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It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/471911585/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:07:54 -0600http://youtube.com/?v=-1nB8lkTmzs<img src="http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/-1nB8lkTmzs/default.jpg" align="right" border="0" width="120" height="90" vspace="4" hspace="4" /> <p> </p> <p> Author: <a href="http://youtube.com/profile?user=bushwald">bushwald</a><br /><br /> Keywords: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bunk-where-my-shoes">bunk-where-my-shoes</a><br /><br /> Added: December 1, 2008<br /> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=O32cO"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=O32cO" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=JJW5O"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=JJW5O" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=bk9NO"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=bk9NO" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=v8XlO"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=v8XlO" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://youtube.com/?v=-1nB8lkTmzshttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/471878083/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:41:46 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/12/01/itmanagement027/<p class="pic"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/3061584289/" title="OMG! by cote, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3235/3061584289_5a56c55d8e_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="OMG!" /></a></p> <p>Download the episode directly <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/redmonk/itmanagement027.mp3">right here</a>, subscribe to <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ITManagementGuys">the feed</a> in iTunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatically, or just click play below to listen to it right here:</p> <p class="embed"> </p> <div id="playerITManagement027">This text will be replaced</div> <p>&#038;&#038;</p> <p><a href="http://www.johnmwillis.com">John</a> and <a href="http://www.peopleoverprocess.com">I</a> get together at the beginning of this week to make up for last week&#8217;s holiday skipage. While there&#8217;s not a lot of news items &#038; announcements, we manage to pull out a nice 90 minutes of several topics (out of order):</p> <ul> <li>John is putting together <a href="http://www.cloudcamp.com/?page_id=244">Cloud Camp Atlanta, Jan 20th, 2008</a>.</li> <li>Sun is supporting <a href="http://www.alice.org/">Alice</a>, an educational programming environment that John digs.</li> <li>On the topic of Sun, we do the favorite parlor game of playing &#8220;what will happen to Sun.&#8221; See <a href="http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/11/26/wwsd/">Stephen O&#8217;Grady&#8217;s excellent write-up on that topic</a>, as mentioned, as well.</li> <li>The <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10107677-16.html">Groundwork Opensource/HP pricing dust-up</a>. We spend a long time analyzing both sides, and generalize on the theory that it&#8217;s always best to argue against numbers with words.</li> <li><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/25/60minutes/main4633254.shtml">Online gambling</a>, possible data-analysis in the cloud, and how that all relates to the cyberpunk, data-haven thriller <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Islands-Net-Bruce-Sterling/dp/0441374239/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1228173585&#038;sr=8-3"><i>Islands in the Net</i></a>.</li> <li>A brief comment on my Data Center Automation and Cloud call with CA this morning.</li> <li>The forming of a new power-center in the IT department: The Hyper-Visor Police. Just like the feudal kingdom of the DBA, it&#8217;s clear that there&#8217;ll be the group that controls virtualization and uses that control for much power in the department. I for one welcome out new IT overlords.</li> <li>How virtualization is making operating systems less of a constraint and more of a piece of middle-ware, or, The Big Blog Theory of Virtualization.</li> <li>We talk about <a href="http://dougmcclure.net/">Doug McClure</a>&#8217;s recent podcast series (check one <a href="http://dougmcclure.net/blog/2008/11/business-transaction-management-btm-defined/">here</a> or <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/dougmcclurepodcasts">just subscribe to his feed</a>), which gets us into an extended discussion of what a &#8220;transaction&#8221; is vs. a &#8220;services&#8221; and how that all relates to top-down vs. bottom-up approaches to IT management.</li> <li>Finally, I mention that Zbigniew Brzezinski&#8217;s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Second-Chance-Presidents-American-Superpower/dp/B0013TMN2U/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1228173608&#038;sr=8-3"><i>Second Choice</i></a> is a good, non-IT book for understanding what &#8220;thinking strategically&#8221; means using the example of American foreign policy.</li> </ul> <p>Also, check out <a href="http://www.johnmwillis.com/other/burkes-sweet-potato-pie/">the sweet potato casserole recipe John mentioned</a>, and, as I mentioned, <a href="http://www.royersroundtopcafe.com/">Royer&#8217;s out in Round Top, Texas</a> - damn good food and pies.</p> <p><b>Disclosure:</b> see <a href="http://www.redmonk.com/clients/">the RedMonk client list</a> for clients mentioned above and in the podcast.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1926&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1926" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=HLc0O"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=HLc0O" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=EnaBO"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=EnaBO" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=wNuJO"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=wNuJO" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=F7sYO"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=F7sYO" border="0"></img></a> </div>yes Download the episode directly right here, subscribe to the feed in iTunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatically, or just click play below to listen to it right here: This text will be replaced &#038;&#038; John and I get together Coté & Charles Download the episode directly right here, subscribe to the feed in iTunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatically, or just click play below to listen to it right here: This text will be replaced &#038;&#038; John and I get together at the beginning of this week to make up for last week&#8217;s holiday skipage. While there&#8217;s not a lot of news items &#038; announcements, we manage to pull out a nice 90 minutes of several topics (out of order): John is putting together Cloud Camp Atlanta, Jan 20th, 2008. Sun is supporting Alice, an educational programming environment that John digs. On the topic of Sun, we do the favorite parlor game of playing &#8220;what will happen to Sun.&#8221; See Stephen O&#8217;Grady&#8217;s excellent write-up on that topic, as mentioned, as well. The Groundwork Opensource/HP pricing dust-up. We spend a long time analyzing both sides, and generalize on the theory that it&#8217;s always best to argue against numbers with words. Online gambling, possible data-analysis in the cloud, and how that all relates to the cyberpunk, data-haven thriller Islands in the Net. A brief comment on my Data Center Automation and Cloud call with CA this morning. The forming of a new power-center in the IT department: The Hyper-Visor Police. Just like the feudal kingdom of the DBA, it&#8217;s clear that there&#8217;ll be the group that controls virtualization and uses that control for much power in the department. I for one welcome out new IT overlords. How virtualization is making operating systems less of a constraint and more of a piece of middle-ware, or, The Big Blog Theory of Virtualization. We talk about Doug McClure&#8217;s recent podcast series (check one here or just subscribe to his feed), which gets us into an extended discussion of what a &#8220;transaction&#8221; is vs. a &#8220;services&#8221; and how that all relates to top-down vs. bottom-up approaches to IT management. Finally, I mention that Zbigniew Brzezinski&#8217;s Second Choice is a good, non-IT book for understanding what &#8220;thinking strategically&#8221; means using the example of American foreign policy. Also, check out the sweet potato casserole recipe John mentioned, and, as I mentioned, Royer&#8217;s out in Round Top, Texas - damn good food and pies. Disclosure: see the RedMonk client list for clients mentioned above and in the podcast. Share This ruby,java,austin,programming,finland,code,design,agile,work,xp,scrumhttp://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/12/01/itmanagement027/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/471547717/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:26:31 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/12/01/rational-in-2008/<p class="video embed"> </p> <p>Back at the <a href="http://www.telelogic.com/campaigns/2008/ugc/americas/index.cfm">Telelogic Innovation user conference this year</a>, I had the chance to sit down with IBM&#8217;s Scott Hebner and walk through a review of what Rational has been up to over the past year.</p> <p>Being at the Telelogic conference, we cover the merging in and addition of the &#8220;systems&#8221; focused portfolio that Telelogic brings to Rational.</p> <p>Also, in 2008 Rational commercialized the Jazz platform first as <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21688.wss">Rational Team Concert</a> and then, as Scott gets into, started moving it out as a platform (or hub, if you will) for the Rational portfolio. Check out <a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/06/10/scott-hebner-at-rsdc-rational-team-concert-jazz-saas-thinking/">my interview with Scott back at RSDC 2008</a> for more on that topic.</p> <p>Finally, we talk about the upcoming year for Rational, getting into the 2009 road-map.</p> <p><b>Disclosure:</b> IBM is a client and sponsored this video.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1925&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1925" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=Vq3FO"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=Vq3FO" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=CJcPO"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=CJcPO" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=vmX9O"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=vmX9O" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=JRjNO"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=JRjNO" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/12/01/rational-in-2008/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/471498097/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:16:48 -0600http://www.drunkandretired.com/2008/12/01/episode-140-its-that-time-of-the-month-again/<p class="pic"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/3042121153/" title="Limo drinks by cote, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3251/3042121153_ee07da9c2a.