxy statement filed with the SEC...
- Tags: Security, Compensation, Dell Computer Corp., Benefits, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Ghostly ring found circling dead star
- An international team of scientists has found a strange ring around a dead star by using images taken by NASA's Spitzer space telescope. This star, called SGR 1900+14, belongs to a class of objects known as magnetars. According to NASA, a magnetar is 'a highly magnetized neutron star and the...
- Tags: NASA, Star, Ring, Magnetic Field, SGR, Magnetars, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-01
- Got science?
- Got science?Great article!I'd love to believe that a political regime change (that we'll hopefully see in November) can bring us some progress in this area. Hopefully not more business as usual if the Dems can be believed. We'll see.Chris DawsonLeading Nuclear Research is now done in...India.Remember when the...
- Tags: Nuclear Research, ozone, Thomas Jefferson
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Commercialising the Semantic Web
- Following an earlier post on this blog, last month I found myself moderating a panel in the final session of one of the tracks at this year's World Wide Web Conference in Beijing. As I commented via Twitter at the end of the session, "Great...
- Tags: Garlik, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- (OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta)
- (OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta)be very caefulI had a crash and had to reload my OS (Windows XP. That went okay, but I had no backup for Windows Offoice. I was on deadline so I downloaded had no backup for Office so I downloaded Open Office 2.3. When...
- Tags: OpenOffice, OOA/OOD/OOP, OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta, OpenOffice.org 3.0, OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office, object-oriented
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- A new must-read for math/science teachers
- A new must-read for math/science teacherssorry, sorta uselessquarts gallonpints quartinches footEver hear of metric?This week's book for my 6-year oldBesides my 8-year old's passion for being a member in the WordMasters group before school starts in the AM, my 6-year old brought home last week a booked entitled "Jump...
- Tags: new must-read, math/science, must-read
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Working in a small business can make you sick
- One of the biggest problems with linking health care access to employment is it's unfair to employees of a small business. This must be true, because whenever the subject of insuring everyone, or mandating employer coverage, comes up, small business starts whinging they can't afford it. ...
- Tags: Health Care, Small Business, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Explaining science with drawings
- A recent news release from the US National Science Foundation NSF mentions a project it helped to fund, 'Picturing to Learn.' For this project, college students have to create pencil drawings to explain scientific concepts to high school students. As says Felice Frankel, a Harvard University researcher who is leading...
- Tags: National Science Foundation, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Student, Web Site Development, Productivity, Investment, Web Technology, Internet, Finance, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-12
- Can BootCamp mess with your Mac's PRAM?
- Can BootCamp mess with your Mac's PRAM?Not seeing thisI have not seen this on any of my Intel Macs. I have also not seen an issue reported with having Windows on a FAT32 drive and not showing up in the boot manager. Shows up fine for me (option key at...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, PERIOD!!! BootCamp, Bootcamp, Apple Macintosh, PRAM, Apple Mac OS X, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- Into Africa: Inveneo's low-power computing alternative
- I am way too far out of traditional work mode to wrap my head around some of the other subjects I've got cluttering my inbox. Weekends are for non-profits, like San Francisc0-based Inveneo, which is bringing computers and IP communications technology to under-served regions in places like Nigeria. ...
- Tags: Community, Green Technology, Computing, Inveneo, Weekends, Productivity, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-22
- New WiFi from Intel improves rural communications
- New WiFi from Intel improves rural communicationsRe: "New WiFi...improves rural communications"Great!!! Glad to hear about the technology.HOWEVER...What's this talk about Africa and Asia? What about here in the U.S.?ANYONE who is outside the reach of Cable is going to be CONDEMNED to years more of the Internet via...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, INTERNET, Network technology, rural communication, Wi-Fi, POTS, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- Adobe clarifies CEO's iPhone Flash comments
- Adobe clarifies CEO's iPhone Flash commentsExpect to see many of these type of trial balloons..Doesn't it seem clear that part of what Adobe is doing is playing the court of public opinion to get Apple to play ball?On the Apple side, this is a great test of the control v....
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., phone, Macromedia Flash Player
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
- Time to out drug test reviewers?
- Pfizer is suing the New England Journal of Medicine, aiming to learn the names of anonymous reviewers who conducted peer reviews on its pain relief drug Celebrex. Donald Kennedy, outgoing editor of Science Magazine right, says this is a direct threat to all science. Anonymity...
- Tags: Pfizer Inc., Fact, Anonymity, Reviewers, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
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