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by Michael Cote.
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Tom Bishop: He da Man. Great Catch, BMC
James Governor (RedMonk) on BMC's new CTO. "he is a distributed guy through and through, rather than a mainframe maven, which is where the majority of BMC's revenues (and in the past, technical leadership) come from."
BMC Software unveils US$12mn expansion plan in India
More on BMC's India offices: "relocate its entire Pune office to new premises in Pune by September 2005. Once completed, the new centre will spread over 171,000 sq feet and will have capacity for over 1500 staff."
BMC’s new CTO touts virtues of BSM
Summary of ComputerWorld Q&A. Also, some frothing over the possibility of vendor sports between IBM and BMC about [C]CMDB.
dashboard
Dashboard thing for GNOME. Looks like it picks up on the "context" created by currently running apps, and displays relevent info. Even things like FOAF
IBM execs cite need to unify business goals, app dev
All this business about tech-heads becoming more biz oriented goes both ways, dear readers: the biz-heads need to get more tech savy. If I say "flickr," "rss," "tags," or the tech d'jour, they should nod knowingly.
Mimosa Exits Stealth Mode With E-mail Archiving Appliance
If you use your imagination a tad, you can read this article and a good sneak-peak on what systems management of the future (5-10 years) will be: you just click a couple things, and all your problems are fixed. No need for dashboards and consoles when you
On Recommendation Systems
"Per contra I actually believe human psyches require a little imperfection. We need a little interaction and especially some conversation as we mediate our ever-changing world."
The Amazing Rise of the Do-It-Yourself Economy
This is my new buzz-sub-culture of interest: pro-am, hack culture, Make magazine, diy, etc. It all links to tags, RSS, and other "you can shove your hierarchy up your ass and break it off so we can't ever get it back out" thinking. Waiter! Another scotch!
del.icio.us/makemagazine
Oooo! Make magazine's del.icio.us account. I wonder if I can fanagle a free subscription somehow. Any ideas?
Fote of Leslie Cochran
See, this is why I love Austin. This man actually runs for mayor ever election cycle. I've voted for him 3 or 4 times, and I'll keep voting for him until the Bush and Diebold figure out how to stop me. Yuh!
Some Balk at Naming Highway After Nelson
Dear readers, here's the deal with Willie in Texas: he's a Saint. If you don't like Willie Nelson, and you live in Texas, you're bound to end up in a bar fight with a dude who just asked the bar-maid why they never got married after all these years.
The Cram-Down Decade
Ya'll know I eat this kind of stuff up: "corporate America has been systematically setting up its employees for United Airlines-like cram downs."