Coté's People Over Process

• SpringSource Hyperic HQ Now Available on the RightScale Cloud Computing Management Platform | SpringSource
  "Starting today, organizations can use SpringSource Hyperic HQ directly from the fully automated RightScale Platform to monitor the availability and further manage the performance of their cloud applications."
• Dell may lose more ground to HP
• Op-Ed Columnist – To Tweet or Not to Tweet – NYTimes.com
  ME: I would rather be tied up to stakes in the Kalahari Desert, have honey poured over me and red ants eat out my eyes than open a Twitter account. Is there anything you can say to change my mind?

  BIZ: Well, when you do find yourself in that position, you’re gonna want Twitter. You might want to type out the message “Help.”

• MindTouch Fires a Shot Across the Bow of Corporate Intranets
  "The solution, Fulkerson says, lies in software that is 'focused on groups accessing and organizing data into actionable formats that enable decision making, collaboration and reuse.' Today's launch of MindTouch Collaborative Intranet is the first in a series of three enterprise collaboration products the company plans to roll out this year." The idea here is selling "ready to use" collab applications on-top of the MindTouch platform.
• AccelOps: All-In-One Datacenter and IT Service Management – Virtual Appliance or Software-as-a-Service
  "AccelOps, the IT service management innovator, today announced availability of the industry's first all-in-one datacenter and IT service management solution offered as a virtual appliance or SaaS for the mid-tier market. AccelOps raises the IT management innovation and cost-benefit bar to accelerate operational oversight, service intelligence, efficiency and savings demanded by mid-tier enterprises." I've been checking this out and it's impressive so far. Note that the UI is all in Flex too. I'll have a review note up in a short-while.
• More Alice in Wonderland Pics Leak | Blog.OneRiot.com – Blogging the Pulse of the Web
  "Director Tim Burton has an innate talent in 'creepifying' children’s bedtime stories. He’s also got a knack for showcasing his two favorite obsessions/actors, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, along with their equally creepy dramatic skills. His newest project – a new spin on Lewis Carrolls’ Alice in Wonderland, set to release March 5, 2010 – is no exception."
• RPG as a service – The iSeries Blog
  Whao! RPG!
• Reductive Labs, Moving to Portland, Raises $2M for Open Source IT Automation | Xconomy
• Reductive Labs Secures $2.0 Million Funding Round Led by True Ventures
• Reductive Labs nails $2 million in funding
• Assessing the Stripper Memoir
  Patterns in stripper books. Whodathunk?
• 20090622 Velocity
  Jeff Hammerbacher's talk/overview of Hadoop from Velocity. Lots of numbers, facts, etc.
• iPhone 3.0 Update: 10 Hidden Features
  Hey, you know you're curious.
• Oracle tried to sell Sun hardware biz
  "A source close to Oracle has told The Reg that Oracle has continued to shop Sun's hardware business around to potential buyers after the official announcement of its intention to buy the whole of Sun – and after it moved to re-assure Sun employees of its love for their hardware."
• Platform leaps from grids to clouds • The Register
  I get a lot of PR email from these guys. They've been going cloud crazy of late.
• LiquidPlanner Finds $1 Million For Project Management Software
  Currently used by 200 companies.
• Instapaper Gets Folders And Goes Social
  Yeah, Instapaper is pretty cool.
• Alaska Airlines to launch Austin-San Jose nonstop | Statesman Business Blog
  "The flights will leave Austin at 3 p.m. and arrive in San Jose, Calif., at 4:40 p.m. The return flights will leave at 8:55 a.m. and arrive in Austin at 2:15p.m." Also a direct flight to "fake Portland." Looks like you can do AAdvantage code-shares to get miles and elite status…I hope.
• Cloudera Hadoop & Big Data Blog » Blog Archive » A Great Week for Hadoop: Summit Roundup
• Open Source Predictive Analytics | REvolution Computing
  "REvolution Computing offers open source products and services for high performance analytics, including REvolution R Enterprise which delivers 100% R and more—optimized, validated and supported."

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