...and when you throw Adobe Acrobat (especially LiveCycle forms) into the mix, things get REALLY messed up because not every company seems to be able to come to an agreement with Adobe on licensing and fees.
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Try a device with one of the latest Atom processors. A Celeron it is not. This is not necessarily directed at you but the misinformation in these comments is astonishing. I have this device and if you don't have...
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Out of all of these, I think I'll download Duolingo -- for Spanish and German translation -- and Uber, for hailing cabs and private drivers. Last time I was in San Francisco it started raining and the cab lines at hotels...
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Karen, thank you for your thoughtful and candid post. All of the politically correct and responsibility-avoiding comments by the parties responsible are transparent to most. The lack of accountability, at $125MM over...
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Which comes first, the public facing API or the active developer community? In this case, the developer community needed to be sparked first. A lucky company will build a well designed, well documented API and they will...
In reply to: Which comes first, active dev community or API?
Given all the headlines about U.S. based businesses losing business abroad due to NSA snooping, I'm wondering if one of Microsoft's motivations for partnering rather than building its own data centers is to provide an extra...
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I love the Pocket app -- great for those in-between moments like when you're at the doctor's office and want to catch up on articles you've saved for later.
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I'm guessing that target customer listed last -- government -- is probably going to first on Spires' hit list. Salesforce.com took advantage of former U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra's connections to lead that company's government...
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SDN is not the answer, just one part of it. See SDN is NOT the next big thing. SDCI is.
-dave
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Good question, Sue. My guess is that the position will morph into something else. Look what happened with server virtualization. Server sales are way down and my guess is that the old server teams are now virtualization...
In reply to: Re: Networking in danger?
I happened to observe the PCAST meeting in February from the gallery. Clearly there are some very bright scientific and academic minds serving on the group -- with some thoughtful ideas on tackling some tough challenges...
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I wonder if the private sector is any better than this. I kinda doubt it. Anyone agree?
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Oracle has a poor reputation with open source developers, one that's richly deserved. If it's not in its own direct interest, it doesn't contribute. Oracle does produce code effectively for the Linux kernel under Wim Coekerts,....
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@Laurianne Let's hope Dell customers don't fall into the 50% surveyed at a recent presentation at the Gartner Data Center Conferenc, the audience was asked: "At what level do the risks associated with outsourcing...
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I wonder if the existing methods are actually able to deal with the complexity that modern software has become. They all focus on control, and managing risk by artifact creation and evaluation. Frankly software is so complex...
In reply to: Re: Not Again- Another Widget for the Power Point
"The notion that data must be stored domestically to ensure that it remains secure and private is false". -Castro For US companies, the NSA controversy would seem to support this assertion. However, this can be misleading...
In reply to: Data Storage issues
Thanks for responding-- and I'm glad you like your device! I hadn't heard about vouchers being handed out after stocks were depleted, though I know some U.S. Microsoft stores received additional inventory later in the day,...
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Five graphs of Savvis marketing in Pragathipatil's "Case Study." Savvis is a certified SAP partner to host HANA. Maybe four would have been enough.
In reply to: Four graphs of marketing more than enough
For some people, nothing's wrong with the scenario. But I think that's the problem-- it's only tenable for some. I have a Surface Pro, and I find it useful only in specific scenarios. If I tried to do the majority of my...
In reply to: Re: no game need it
After the first 20, they actually had vouchers for the people that were left so they could get it later in the afternoon or the next day. I dunno if they gave them at 99, but at the very least they got it at 199. They promised...
In reply to: Re: Dell Venue 8 Pro Tablet (32 GB)
You offer some great examples, Mat, about the business case (of lack thereof) for many of the PCAST recommendations. But what seemed most damning to me was the quote from Sans Institute Director John Pescatore who said the...
In reply to: The business case
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