Visa and Weyerhaeuser are
sick
and tired of these pesky states
that want the government to keep monitoring
Microsoft for antitrust violations.
Everybody now, in your best English accent from Pink Floyd's "The Wall":
"We don't need your supervision...We don't need government control...No
extension of the antitrust deal...Hey, government, leave Microsoft alone!"
Posted by Lee Pender on 11/29/20074 comments
All the leaves really are brown, and the sky...well, it was blue today in Greater
Boston, but not as blue as it's about to be in California for either Microsoft
or Google. The Golden State, always on the cutting edge (seriously), is moving
its e-mail, messaging and -- when, exactly, did this become a verb, or even
a gerund? -- "calendaring" to a hosted model. And it looks as though
either
Microsoft or Google
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Posted by Lee Pender on 11/29/20070 comments
Lawyers for a couple of people suing Microsoft over its use of the couplet
"Vista capable" on PCs say that
even
folks in Redmond
had no idea what the phrase meant.
Posted by Lee Pender on 11/29/20071 comments
The owner of z4 Technologies (what, you haven't heard of it?) will soon be
a
wealthier
man
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 11/28/20070 comments
Apparently, XP with beta Service Pack 3
trumps
Vista
, even with the new operating system's first service pack in place.
Please, don't even pretend to be surprised by this (not that you were pretending).
Actually, it sort of makes sense -- XP is a much more mature platform, and it's
already on SP3. Vista will come along...in time. We hope.
Posted by Lee Pender on 11/28/20070 comments
Just like a petulant 10-year-old trying to talk his way out of trouble, Microsoft
has
really
learned its lesson
this time! No more problems with WGA! No more nasty outages!
And this time, we mean it.
The funny thing, of course, is that WGA
just
might be working
Posted by Lee Pender on 11/28/20070 comments
Robert Lendvai was as confused as anybody when he read RCPU's declaration that
IBM's planned buyout of Cognos meant the
end
of business intelligence
as we know it. The chief marketing office of Blink
Logic, an Ottawa-based BI firm, even had a bit of a career crisis: "I wondered
whether maybe I should resign," Lendvai said.
Hey, folks, he's just kidding. Lendvai's not going anywhere, and neither is
his company. Blink Logic, an independent vendor whose leaders cut their teeth
at Cognos, actually has a pretty cool idea: BI for BI. Cognos, Business Objects
(recently acquired by SAP), SAS and the gang came up with BI so that executives
could more easily drill into and use SQL data that previously only IT types
knew how to find. It was a great idea, and it sold -- a burst of innovation
at the early part of this decade met genuine customer need and voilà !
BI was big business.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 11/28/20070 comments
The word "vulnerability" in reference to a software security issue
always makes us giggle a little -- it sounds more like somebody's endless craving
for sweets, or something someone would say on the first date after a particularly
nasty end to a prior relationship. "I'm just feeling very vulnerable --
kind of like Windows when a hacker
takes
control of a workstation
through QuickTime."
Posted by Lee Pender on 11/27/20070 comments
Two notes before we start: First, your editor is on deadline for a magazine
story, so today's RCPU will be shorter (and possibly even sweeter) than usual.
Second, we promised you last week that we'd hear this week from a small business-intelligence
vendor trying to survive in the shark tank of BI acquisitions by larger companies.
We will bring you that vendor's story -- but not this week after all, as today's
newsletter will be the last one until after Thanksgiving.
Oh, and Happy Thanks...giving...from R...C...P...U (and Les
Nessman)!
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Posted by Lee Pender on 11/20/20070 comments
Seriously. No kidding. One discounted model for at least one day, anyway,
on
Amazon.com
, but still.
Posted by Lee Pender on 11/20/20071 comments
Really,
it's
brief
. Somewhat interesting, but brief. We're not kidding.
Posted by Lee Pender on 11/20/20070 comments