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- Enterprise vendors: in pursuit of reality
- Michael Hickins at BNet cracks open the customer/vendor relationship kimono, using Ray Wang's most recent post as the backdrop. As we enter the conference season, the timing could not be better: Indeed, most customers have a love-hate relationship with their vendors that is heavily weighted towards hate....
- Tags: Beverage, Customer, SAP AG, IBM Corp., MISO PR, Carr, Food & Beverage, Software As A Service (SaaS), Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Managed Hosting, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Microsoft and Red Hat sign virtualization pact
- Microsoft and Red Hat sign virtualization pactSounds fairEach side is equally capable of screwing the other side over. That's as fair as you can get these days.This should be good for IT managers.I like how Peter Galli described it as a one dimensional deal. I think it would be...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp., virtualization pact, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2009-02-16
- CRM 2.0: The Government, Public Service & A Transformed World
- I KNOW that everyone who reads ZDNET columns loves technology. I get that. I also KNOW that everyone who reads ZDNET blogs loves it when the bloggers dish on technology companies - especially, it seems, Microsoft. I realize that coolness and government don't go together very well - probably something...
- Tags: Institution, Singapore, Public Service, CRM, Stuff Legend, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
- Will OOXML get the ISO standards nod? It's not a given
- Will OOXML get the ISO standards nod? It's not a givenIt's a sad day in Hooterville.........When not even one blogger or announcer know what a "Standard" method of accomplishing a task is.Even considering OOXML as a "standard" is like unto calling a car a "standard" for driving on a highway....
- Tags: Government, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., ISO standards
- Discussion threads 2008-03-01
- Picking the right IT: Are some risks worth taking?
- Challenge: pick the right information architecture for a 10 to 15 FTE research foundation. The operating budget runs around two million per year, the mandate is to hand out about one hundred million per year in health care related research grants, the scope is nominally worldwide with preference given to...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Director, Office, George, Paul, Development Officer, Government, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Is OLPC really immune to criticism?
- Is OLPC really immune to criticism?Is OLPC really immune to criticism? No, but ......neither is Vista and it's DRM. That is the irony of the blog. It exposing Georges's pro Micro$oft bias shill.It was a great idea when it's was rumored to run Windows, but now since it doesn't...
- Tags: Intel Only, One Laptop Per Child project, Classmate, Intel Corp., laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- The $150 laptop saga: Medison's CEO speaks
- Medison CEO Valdi Ivancic gives a lengthy interview about the company and whether his $150 Fedora-powered laptop is a scam.The only problem: The interview isn't in English. Ivancic is interviewed in Jnytt, a Swedish newspaper. As background, I--and a bunch of other folks--ordered a Linux laptop from a company we...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Computer, CEO, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Microsoft photo standard comes into focus
- Microsoft photo standard comes into focusMicrosoft photo standard comes into focusAs we all know that standards are good and since Microsoft is making this format a standard everyone can use it. We shouldn't hear anyone complaining in the talkbacks now. Microsoft's customer focus shines again. Good for them.Of...
- Tags: NEW FORMAT, Yes Vista, Microsoft Corp., photograph, Microsoft Photo
- Discussion threads 2007-07-31
- Music, video phones may ride iPhone wave
- Music, video phones may ride iPhone waveMusic, video phones may ride iPhone waveI'll stick with my $100 phone that does most of what the iPhone will be doing. Email, texting, music, video, applications, web browsing, qwerty keyboard? Check! All this at 1/5th the price.DuhMonkey see, monkey do. ...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Telecom & Utilities, Digital music, Outsourcing, Digital media, Mac Zealots, Apple iPhone, U.S. Citizen, phone, U.S. Job, H-1B, iPhone wave, Music Video, video
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- Microsoft gets into the game; buys aQuantive for $6 billion
- Microsoft gets into the game; buys aQuantive for $6 billionSo Microsoft Claimed $3.1 Billion Was Too MuchSo instead they plunk down over $6 billion for this company.Yeah, I can see the logic there.M$ is burning money fast!The faster it burns it's loot the better.Do I smellM$ INNOVATION at work?Shrewd move,...
