If you're singing the old REM song in your head now, we're sorry, but the noise
of Michael Stipe blurting out semi-random words might just help drown out that
crashing sound coming from Wall Street.
Before we even get into this (again),
here's our obligatory caveat: By the time you read this, the Dow Jones Industrial
Average might be back up 500 points, or 700, or 1500, or whatever, and Congress
might have passed a package that will save our very mortal souls -- or at
least drag the country out of a mess the likes of which we haven't seen in decades.
So there you go.
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 30, 20082 comments
jQuery sounds to us like the nerdiest rap name ever, but apparently the fact
that Microsoft is going to
ship
it with Visual Studio
signals a further move on Redmond's part toward embracing
open source, at least a little bit.
Posted by Lee Pender on September 30, 20081 comments
Visual Studio and .NET might seem a touch mundane as topics in comparison to
the end of Western Civilization and the collapse of the global economy -- but,
hey, somebody's bound to be really excited about
this
stuff
.
Posted by Lee Pender on September 30, 20080 comments
Whatever unified communications is, everybody wants a part of it.
Yesterday
,
we told you about Oracle cutting into the Notes-Exchange dance, which isn't
strictly speaking a unified communications story, really...but it sort of is.
Or, at least, we think it is. After all, messaging, calendaring (we still love
the fact that "calendar" is a verb now) and "collaboration"
all seem pretty UC-ish to us, even if Oracle's new suite doesn't currently appear
to delve quite as much into voice, Web conferencing and other nifty Web-whatever-point-oh
functions as offerings from Microsoft and Cisco do.
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 25, 20080 comments
We've always been amused by the English tendency to identify with soccer clubs
by saying, "I'm West Ham" or "I'm Chelsea" or "I'm
Stockport County," rather than saying, "I'm a (fill in the club here)
fan." It's as if the fan himself or herself is the living embodiment of
the club, a personification not just of an organization but of a way of life.
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 25, 20080 comments
Oracle doesn't get a lot of virtual ink here at RCPU, but there's no question
that Larry Ellison's company is a monster, one of a few dominant firms in the
industry along the lines of Microsoft (of course), IBM, Cisco, Google and maybe
a couple of others. So, when Oracle does something significant, it matters -- and
this week at its OpenWorld show, Oracle did something significant.
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 24, 20081 comments
In case you missed it -- and if you follow this sort of thing -- Microsoft
is
buying
back $40 billion
of its stock to try to get its stagnant (and sinking) share
price moving upward again.
Posted by Lee Pender on September 24, 20081 comments
It's Software Usage Management (that's a product, not a category) for .NET.
Careful, the
press
release
opens as a .PDF document.
Posted by Lee Pender on September 24, 20080 comments
E-mail
risk management
, that is. Remember that "Seinfeld" episode where
George can't stand reading because every time he reads he hears his own voice,
so he buys a book on tape about risk management, and the voice on the tape ends
up sounding just like his voice? Yeah, that was a good one.
Posted by Lee Pender on September 24, 20080 comments
With apologies to Willie Nelson: Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be
investment bankers (if there is such a thing anymore). Make 'em
be
IT folks
instead.
Posted by Lee Pender on September 23, 20080 comments