I can't claim credit (culpability?) for the above attempts at humor. My cousin Joe Tully, the wit of our extended family, fed me a bunch of these. Got any barbs yourself?
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Choice is important. Whether it's some flavor of Linux, Mac, Chromebook, Windows 7 or Windows 8x, there are options that each have benefits and draw backs. Unless someone has a specific business need for a specific OS, there's...
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Good points on the key messages, Michael. I agree that 4/8/14 is not the end of computing as we know it. However, there does need to be an awareness that if something happens after 4/8/14, Microsoft isn't going to release...
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@anon0242799790: Thanks for commenting. I think you make a fair point that many pundits, myself included, have been saying something along those lines ("align IT with business") for years. But I would counter your reasonable...
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My friend was very happy with Windows/XP. He also has a perfectly good computer, thank you very much, and didn't want to spend a lot of money getting a new machine. So I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on it, with...
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Dropbox adds Rice, tweaks its ToS and merges biz/personal folders. What other changes do ya'll anticipate ahead of their eventual IPO? (If any ...) They still insist on people/business bringing their own security...
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Yes, an interesting choice for sure -- though I'd wager a better one for a company looking to break into enterprises than other celebrity endorsers. (Lady Gaga, anyone?)
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Anon024etc., IT has never concentrated on rapid software changes before. On the contrary IT operations has slowly come to regard them as highly dangerous and as a kind of plague. You must be very advanced in your shop...
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Here is a brief upbeat compelling video overview of the Dell PowerEdge C6220 for Windows Server
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJZs2EUy9Vg
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I was bemused by Dropbox adding Condoleezza Rice to its board. I get that they wanted a "name" but choosing Rice in this era of worry about government surveillance is tone deaf at best. I wonder how many companies will...
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I can understand the reluctance for banks or ATM manufacturers to disclose what version of OS their ATM runs but I think when we're talking about personal data security someone needs to get out in front of this issue and...
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Aren't the IT experts sick and tired of saying the same things for the last 2 decades or so? One is change the culture of the IT and business organization, another is align business and IT. I have heard this almost every...
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While Silverpop strengthens IBM's portfolio, positioning Unica for large B2C and Silverpop for SMBs would be logical if the market actually operated this way. As differences between B2B and B2C customer engagement...
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I respect LiteManager for desktop PC's remote control.
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Very good examples - Novell and Lotus all lost the big business due to a wrong decision from the beginning. For MS, I will sit back and keep my fingers crossed. MS is not the same as before, especially when Mr.Gates is still...
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Support revenue is huge for Oracle. Given my personal past experience, it's extremely high margin as well as shown by the poor quality of support. Full disclosure: I am a Rimini Street customer for supporting our very stable...
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Dropbox is a little late to the game, especially having to contend with tools like Google Apps. The updates are fairly basic, as you said, but it'll be interesting to see what else is in its pipeline.
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Not really, and the reason has less to do with my concerns with Dropbox and more to do with the fact that I've been able to do this sort of collaboration on projects like powerpoints for a long time with DriveHQ. It took...
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The Office collaboration tools look to be very useful. Much better than collaborating using Google Docs. Even though Dropbox is considerably more expensive than Google Drive, the Office collaboration would be worth the extra...
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