We hear more and more in the media how the Indian outsourcing miracle has run out of steam. But the results posted by WiPro, Infosys and others really don’t bear this out. Our experience of our customers either outsourcing to India or simply off-shoring their own operations has highlighted a few things. On a dollar-for-dollar [...]

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CNET has a very good interview with Bernard Liautaud who is Chief Executive of Business Objects. His vision for Business Intelligence has enabled BO to grow at an impressive rate. Whilst we can criticise the technical support problems which have occurred in the Crystal product range since they acquired Crystal Decisions, we have been mightily [...]

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The whole issue of Software Patents has been a hot potato recently. We intend doing some postings on it in the near future but in the meantime, Dan Brinklin has a very thought-provoking article regarding patents, VisiCalc, Microsoft and the industry.

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We spend most days up to our necks in Crystal Reports. Our standard platform for many customers has been Windows 2000 Server, SQL Server 2000 and Crystal Reports (and Crystal Enterprise) 10. However we have been getting some push back from customers who are very anti-Microsoft. In general this is just manifested as a refusal [...]

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This is a very interesting announcement:
OPSWARE INTRODUCES NEW GLOBAL SHELL TECHNOLOGY FOR CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT OF LINUX, UNIX, AND WINDOWS

You don’t see much in the way of innovation in command-line shells but this looks extremely powerful. Cross-platfform, remote automation, supports all the leading current shells. Definitely worth a read if the scripted management of large-scale [...]

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We are thrilled to finally do a public launch of our Wordpress-based website. We have decided to re-structure around blogs and discussions in general. This site is still in Alpha but we hope that making it public will accelerate it’s completion and encourage community participation.
The Storage community is poorly served by sites dedicated to discussing [...]

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