Lee Majors cannot be happy about this. Just a generation (or two?) ago, the tastefully named gentleman was the Six Million Dollar Man -- better, stronger, faster, etc. And nearly worthless compared to a guy who basically got bounced from his last job.
Mark Hurd didn't sustain severe injuries in a test-flight crash and come back as a bionic man (as Majors's Steve Austin character did in the '70s, in case you didn't know), but he did suffer a pretty hard fall after leaving the CEO post at HP under a cloud of bizarre circumstances and sexual-harassment accusations.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 09/07/20101 comments
Maybe this prediction will be as wrong as all the dire warnings about Hurricane Earl were. We can hope, right?
Posted by Lee Pender on 09/07/20100 comments
What? There's a Southern Virginia now? We thought that outside of the D.C. area, Virginia was just kind of a myth... Only kidding. We at RCPU love Virginia. It's gorgeous. And it's going to be home to a new Microsoft datacenter (although how it beat out your editor's native state of Texas, we'll never know).
Posted by Lee Pender on 09/02/20100 comments
Let's not kid ourselves here. It's blazing hot outside by New England standards; your editor is working on a cover story for Redmond magazine on the 25th anniversary of Windows; Labor Day weekend is fast approaching, and Hurricane Earl might very well blow us right off the East Coast this weekend.
Today is not the day for bloviating, philosophizing or entertaining here at RCPU. It's a day to, quite literally, "mail it in," which is what we're doing. Absent any news of significant interest for commentary, we're leading with the fairly mundane but not unimportant story of Microsoft publishing a fix (not really a patch...but something) for a DLL flaw that's been running amok lately.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 09/02/20100 comments
Hey, another Labor Day reading suggestion! Yes, you can pass the long hours indoors as Hurricane Earl, which must be from Texas and might have grown up in a trailer park, splatters the East Coast. Howard Cohen's piece on the history of the channel will provide you with...well, minutes of reading pleasure -- but it is worth a read.
Posted by Lee Pender on 09/01/20100 comments
We always love, of course, the content on RCPmag.com, but we really love it right now because news in August -- outside of VMworld -- was slower than an offensive tackle dragging in from a day at training camp. So, if you need some late-summer reading material, check out Jeff Schwartz's story on why Dynamics CRM is popular among partners.
Posted by Lee Pender on 09/01/20100 comments
It's show time in San Francisco, where VMware is holding its annual VMworld conference and possibly stranding East Coast-based attendees through Labor Day weekend. There's a hurricane on the way, you know, and it might just soak the Eastern Seaboard this weekend.
With hurricanes, of course, come clouds -- or more appropriately, a big, swirling storm cloud with an eye in the center. Well, this week, all eyes were on VMware's cloud plans. (Oh, that was a terrible turn of phrase. But give us a break -- it's 95 degrees here in Greater Boston today, and we're not as air conditioning-equipped as some of you folks in other parts of the country are.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on 09/01/20100 comments
He's apparently healthy and not broke, so why is Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and Pacific Northwest sports magnate, suing pretty much the whole technology industry (except Microsoft) for patent infringement? This is as much of a head-scratcher as we've seen lately. Is this just a money grab? Is it an attempt to squeeze something tangible out of the failed Interval Research project, which Allen is using to launch the legal action? Is Allen just bored waiting for football season to start? We have all questions and no answers. And we suspect that Allen's legal action will get about as far in the courts as the Seahawks did in the NFC West last season. (In other words, since Allen hasn't sued the St. Louis Rams, as far as we know, we don't really see him beating anybody here.)
Posted by Lee Pender on 08/30/20105 comments