We couldn't make this up: Microsoft might be
facing
antitrust action in China
.
Um, what now? China? We know that the Chinese economy is pretty wide open these
days, but aren't we still talking about a communist country here with a one-party
government? And Microsoft might be in trouble for being too powerful? Again,
irony...we
love it.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 06/19/20080 comments
When most people think of summer, they think sunshine and blue skies. But the
folks at Salesforce.com think about clouds --
cloud
computing, that is
. There you go, Salesforce.com, we've just given you a
super-cheesy line for your Summer '08 demo. You're welcome.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/18/20080 comments
A backup application for SQL Server or Exchange Server
for
just $1,000 bucks
? Believe it -- and it's sold 100 percent through the channel.
Plus, the company is only one letter away from sharing a name with a large Dutch
bank.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/18/20080 comments
We really only put
this
in here because we love the word "array."
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/18/20080 comments
"For the moment, we are working in a Microsoft environment."
-- Christos Ellinides, the director of corporate IT solutions and services
at the European Commission
If you love irony, you have to love that quote. After years of hacking away
at Microsoft by imposing fines and generally being a nuisance, the European
Commission is looking at itself to find that it's still, at least in part, a
Microsoft shop.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 06/18/20081 comments
"I always feel like somebody's watching me
And I have no privacy"
-- from "Somebody's Watching Me" by Rockwell
If you remember the song from which we took today's opening quote, then you're
probably a pretty big '80s music nerd. And that's a good thing because it's
the nerds we're talking to today -- not so much the '80s music nerds but open
source nerds, although we figure the groups might overlap pretty heavily.
We don't know whether Rockwell was into open source software back in the day,
but the paranoia expressed in "Somebody's Watching Me" wouldn't be
out of place for open source folks today. Big brother is out there, people...and
its name is Microsoft.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 06/17/20080 comments
Well, we'll bet
this
put a damper on a lot of Patch Tuesday parties.
Posted by Lee Pender on 06/17/20080 comments
For most of the last 12 years, Alt-N Technologies, based down in Grapevine,
Texas, has been a Microsoft competitor -- a role not easy for any smaller company
to play. Alt-N's bread and butter has been an e-mail product, a competitor to
Microsoft's mighty Exchange. As such, Alt-N isn't a Microsoft partner and has
fairly limited experience working with folks in the Microsoft channel.
Now, however, Alt-N is looking to work with Microsoft partners. It's got a
new product out, SecurityGateway,
which is (to quote the product description directly) an "e-mail spam firewall
for Exchange and SMTP servers."
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Posted by Lee Pender on 06/12/20080 comments