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Virtualization, terminal services, or what?

In our first-ever guest blog, Erik Josowitz does a nice job of describing some of the strengths of virtualization.  But, as he also points out, virtualization is far from being a panacea.  Server-centric solutions such as virtualization and terminal services bring with them their own baggage which needs to be factored into...

Tags: Workstation, Terminal Services, Thin Client, Server, Erik, Workstations, Thin Clients, Virtualization, Hardware, Marc Wagner

Blog posts 2007-12-21

Sony recalls Cybershot DSC-T5 - a still image camera that does amazing video

Scanning my RSS subscriptions this morning, I noticed that the NY Times is carrying an Associated Press story about Sony has recalling 350,000 Cybershot DSC-T5 pictured left because of the way they could injure their users.That this particular camera is being recalled is a major coincidence for me since, just...

Tags: Personal Technology, General

Blog posts 2007-08-03

Something Erik Said

Something Erik SaidSince I worked in a service oriented company....I can say this, greed. Greed keeps them asking clients for as much as possible, charge this, charge that... Until the client complains, and complains then eventually moves on to someone else. Then it's like "How did we lose them?" :PI...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Billable Hours, Erik, people like, job

Discussion threads 2006-07-20

Additional Resources

Resurrecting E-voting

Resurrecting E-votingDifficulty of subverting voting machinesIt seems to me that any system can be tampered with to render the vote dishonest. However, some configurations make such tampering very hard while others are much easier to subvert. You should talk about the relative difficulty and not whether or not...

Tags: SECURITY, Resurrecting E-voting, risk, e-voting

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.

Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...

Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air

Discussion threads 2008-07-19

Enterprise IT and the hypercompetition boom

Corporate information technology has led to more winner take all markets and a super competitive business environment where players often flame out as quickly as they showed up. That's the big conclusion from Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson in this month's Harvard Business Review. ...

Tags: Laggard, Information Technology, Leader, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Do video games actually have a place in school?

Do video games actually have a place in school?Just a thought,I don't know how this relates to the Wii, but when I was in high school we had 6 PS2's and Dance Dance Revolution. So if you can use a video game in Phys. Ed., why not early development?RE:...

Tags: Games, game, Nintendo Wii, video game, video

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

5 ways to prevent IT failure

5 ways to prevent IT failureIt's not governance itself...It's when governance (err...a "governance model") is a major piece or somehow viewed as a significant deliverable.I'll also point out that consistency across the portfolio is not necessarily a good thing. Many corporations consist of a large number of diverse businesses....

Tags: Strategy, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-05-24

The MS Office 2008 for Mac scandal continues

Can Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit expect anything but frustration from its installed base of users? The excuses from the development team are wearing very, very thin. The news today was that the group was able to get its first batch of 1,000 bug...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office 2004, MacTech, Ticktin, Scripting Languages, Microsoft Office, Desktops, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Microsoft: Office '08 sales skyrocket, SP1 released, VBA coming back to Mac

According to CNet Microsoft is selling copies of Office 2008 for Mac at a clip three times higher than the former 2004 version. "The company wouldn't disclose sales numbers, but said the sales are the highest in the 19-year history of the unit. That continues a trend that has been...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Visual Basic, Desktops, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Sales, Microsoft VBA, Hardware, Mac BU, Office Suites, Software

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]

Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]Emerging market?If we're talking about version control, bug tracking, compile farms, etc then how is this an emerging market? Companies have been doing this for years.As for leasing out computer time...this has been done for decades. It just went out...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Marketing research, Financial services, Podcasts, Development tools, Force.com, emerging market, tool, Hosted, Hosted software development, software development, podcast

Discussion threads 2008-05-12

Poll: Post-Yahoo, what should Microsoft do?

Now that the Microsoft-Yahoo deal is tabled, what is Microsoft's next move? Many are assuming Microsoft is waiting for Yahoo's stock to tank in order to sweep in and make another pass at Yahoo. Others are counting on Microsoft buying another Web 2.0 powerhouse in Yahoo's stead...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-05

The purloined benchmark

Last Wednesday I challenged Windows proponents to demonstrate a metric not based on market share which when fairly applied showed an advantage for Windows over Unix. Nobody took me up on it, but frequent contributor "ShadeTree" suggested that Windows would win with metrics based...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Memory, Server, Larry Pedigo, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Opera aces Acid3 (updated)

The Opera browser today became the first browser to pass the Acid3 test. On the Opera desktop team blog, Lars Erik Bolstad writes: I have a quick update on where we are with Acid3. Since the test was officially announced recently, our Core developers have been hard at work...

Tags: Opera Software, Bolstad, WinGogi, Team Management, Web Browsers, Management, Internet, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-03-26

Alternate Universes: Unix vs MCSE

Alternate Universes: Unix vs MCSEMurph, if you can...... make this a bit pithier, I'll consider having it put on a plaque:The problem is that a computer isn’t just a computer: it’s the visible element in an evolved behavioral system. And of course that includes users, not just IT.New entrantYour title...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Unix

Discussion threads 2008-03-11

In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus Monkeyboy

In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus MonkeyboyFunny thing that.I watched some of the MSDN Channel 9 videos recently. People like Erik Meijer, Brian Beckman, Scott Guthrie and others. Likeably, intelligent people you respect. You see them, and you think there is hope for Microsoft.Then you see Steve Ballmer,...

Tags: Public relations, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-29

Windows laptop specifications checklist

For most organizations, regardless of size, laptops are now critical business tools. Unfortunately, many business owners, consultants, and IT departments are too quick to purchase preconfigured units that turn out to be underpowered, that include unnecessary software, and that don't have sufficient memory, disk space, or video cards for the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Laptop Computer, Erik Eckel, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Download resources 2008-02-27

Feeling organs via a display screen

Computerized image analysis is used to extract information from images. It can be used in medical applications to determine the size of organs or to build 3-D models of organs before surgery. For example, a PhD candidate at Uppsala University, Sweden, has developed new technology to make easier to diagnose...

Tags: Segmentation, 3D, Organ, Feedback, Visualization, Uppsala University, Image, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-10

Brief%3A+4

Brief%3A+4Care to fix the page?Anyone digging down past the excerpts on the left side to read a comment would expect Chinese characters.Failing up a project directorYou seem to have mixed guidance about IT projects. They cost money and time and usually fail.But Board members should take them very seriously...

Tags: Corporate governance, information technology, board, IT Project

Discussion threads 2008-02-01

Software needs to feel SaaSy

Softletter packed about 100 suits into a tiny meeting room at the Embassy Suites-Buckhead today to hear the good news about Software as a Service SaaS. That's good news as in dollars-and-cents good news. As in survival of the firm good news. As in getting through the next...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Sales Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Management, Sales, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-30