Just to show how sometimes the industry gets ahead of itself in terms of hype (ahem), there's still plenty of news and wrangling over the old-school mainframe, a pretty good synopsis of which is
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on March 25, 20090 comments
Want to know what your customers are saying about you in 140 characters or fewer? Salesforce.com is
all over it
. Seriously, this new app is supposed to "monitor and analyze" Tweets. Monitor, we can understand...but analyze? Sentences of 140 characters or fewer? Really? Is Dr. Freud the newest executive at Salesforce.com? Sometimes a Tweet is just a Tweet.
Posted by Lee Pender on March 25, 20090 comments
The news today is that Novell released the latest version of its operating system aimed at datacenters,
SUSE Linux Enterprise 11
. But what might be news to partners is that Novell has seriously increased its commitment to the channel in recent months, and it's not just about SUSE Linux anymore.
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Posted by Lee Pender on March 24, 20090 comments
Good news for Cisco channel members from Ingram Micro
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on March 19, 20090 comments
Another one is biting the dust. As you know if you've been reading industry news at all this week, IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems.
The Wall Street Journal
, as it tends to do,
broke the story
-- but if you want to read the whole article, you'll have to subscribe online. There's no need at this point, though, because there are
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Posted by Lee Pender on March 19, 20090 comments
Apparently, Chrome
isn't exactly polished
and Firefox (your editor's choice) isn't burning as brightly as it once did. Oh, and, uh, not many people are going on Safaris or listening to Opera, either.
Posted by Lee Pender on March 18, 20092 comments
Yeah, times are sort of tough, but not as tough as analysts thought they would be...which is
good news for Adobe
.
Posted by Lee Pender on March 18, 20090 comments
If cloud computing in the enterprise were, well, a cloud, it would be forming in the distance, just coming over the horizon. Sure, some companies are making money with it and others are saving money by using it, but it's still an evolving model.
Two pieces of news this week showed the negative and positive potential of cloud computing. Let's start with the bad news, or at least with the negative-potential bit. Azure crashed late last week.
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Posted by Lee Pender on March 18, 20090 comments