Coté's People Over Process

• The Associated Press: Rackspace posts jump in 3rd-quarter profit
  Finally, some hard numbers of cloud provider revenue: "The company has been pushing into the business of so-called "cloud" computing, allowing customers to store data online rather than on their own servers. It says cloud revenue climbed 17 percent from the second quarter to $15.3 million. The segment now accounts for about 10 percent of revenue, up from 5 percent a year ago."
• Posterous Moves Storage to Rackspace Cloud « Data Center Knowledge
• Poles Embrace The Good Life, Post-Communism
  For us tech-world gas bags, there's a phenomenal quote in here. When an older Polish guy wants to explain how he knows his daughter has "The Good Life" (vs. the old, Communism days) he says: "(The new generation has the) Internet given for granted, they have iPhones given for granted. Why should they bother about what happened years ago?" Yup, once you have the internet and the iPhone, bam! On the other-hand, it's also dangerously close to Bruce Sterling's Favela Chic.
• Layoffs Reported At Adobe
• New tool aids .Net developers in writing Linux, Mac OS X apps
  "Known as Mono Tools for Visual Studio, the product comes in three flavors: A Professional Edition (individual) for $99; Enterprise Edition (for one developer in an organization) for $249; and Ultimate Edition for $2,499 which includes a limited commercial license to redistribute Mono on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and includes five enterprise developer licenses."
• Twitter / Josh Knowles: Note about developing for …
  "Note about developing for Android vs. iPhone: Diversity of devices is *not* a plus. Makes development more expensive/less fun."
• Twitter / Justin Sheehy: just had an awesome call w …
  "just had an awesome call with @monkchips , @sogrady , and @cote — a breath of fresh air; thoughtful and practical tech analysts."
• Speaker Spotlight – McCombs School of Business – The University of Texas at Austin
  See an interview/talk with Michael Dell tomorrow.
• First Commercial Software-Only Memcached Distribution Now Available from Gear6 | Gear6
• Surgient Webcast | Successful Private Clouds: Proven Best Practices & Case Studies
  "More than 70 world-class organizations use patented Surgient infrastructure-as-a-service technology to successfully deploy and manage their private and internal clouds." From what I hear, they mostly use it for dev and QA labs, but, hey, that's the thing now-a-days.
• gist: 161265 – GitHub
  Some sort of manifesto/rules on dev/ops automation, model-driven IT hoopla. Things like: "Do not use any product with configurations that are not machine parseable and machine writeable." Yup.
• ATCRave – by IdeaScale
  "Come for a night of educational presentations, informative discussions and drinks on ATC at the first Tech Rave! It’s not just a happy hour and it’s not just a boring seminar. With six rapid fire 15-minute presentation there will be no time for Q & A immediately following the presentation. The Q & A will begin after all the presentations are over and instead of addressing the entire group, the post-presentation discussions will be in a small group format. This way, you’ll be able to choose which group to be in, discuss the things most pertinent to your organization and gets specialized answers from the speakers."
• Trip report: NoSQL meetup at ApacheCon
  Nice wrap up of some presentations and resources on NoSQL databases. And yeah, that sushi was tasty!
• Technology News: Applications: Has Firefox Peaked?
  I use Firefox almost hourly. Could it be the most successful open source product ever, or would Linux be that one? Or another one?
• Paremus announces Nimble and paves the way to autonomic Cloud Computing
  OSGi meets cloud!
• Zend and Oracle Join Forces to Deliver Enterprise-Class Linux and PHP Solution
  Man, Zend is getting geared up on the enterprise front.
• Girls Empowerment Network – Girls Now Conference – November 14, 2009
  Some interesting looking "Technology smarts for girls" session in here. Kim's going, we'll see what she says.
• The XXI Olympic Winter Games on NBCOlympics.com: Brought to you in Full HD With Silverlight and Smooth Streaming
• Spiceworks 4.5 Sneak Peek
• On SDN Code Exchange, Open Source and Free Software
  SAP getting more into open source.
• Microsoft Acquires Teamprise Assets, Provides Cross-Platform Support for Visual Studio: Expanded access to tools will foster increased development flexibility, productivity and collaboration.
  "This technology enables developers using the Eclipse IDE or operating on multiple operating systems, including UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X, to build applications with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server."
• Cisco Breaks Down Barriers to Business-to-Business Collaboration -> Cisco News
  A whole passel of IM/Email/Collab and semi-cloud stuff from Cisco. Of special note, some stuff based on Jabber (XMPP) which we've been wondering "what ever happened to?" They've got (a.) instance messaging, (b.) video conferencing, (b.) private video networks, (c.) email stuff, and (d.) some stuff around "new media" on "for end-users across heterogeneous devices, applications and clients." Packets, man, packets!
• RIM and Adobe to Simplify Delivery of Rich Content and Applications for BlackBerry Smartphones
  "[A]t the 2009 BlackBerry® Developer Conference, Research In Motion (RIM) and Adobe Systems expanded their collaboration and announced that creative professionals and application developers will be able to use the Adobe® Flash® Platform technology and Adobe Creative Suite® content development and authoring tools to easily create rich content and application experiences for BlackBerry® smartphones." More: "Future versions of Adobe Creative Suite starting with Adobe Creative Suite 5 will provide the ability for designers to create optimized graphic assets, such as image and video content, from tools such as Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator® and Adobe After Effects®, for the BlackBerry platform."
• Grey Card Instructions
• The Open Source Community at Microsoft
• Microsoft Announces Exchange Server 2010 Availability and Wave of Innovations at Tech•Ed Europe 2009
• Motorola Droid: hands-on video | Digital Savant
  Local gadget-man Omar's doing nice with these videos.
• Dell's Adamo XPS laptop: unboxing and hands-on | Digital Savant
  Dude, I'd totally use one.
• AppleInsider | Apple's iPhone sees tepid sales debut in China
• Palm enhances open credentials with cloud-based developer system
• Realtime Money Flows: Xignite Supplies On-Demand Financial Market Data
  A data marketplace?

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