Coté's People Over Process

• Props from Redmonk – NetQoS – Network Performance Blog, Network Performance Management News, Tutorials, Resources – Network Performance Blog
• Etelos Online Marketplace for On-Demand Web Applications, Services, and More
  Another SaaS platform for ya, with marketplaces and plenty of SaaS-ified apps.
• Adobe Talks Open Source, Innovation and the Future of Flash
• PERFMAN 7.2 Enables Virtualization Lifecycle Management
  Does VMWare and LPAR virtualization management, along with a legacy of normal monitoring stuffs.
• US Army unit deployed to home front
  Yeah, let's hope there's more to the story or expect to get sprayed with a Crowd Control Glueweb in the near future when you start asking why we spend a trillion or so on Wall Street and nothing to fix health care. Anyone got de-gluing solvents handy?
• Go Big Blue, go! Show them who’s the true friend of the little guy.
  The problem with BigCo standards process.
• What if VMware bought Citrix? Would Microsoft care?, from Brian Madden on BrianMadden.com
• Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with database
• Q&A from SageCircle’s “Dealing with Problem Analysts” webinar « SageCircle Blog
• Oracle and Cloud Computing. Funny.
  "Oracle seemed to have missed one of the main points of cloud computing — that it's an on-demand approach and that includes software licensing costs. In case you didn't notice, Oracle is not offering pay-per-use pricing for the cloud. All they are saying is that you can use the regular perpetual, upfront, fully-paid software license on EC2. Big Whoop."
• Can A Better Database Boost MySpace Revenues? « Data Center Knowledge
  "Can better data analysis help boost ad revenue for social media sites like MySpace and Photobucket? Fox Interactive Media thinks so, and is using industrial-strength database technology from Sun Microsystems (JAVA) and Greenplum to better target ads on user-generated content on its sites…. Fox believes improved data analysis can help it find the right combination of content, ads and advertisers." Data-warehousing & business intelligence applied, bub.
• IBM launches four new cloud computing centers | InfoWorld | News | 2008-09-24 | By John Ribeiro, IDG News Service
  "Bangalore, India; Hanoi, Vietnam; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Seoul, South Korea. The company now has 13 cloud computing centers worldwide." IBM loves opening these cloud data-centers.
• Open at Adobe: There's something happening here.
  "Today, Adobe is publishing the next of the specs, the Mobile Content Delivery Protocol (Formerly Flash® Cast™ protocol). This communication protocol describes a mechanism for data to be synchronized between mobile phones and a network-based server in an efficient, mobile network–friendly manner."
• Birth of a Platform: 25 Million AIR Application Installs and 850k SDK Downloads
• Mozilla Ubiquity: Is Mozilla building out a different kind of RIA platform?
• Some intriguing data behind Red Hat's 29 percent quarterly growth | The Open Road – The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay – CNET News
  Details on RedMonk's earnings call. Looks like they did well.
• Apple bans App Store heartbreak chatter • The Register
  When people "whine" about closed systems, this is the kind of stuff they're looking to avoid. Make sense now?
• T-mobile G1: Android and T-Mobile G1's Five Most Obnoxious Flaws
• Android & iPhone, Same Thing Only Different | Venture Chronicles
• Curl “Nitro” gets a beta 2 release | The Universal Desktop | ZDNet.com
• Adventures in Open Source » Blog Archive » Radio Free Europe
  When you say 'open source' outside of the US, it means 100% free software. If you look at the column labeled “European View” it pretty much echos what I’ve been saying for years. The 'commercial' open source business model as seen in the United States View is not open source."
• Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed?
• Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond vs Riley Cote Sep 22, 2008
  Man, them Canadians are rough, but so polite about it. Check how the ref gets the glove out of the way. Wouldn't want him slipping while getting a beatin'.
• Saturday Night Live: First CityWide Change Bank 2

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