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What that out of the way, we go to Don, who's not wild about the District of Columbia switching to Google Apps:
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Posted by Lee Pender on October 16, 20080 comments
It'll be virtualization and cloud computing that'll top the list of hottest technologies next year, the soothsayers of
Gartner, um, say
.
Virtualization Review
's Tom Valovic
seems happy
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Posted by Lee Pender on October 16, 20080 comments
Here at RCPU, we always thought that Vista sounded more like a code name than a real Windows product name. It didn't have a "vintage" sound to it, like Windows 98 or 2000; it didn't sound all tech-y like XP or NT, and it didn't have a cute little moniker like Bob or ME (although it might go down in history with those last two after all).
No, Vista sounded a bit like a code name that somebody accidentally released to the outside world, as if the name slipped into a PowerPoint marketing presentation or something, and it was too late to go back after that and rename Vista "Windows 2007" or some such.
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Posted by Lee Pender on October 15, 20083 comments
Okay, it's jargon time: Microsoft is talking up the release of OCS R2 as a boost for its UC strategy. Confused? You won't be after this episode of
Soap
! Whoa, how did that late-'70s TV reference get in there? See, a totally different plane of existence.
Anyway,
here's the story
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Posted by Lee Pender on October 15, 20080 comments
It's Project Kensho, which does some sort of virtualization stuff
better explained
by somebody who writes for a virtualization magazine.
Posted by Lee Pender on October 15, 20080 comments
We're not totally sure why Research in Motion didn't call its device something like the RIMshot rather than the BlackBerry. In any case, Microsoft might be interested in buying the whole company.
Or so the rumor goes.
Posted by Lee Pender on October 14, 20081 comments
Now that the Dow and NASDAQ have rocketed back up (on Monday, anyway),
this news seems so last week
: Analysts are projecting a drop in IT spending, but nothing like the one that crippled the industry at the outset of this decade http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/101308-gartner-it-spending.html.
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Posted by Lee Pender on October 14, 20080 comments
Whoever wins the presidential election in a few weeks' time, George W. Bush will be on his way out of Washington, DC -- and Microsoft Office will be right behind him.
OK, so we're only talking about the municipal level in DC here, not the federal big time, but Google Apps scored a victory recently with the news that it had toppled long-time incumbent Microsoft Office as the District's productivity suite of choice.
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Posted by Lee Pender on October 14, 20081 comments
It has seemed for a while as though the global financial storm was going to
deal a mostly glancing blow to the technology industry. Everybody hurts when
markets go into free fall (and, as we're writing this on Wednesday afternoon,
the Dow Jones has just closed down another 189 points -- although, as always,
it could be up 500 points again by the time you read this). But if Wall Street
and the banking sector are having a tornado rip through their gilded trailer
parks, tech has, thus far, mostly just experienced some rain and a few gusts
of wind in its relatively quiet suburb.
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Posted by Lee Pender on October 09, 20084 comments