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Limo drinks" /></a></p> <p>I posted <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/cote/episode140.mp3">this episode</a> to the feed last week, but didn&#8217;t have time to post here. So, <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/cote/episode140.mp3">here it is</a>!</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.drunkandretired.com/?p=2906&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_2906" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=jgudO"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=jgudO" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=DIc6O"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=DIc6O" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=X2inO"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=X2inO" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=NIjkO"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=NIjkO" border="0"></img></a> </div>yes I posted this episode to the feed last week, but didn&#8217;t have time to post here. So, here it is! Share This Coté & Charles I posted this episode to the feed last week, but didn&#8217;t have time to post here. So, here it is! Share This ruby,java,austin,programming,finland,code,design,agile,work,xp,scrumhttp://www.drunkandretired.com/2008/12/01/episode-140-its-that-time-of-the-month-again/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/471447949/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:00:09 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/12/01/links-for-december-1st/<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/resource/LineItems.pdf">[PDF] Sun Billings Disclosure by Category - 2007-2008</a><br />07 and 08 revenue for Sun across hardware, software and services.</li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1923&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1923" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=nXgQO"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=nXgQO" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=Joi9O"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=Joi9O" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=pEYcO"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=pEYcO" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=z60DO"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=z60DO" border="0"></img></a> </div>yes [PDF] Sun Billings Disclosure by Category - 2007-2008 07 and 08 revenue for Sun across hardware, software and services. Share This Coté & Charles [PDF] Sun Billings Disclosure by Category - 2007-2008 07 and 08 revenue for Sun across hardware, software and services. Share This ruby,java,austin,programming,finland,code,design,agile,work,xp,scrumhttp://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/12/01/links-for-december-1st/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/466500394/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:00:05 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1920<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/26167.wss">IBM Press room - 2008-11-24 IBM to Validate Resiliency of Cloud Computing Infrastructures - United States</a></li> <li><a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/26168.wss">IBM Launches New Cloud Computing Consulting and Implementation Services - United States</a></li> <li><a href="http://curtismorley.com/2008/11/18/adobe-max-08-sneaks/">curtismorley.com &raquo; Adobe MAX 08 - Sneaks</a></li> <li><a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/alchemy/">Adobe Labs - Alchemy</a><br />&quot;Alchemy is a research project that allows users to compile C and C++ code that is targeted to run on the open source ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2)&#8230;. Alchemy is primarily intended to be used with C/C++ libraries that have few operating system dependencies. Ideally suited for computation-intensive use cases, such as audio/video transcoding, data manipulation, XML parsing, cryptographic functions or physics simulation, performance can be considerably faster than ActionScript 3.0 and anywhere from 2-10x slower than native C/C++ code. Alchemy is not intended for general development of SWF applications using C/C++.&quot;</li> <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/support/soundbooth/">Adobe : Soundbooth Support Center - Help and Support for Soundbooth</a></li> <li><a href="http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Gumbo:Whats_New_SDK">Gumbo:Whats New SDK - Adobe Labs</a></li> <li><a href="http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Adobe_Wave">Adobe Wave - Adobe Labs</a><br />Adobe hosts a web service that does notification routing. Pub/sub!</li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1920&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1920" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=mgFwN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=mgFwN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=8jIxN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=8jIxN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=1RCsN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=1RCsN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=x5z4N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=x5z4N" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1920http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/465354907/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:00:01 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/25/links-for-november-25th/<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://eclipsesource.com/en/about/press-releases/en/code-9-and-innoopract-create-eclipsesource/">Code 9 and Innoopract create EclipseSource</a><br />&quot;EclipseSource provides a complete range of products and services from fundamental technology development, production and developer support, training and mentoring to commercial management and provisioning solutions.&quot;</li> <li><a href="http://code9.com/2008/11/19/more-changes-afoot/">Code 9 &raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; More changes afoot&hellip;</a><br />&quot;Today we announced that Code 9 and Innoopract have created EclipseSource. The idea of EclipseSource is to really get behind the Eclipse runtime vision and push Equinox, RAP, RCP, e4, ECF, &hellip; to new levels of consumability &mdash; both at the technical level and the pragmatic business level.&quot;</li> <li><a href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Survey-Spring-Framework-Adoption-Soars/">Survey: Spring Framework Adoption Soars</a><br />&quot;Nearly 50 percent of Java shops use the lightweight, open-source, Java-based Spring Framework, according to an Evans Data survey. In addition, 73 percent of organizations surveyed said they either use Spring now or plan to use it within the next two years.&quot;</li> <li><a href="https://jazz.net/blog/index.php/2008/11/19/extending-jazz-collaboration-to-include-sharepoint-documents/">Jazz Community Site - Jazz Team Blog &raquo; Extending Team Concert collaboration to include SharePoint documents</a><br />Pull SharePoint stuff into you Jazz setup.</li> <li><a href="http://www.lithiumcorp.com/">LithiumCorp - Home</a><br />&quot;Lithium provides unparalleled monitoring support for Apple's Xserve, Xserve RAID and Mac OS X Server as well as offering extensive SNMP support - including specialized support for Cisco routers, switches and firewalls, APC UPS, Linux and Windows servers - to ensure you can monitor everything in your network. And with the customization features of Lithium you can monitor your network your way!&quot; From $3,000-$3,5000, depending on # of devices.</li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1918&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1918" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=sDNwN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=sDNwN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=6nrJN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=6nrJN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=k8nzN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=k8nzN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=ZjL6N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=ZjL6N" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/25/links-for-november-25th/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/465354909/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:00:01 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/25/links-for-november-25th-2/<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://eclipsesource.com/en/about/press-releases/en/code-9-and-innoopract-create-eclipsesource/">Code 9 and Innoopract create EclipseSource</a><br />&quot;EclipseSource provides a complete range of products and services from fundamental technology development, production and developer support, training and mentoring to commercial management and provisioning solutions.&quot;</li> <li><a href="http://code9.com/2008/11/19/more-changes-afoot/">Code 9 &raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; More changes afoot&hellip;</a><br />&quot;Today we announced that Code 9 and Innoopract have created EclipseSource. The idea of EclipseSource is to really get behind the Eclipse runtime vision and push Equinox, RAP, RCP, e4, ECF, &hellip; to new levels of consumability &mdash; both at the technical level and the pragmatic business level.&quot;</li> <li><a href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Survey-Spring-Framework-Adoption-Soars/">Survey: Spring Framework Adoption Soars</a><br />&quot;Nearly 50 percent of Java shops use the lightweight, open-source, Java-based Spring Framework, according to an Evans Data survey. In addition, 73 percent of organizations surveyed said they either use Spring now or plan to use it within the next two years.&quot;</li> <li><a href="https://jazz.net/blog/index.php/2008/11/19/extending-jazz-collaboration-to-include-sharepoint-documents/">Jazz Community Site - Jazz Team Blog &raquo; Extending Team Concert collaboration to include SharePoint documents</a><br />Pull SharePoint stuff into you Jazz setup.</li> <li><a href="http://www.lithiumcorp.com/">LithiumCorp - Home</a><br />&quot;Lithium provides unparalleled monitoring support for Apple's Xserve, Xserve RAID and Mac OS X Server as well as offering extensive SNMP support - including specialized support for Cisco routers, switches and firewalls, APC UPS, Linux and Windows servers - to ensure you can monitor everything in your network. And with the customization features of Lithium you can monitor your network your way!&quot; From $3,000-$3,5000, depending on # of devices.