Well, we'll bet
this
put a damper on a lot of Patch Tuesday parties.
Posted by Lee Pender on June 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.
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Posted by Lee Pender on June 12, 20080 comments
Symantec's new
Veritas
Virtual Infrastructure
combines storage management and virtualization...but
just for Citrix, and not for VMware (or, uh, Hyper-V).
Posted by Lee Pender on June 12, 20080 comments
While it has absolutely nothing on
RCP
the magazine's
annual
salary survey
, we'll admit that Glassdoor, a new startup, sounds pretty
cool. It's all about tracking salaries and levels of employee satisfaction in
companies such as Google and Microsoft.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Posted by Lee Pender on June 12, 20080 comments
Just a quick note before we get started: We're giving you a break from reader
feedback this week, even though we've had some great stuff come through recently.
This week's
entry
on social networking
has drawn some especially interesting feedback, so
we're actually going to blow that out a bit and come back to the subject in
future RCPUs. In the meantime, keep the good stuff coming to
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Posted by Lee Pender on June 12, 20080 comments
Mary Jo Foley suspects that Office 14 might just end up being called
Office
2009
.
Posted by Lee Pender on June 11, 20080 comments
These days, Microsoft's Tech-Ed conference is an obnoxious two-week binge,
with one week devoted to developers and the second to IT folks. With a minimum
of product announcements on the slate, the more interesting (or at least somewhat
less nerdy) second week is all about agenda-setting for Redmond rather than
about product pumping. (And, no, RCPU is not there, in case you were wondering.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on June 11, 20080 comments
Releasing an open source product
with
no source code
? Tsk, tsk, Microsoft. The party does not tolerate that kind
of behavior, comrades.
Posted by Lee Pender on June 11, 20080 comments
Apparently too intimated to sit down and face the icy stare of RCPU, Bill Gates
and Steve Ballmer instead went running to the
Wall Street Journal
(how
very old-media of them) to reminisce about old times and talk a bit about the
future. Actually,
this
is a really entertaining interview.
Posted by Lee Pender on June 11, 20080 comments
Here's one for all you health care partners out there, in case you missed it.
Kaiser Permanente (as opposed to Kaiser Temporalis, we suppose) and Microsoft
have an initiative to
digitize
health records
and safely store and transfer them online.
Safely? Well, that might be a bit of a sticking point, we suspect, with a lot
of patents and doctors. Still, there could be money to be made here for enterprising
health care channel players.
Posted by Lee Pender on June 10, 20080 comments
Like RCPU, it sort of hits you with unrelenting regularity. This month,
seven
patches
. Enjoy.
Posted by Lee Pender on June 10, 20080 comments