Coté's People Over Process

• Demystifying Microsoft's mobile operating system roadmap
  If you throw embedded and kiosk versions of Windows into the mix, you get a lot of "mobile" versions of Windows: "Microsoft doesn’t have just one or even two mobile operating system (OS) offerings. As of today, it has a half dozen, by my count."
• Google Docs creates expectations CIOs can't meet, Red Hat CEO says
  IT is too expensive and complex compared to consumer technologies. Of course, if you want to get someone on the phone to train you or walk you through some problem, that's when the effects of cost savings start kicking in: 'The CIO discussed the project with his application development group, then went back to the CMO and said "we can do this, in nine months at a cost of $14 million," according to Whitehurst. "The CMO says 'what are you talking about? I was describing my daughter's high school science project.' And they were on Google Documents, sharing information, jointly editing documents, and they're doing it for free. This is a true story. I may have been slightly off on the numbers, but a true story."'
• Google’s mismanagement of the Android Market
  Looks like Google is doing well brining the wild, wild web to mobile.
• Put your 'crapplications' into the cloud, experts suggest
  "Some of you may have thousands of them that have been around 10-plus years, and you can never kill them. Some people call them 'crapplications.' Why waste your own infrastructure and IT staff to support these things?"
• HP upgrades IT management tools
  More on HP's recent update of its IT Management suite.
• Social Collaborative IT Management from 48Upper | 48Upper
  "So ultimately Social Collaborative IT Management (SoCool-IT for short) is about setting a new standard around how IT Professionals can get their jobs done while connecting with co-workers and other smart professionals in the IT universe who share common interests, with the ultimate goal of making each of us and our organizations more successful. And yes, we will have fun doing it! This goes well beyond creating a Wiki or a community link or a user forum and as we get ready to roll out our service I’ll get a lot more prescriptive as to our vision of the not too distant future."
• HP readies social networking tools for IT pros
  "There's also video on that shows IT workers laughing, smiling, and working in cubicles with stuffed animals." –
• HP's system tools can now manage public cloud
  "HP officials say its release of HP Business Service Management (BSM) 9, announced at its Software Universe conference here, represents a rebuilding of this system from its foundation. It can now automate more processes as well as support services running externally in outsourced and cloud environments, such as Amazon's EC2, HP said."
• Macs get WiMax/3G hardware courtesy of Clearwire
  Clear finally comes out with its Mac-compatible 4G/3G card. I've gotten piss-poor reception with the 3G network in non-Clear cities, but I'll give it a last chance before canceling that part of the service. My local Clear store in Austin says they'll have these in-store by the end of the week.
• First MeeGo Linux needs love and scrub up
• VMware springs into frameworks with imminent acquisitions • The Register
  Some quotes from VMWare CEO Paul Maritz on building out their application development portfolio after buying SpringSource. Maritz alludes to wanting to buy more stuff.
• Red Hat turns the crank of KVM enterprise virt
  RedHat updates its KVM-based virtualization offering, upping virtual memory pools and other performance aspects.
• Microsoft Exec Lists Company's Successes by the Numbers
  Microsoft PR blog and internal email about their momentum.
• SAFECode outlines path to complete code integrity
• Why we love to hate Microsoft
• Moleskine templates
• Dave McClure – Startup Metrics for Pirates Video
  People say this is a good talk.
• Who is pushing the private cloud: Users or vendors? | ZDNet
• Brian "Krow" Aker's Idle Thoughts – The Road to Closed Source Software, Eucalyptus
• Will the US ever get Latin America? | Mark Weisbrot
  The PR storm for a new Oliver Stone movie about South America stirs up articales covering the space. We don't hear much about the US's role down there: this piece pants a poor picture.
• 9 Reasons Why White Papers Still Matter – Savvy B2B Marketing
• ProductCamp Austin Summer 2010 – Barcamp- Eventbrite
• Dell, others, don’t pigeonhole social media – Austin Business Journal
  Sort of a round-up of social software folks and efforts in Austin.
• The Social Middleware Blog | Learn about social networking news, compliance and best practices | Socialware
• Conformity Adds $3M More to Series A | AustinStartup
• Spreadsy :: Flash Buying With a Twist | AustinStartup
  Who knew we had all these group/flash buying sites in Austin?
• Austin 3.0 » Blog Archive » Facebook Comes to Austin
  Brief note on Facebook hosting a party in downtown Austin to talk about themselves in downtown Austin. Nifty!
• SAP, Amazon Web Services: Partners in cloud
  "When you add it all up it’s evident that Amazon and SAP are becoming big-time partners."
• Video: Bruce Sterling's Keynote – At the Dawn of the Augmented Reality Industry – Augmented Reality Browser: Layar
  August, 2009.
• Structure2010-Day2 – KEYNOTE: Unleashing the Business Potential of Cloud. on GigaOM TV – live streaming video powered by Livestream
  IBM's Erich Clementi talks about IBM and the cloud at Structure 2010. Lots of "making it friendly for the enterprise" chatter.
• SeeClickFix: Report non-emergency issues, receive alerts in your neighborhood
  "Report and receive issues in your community."
• Quora – What are the largest consumer sites that run on EC2?
• Spiceworks Extends Distribution and Management of Cloud Services to 1 Million IT Professionals with New “Reach” Partner Program
  A program to allow service and cloud providers to integrate into Spiceworks. Writing plugins and extensions so that Spiceworks users can admin cloud-hosted stuff (like email, etc.) from within Spiceworks.
• PoweredBy – Hadoop Wiki
  Various folks write-in to say how they're using Hadoop.
• Puppet Labs, Adobe Release Open Source Puppet Code for Managing Hadoop – ReadWriteCloud
  Adobe open sources its Puppet modules for managing Hadoop.
• Creative Bootstrapping To A 350 Million Dollar Exit: Nimsoft CEO Gary Read (Part 1) | Sramana Mitra on Strategy
• Does The iPad Change Everything? Publishers Chime In
• Tasktop Grows with Eclipse Mylyn
• Gourmet Magazine Reincarnated As An App – PSFK
  Publishers are wise to sell their otherwise "free" content in this window we have – "Conde Nast, which owns the Gourmet brand, said it was encouraged by Wired magazine’s iPad edition which sold more than 90,000 copies at the regular print newsstand price, which suggests that customers are willing to buy quality digital content." – someday, people will wake up and think, "say, didn't I used to get this all free on the web…hrmmm…"
• DELL Professional Series 2009W 20-inch Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor with Height Adjustable Stand and 3-Year Advance Exchange Warranty : Monitors | Dell
• Busy Week at GWOS: Announce Cloud Connector and Quadruple Customer Base
  "GWOS quadruples customer base in eight months, seeing a rise in customers who are switching from HP Operations, BMC Patrol, IBM Tivoli and CA Unicenter."

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