</li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1919&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1919" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=wKM8N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=wKM8N" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=Ii7yN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=Ii7yN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=kbudN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=kbudN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=GQQ8N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=GQQ8N" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/25/links-for-november-25th-2/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/463904904/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:00:04 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/24/links-for-november-24th/<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/111708-emc-decho.html?fsrc=netflash-rss">EMC forms Decho subsidiary, targets consumers' 'digital echo' - Network World</a></li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1917&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1917" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=07AlN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=07AlN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=xnCiN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=xnCiN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=s7ITN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=s7ITN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=ikJnN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=ikJnN" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/24/links-for-november-24th/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/461613236/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:00:12 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1912<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://highscalability.com/eucalyptus-ready-be-your-private-cloud">Is Eucalyptus ready to be your private cloud? | High Scalability</a></li> <li><a href="http://searchcio.techtarget.com.au/articles/22182-The-Real-Niel-ITIL-versus-MOF">The Real Niel: ITIL versus MOF</a><br />&quot;I still favour the idea behind ITIL but find that, in practice, I need something that's more digestible and can be more easily explained to my staff and outsiders. For now, MOF gives me just that.&quot;</li> <li><a href="http://ianblythmanagement.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/opsmgr-sp2-beta-1-on-connect/">OpsMgr SP2 Beta 1 on Connect &laquo; Ian Blyth - System Center Technologies</a><br />Some new, interesting features in the current beta of System Center Operations Manager.</li> <li><a href="http://www.hyperic.com/blog/hyperic/2008/11/13/announcing-hq-40/">Announcing HQ 4.0</a><br />&quot;It also provides the first cloud-friendly management agent which allows users to manage cloud based virtual machines securely and reliably from either inside the cloud, or from HQ 4.0 installations inside your datacenter.&quot; Also, can ship as an AMI.</li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1912&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1912" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=1NK2N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=1NK2N" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=pMMSN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=pMMSN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=UOt8N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=UOt8N" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=UbMFN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=UbMFN" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1912http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/461324044/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:03:07 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/21/itmanagement026/<p class="pic"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/3043449459/" title="Stamford Sheraton by cote, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3045/3043449459_289fba39cf.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Stamford Sheraton" /></a></p> <p>Download the episode directly <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/redmonk/itmanagement026.mp3">right here</a>, subscribe to <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ITManagementGuys">the feed</a> in iTunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatically, or just click play below to listen to it right here:</p> <p class="embed"> </p> <div id="playerITManagement026">This text will be replaced</div> <p>&#038;&#038;</p> <p>Late on a Friday after a week of somewhat thin IT Management news, <a href="http://www.johnmwillis.com">John</a> and <a href="http://www.peopleoverprocess.com">I</a> still manage to pull out some interesting topics:</p> <ul> <li>John&#8217;s experience with change management in the enterprise. Though we don&#8217;t mention it, check out <a href="http://searchcio.techtarget.com.au/articles/22182-The-Real-Niel-ITIL-versus-MOF">Niel Nickolaisen&#8217;s piece on ITIL vs. MOF</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/19/CA_unveils_simplified_suite_SaaS_portfolio_1.html">CA&#8217;s announcements</a> about Amazon, SaaS offerings, and general cloudage.</li> <li>Amazon and CapGemini. John mentions moving SharePoint to the cloud, which also brings up the <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/17/Hosted_Exchange_SharePoint_now_widely_on_sale_1.html"> Microsoft Online Services Suite</a> news.</li> <li>We talk about <a href="http://www.rivermuse.com/about_us.html">Rivermuse</a> at length, me having spent some time looking at it more this week. John seems more informed and articulate on the topic than I do.</li> <li>I cover the cloud/SaaS related news from Adobe MAX, the conference <a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/17/adobemax-day001/">I was at earlier this week</a>. Also see <a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/04/05/adobe-saas-offerings/">the Adobe SaaS round-up from last year</a> that I mention.</li> <li>My time at the IBM Software Analyst Summit this week: it was less about products and more about how IBM goes about doing the business side of things. Namely, the agenda was about <a href="http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/isv/tech/validation/framework/">IBM&#8217;s Industry Solution Frameworks</a>, that map various types of businesses to the software that can help them, and the way that software is put together and used. That said, there&#8217;s some Tivoli stuff mixed in when it comes to entering new markets via Maximo and Micromuse.</li> <li>The Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Cross Platform management pack for Suse Linux, which I incorrectly say is GA&#8217;ed: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/19/Microsoft_Novell_eye_Moonlight_beta_system_management_1.html">instead it&#8217;s slated for release in early 2009.</a></li> </ul> <p>Also, I forgot to mention an endorsement for John&#8217;s <a href="http://www.johnmwillis.com/category/droplets/">Cloud Droplets podcast</a> be sure to check those out. I&#8217;ve been behind on my Debriefing podcast, and it looks like John has picked up the slack in a fantastic way.</p> <p><b>Disclosure:</b> IBM, Microsoft, Hyperic, and Zenoss are clients. See <a href="http://www.redmonk.com/clients/">the RedMonk client list</a> for other clients mentioned.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1915&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1915" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=eh30N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=eh30N" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=R7mAN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=R7mAN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=Tio5N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=Tio5N" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=xXGBN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=xXGBN" border="0"></img></a> </div>yes Download the episode directly right here, subscribe to the feed in iTunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatically, or just click play below to listen to it right here: This text will be replaced &#038;&#038; Late on a Friday after aCoté & Charles Download the episode directly right here, subscribe to the feed in iTunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatically, or just click play below to listen to it right here: This text will be replaced &#038;&#038; Late on a Friday after a week of somewhat thin IT Management news, John and I still manage to pull out some interesting topics: John&#8217;s experience with change management in the enterprise. Though we don&#8217;t mention it, check out Niel Nickolaisen&#8217;s piece on ITIL vs. MOF. CA&#8217;s announcements about Amazon, SaaS offerings, and general cloudage. Amazon and CapGemini. John mentions moving SharePoint to the cloud, which also brings up the Microsoft Online Services Suite news. We talk about Rivermuse at length, me having spent some time looking at it more this week. John seems more informed and articulate on the topic than I do. I cover the cloud/SaaS related news from Adobe MAX, the conference I was at earlier this week. Also see the Adobe SaaS round-up from last year that I mention. My time at the IBM Software Analyst Summit this week: it was less about products and more about how IBM goes about doing the business side of things. Namely, the agenda was about IBM&#8217;s Industry Solution Frameworks, that map various types of businesses to the software that can help them, and the way that software is put together and used. That said, there&#8217;s some Tivoli stuff mixed in when it comes to entering new markets via Maximo and Micromuse. The Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Cross Platform management pack for Suse Linux, which I incorrectly say is GA&#8217;ed: instead it&#8217;s slated for release in early 2009. Also, I forgot to mention an endorsement for John&#8217;s Cloud Droplets podcast be sure to check those out. I&#8217;ve been behind on my Debriefing podcast, and it looks like John has picked up the slack in a fantastic way. Disclosure: IBM, Microsoft, Hyperic, and Zenoss are clients. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned. Share This ruby,java,austin,programming,finland,code,design,agile,work,xp,scrumhttp://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/21/itmanagement026/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/461002576/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:40:17 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/21/opensolaris-1108/<p>While at Sun&#8217;s Menlo Park campus recently, I had the chance to talk with Sun&#8217;s Tim Cramer:</p> <h2>Developing OpenSolaris &amp; New Features in 11.08</h2> <p>We first talked with each other about the development process of OpenSolaris and went over some feature highlights for the 11.08 release:</p> <p class="video embed"> </p> <h2>OpenSolaris 11.08 Demo</h2> <p>Then, Tim showed us a quick demo of some of the more interesting new features in OpenSolaris 11.08:</p> <p class="video embed"> </p> <p><b>Disclosure:</b> Sun is a client and sponsored these videos.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1911&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1911" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=tX8xN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=tX8xN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=Vgq2N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=Vgq2N" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=rW3xN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=rW3xN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=2eGEN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=2eGEN" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/21/opensolaris-1108/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/460517153/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:00:06 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1906<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/17/47TC-developers-mac_1.html?source=rss&amp;url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/17/47TC-developers-mac_1.html">Why developers prefer Macs</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/19/CA_unveils_simplified_suite_SaaS_portfolio_1.html?source=rss&amp;url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/19/CA_unveils_simplified_suite_SaaS_portfolio_1.html">CA unveils simplified suite, SaaS portfolio | InfoWorld | News | 2008-11-19 | By Denise Dubie, Network World</a></li> <li><a href="http://askville.amazon.com/heard-Speedies-part-world/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=7822660">Have you heard of Speedies? Where can I get some in your part of the world?