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Not All ITIL Processes Are Created Equal
Old Thomas Mendel, Ph.D. has been cranking out the sysmgmt reports at Forrester. Thanks to their RSS feeds, I read/skim about 1-2 pieces of research a day. There's RSS making money for ya. End of ROI-story, fools!
Teal
Free OS X paint program recommended by a reader.
The on-demand blogosphere
Recommended by jgovernor. I'll have to check it out. Can't sleep: clowns will eat me.
Apple seeks 'tax' on iPod accessories
An "ipod tax" would be bad for us customers. It'd mean our ipod life-styles would that much more expensive. Man, what's up with Apple? They're getting too big for their briches.
'What does HP do?' asks Europe's biggest dealer
"If you look at it, what do they [HP] do? What's their job? The software is made by Microsoft, Intel make the processors, that's where the value is. They don't make hard drives. They don't make the memory chips and they don't make the tin [the casing] its
Google expands access to Gmail
They've started opening GMail up. As more people sign up, we'll learn: if "the masses" like tags/labels, if they like Ajax/XmlHttpRequest apps, if they'll abandon their old email accounts. Exciting email times ahead. We'll see if they go Enterprise as sog
Subscription Applications: Fad Or Future Direction?
Paul Hamerman and Jessica Harrington (Forrester) seem pretty bullish on subscription services. Large Enterprises are just now warming up to them -- I say just 'cause they're slow to change -- but SMB's are in the "sweet-spot."