Catch a wave, and you're sitting on top of the world. OK, maybe not, but
this
is still pretty interesting.
Posted by Lee Pender on 09/18/20080 comments
"You wouldn't know a diamond if you held it in your hand."
-- Steely Dan, "Reelin' In the Years"
Have you ever really gotten into a TV show, or maybe even a movie, and just
had a terrible sense of foreshadowing that the whole plot was about to go down
in flames like the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday Night Football? (Sorry, we
really tried to avoid the sports reference there, but your editor really enjoyed
watching his Dallas Cowboys win that game. Look at it this way -- we've officially
jinxed the Cowboys for the rest of the season. You're welcome.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on 09/17/20080 comments
With the DATAllegro acquisition closed, Microsoft is
making
some noise
about SQL Server and data warehousing.
Posted by Lee Pender on 09/17/20080 comments
Apparently, Paul Maritz's keynote
did
little
to answer the big questions surrounding VMware. Really, Maritz giving
a keynote and not mentioning Microsoft, executive departures or the company's
over-a-cliff stock price is a little like ESPN doing a review of the year 2008
in sports and not mentioning the Olympics.
Meanwhile, still in Vegas, still at VMworld, Citrix busted out with the
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Posted by Lee Pender on 09/17/20080 comments
Your editor woke up to approximately 346 e-mails about VMware, virtualization
and VMworld this morning. While we understand and appreciate the importance
of virtualization here at RCPU, we're still not experts in the technology. Luckily,
though, RCPmag.com employs some folks who are, and one of them wrote up a pretty
darn good VMworld piece
here
.
Also, don't forget to check VMworld news as it happens with our friends at
sister publication
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Posted by Lee Pender on 09/16/20080 comments
We're trying to stay calm here -- really, we are. We understand that this
isn't 1929 or even 1987 -- and maybe not even 2001, for that matter -- and
that the bright people who run our economy have the tools and the know-how to
deal with what's happening.
We know that the economy is cyclical, that all sort of factors can affect it
and that things have been much worse in the past. We're aware that 6 percent
unemployment would have only been considered possible on Fantasy Island back
in 1981 when jobless rates were closer to (or in) double digits. We get it.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 09/16/20080 comments
One of the Directions on Microsoft guys
thinks
it's possible
, and they're not often wrong about the goings on in Redmond.
So, Vista inches ever closer to the scrap heap of history...with poor (OK, not
that poor, given his contract) Jerry Seinfeld in tow.
Posted by Lee Pender on 09/16/20080 comments
Here at RCPU, we realize that most of our readers probably don't share your
editor's passion for European "football," but trust us, this could
end up being a huge amount of fun. Apparently, Bill Gates -- whose net worth
seems to be dramatically underestimated in the linked article (surely we're
talking billions and not millions) -- is
thinking
about buying
Newcastle Football Club in England.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 09/16/20081 comments
Well, presumably Mark Conley's parents actually named him...but CommVault has
hired Conley
as
director of North American channel sales.
Posted by Lee Pender on 09/11/20080 comments
Oh, how the proprietary have fallen. Well, not fallen really, but certainly
changed. Microsoft is making noises about openness and collaboration again,
this time with a couple of standards-oriented initiatives.
Redmond said this week that it'll work on a Web services interface with IBM
and EMC, and it's also joining a standards group called the Object Management
Group. (OK, so we didn't know what that was, either -- but this
story told us).
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Posted by Lee Pender on 09/11/20080 comments