</a></li> <li><a href="http://codorniou.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/join-bizspark-profile-you-startup-on-the-bizsparkdd-and-hit-techmeme/">Join Bizspark, profile you startup on the BizsparkDD and Hit Techmeme ! &laquo; Codorblog</a><br />I assume all the &quot;co-marketing&quot; stuff for BizSpark was, you know, not real or at least not hip to neo-marketing. Looks like they're working to fix that assumption. Nice!</li> <li><a href="http://www.rivermuse.com/about_us.html">Rivermuse: open source Fault Management system</a><br />&quot;Saddened by the fact that there has been no new innovation in Fault Management software for more than 10 years and that market consolidation has enabled a clutch of major vendors to 'price gouge' a captive customer base, we've decided to deliver a fault management solution that surpasses the functionality of all existing commercial platforms (IBM Tivoli Netcool, HP OpenView Operations / TeMIP, and Microsoft MoM), is 'resource light' on implementation and administration, and has the lowest license costs and TCO in history.&quot;</li> <li><a href="http://dougmcclure.net/blog/2008/10/rivermuse-emerging-from-stealth-mode/">RiverMuse Emerging from Stealth Mode &mdash; dougmcclure.net</a></li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1906&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1906" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=ANEeN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=ANEeN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=7kuFN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=7kuFN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=cxt6N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=cxt6N" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=6NL9N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=6NL9N" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1906http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/459268258/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:00:06 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1900<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/19/Microsoft_Novell_eye_Moonlight_beta_system_management_1.html?source=rss&amp;url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/19/Microsoft_Novell_eye_Moonlight_beta_system_management_1.html">Microsoft, Novell eye Moonlight beta, system management</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/111908-mlb-adobe-flash.html?fsrc=netflash-rss">Microsoft Silverlight loses Major League Baseball to Adobe Flash - Network World</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.cio.com/article/464357/SAP_Slashes_NetWeaver_Developer_Subscription_Price">SAP Slashes NetWeaver Developer Subscription Price - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership</a><br />The SDN community should be a bit happy. While we all love free stuff, hey, what're you gonna do. Also, compare to Microsoft BizSpark.</li> <li><a href="http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/111908-sun-adds-query-analysis-tool.html?fsrc=rss-linux-sun">Sun adds query analysis tool to MySQL Enterprise</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.zenoss.com/news/archive/zenosspressrelease.2008-11-19.5378043288">Zenoss Adds Native Installer for Apple Mac OS X to Zenoss Core 2.3 - Commercial Open Source Application, Systems and Network Monitoring - Zenoss</a></li> <li><a href="http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/isv/tech/validation/framework/pffs.html">IBM Payments Framework for Financial Services information</a></li> <li><a href="http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1338794,00.html">How will data centers weather the economic downturn?</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/server_virtualization/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100801&amp;cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL">CA To Overhaul Big Iron With Mainframe 2.0 &#8212; Mainframe Virtualization &#8212; InformationWeek</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/17/Hosted_Exchange_SharePoint_now_widely_on_sale_1.html?source=rss&amp;url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/17/Hosted_Exchange_SharePoint_now_widely_on_sale_1.html">Hosted Exchange, SharePoint now widely on sale</a></li> <li><a href="http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/">CommunityOne 2009</a><br />You outta send 'em and email and tell 'em you want to see another RedMonk Unconference ;)</li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1900&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1900" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=bqvzN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=bqvzN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=7BEuN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=7BEuN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=fLFHN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=fLFHN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=FMF6N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=FMF6N" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1900http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/458042455/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:05 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1898<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/11/capgemini-and-amazon-web-services-announce-collaboration.html">Amazon Web Services Blog: Capgemini and Amazon Web Services Announce Collaboration</a><br />&quot;The AWS ecosystem grew again today, when Capgemini announced that they will collaborate with Amazon Web Services by forming a new Center of Excellence focused on Cloud Computing&mdash;and AWS in particular.&quot;</li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1898&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1898" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=vWSRN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=vWSRN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=q3s0N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=q3s0N" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=AKaZN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=AKaZN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=vlYfN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=vlYfN" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1898http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/456781522/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:00:24 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1890<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/442">IT management and Cloud: now some products</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.johnmwillis.com/amazon/what-color-is-your-cloud/">What Color is Your Cloud?</a><br />John's questions about CA's cloud announcements today.</li> <li><a href="http://www.camsolutionsinc.com/Blog/bid/4862/Monitoring-Software-Evaluation">Monitoring Software Evaluation</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/saas/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100191">CA Unveils Cloud Management Strategy, SaaS Unit &#8212; cloud-based management &#8212; InformationWeek</a><br />Holy crap! Look what happened at CA World. Management of cloud stuff, and also getting the PPM (high-level project management) SaaS'ed up.</li> <li><a href="http://eclipsewebmaster.blogspot.com/2008/11/adobe-contributes-full-translations-for.html">A WebMaster's view of Eclipse.org: Adobe contributes full translations for Eclipse 3.4 in 6 languages</a><br />Adobe contributes i18n to Eclipse.</li> <li><a href="http://www.tomgeer.com/blog/2008/11/07/microsoft-giving-development-suite-away-to-startups/">tomgeer.com &raquo; Microsoft Giving Development Suite Away to Startups?</a><br />&quot;It&rsquo;s obvious that taking them on up this program will lock you into the Microsoft platform for the long haul, meaning you&rsquo;re going to start paying those hefty fees as soon as you hit your 3rd birthday or $1M in revenue.&quot;</li> <li><a href="http://almaer.com/blog/the-flash-platform-how-adobe-could-join-the-open-web-to-take-on">The Flash Platform: How Adobe could join the Open Web to take on&hellip; on Dion Almaer's Blog</a><br />Dion says Adobe should be more open-weby.</li> <li><a href="http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2008/11/how-flash-can-integrate-with-open-web.html">Coding In Paradise: How Flash Can Integrate With The Open Web</a><br />Pretty comprehensive out-line for how Adobe could become one with the &quot;open web.&quot;</li> <li><a href="http://www.insideria.com/2008/11/the-cat-is-out-of-the-bag-what.html">The Cat &quot;alyst&quot; is out of the bag (What's new from Adobe)</a><br />Whao! What is this &quot;Client Data Management&quot; thing?</li> <li><a href="http://www.insideria.com/2008/11/tour-de-flex-application.html">Tour De Flex Application</a><br />App to show-case building on-top of AIR, with code examples, etc.</li> <li><a href="http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/11/16/the-xmp-revolution-is-here/">The XMP Revolution is Here</a><br />&quot;Now if only I can wrangle a few devs at work into writing XMP into the video files that TechSmith tooling creates. I&rsquo;m talking cursor info, open application info, html links, captioning, callouts, quizing, the works. I&rsquo;d literally be swimming in data and that my friends would make me one dangerous hombre (at least in my own mind).&quot;</li> <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/">Adobe XMP: Adding intelligence to media</a><br />&quot;Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is a labeling technology that allows you to embed data about a file, known as metadata, into the file itself.&quot;</li> <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/special/marketplace/demo/">Adobe Marketplace - Welcome to the Adobe Marketplace.</a><br />Well, lookey here.</li> <li><a href="http://twitter.com/AIR_Marketplace/">Twitter / AIR_Marketplace</a><br />Just what it looks like.</li> <li><a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cocomo/">Flex, RIA | Adobe Labs - Cocomo</a><br />&quot;Comprised of both Flex-based client components and a hosted services infrastructure, Cocomo allows you to build real-time, multi-user applications with Flex in less time than ever before. And because Acrobat.com hosts the service, issues like deployment, maintenance, and scalability are taken care of for you.&quot; Yeah, you know, like it's the &quot;Adobe Cloud,&quot; man.</li> <li><a href="http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/11/13/growl-support-for-adobe-air-applications/">Growl support for Adobe AIR applications at Mike Chambers</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2008/11/the-flash-platform-again-and-hello-flash-catalyst/">The Flash Platform (again) and Hello Flash Catalyst | Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2008/11/cocomo-collaboration-for-every-developer/">CoCoMo - Collaboration for Every Developer | Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer</a><br />Adobe releases the software behind Acrobat Connect as a PaaS.