We hate predictions here at RCPU. Most of the ones we read tend to sound kind of pompous and obvious -- pundits love to predict that the earth will continue to rotate on its axis and then cover themselves in glory when, hey!, they turn out to be right. Either that, or analysts and other pundits go off and make a bunch of predictions in December that nobody remembers (nor checks for accuracy) a year later.
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Posted by Lee Pender on December 27, 20070 comments
Tired of having systems provided by other vendors (hmmm, short list there) hacked, the U.S. Army is
looking to integrate more Macs
into its infrastructure.
Posted by Lee Pender on December 27, 20071 comments
According to a new book (and to Google, so take that for what it's worth), there's a
not-so-small security problem
with Adobe's Flash software. By the way, we love the use of the word "vulns" as an abbreviation for vulnerabilities.
Posted by Lee Pender on December 26, 20070 comments
Or maybe not, but we did find this amusing. We opened an
entry
on Blink Logic
on Nov. 28 thusly:
"Robert Lendvai was as confused as anybody when he read RCPU's declaration
that IBM's planned buyout of Cognos meant the end of business intelligence
as we know it. The chief marketing office of Blink Logic, an Ottawa-based
BI firm, even had a bit of a career crisis: 'I wondered whether maybe I should
resign,' Lendvai said."
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Posted by Lee Pender on December 21, 20070 comments
It's our last Reader Feedback Friday of the year! We'd love to take an opportunity
to go back over all the events of 2007 in RCPU, but your editor is on vacation
right now and is more than willing to just let a few more readers do the talking.
So, here goes:
On the Netherlands going
open source, we got an e-mail from Fred that was especially impressive for
his use of the word "utopianistically":
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Posted by Lee Pender on December 21, 20070 comments
For some reason, there's a fair amount of buzz today about a
Pew
Research Center study
that revealed that Americans like to look themselves
and others up online. Why that's a surprise to anybody, we don't know...but
there you go.
Posted by Lee Pender on December 21, 20070 comments
Barb Darrow has an
interesting
look
at the latest Dynamics CRM release and what it means for Microsoft's
SaaS strategy.
Posted by Lee Pender on December 20, 20070 comments
The former Redmond honcho will square off against Google for the license for
a spectrum that could be used to establish a wireless network.
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from the
Times of London
, old bean.
Posted by Lee Pender on December 20, 20070 comments
All you really need to read every week is
The Economist
,
BusinessWeek
and, of course,
Redmond Channel Partner
the week it comes out. Throw
in the
Journal
or the
Financial Times
if you want to, but it's
hard to beat
BW
for stuff like
this
Posted by Lee Pender on December 19, 20070 comments
With reader e-mails this good, why should we spend time coming up with a clever
introduction to Reader Feedback Friday? Let's just jump right in.
On Dell sidling up
to partners and trying to make things right again after all these years,
we got a subtle, nuanced response from John, which we quote here directly and
without editing:
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Posted by Lee Pender on December 14, 20070 comments
Seriously, it's time to start ramping up for SaaS if you haven't already. In
one of those studies that basically reports that the earth might just continue
spinning on its axis, IDC tells us that SaaS will -- brace yourselves --
dramatically
alter the landscape
for partners.
Posted by Lee Pender on December 12, 20070 comments