The swine flu pandemic, now at Level 5, according to the WHO, is spreading, schools are being closed down, and we need to protect those who are under our care. My last post on this was focused more ... More >
As we get started this week, we seem to be facing a very real possibility that a pandemic is breaking out. One hundred dead and 1,600 infected in Mexico, with instances (so far mild) across the U.S... More >
Back when I was a competitive analyst, one of the projects that I enjoyed the most was writing scenarios. We would look into the future, define an event we either wanted to avoid or have happen, and ... More >
Unbreakable Linux , which initially showed some promise, turned out to be an inside industry joke with Oracle at the butt of it. It just didn't seem to get much traction and the connection t... More >
Last week I was part of a get together of technology managers, analysts and influencers. One of the topics was outsourcing failures . What was interesting was that the consensus opinion was that it ... More >
I'm becoming increasingly worried about what Google is becoming. It seems like every company goes through phases, but those that get extreme power have a tendency to mix up the word "right." A comp... More >
I've been thinking about this a lot. We have netbooks that cost less than $400 and are actually more capable than many of the notebooks we gave to folks three years ago. This week Acer launched the ... More >
Sunday the proposed marriage between IBM and Sun hit the rocks and the groom, IBM, walked out of the church. The couple had been having problems, which the media picked up as leaks. It appea... More >
We've had major announcements from AMD and Intel in the server and workstation space, but across most of the vendors there doesn't seem to be a lot of differentiation between products that... More >
Like a lot of folks, I started on a path that should have led me to a different career than the one I ended up with. I'd initially targeted HR and much of my education was focused in that are (fortun... More >

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