Links for April 30th

A little something extra…

like how @sogrady @cote @monkchips all provided unique analysis of HP/Palm. Combined = best I’ve read on topic. —Noah Kuttler

If you’ll pardon a little horn tootin’, I think RedMonk did an outstanding job of covering the acquisition of Palm by HP this week. It was a classic RedMonk approach to it – each of us wrote up our own perspectives, in our own style and as Noah tweeted above, the combined gives you a nice analytical tryptic.

Here’s the coverage:

• Stephen O’Grady tackles the importance of WebOS and how HP might chart out “the new desktop”: mobile.
• James Governor’s coverage hits up the context angle well, trying to explain not only possible why’s but hit upon the backgrounds of interested parties.
• And, my Quick Analysis which I’ll let you characterize on your own.

The Links

• Shanghai World Expo 2010 – Zeemp Blog
  Pretty cool at a huge scale.
• Is Pair Programming Like Junior High Sex?
• The Golden Rule for Conferences
• The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell
  "I quickly found out why so little had been invested in developing my Excel-craft. Analytical skills were overrated, for the simple reason that clients usually didn’t know why they had hired us. They sent us vague requests for proposal, we returned vague case proposals, and by the time we were hired, no one was the wiser as to why exactly we were there."
• Salesforce Launches a WordPress-to-Lead Plugin
• Kaviza, VDI, affordable virtual desktops, virtual, infrastructure and server – Home
  Along with @sogrady, talking with Kaviza ( – lots of VDI chatter now-a-days.
• Call for Participation: Technical Talks — ApacheCon North America 2010 : The Apache Software Foundation Blog
  Get your papers in – "All submissions must be received by Friday, 28 May 2010 at midnight Pacific Time."
• Business and Technology
  "We launched a new, multi-million dollar product line where all of our consumer facing technologies are built on open source tools and are hosted in the cloud. We made some minor modifications to WordPress and included modified but pre-existing plug-ins. While it is a mouthful of technology jargon, it means we went from idea to market in under 90 days, had almost no capital tied up in the creation of the service, rented the servers and bandwidth by the drip and were able to quickly test demand with very low risk."
• Linux community turning away from Xen virtualization

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