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April 30, 2009

How Schools Could Use Tech to Address Pandemic

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 >

April 27, 2009

Flu Pandemic: Is Your Company's Business Continuity Plan Ready?

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 >

April 24, 2009

How Oracle Could Own Linux and Own the Market

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 >

April 21, 2009

Oracle/Sun: Vastly Changing the Hardware, Software, Services Landscape

  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 >

April 17, 2009

Where Outsourcing Fails and Why You Don’t Hear About It

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 >

April 13, 2009

The Growing Danger of Google

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 >

April 8, 2009

The Amazing Acer AspireRevo: Rethinking the Business Desktop

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 >

April 6, 2009

Sun and IBM: The Wedding Is Off because the In-laws Suck

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 >

April 3, 2009

IBM Balancing Intel and AMD to Create Better Servers

  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 >

April 1, 2009

Microsoft and Monster Collaboration May Result in Better Employees

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 >