We're trying to stay calm here -- really, we are. We understand that this
isn't 1929 or even 1987 -- and maybe not even 2001, for that matter -- and
that the bright people who run our economy have the tools and the know-how to
deal with what's happening.
We know that the economy is cyclical, that all sort of factors can affect it
and that things have been much worse in the past. We're aware that 6 percent
unemployment would have only been considered possible on Fantasy Island back
in 1981 when jobless rates were closer to (or in) double digits. We get it.
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 16, 20080 comments
Well, presumably Mark Conley's parents actually named him...but CommVault has
hired Conley
as
director of North American channel sales.
Posted by Lee Pender on September 11, 20080 comments
Oh, how the proprietary have fallen. Well, not fallen really, but certainly
changed. Microsoft is making noises about openness and collaboration again,
this time with a couple of standards-oriented initiatives.
Redmond said this week that it'll work on a Web services interface with IBM
and EMC, and it's also joining a standards group called the Object Management
Group. (OK, so we didn't know what that was, either -- but this
story told us).
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 11, 20080 comments
Well, that's what
the
headline
says, although we wonder how much one has to do with the other.
And, at 0.7 percent market share, Chrome seems like much less of a threat to
IE than Firefox -- for now. But, hey, we all love to read about Google, right?
Posted by Lee Pender on September 10, 20086 comments
Given the hysteria in this part of the world over Tom Brady's knee, we barely
noticed that the London Stock Exchange crashed yesterday. Yes, that's right;
the news is shocking -- Tom Brady's out for the season.
No, wait, that's not the news we meant to talk about. What we meant to say
was: Yes, that's right; the news is shocking -- the
London freaking Stock Exchange went down. For almost an entire day. During
a rally.
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 10, 20080 comments
So, this week, Microsoft held one of those non-event events in which it gathers
reporters together to release a few details about upcoming products, and reporters
go because, well, it's Microsoft.
OK, so it wasn't
a total non-event, but we do kind of wonder sometimes why Microsoft bothers
with a whole big press event when a press release and a couple of spokespeople
available to take calls would
suffice.
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Posted by Lee Pender on September 09, 20080 comments
From the cloud comes a cool, refreshing
rain
of updates
for Microsoft's hosted CRM service.
Posted by Lee Pender on September 09, 20080 comments