</li> <li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200811/111708AdobeMAXRelease.html">Adobe MAX 2008 Showcases Future of Digital Experiences</a><br />Round-up press release for today's Adobe MAX announcements.</li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1890&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1890" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=iHafN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=iHafN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=l6Y5N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=l6Y5N" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=tkFON"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=tkFON" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=rVAwN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=rVAwN" border="0"></img></a> </div>XMPhttp://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1890http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/456697762/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:29:28 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/17/adobemax-day001/<p class="pic"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/3039295080/" title="Adobe MAX Keynote by cote, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3069/3039295080_e7dcc0ec60.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Adobe MAX Keynote" /></a></p> <p>Today&#8217;s Adobe MAX was all about the Platform division. This is the group that does RIAs: Flash, Flex, AIR, etc. Indeed, it seems that Macromedia has really done a reverse-acquisition when it comes to Adobe&#8217;s agenda. We all know that PDF and Creative Suite are cash-cows for Adobe, but the vision and agenda is all Flash, all the time.</p> <p>As it should be, really. To be blunt: there&#8217;s not that much more to say when it comes to PDF and Creative Suite. Adobe has those two locked up. To sand down the hyperbole, there actually is a lot to say about the more general topic of documents, namely things like Acrobat.com and the BPM world of LiveCycle. And there&#8217;s plenty of excitement in Creative Suite land (<a href="http://www.brooksandrus.com/blog/2008/11/16/the-xmp-revolution-is-here/">XMP is an especially dorky thing</a> that lays the lattice for niftiness, e.g., transcripts and Overlay.tv-like functionality native in video).</p> <p>But, yeah: Adobe&#8217;s spending it&#8217;s resources on the Flash Platform when it comes to where it wants to drive attention. It&#8217;s setup to be the growth unit, the green-field, the new and future cash.</p> <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200811/111708AdobeMAXRelease.html">Today&#8217;s announcements</a> are nothing mind-blowing like the initial announcement of &#8220;Apollo.&#8221; There&#8217;s Flash 10 shipping on Linux concurrent to other platforms (<a href="http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/11/17/links-for-2008-11-17/">huzzah!</a>), and though the newly announced AIR 1.5 is lagging on the Linux front, the feel is that this won&#8217;t happen much longer.</p> <p>Of these newly dubbed &#8220;Flash Platform&#8221; announcements, there&#8217;s not much to say beyond the usual point-release things of adding in more features and whiz-bang. To throw up a large-disclaimer, I come at this from the developer perspective: there was much oohing and ahhhing at the nifty video, audio, and visual effects in Flash 10.</p> <p>There were actually so many features and projects announced that it became a bit hard to file it all away after awhile at the keynote. I&#8217;d rather people back a blur in than have nothing to talk about, for sure. As an example, <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Adobe_Wave">Adobe Wave</a> looks like an import, conceptually, of the Growl notification system into Adobe Platform-land. Of Growl and AIR, <a href="http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/11/13/growl-support-for-adobe-air-applications/">see here</a>.</p> <p>And, like, holy crap: there&#8217;s the whole mobile world too. The mobile space is difficult for American tech-companies to talk bout in the States. Aside from Blackberry and the iPhone, us dumb chickens here in the US have no idea how much it&#8217;s used - our market is locked up tighter than the AppStore. We&#8217;re told - by Sun, Microsoft, Adobe&#8230;anyone that has skin in the mobile game - that the rest of the world is booming, if only we knew.</p> <h2>PaaSing the Cloud</h2> <p>Sneaking in under the camel-case-crazy name CoCoMo (and in beta), Adobe is further sinking into the cloud/services world by offering to run CoCoMo based applications in the cloud. Though I must admit I&#8217;m a bit unsure about how widely used the CoCoMo platform will be, it&#8217;s important for Adobe to be getting out there into the PaaS world and figuring things out beyond Acrobat.com and <a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/04/05/adobe-saas-offerings/">it&#8217;s other cloud-ish offerings</a>. Adobe is still being timid when it comes to &#8220;cloud computing.&#8221; That said, as <a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/04/05/adobe-saas-offerings/">I said last year</a>, this isn&#8217;t really too bad:</p> <blockquote><p> At the moment [and still now], the most interesting take-away (for existing vendors looking to go SaaS, at least) is to narrow down your SaaS efforts to the feature level instead of worrying about everything but the kitchen sink. As seen repeated in kuler, Device Central, and others, the basic pattern is creating and gardening a knowledge base community, and then pulling that knowledge into Adobe tools, such as in context sensitive panels. Taking this SaaS-as-feature approach, again, to me means eating some SaaS humble pie and asking how your software can work along side and with other software and services rather than being The Master Platform for everything. </p></blockquote> <p>When it comes to cloud computing, the sense I get is that Adobe would rather partner for the bigger picture of cloud computing rather than spin up their own stuff. SalesForce is obviously a friendly for them. In my mind, there&#8217;s a question of how - <i>if</i> - they could work with IBM: there&#8217;s a big, cloudy sky to slap a UI (read: RIAs) on-top of.</p> <h2>Saving the Enterprise</h2> <p class="pic"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/3038459859/" title="The Chiefton by cote, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/3038459859_504403e3d8.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="The Chiefton" /></a></p> <p>One last thing for you, dear readers, was a sentiment largely laid out by the SalesForce guest, Steve Fisher, at this morning&#8217;s keynote:</p> <blockquote><p> For the last 20 years, enterprise software has been where innovation goes to die. </p></blockquote> <p>Try the chicken!</p> <p>More seriously, as <a href="http://www.johnmwillis.com">John</a> and I <a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/15/itmanagement025/">discussed last week</a>, the enterprise world has been sucking wind when it comes to innovating over the past 5 years. The interesting innovation has happened in the web world, nary I say it, the <i>Web 2.0</i> world.</p> <p>As I was discussing with someone this afternoon, there are essentially 3 money-trains in software:</p> <ol> <li>Ads and other indirect revenue</li> <li>Selling the actual software itself (remember that one?) </li> <li>The Enterprise</li> </ol> <p>I&#8217;m forever harping on my RIA friends to start paying attention to helping out the last one, and they&#8217;re slow to come &#8217;round to it. There&#8217;s largely a question of it being worth pursing or not, or if you&#8217;d just give it up to IBM, SAP, Oracle, others, and the groupies thereof. I think it&#8217;s worth it, and people like SalesForce are sort-of going after it, but it in their own pull down the statues of the past way. <a href="http://twitter.com/cote/status/1009987927">Their zero-sum approach is getting a bit creaky</a>, and there&#8217;s plenty of slack for the middle-ground talker.</p> <p>Adobe has the superior ground here at the moment, but Microsoft/Silverlight, Sun/JavaFX, and others in the RIA world are rowing their ships up to the shore real quick-like. The big shots listed above need to start partnering up with the RIA younger brothers here. Granted, the RIA crowd needs those gate-keepers in the short-term more than the likes of IBM need them. But, if the enterprise gate-keepers wait too long, the likes of Google, ZoHo, and, yes, SalesForce will just redefine &#8220;enterprise software&#8221; to mean &#8220;just another URL on the web&#8221; despite the FUD of GRC.</p> <h2>The Back-end</h2> <p>As ever with Adobe and RIAs, I end up at exactly the same place I always do: someone in this tussle that&#8217;s yet to take place needs to solidify their back-end story. There&#8217;s a wondering hoard of enterprise developers out there in the desert - <a href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/SpringSource-Gains-Momentum-in-Enterprise-Java/">SpringSource is going after them</a>, RIA people should be more aggressively going after them, SalesForce-ites want them, Sun would like to bring them back, and on and on. On this front, no Elder Company has <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#038;q=burn+the+ships&#038;btnG=Google+Search&#038;aq=f&#038;oq=">burned the ships</a>, really, which always seems like a prudent strategy, but it sure draws it out or the rest of us ;&gt;</p> <p><b>Disclosure:</b> Adobe is a client and paid my T&amp;E to Adobe MAX. As are IBM, Microsoft, Sun, and SpringSource.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1896&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1896" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=jmKRN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=jmKRN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=t0w9N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=t0w9N" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=RShzN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=RShzN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=5IVyN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=5IVyN" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/17/adobemax-day001/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/455555215/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:00:29 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/16/links-for-november-16th/<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/open/2008/11/max_2008_and_open_source.html">Open at Adobe: Max 2008 and open source</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9120259&amp;intsrc=hm_list">Update: Sun reorganizes, cuts up to 18% of workforce</a></li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1889&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1889" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=3IOMN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=3IOMN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=Ii6KN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=Ii6KN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=FM0FN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=FM0FN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=k9wcN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=k9wcN" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/16/links-for-november-16th/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/57548814/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:00:21 -0600tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/315118178<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/cote/">cote</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/315118178/" title="What's SAP Looking At?"