Last week's post on the
ultimate
demise of Netscape
got readers into a nostalgic mood. Since it's a slow-ish
news day, let's jump right into your Internet memories:
First off, Mike from Finland writes again, this time to correct RCPU on an
extremely important point. RCPU referred to pop legends ABBA as "four singing
Swedes" -- when, in fact, one of the ladies in the group was actually Norwegian
(and therefore probably should have had a place in another
recent entry).
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Posted by Lee Pender on January 10, 20080 comments
More news from a big distributor: Tech Data has inked (sorry, we couldn't resist)
a
deal
with FMAudit
to offer managed printing services.
Posted by Lee Pender on January 10, 20080 comments
Let's see...hockey joke or
McKenzie
brothers
joke? Ah, heck, we love Canada. We'll just
give
you the link
so you can see what this workstation thing is all aboot, eh.
(There's no cliché like a Canadian cliché.)
Posted by Lee Pender on January 09, 20080 comments
Norway has always been a country of searchers:
Edvard
Munch
searching in his expressionist art for some outlet for his anxiety,
energy companies searching for oil in Norway's fossil-rich waters,
Henrik
Ibsen
searching for hidden truth in the rigid morals of Victorian society...
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Posted by Lee Pender on January 09, 20080 comments
Mac
Pro and Xserve
are big horses for enterprise-type stuff. They also have
new Intel chips inside. See, Mac people, we do know that you're out there.
Posted by Lee Pender on January 09, 20081 comments
If you caught the results of
RCP
the magazine's
reader
survey
in our December issue, then you know that one of the few things partners
don't like about working with Microsoft is Redmond's rarely simple, sometimes
arcane licensing policies. In our survey, more than 60 percent of you said that
Microsoft's licensing procedures make its products difficult to sell.
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Posted by Lee Pender on January 08, 20081 comments
The first Patch Tuesday of the year is
looking
like a cake walk
. By the way, when's the last time somebody actually organized
a cake walk?
Posted by Lee Pender on January 08, 20080 comments
Some enterprising reporter pored over a bunch of numbers over the holidays
and figured that Microsoft must be making a killing on its Novell SuSE Linux
deal. In the spirit of the Internet, your somewhat less enterprising newsletter
writer (hey, there's been lots of football on TV these last couple of weeks)
is
linking
to the story
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Posted by Lee Pender on January 03, 20080 comments
Welcome back! And welcome to 2008 -- an Olympic year, an election year (in
the U.S., anyway), a year when there'll be a European Championship soccer tournament
and a year in which you'll see a few new wrinkles in what we hope is your favorite
e-mail newsletter, or at least your favorite newsletter written by a Texan working
in an office on Route 9 in Framingham, Mass. (We're guessing that we've got
that last category nailed.)
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Posted by Lee Pender on January 03, 20080 comments