- Tags: game, ABM'ers, aQuantive Inc., Microsoft Corp., advertisement, U.S. Citizen, U.S. Job, H-1B
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- Senators propose infinite H-1Bs for advanced degree holders
- Senators propose infinite H-1Bs for advanced degree holdersagain the congress sold us out!Everyting seems to be against the people that try to make a decent living.Importing cheap labor and exporting jobs overseas seems to be the the 'new trade' our elected officials have invented.I thought that a democratic congress could...
- Tags: Benefits, Recruitment & Selection, Everyting, H-1B, salary, H1B, congress, job
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
- UK politicians call for limits on student fingerprinting
- UK politicians call for limits on student fingerprintingLeading UK biometrics developer refutes allegations on fingerprintingA leading UK provider of biometric technology has accused Liberal Democrat Shadow Education Secretary Sarah Teather MP of spreading "alarmist claptrap". The accusation follows her remarks to a UK Sunday newspaper on the recent...
- Tags: Authentication/Encryption, accusation, UK Biometrics, Snapdragons Nursery, Sarah Teather, biometrics, fingerprint
- Discussion threads 2007-04-13
- Open source becomes political wedge issue
- Open source becomes political wedge issueis it a circus or a horrow showWhen politics is used to make an engineering or software decision, you know its sad state of affairs.Politicians and bureucrats with no technology experience should stay out of making technical decisions.Good to see politicians involved in this and...
- Tags: OSS, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-03-09
- Was IdeaStorm a bad idea?
- Was IdeaStorm a bad idea?It was a stupid idea, it was easy to predict the zealotswould do everything they could to flood the site promoting their favorite diety.The sad part was there were several really good ideas that got buried in the fanatical ranting.In the UK...... the government made the...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Now IT, Dell Computer Corp., bad idea, IdeaStorm
- Discussion threads 2007-03-01
- Cuba going open source
- Cuba and Venezuela are shaking off the yoke of US hegemony by jettisoning Microsoft products for open source, AP reports. "Its basically a problem of technological sovereignty, a problem of ideology," said Hector Rodriguez, who oversees a Cuban university department of 1,000 students dedicated to developing open-source programs....
- Tags: Government technology, International, Linux/Unix, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Microsoft loses top executive in China
- Microsoft loses top executive in ChinaMicrosoft may be able to attract them with Money, but after a while, theyget tired of working for criminals.Microsoft playing the fool...You know, if Microsoft had done a little home work about hiring from China they would have learned that many US compaines have been...
- Tags: Business structures, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Well china, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft LOSES, Chinese Politburo
- Discussion threads 2007-01-12
- Vista prices revealed!
- Vista prices revealed!Accurate PictureOne gets an even more accurate picture by comparing Vista prices not available at any price to OSX's prices of 6 years ago. Adjust for inflation and adjust for lost productivity over that period. The result is a view of endless previews, coupons, leaks, and code names...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista Price, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2006-08-28
- Serious scaling for open source databases
- Serious scaling for open source databasesthis proves thatOSS has yet to come up with a database that scales. PostgreSQL was a proprietary database made by proprietary software companies. They competed with Microsoft, Oracle and PostgreSQL lost. You are trumpeting a loser...
- Tags: Databases, OSS, PostgreSQL, open source, IBM Corp., database
- Discussion threads 2006-05-24
- Vista takes a serious stab at malware
- Vista takes a serious stab at malwareDoesn't change the market placeNo matter what the current cituation is for Windows XP (which can be locked down fairly well with hardware enforced DEP which the Mac doesn't have and locking down the browser), it will not change the market place or shift...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, SuSE, malware, Linux, civilization
- Discussion threads 2006-03-22
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