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“Actually, don’t even blame SUN. They may have driven the latest nail in Aperi’s coffin, but that casket was put together long time ago.”
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More or less, stating that the storage vendors already have what Aperi would develop and that the resulting code may not be so cool.
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One of the more difficult parts of Agile imeplentations is usually how you phrase things to be user-centric rather than coder centric. It’s really just a silly game, but it’s good to know how to play.
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Dreams of microformats and OpenID…. 😉
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Scott outlines using VMWare — and virtualization — for development tasks.
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Lots of hosted apps to write up content, or “notes.” I’m liking using MindManager, a pay-ware mind map app.
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A peak at the upcoming RIA push. That is, people will start playing around with GUI takes on the web soon, and these are some early screenshots of it.
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Article from when Aperi first came out: the angle was a IBM/Linux stick to poke in an EMC/Microsoft eye.
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“We think that in about three months or so we’ll be ready to start work,” says Bruce Hillsberg, director of storage software strategy and technology for IBM’s Systems Group.
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More meat on Aperi and the SNIA. It’s Standards Sports!
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“[T]his is BS wrapped in an additional layer or two of more BS.”
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“The scary thing was that [SNIA] want their crap ratified as ANSI and ISO standards, which they will probably succeed in doing even if nobody gives a damn.”
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YUH!
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Sparce wikipage on Aperi. We’ll see how it grows. It’d be good to help out, of course.
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A short history of storage standards. Also, “The industry is not going to deliver the [storage standards] goods on its own. The final option is to give the open-source crowd a shot at the title.”
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Holy crap…yet another storage standard…
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“In any other sector the chances would be good but so many initiatives in this area have started with grand hopes and ended up as yet another niche product optimised for a small set of specific hardware.”
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A red monk of a different sort.
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User driven memorandum/digg type site: crowd-sourcing links down to the smallest niche.
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“Beginning in 2008, all documents sent between government services must be in ODF, after the final proposal removed Microsoft’s Office Open XML formats as a viable option.”
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“By September 2007, all Belgian federal agencies must use software that can read reports, spreadsheets, presentations and other types of data files saved in OpenDocument (ODF)”
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“FiveRuns today announced a partnership with JBoss, a division of Red Hat, Inc., to support JBoss Application Server on with FiveRuns’ offerings.”
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“This ;manage client state where it belongs â?? on the client’ dictum turned out to be a double-edged sword. Its downside is that it tends to violate some basic principles of web-based computing.”
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“Single-sink software specializes in serving the goals of a single consumer (be it a human consumer, or a non-human consumer).”
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“China says to them, ‘we can do business and we won’t screw around with your internal affairs.’ The US and Europe say ‘you have to do things our way in order to do business with us.'”
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…and a Workplace sale.
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…more from the RIA front, in an indirect way.
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“And if youâ??re a taxpayer, hold on to your wallet as tight as you can.”
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Nice motto: “Windows and Linux integration pain: The healing starts here.”
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