The death spiral of the WIMPs of our Time
Back in 1989 give or take a year or so, there were two competing DOS-based graphical operating systems and neither one of them was Windows. They were WIMPs, which was the common name for what was eventually called a GUI and is now not called anything by anyone except an…
Goodbye Windows, hello IE9 and the cloud
Microsoft’s next browser, released in beta today, treats websites as applications. By moving the focus of activity up off the desktop into the browser, IE9 concedes the supremacy of cloud computing.
EMC Buys Greenplum – Big Data Realignment Continues
EMC’s acquisition of Greenplum, announced today as a cash transaction, reaffirms the obvious: the Big Data tsunami upends conventional wisdom. It has already reshaped the market, spawning the most ferment in the RDBMS (and non-R DBMS via the noSQL players) space in years. When I first posted on Greenplum over a year ago, I said […]
A Simple Hint Why SaaS Is Better
When I pressed send this morning on an email message, Gmail popped up a dialog box asking whether I’d meant to attach a file. “You wrote ‘find attached’ in your message,” it gently mentioned, “but there were no files attached.” Of course, as so often happens, I’d finished the message and pressed send without remembering […]
The badge of pride now should be how long it has been since you left your computer on overnight!
I’m an IT guy. I love my (Mac) computer. Most other IT people I know love their computers too, be they Mac, Windows or *nix based. Of course you would when you are typically working on them 8+ hours per day. We take pride in our computers – how fast they are, the latest software/widget […]
Malware Attack on Skype
I’m used to Skype Spam, but not a malvare-attack. Here’s what just popped up on my Skype screen: Registry Online: URGENT SYSTEM SCAN NOTIFICATION ! PLEASE READ CAREFULLY !! http://www.updategt.org/ For the link to become active, please click on ‘Add to contacts’ skype button or type it in manually into your web browser ! FULL […]