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/102/315118178_720dcbaea1_m.jpg" width="240" height="174" alt="What's SAP Looking At?" /></a></p> <p>I've noticed that top link to <a href="http://www.peopleoverprocess.com">my RedMonk blog</a> from (I'm guessing) SAP's intranet for a few days now.<br /> <br /> I wonder what they're looking at.</p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=pRRgOsMf"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=pRRgOsMf" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=hPTJHtuY"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=hPTJHtuY" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=fbeSA4r5"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=fbeSA4r5" border="0"></img></a> </div>tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/315118178http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/454134246/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:00:04 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/15/links-for-november-15th/<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://followcost.com/cote">follow cost: Is cote worth the pain?</a><br />What does this mean?</li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1888&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1888" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=2nnmN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=2nnmN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=XndDN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=XndDN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=f2IzN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=f2IzN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=AXkHN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=AXkHN" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/15/links-for-november-15th/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/454134247/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:32:18 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/15/itmanagement025/<p class="pic"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/3029122104/" title="Dinner at Reata by cote, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3048/3029122104_7da67f0dab.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Dinner at Reata" /></a></p> <p>Download the episode directly <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/redmonk/itmanagement025.mp3">right here</a>, subscribe to <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ITManagementGuys">the feed</a> in iTunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatically, or just click play below to listen to it right here:</p> <p class="embed"> </p> <div id="playerITManagement025">This text will be replaced</div> <p>&#038;&#038;&#038;</p> <p>Not having recorded for a couple of weeks, we had a huge crop of IT related news to go over:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.johnmwillis.com">John</a> starts out talking about encountering iTricity folks in Europe (they partner with IBM for cloud computing) and his recent cloud-talk while in Europe.</li> <li>We go over the VMWare tooling released by <a href="http://www.hyperic.com/launch/hqe-40-launch.html">Hyperic</a>, <a href="http://blog.zenoss.com/2008/11/12/enterprise-virtualization-monitorin/">Zenoss</a>, PacketTrap, and then the <a href="http://groundworkopensource.com/about/news/pr/network-management-suite.html">GroundWork</a> releases.</li> <li>In talking about VMWare, I talk about a recent briefing with recently un-stealthed <a href="http://www.replicatetech.com/product/what-is-rda.html">Replicate</a>.</li> <li>I re-cap some interesting items from Spiceworld, <a href="http://www.spiceworks.com">Spicework</a>&#8217;s first user conference.</li> <li>John tries to pry some information about recently signed up RedMonk client <a href="http://www.cloudera.com">Cloudera</a> from me, but we instead talk about Hadoop in general.< ;/li> </li> <li>John then re-caps a conversation he had with the openQRM gang. This gets us into a discussion of the disconnect between monitoring, management, and provisioning: you rarely find those features under the same vendor-roof.</li> <li>Finally, we go over the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/">Microsoft BizSpark</a> offering and how it could relate to IT management startups.</li> </ul> <p>And, there&#8217;s more of course - like why companies might actually benefit from being in stealth mode rather than &#8220;flailing&#8221; about in public. We also spend time talking about pulling in Web 2.0 IT management innovations (and IT in general) into the enterprise.</p> <p><b>Disclosure:</b> IBM, Hyperic, Zenoss, GroundWork, Spiceworks, Cloudera, and Microsoft are clients. See <a href="http://www.redmonk.com/clients/">the RedMonk client list</a> for other clients mentioned.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1887&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1887" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=t749N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=t749N" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=KCn2N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=KCn2N" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=RPDhN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=RPDhN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=zGfiN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=zGfiN" border="0"></img></a> </div>yes Download the episode directly right here, subscribe to the feed in iTunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatically, or just click play below to listen to it right here: This text will be replaced &#038;&#038;&#038; Not having recordeCoté & Charles Download the episode directly right here, subscribe to the feed in iTunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatically, or just click play below to listen to it right here: This text will be replaced &#038;&#038;&#038; Not having recorded for a couple of weeks, we had a huge crop of IT related news to go over: John starts out talking about encountering iTricity folks in Europe (they partner with IBM for cloud computing) and his recent cloud-talk while in Europe. We go over the VMWare tooling released by Hyperic, Zenoss, PacketTrap, and then the GroundWork releases. In talking about VMWare, I talk about a recent briefing with recently un-stealthed Replicate. I re-cap some interesting items from Spiceworld, Spicework&#8217;s first user conference. John tries to pry some information about recently signed up RedMonk client Cloudera from me, but we instead talk about Hadoop in general. John then re-caps a conversation he had with the openQRM gang. This gets us into a discussion of the disconnect between monitoring, management, and provisioning: you rarely find those features under the same vendor-roof. Finally, we go over the Microsoft BizSpark offering and how it could relate to IT management startups. And, there&#8217;s more of course - like why companies might actually benefit from being in stealth mode rather than &#8220;flailing&#8221; about in public. We also spend time talking about pulling in Web 2.0 IT management innovations (and IT in general) into the enterprise. Disclosure: IBM, Hyperic, Zenoss, GroundWork, Spiceworks, Cloudera, and Microsoft are clients. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned. Share This ruby,java,austin,programming,finland,code,design,agile,work,xp,scrumhttp://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/15/itmanagement025/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/451362314/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:00:14 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1884<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20081103005530&amp;newsLang=en">MindTouch Reports Significant Growth in Revenue and New Customers; Delivers Big Gains in Enterprise Productivity and Operational Efficiency</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/prnews/20081111/springsource-acquires-g2one-inc.htm">SpringSource Acquires G2One Inc. - International Business Times -</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.applian.com/sound-recorder/">Free Sound Recorder: Download Freecorder Toolbar</a><br />A recommended, way to record Skype audio on Windows.</li> <li><a href="http://briefingsdirectblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/idc-research-shows-enterprise-soa.html">Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect: IDC research shows enterprise SOA adoption deepens based on certain critical practices</a></li> <li><a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2008/11/11/irc-log-10112008-1/">Boycott Novell &raquo; IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: November 10th, 2008 - Part 1</a><br />&ldquo;Redmonk: Microsoft most important company in RSS&rdquo;</li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1884&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1884" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=zcmMN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=zcmMN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=9kbRN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=9kbRN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=gHvDN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=gHvDN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=s3f9N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=s3f9N" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1884http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/451199484/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:41:31 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/12/riaweekly029/<p><i>(Since posting has been a bit sparse here of late, I thought I&#8217;d cross-post <a href="http://www.riaweekly.com/2008/11/12/ria-weekly-29-microsoft-bizspark-adobe-max-re-learning-gui-behaviors-voice-video-in-gmail/">this recent episode</a> of <a href="http://www.riaweekly.com/">RIA Weekly</a> -Cot&eacute;)</i></p> <p class="pic"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/3023528357/" title="Faucet at Railroad Blues by cote, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3062/3023528357_418093faa7.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Faucet at Railroad Blues" /></a></p> <p>You can <a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/redmonk/riaweekly029.mp3">download this episode directly directly</a> and it&#8217;ll also show up in <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/riaweekly">the RIA Weekly feed</a> for iTunes and other podcatchers. Or, just use the controls below to listen to it right here:</p> <p class="embed"> </p> <div id="playerRIAWeekly029">[Fancy Player]</div> <p>&#038;&#038;</p> <p>http://media.libsyn.com/media/redmonk/riaweekly029.mp3</p> <p>Me still out in West Texas, we had to phone this episode in instead of record it on Skype. That said, <a href="http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/">Ryan</a> and <a href="http://www.peopleoverprocess.com">I</a> manage to pack the episode up:</p> <ul> <li>We start out talking about <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/">Microsoft&#8217;s new BizSpark offering</a>. Essentially, if you qualify as a startup you get a load of software for development <i>and</i> running on the Microsoft stack in product (if you&#8217;re doing a SaaS application) for $100 after three years. As we comment, this is pretty big offering compared to the normals costs for even an MSDN subscription, not to mention the production licenses.