Archive for March, 2006
The Wooden Bowl
My Father passed away today and I won’t be posting for a while. I’ll leave you with this story.
The Wooden Bowl
A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year-old grandson. The old man’s hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered.
The family ate together at the table. [...]
Making Microsoft Lemonade from lemons, or – maybe the cleverist Idea of the year
I hate it when I don’t think of things like this. James Governer on Vista
James Governer suggested to give a rebate with the purchase of an xbox. It may go down as the cleverist idea of the year. And to further support James’ idea, it has precidence with one of the top [...]
Back to the Future, Microsoft is IBM, circa 1980's-early 1990's
History is reliving itself.
Take a dominant company with a large market share with essentially a proprietary product and have it grow to a large enough size based on a subscription or renewal/upgrade model, and you have either pre Gerstner IBM or Microsoft today.
Peter Drucker has made very relevant descriptions of how companies [...]
WD-40, Interesting Facts – it even helps catch fish
For the full list of 2000 uses, go here
I thought that you might like to know more about this well-known WD-40 product.
When you read the “shower door” part, try it. It’s the first thing that has cleaned that spotty shower door. If yours is plastic, it works just as well as glass. It’s a [...]
32 Gigabyte Flash disk
Why I care about This is because I spent a good part of my career in the storage industry.
When I first started at a small disk distributor, Core International, we sold IBM-AT replacement 40 MB drives for $2595.00. It had an average seek time of 26 milliseconds and fancy technology like a voice [...]
IBM buys Language Analysis Systems
IBM buys lots of companies to add and fill out our middleware platforms. Today we announced the purchase of LAS or Language Analysis Systems. Here’s a quote from the announcement
Language Analysis Systems of Herndon sells software the government uses to check names in foreign languages against U.S. terror and other watch lists. [...]
SaaS, the Partner work begins
It’s after PartnerWorld and the SOA partner train has left the station. So the next project is Software as a Service – as it relates to our Partnering efforts.
Rather than trying to describe the entire program in one blog, analogous to eating the entire elephant in one sitting, I’m going to work [...]
PartnerWorld – Day 3, Leaving Las Vegas
Got up at 4 to get to the airport for an early flight. My favorite thing about Las Vegas is leaving. I’ve been coming here since the early 80’s for computer shows and the thrill is gone. To give you a perspective on how long I’ve been coming, my first recollection is [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )PartnerWorld – Day 2
We’re in the routine of Keynote, press conference, breakouts and 1:1’s. You’ll read about the news in CRN, VarBusiness, eWeek and the likes. I’d have never made it as a reporter.
Since we are a small staff, I get to cover other groups and their executives. I spent the day with Sandy Carter [...]
PartnerWorld – Day 1
Today started with the keynote, if you don’t count the gym. I’ll skip the IBM stuff because it was good, but it’ll be widely written about by better writers than I.
Except for the new IBM product called the mobility connection. I’ve always felt the that the ultimate data entry device was voice. [...]
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