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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Cloud may squeeze margins, says Microsoft exec
IT Management Podcast #11 - Tivoli Training and Zenoss
Monday, May 19th, 2008As always lots-o-fun getting the 11th podcast done. For more details see Cote’s write up.
IT Management Podcast #11 - Tivoli Training, Zenoss in Austin, System Center
Podcast here…
Microsoft - CIM Lives
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008I have always been impressed with Microsoft’s early adoption of CIM (ala. WMI). While everyone else was talking the talk back in the day Microsoft was getting it done with WMI. ESM and performance guys like me were able to make a lot of use out of Microsoft’s WMI implementation specifically with thier […]
Jane, Stop This Crazy Thing … Cloud Patents!!!
Monday, April 7th, 2008I just read over at datacenterknowlege.com that Microsoft is trying to get six patents on the use of “Cloud”. Cloud computing is not even clearly defined yet. This is insane. Hopefully the dopes at the USPTO are not foolish enough to grant patents on these.
[Editor’s Note: This can’t be far behind.]
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Cloud Computing Vendors A to Z
Thursday, March 20th, 2008I HAVE A REVISED VERSION OF THIS POST…
Cloud Vendors A to Z (Revised)
Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon’s SimpleDB
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Microsoft launches its alternative to Amazon’s SimpleDB
Microsoft has begun signing up testers for SQL Server Data Services (SSDS), a forthcoming service that will allow customers and developers to host their data in a Microsoft-hosted database.
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Microsoft Switching Office to SaaS? Makes Total Financial Sense!
Saturday, March 1st, 2008Microsoft Switching Office to SaaS? Makes Total Financial Sense!
YAHOO! HOO-HA
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Â YAHOO! HOO-HA
Mutual fund giant T. Rowe Price, which owns 18 million shares of Yahoo! said yesterday that it would be “very vocal” if Microsoft raises its offer and Yahoo! rejects it again.
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Google Tries To Make Yahoo An Offer It Can’t Refuse
Monday, February 4th, 2008Ya got to love this!
Google Tries To Make Yahoo An Offer It Can’t Refuse
Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Bid for Yahoo
Friday, February 1st, 2008Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Bid for Yahoo
5 Reasons Why Microsoft Will Buy Yahoo!
Thursday, January 10th, 20085 Reasons Why Microsoft Will Buy Yahoo!
PSI Competes With IBM Mainframes and Microsoft is All-In
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007PSI (Platform Solutions Inc.)Â has partnered with HP and NEC to craft Itanium-based high-end servers that - through some software magic - can run IBM’s mainframe operating system and mainframe software.
PSI this week revealed Microsoft as a new investor participating in its fresh $37m Series C funding round. Redmond joins companies such as Intel, Goldman […]
Vista Makes Top 10 List of Worst Products
Monday, November 26th, 2007Any operating system that provokes a campaign for its predecessor’s reintroduction deserves to be classed as terrible technology. Any operating system that quietly has a downgrade-to- previous-edition option introduced for PC makers deserves to be classed as terrible technology. Any operating system that takes six years of development but is instantly hated by hordes of […]
A Blog Entry is Worth a Thousand Words
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007Mike Schinkel my Drupal coach turned me on to a cool blogging tool. It has made my like a lot easier for things like this:
Building cleaner lists
Like
This
Or like this
one
two
three
Now arguably this was easy to do in Wordspress however this was a little harder
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Let’s Party 2008 - Utility Cloud Computing
Monday, November 19th, 2007So if 2008 is the year of the utility cloud space computing then why don’t we play the “Gartner Predictions†game on 2008 possible cloud mergers? They never get their predictions right so why can’t we play? The assumption is that a “Tipping Point†has occurred with IBM’s announcement to compete with Amazon’s S3/EC2. […]
Should VMWare Worry?
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007Recently, VMWare is not the darling of Wall Street that it once was. It still has tremendous market share, but the game is changing.
Here are some examples of why, IMHO, VMWare might be in trouble.
1) Google
Google is building commodity-based warehouse data centers, and I doubt that VMware is its predominant virtualization engine of choice. […]
Where did you meet your wife?
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007I met my wife at the Kentucky Derby.
So here’s the scenario: Twelve years from now a boy will ask his Dad, “Where did you and mommy meet”. The dad will say on Oracle 10g. The son will say, “Dad that is so old. I am running 15b on my mini-bike”.
eHarmony Weds Oracle […]
Cot’e on System Center Essentials
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007Microsoft System Center Essentials
August 14, 2007 – 2:20 pm
Are interoperability and competition mutually exclusive?
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007Don’t answer yet…Â Here are some links to ponder over.
Red Hat, Dell unveil JBoss OEM deal, IBM enlists Novell’s help
One year after Red Hat acquired JBoss, the battle is finally beginning to heat up in the open source middleware space.
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IBM chides Microsoft over SOA
Microsoft wants OOXML to be accepted as an ISO […]
Imagine how boring this would be if I had a real job…
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007Microsoft and HP Blow into Town
A front has moved up from the Valley, so to speak, to join forces with the tempest of Redmond. Microsoft and HP announced a huge deal yesteday that essentially combines HP services and the Microsoft technology platform in a single, comprehensive offering.
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