</li> <li>We talk about <a href="http://max.adobe.com/">Adobe MAX</a>, coming up next week. Among other things, Ryan will be on an open source panel, while I&#8217;ll be looking forward to seeing the MAX awards announced, of which I was judge.</li> <li>Finally, we wrap up by talking about <a href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Google-Brings-Voice-Video-Chat-to-Gmail/">Google&#8217;s release this week of audio and video in GMail</a>. This being RIA weekly, we try to wedge this new functionality into an the RIA landscape and take time to talk about Google&#8217;s possible RIA platform ambitions, if only providing implementations for some of the richer tags coming up in HTML 5.</li> </ul> <h2>Sponsorship</h2> <p>This Episode is Sponsored by Adobe:</p> <blockquote> <p>Use the <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207899638;30052218;m">Adobe Flex</a> framework and <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;209103663;31094124;t">Adobe AIR</a> to create rich Internet applications. RIAs that combine the wide reach of the browser and the flexibility of applications that can also be delivered outside the browser. Adobe Flex combined with Adobe AIR provides an agile and powerful solution to develop and make quick iterations on applications that reach across platforms and deliver a consistent user experience.</p> <p class="pic ad"> <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207899638;30052218;m"><br /> <img src="http://riaweekly.com/ads/AdobeSponsorship/banner_160x201.gif" width="160" height="201" alt="Adobe" /></a></p> <p>Download the <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207899638;30052218;m">free Flex Builder trial</a> and the <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;209103663;31094124;t">Adobe AIR SDK</a> and start building the next- generation of RIAs.</p> </blockquote> <p><b>Disclosure:</b> Adobe is a client, as is Microsoft.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1885&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1885" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=IFX5N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=IFX5N" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=rwBnN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=rwBnN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=Tot6N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=Tot6N" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=m9v0N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=m9v0N" border="0"></img></a> </div>yes (Since posting has been a bit sparse here of late, I thought I&#8217;d cross-post this recent episode of RIA Weekly -Cot&eacute;) You can download this episode directly directly and it&#8217;ll also show up in the RIA Weekly feed for iTunes and other podCoté & Charles (Since posting has been a bit sparse here of late, I thought I&#8217;d cross-post this recent episode of RIA Weekly -Cot&eacute;) You can download this episode directly directly and it&#8217;ll also show up in the RIA Weekly feed for iTunes and other podcatchers. Or, just use the controls below to listen to it right here: [Fancy Player] &#038;&#038; http://media.libsyn.com/media/redmonk/riaweekly029.mp3 Me still out in West Texas, we had to phone this episode in instead of record it on Skype. That said, Ryan and I manage to pack the episode up: We start out talking about Microsoft&#8217;s new BizSpark offering. Essentially, if you qualify as a startup you get a load of software for development and running on the Microsoft stack in product (if you&#8217;re doing a SaaS application) for $100 after three years. As we comment, this is pretty big offering compared to the normals costs for even an MSDN subscription, not to mention the production licenses. We talk about Adobe MAX, coming up next week. Among other things, Ryan will be on an open source panel, while I&#8217;ll be looking forward to seeing the MAX awards announced, of which I was judge. Finally, we wrap up by talking about Google&#8217;s release this week of audio and video in GMail. This being RIA weekly, we try to wedge this new functionality into an the RIA landscape and take time to talk about Google&#8217;s possible RIA platform ambitions, if only providing implementations for some of the richer tags coming up in HTML 5. Sponsorship This Episode is Sponsored by Adobe: Use the Adobe Flex framework and Adobe AIR to create rich Internet applications. RIAs that combine the wide reach of the browser and the flexibility of applications that can also be delivered outside the browser. Adobe Flex combined with Adobe AIR provides an agile and powerful solution to develop and make quick iterations on applications that reach across platforms and deliver a consistent user experience. Download the free Flex Builder trial and the Adobe AIR SDK and start building the next- generation of RIAs. Disclosure: Adobe is a client, as is Microsoft. Share This ruby,java,austin,programming,finland,code,design,agile,work,xp,scrumhttp://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/12/riaweekly029/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/450186813/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:00:05 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1881<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/brook/2943301423/">CC000001.jpg on Flickr - Photo Sharing!</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/clango/2205261045/">slack light on Flickr - Photo Sharing!</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/brook/2774172616/">CC000001.jpg on Flickr - Photo Sharing!</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/brook/2944163398/">CC000001-001.jpg on Flickr - Photo Sharing!</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/brook/2950988955/">CC000001.jpg on Flickr - Photo Sharing!</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/132018687/in/set-72157606490990190/">Slavic whiteboard on Flickr - Photo Sharing!</a></li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1881&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1881" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=w1UnN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=w1UnN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=SAUFN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=SAUFN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=68gVN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=68gVN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=fnXWN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=fnXWN" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1881http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/449000392/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:00:55 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/10/links-for-november-10th/<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/05/microsofts-bizspark-initiative-an-offer-startups-cant-refuse/">Microsoft&rsquo;s BizSpark initiative offers free servers and software to startups &raquo; VentureBeat</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/nov08/11-05BizsparkJumpstart.mspx">Microsoft Jump-Starts Global Entrepreneurs With BizSpark: With no upfront costs, the program provides easy access to software development tools and technologies to build solutions spanning the PC, Web and phone.</a><br />&quot;BizSpark is available worldwide to privately held startups building a software-based product or service that have been in business less than three years and have less than $1 million (U.S.) in revenue. BizSpark provides startups with software, support and visibility early in their life cycle when those resources are most needed and least affordable. As a demonstration of Microsoft&rsquo;s commitment to startup success, a program fee of $100 (U.S.) is payable on exit from the program rather than upfront when joining.&quot; That's a lot for just $100!</li> <li><a href="http://www.zend.com/en/company/news/press/zend-to-collaborate-with-adobe">Zend To Collaborate With Adobe - Zend.com</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.kevinhoyt.org/2008/10/23/um-lots-of-flash-flex-and-zend-php-samples/">Lots of Flash, Flex, and Zend, PHP Samples</a><br />Some examples of when you could use AMF to talk between PHP and Flex/Flash.</li> <li><a href="http://andigutmans.blogspot.com/2008/11/zendamf-update.html">Zend_Amf Update&#8230;</a></li> <li><a href="http://andypiper.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/smart-planet/">Smart Planet &laquo; The lost outpost</a><br />It's like Bruce Sterling's spimes mixed up with green concerns.</li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1880&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1880" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=TRcuN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=TRcuN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=bM4YN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=bM4YN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=eRwUN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=eRwUN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=tacJN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=tacJN" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/10/links-for-november-10th/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/448597328/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:59:42 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/10/using-soa-now-upcoming-talk/<p>This coming Wednesday I&#8217;ll be co-hosting a webinar put on by <a href="http://mule.mulesource.org/">MuleSource</a>, entitled <a href="https://admin.acrobat.com/_a825170768/soa/event/event_info.html">&#8220;Building a Recession-Proof SOA Strategy&#8221;</a>. The talk will go over the idea of using a leaned-up approach to SOA to help build the type of enterprise architecture needed to get through tight spending times. The idea here is that controls, governance, and the reporting capabilities that those two enable can help IT departments survive in tight spending times as we have now.</p> <p>Put another way, here&#8217;s the longer synopsis:</p> <blockquote><p> With the arrival of an economic downturn, and with the looming prospect of tight budgets in 2009, IT managers are all taking a hard look at their project portfolios to separate the &#8220;need-to-have&#8221; from the &#8220;nice-to-have.&#8221; How does your SOA plan fit into all of this? Does it make sense to pursue SOA in this environment? Join RedMonk Industry Analyst Michael Cote and open source software provider, MuleSource for a 60-minute webinar. In this webinar, Michael Cote will build a case for why leveraging the benefits of SOA is all the more crucial in a tight budget environment. During this time, Michael will also explain how to leverage techniques such as open source software, pragmatic architectural choices, and proper governance techniques to maximize ROI and minimize risk. </p></blockquote> <p>If you&#8217;re interested, <a href="https://admin.acrobat.com/_a825170768/soa/event/event_info.html">sign up now</a> and we&#8217;ll see you there ;&gt;</p> <p><b>Disclosure:</b> MuleSource is a client.