AMD won't be fab -- or, more precisely,
have
fabs
-- much longer.
Posted by Lee Pender on 10/08/20081 comments
One of the more entertaining scenarios in the recent history of Microsoft,
the infamous
Vista
Capable lawsuit
, has led to a semi-comical deposition from Steve Ballmer,
who
pretty
much denies
ever having heard of Vista.
OK, he didn't go that far, but let's just say that baldness isn't all that
he and
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Posted by Lee Pender on 10/08/20080 comments
This just makes a lot of sense if you think about it, or even if you don't.
Why let a bunch of other vendors make a bundle on business intelligence applications
that are mainly centered on your database when you can
build
the stuff in yourself
?
Posted by Lee Pender on 10/08/20080 comments
The launch was kind of, sort of last month, but the product's out there today.
Go figure. Anyway,
here's
the press release.
Posted by Lee Pender on 10/02/20080 comments
It's so hard letting go. All the money, all the memories, all the good times -- it's
hard to think of them as things of the past. Just look at Microsoft. Cloud computing
is here, and the old operating system and productivity suite are becoming less
and less relevant all the time. But Microsoft just can't let them go.
OK, most of that last sentence was a massive overstatement -- but we got
your attention, right? We know that Windows isn't going to be obsolete any time
soon, if ever. And Office is likely to be the suite of choice for the masses
for at least a few more years to come.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 10/02/20080 comments
OK, we get the point here. Microsoft is saying that using pirated software
could
lead
to huge problems
-- of the technical, and not just legal, kind.
But the deck of this story made us chuckle a little bit: "Company-sponsored
report says counterfeits lead to system failures, lost data." Wait, doesn't
using a legitimate copy of Windows lead to that stuff?
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Posted by Lee Pender on 10/02/20080 comments
Somewhere between helping companies more easily retrieve long-buried data and
seeing its vendors get snapped up by tech giants, business intelligence (BI)
technology got expensive...and complicated. Kalido and its partners are out
to take BI back, in part by moving it online.
"It's been very difficult for companies to get enterprise-wide adoption
of BI tools because the infrastructure required to support them is very heavy,"
said Bill Hewitt, Kalido president and CEO, in a phone chat with RCPU this week.
Hewitt was referring specifically to business intelligence applications from
Business Objects and Cognos, the two main market players, which were recently
snapped up by software titans SAP
and IBM,
respectively.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 10/01/20081 comments
What we like about this company is...well, it's based in Biarritz. That's
the
Biarritz, as in the seaside resort in the southwest of France. Mmm, Biarritz.
Anyway,
here's
the PDF of the press release.
Posted by Lee Pender on 10/01/20080 comments
Visual Studio and .NET might seem a touch mundane as topics in comparison to
the end of Western Civilization and the collapse of the global economy -- but,
hey, somebody's bound to be really excited about
this
stuff
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 09/30/20080 comments
jQuery sounds to us like the nerdiest rap name ever, but apparently the fact
that Microsoft is going to
ship
it with Visual Studio
signals a further move on Redmond's part toward embracing
open source, at least a little bit.
Posted by Lee Pender on 09/30/20081 comments
If you're singing the old REM song in your head now, we're sorry, but the noise
of Michael Stipe blurting out semi-random words might just help drown out that
crashing sound coming from Wall Street.
Before we even get into this (again),
here's our obligatory caveat: By the time you read this, the Dow Jones Industrial
Average might be back up 500 points, or 700, or 1500, or whatever, and Congress
might have passed a package that will save our very mortal souls -- or at
least drag the country out of a mess the likes of which we haven't seen in decades.
So there you go.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 09/30/20082 comments