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    Livabjorn
    Apr 01 09:17 AM
    IBM Takes a Hit - Suspended From New Federal Work [view article]
    Isn't this just an April 1. story? ;-) Reply
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    Bill Lo
    Apr 01 09:16 AM
    IBM Takes a Hit - Suspended From New Federal Work [view article]
    The suspension could be a serious blow to IBM nearterm. These suspensions, even if proven unfounded, can take months to wend their way through the government bureaucracy before being lifted Reply
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    notsosmart
    Apr 01 08:50 AM
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    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    there will be little or no change on wall st. it will be the same crowd running the show for their own benefit. after the election all this change talkwill be history. Reply
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    DearyD
    Mar 31 07:40 PM
    Death of the Independent Software Firm? [view article]
    Nice try, but ACTU's stock is demonstrating that the company is sinking. Reply
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    Dennis Byron
    Mar 31 11:37 AM
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    Back to the Future with IBM’s Cloud Computing [view article]
    David -

    Your point about generational differences is a good one. The inter-world-war generation guys that wrote the 1965 paper about a Big Brother tax package actually didn't object to it (although they pointed out privacy and other related issues elsewhere in the paper). It is my generation, the baby boomers, that rebelled against even the thought of that kind of government access and embraced the PC mentality of independence (as well as embracing Reagan, and so forth, for the same reason). Perhaps the pendulum will swing back and the next generation will not mind the big computer in the cloud knowing all about them or their company (because they already assume they are totally being watched anyways).

    Whichever, I think IT history says you will have "moderate paced (IT) adoption" in any case because that's just human nature no matter which generation.

    Thanks for the comment

    Dennis Byron     Reply
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    David Tsao
    Mar 31 10:29 AM
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    Back to the Future with IBM’s Cloud Computing [view article]
    What are your thoughts on Amazon's commercial cloud services offering or Google's efforts within this realm of research? It is one thing for big corporations to market "cloud computing", and another to visibly see the end product and its marketable use. I'm not trying to downplay this area of research as it is an interesting area of technology. What will take time is the adoption and leveraging of such grid platforms for use in the marketplace.

    There are still truckloads of programmers who are stuck or forced to work within functional programming paradigm, and thousands if not millions of business applications still running on legacy code.

    From my experience, there is no such thing as migration when moving up the technology platform. There is only "aggressive" refactoring (pretty much a rewrite, but carrying over the business rules)

    There are other stories we could draw upon here, as baby-boomers in the tech industry leave and the new Millenials come into the work force. Until CIO's and management make the utter decision to let the Millenial generation blow up the building and rebuild platforms to leverage such things as Cloud Computing, you will still have moderate paced adoption.

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    Orion
    Mar 30 10:04 PM
    Sun, IBM Continue Open Standards Double-Speak [view article]
    User 165495 anything to do with Lotus is crap. We are using it at work and everyone complains about i t - it is 10 years behind MS office!!!

    As for OOXML whether is approved or not as a standard it is going to become one as .dox format for examle it is one. I am saying .doc format it is standard because every business document I have to send (or a CV) it is required to be in .doc format - so that says everything, the consumers decide what they are going to use not anyone else!

    Using MS .NET you can easily manipulate document saved in this format (one simple example: you can display them as a web page), or for that matter any other programing language on any platform, all the developer needs to know is XML :)     Reply
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    Dennis Byron
    Mar 29 03:53 PM
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    Microsoft Continues to Waste Shareholder Value on Standards [view article]
    Mr. Probst-

    I am not sure if you are referring to OpenOffice.org or StarOffice in your statistics but according to a survey OpenOffice.org completed for me shortly before I prepared this post, they had had 116,000,000 copies downloaded from their site over the history of their project-that is over seven years, not in 2 years!

    The best ratio I've seen of downloads to production systems is 100:1 (based on MySQL and JBoss reports) so maybe there are 1,160,000 OpenOffice sites. Vs. as you say 70,000,000 instances of Microsoft (MSFT) Office a year.

    Both numbers seem high to me but the proportion is probably about right. I don't think Microsoft is too worried about OpenOffice.org.

    But of course that is not what I posted about. My complaint is that Microsoft is wasting its shareholder's value spending one nickel on this Sun/IBM ploy.

    -- Dennis

    -- Dennis     Reply
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    Dennis Byron
    Mar 29 03:38 PM
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    Sun, IBM Continue Open Standards Double-Speak [view article]
    Dear Charles K:

    Thanks for the comment.

    No the answer is not in backing up the files but in having access to the application you created the document/file in. Typically, you have a perpetual right to use it. Backing up to .txt or .rtf (which maintains most 1990s-era formating) or an image (in the case of .ppt) is just a prudent way to protect assets. Obviously, you should do this with all software you have licensed. (By the way, there is no need to keep it on your hard drive as one commenter suggests.)

    But the bigger issue is that the term Open Standards (always upper case) is double speak, a term created to mean almost the opposite of what is intended. What is a closed standard? All so-called International Open Standards are simply retroactive acknowledgement of the market winner.

    Your analysis of Sun (JAVA) and IBM (IBM) as paragons of virtue when it comes to standards and business model are hopefully just indicators that you are young. I envy you for that.

    -- Dennis     Reply
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    mahesh reddy
    Mar 28 02:32 PM
    Tibco Up on Solid Earnings, Guidance; Larger IT Players To Win Anyway? [view article]
    What?..3 cents...is all its up and you write it up as if its a 50% jump...Don't pump and dump the stock please...and fool naive investors... Reply
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    taco_man1
    Mar 27 11:11 AM
    Is Checkpoint a Potential Takeover Target? [view article]
    The major players in CHKP are still young(ish). Expect them to hold onto it for another few years (3-10) before they start really shopping it around. Location will hurt the final price. Middle-east isn't exacally a bastion of stability, and political news and short-term climate may well affect price, and timing of a future sale.

    That said, I intend to maintain my small stake in CHKP.     Reply
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    Asif
    Mar 26 03:52 PM
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    Following Big Money Pays Off [view article]
    Infogrames already owns a majority stake in Atari and uses the Atari brand for its games. Hence the 2 cent premium offered to buy out the rest of Atari. I still remember the day Infogrames bought the Atari name and the stock doubled from $3 to $6 overnight. Lackluster sales of the Matrix games and loss of the Unreal Tournament franchise has left this stock in the dumps despite a raging gaming market.

    I agree with Serge that you may be too late to the party or in the case of Atari, its obituary.     Reply
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    Serge
    Mar 26 11:15 AM
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    Following Big Money Pays Off [view article]
    Following "big money" is foolish. Preceding it is what you should actually be trying to do. You never want to be late to the party. Reply
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    chance
    Mar 25 10:47 PM
    Jim Cramer's Mad Money In-Depth, 3/24/08: Happy Days Are Here Again [view article]
    I tracked Cramer's comments in Excel for over two years. He is right far more often than not. I have learned and profited from his show. Plenty of people deserve to be in prison, NOT JIM. There are professionals who could help you with your issues. Reply
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    GregY
    Mar 25 02:41 PM
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    Jim Cramer's Mad Money In-Depth, 3/24/08: Happy Days Are Here Again [view article]
    Cramer is in entertainment business, not in investment management business. Bee real and keep it in mind. Reply
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