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1879&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1879" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=BMiVN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=BMiVN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=rNEAN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=rNEAN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=j18zN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=j18zN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=jMFfN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=jMFfN" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/10/using-soa-now-upcoming-talk/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/447777360/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:00:18 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/09/links-for-november-9th/<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://www.flickr.com/account/geo/exif/?from=privacy">Flickr: Import EXIF GPS information from your camera</a><br />Click this setting to have flickr use geo-location info in your photos. Like from the iPhone I hope.</li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1878&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1878" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=uxo5N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=uxo5N" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=xaGkN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=xaGkN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=xgaLN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=xgaLN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=RYzEN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=RYzEN" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/09/links-for-november-9th/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/442229821/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:00:00 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1876<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://blog.crankingwidgets.com/2008/07/16/how-to-use-evernote/">How I Use Evernote : The Cranking Widgets Blog</a></li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1876&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1876" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=baWXN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=baWXN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=a4FdN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=a4FdN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=TTiCN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=TTiCN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=hCJcN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=hCJcN" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1876http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/441046120/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:00:21 -0600http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/03/links-for-november-3rd/<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/31/Google_introduces_servicelevel_guarantee_for_its_Apps_suite_1.html?source=rss&amp;url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/31/Google_introduces_servicelevel_guarantee_for_its_Apps_suite_1.html">Google introduces service-level guarantee for its Apps suite</a><br />If you can't access Google Apps, you get credit for accessing more of Google Apps in the future, when it comes back up.</li> <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/31/aptana-introduces-ajax-servers_1.html?source=rss&amp;url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/31/aptana-introduces-ajax-servers_1.html">Aptana introduces AJAX servers | InfoWorld | News | 2008-10-31 | By Paul Krill</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/31/CIO_survey_IT_slashes_budgets_starts_layoffs_1.html?source=rss&amp;url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/31/CIO_survey_IT_slashes_budgets_starts_layoffs_1.html">CIO survey: IT slashes budgets, starts layoffs</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/03/Salesforce_debuts_Forcecom_Sites_1.html?source=rss&amp;url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/03/Salesforce_debuts_Forcecom_Sites_1.html">Salesforce debuts Force.com Sites</a><br />&quot;When those levels are exceeded, charges kick in at $1,000 per month for up to 1 million more monthly views, or $3,000 a month for up to 5 million additional views per month, no matter which Salesforce edition a customer has.&quot;</li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1875&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1875" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=oBqyN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=oBqyN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=AWupN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=AWupN" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=NE27N"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=NE27N" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=twHgN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=twHgN" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/11/03/links-for-november-3rd/http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/439387966/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:00:01 -0500http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1873<ul class="deliciousLinks"> <li><a href="http://www.architectureandgovernance.com/content/redmonk-my-new-favorite-analyst-firm">RedMonk: My New Favorite Analyst Firm | Architecture &amp; Governance Magazine</a><br />Well, shucks. 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Goes to show you that a post about Apple gets mega attention, no matter what.</li> <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/24/Microsoft_opens_DevLabs_a_new_developer_portal_1.html?source=rss&amp;url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/24/Microsoft_opens_DevLabs_a_new_developer_portal_1.html">Microsoft opens DevLabs, a new developer portal | InfoWorld | News | 2008-10-24 | By Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service</a></li> <li><a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/2157">Systems Building Systems: Puppet Automated Infrastructure - 2009 SXSW Interactive Panel Picker</a><br />Vote for Puppet at SXSW '09 and hope they pull it in past deadline. You know you want to see it at SXSWi!</li> <li><a href="http://www.hpcwire.com/specialfeatures/hpws08/features/GPUs_Finding_A_New_Role_on_Wall_Street.html">GPUs Finding A New Role on Wall Street</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.hpcwire.com/specialfeatures/hpws08/features/Microsoft_Aims_Newest_HPC_Offering_at_Wall_Street.html">Microsoft Aims Newest HPC Offering at Wall Street</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.csafe.utah.edu/">C-SAFE</a><br />Fire simulations for a better tomorrow.</li> <li><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andypiper/2969471278/">Tom Raftery on Flickr - Photo Sharing!</a><br />Tom talks.</li> <li><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=597">Gathering clouds brew up a storm</a><br />&quot;Rather than have upstart cloud competitors start stealing its customers away, Rackspace has decided to embrace the cloud and make it an option for any of its hosting customers&#8230;.One thing that I haven&rsquo;t seen picked up much in other coverage is that Rackspace is opening its cloud out to third-party management providers &mdash; Rightscale, CohesiveFT, Vertica, rPath, Soasta and Sonian &mdash; most or all of which already work with Amazon, thus giving their customers an alternative platform they can tap.&quot;</li> <li><a href="http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloudcafe/cloud-cafe-18-the-puppet-vs-the-meat-cloud/">Cloud Cafe #18 - The Puppet vs. The Meat Cloud</a><br />Andrew and Luke do a good interview: they talk about something slightly different each time while still doing effective marketing for Puppet. Read: they ain't boring to listen to more than once.</li> </ul> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1853&amp;akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_1853" class="akst_share_link">Share This</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=h38YM"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=h38YM" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=ghVlM"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=ghVlM" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=41XhM"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=41XhM" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?a=ADD7M"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/cote?i=ADD7M" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.redmonk.com/cote/?p=1853http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cote/~3/432776946/podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté & Charles)Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:31:30 -0500http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2008/10/26/mac-tips/<p class="pic"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cote/408051626/" title="Am I Running Enough Software? by cote, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/151/408051626_2e6b7e2cda.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Am I Running Enough Software?" /></a></p> <p>Several times a year, a long-time Windows user I know switches over to a Mac. What with the new MBP&#8217;s (&#8221;MacBookPro&#8221;) out, there&#8217;re several people &#8220;making the leap,&#8221; as they always put it. These people are usually &#8220;business users,&#8221; people using their machine for work: information users, programmers, managers, etc.</p> <p>My usage tends to follow along these lines. Thus, the things I care about on Macs tend to be slightly less consumer focused and more focused on things like email, calendaring, and massaging all the information that flows through the your daily work-life.</p> <p>I&#8217;ve been on a Mac for several years, though not as long as most people assume when they see I&#8217;m the only stuffed shirt in the room with a Mac. In my world, Dells and ThinkPads rule.</p> <p>These two things together means I end up recommending an initial manifest of install and usage for Macs. Here&#8217;s a short summary of what I usually tell people, broken up into applications, usage, &amp; understanding.</p> <h2>Save It</h2> <p>As a disclaimer note, I don&#8217;t actually think Macs are better than Windows and this list isn&#8217;t intended to prove that. I yell at my Mac at least once a day (and my iPhone even more as the crud up of applications has made it crash about every 10 minutes) and I can assure you that it&#8217;s a PoS in it&#8217;s own way.</p> <p>Hey, it&#8217;s a computer, what do you expect?</p> <p>If you <i>prefer</i> and/or want try using Macs, these lists will hopefully make you yell less at the damn machine, and I hear Vists and Ubuntu are pretty slick now-a-days if you still find yourself hating OS X and longing for a track-stick ;&gt;</p> <h2>Applications</h2> <p>Much more so than when I used Windows, I use tons of third party applicati