There's probably something wrong when it's much, much easier to find Norris
Weese's career passing yardage total (1,887) than it is to find critical information
about your own company.
One survey suggest that
enterprise
search is just lame
, which, to us, sounds as though somebody should capitalize
on the opportunity to make it better.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/26/20080 comments
Apparently, Symantec's purchase of Altiris, now about a year old, is going
fairly well. The security giant released a mega-suite this week called
Endpoint
Management Suite 1.0
.
It's got just about everything in it that a product of that name would seem
to have, and Kevin Murray, senior director of product marketing at Symantec
(and not the former Texas A&M quarterback) said that everything in the new
suite actually works together.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 06/25/20080 comments
A couple of weeks ago,
we
pondered
what, exactly, social networking in the office would be good for.
Well, Christine responded to our questions with great enthusiasm:
"Social networking for higher ed rocks! LinkedIn -- keeping up with
your students who have graduated! You know what they are doing, where they
are doing it, and what we missed in their education to correct class content
and keep up with the industry. It also helps us with our completer numbers
as most of my students change their e-mails and cell phone numbers as often
as they change their socks or add additional piercings and/or tattoos, and
we need to follow up with them six months after they graduate.
"MySpace -- post your calendar, let your students know when you are in
class, when you are gone, when your office hours are. They're looking here,
not on your campus Web page! Second Life -- get your administration to sponsor
an island...let the fun begin!"
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Posted by Lee Pender on 06/25/20080 comments
Apparently Patch Tuesday isn't exactly a national holiday yet, as most users
choose to
ignore
it completely
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/25/20080 comments
Dell is giving XP one more week to live, and if we're to believe some
reports
from credible sources
, Microsoft might be thinking of extending the stay
of execution for the popular operating system, too.
Well, it only makes sense, doesn't it? Look,
Vista's
a dud
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Posted by Lee Pender on 06/24/20080 comments
We intentionally gave, or tried to give, this entry a
New York Times
-sounding
headline -- they always seem to start with a dependent clause -- because this
is one of those times when the big-name, mainstream, non-business media are
storming into our territory.
Oh, sure, the Newsweeks of the world write about technology a lot more
frequently than they used to, but they still mainly show up just for the big
events -- enormous product launches, executive departures and arrivals, earnings
disasters (or, less frequently, blockbusters), that sort of thing. Down here
in the trades, we grind out technology news every day. Only relatively rarely
are we visited by our friends in the big-time.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 06/24/20080 comments
Good overview
here
on the state of Voice over IP, including how the technology fits into the bigger
picture of UC.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/23/20080 comments
Hello, again. Why are you hearing from us on a Monday? Well, we're back with
another UC special edition of RCPU.
If you've figured out exactly what UC is, then you're already way
ahead of a lot of people. So, now it's time to figure out how big the UC
market is -- something analysts have discussed without really reaching any
kind of consensus.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 06/23/20080 comments
Microsoft's
UC
mega-partner
is getting around with other vendors, as well.
Nortel
and IBM
have just released some Lotus-specific UC stuff that's sure to make
folks in Redmond grit their teeth just a bit.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/23/20080 comments
By now, you all know that the Boston Celtics have won the NBA championship
-- sometimes called the NBA "World" Championship, so take that, Europe
-- for the first time in 22 years. To celebrate the return of the legendary
franchise to greatness, and because your editor was out a bit late last night
celebrating, we're going to bring back Reader Feedback and feature messages
from some of RCPU's legendary e-mailers.
We love all of the reader feedback you send us, but some folks have shouted
out to us often enough to become bona fide RCPU legends. We have thoughts from
two of them today, along with a funny e-mail from a less prolific but no less
loved reader. So, we're pretty close to having a Paul Pierce-Ray Allen-Kevin
Garnett-style trio.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 06/19/20080 comments