A Linux in your pocket could keep MS in line

News.Com: "Linux is a serious competitor," said Ballmer. [Scripting News]

Steve Ballmer acknowledges the value argument Linux brings, especially to large enterprises.  It seems to me that any organization large enough to fret over a) the increasing cost to MS and Oracle and b) worried about security should be testing and piloting various Linux configurations. 

Folks seem to be reverting to the sins of their fathers "Buy anything as long as it is Blue".  Come on, where's basic negotiating 101 -- get the competitors proposal on the table when MS is in the room.  Start trying the Linux stuff...  The worst that can happen is the you get better pricing from you know who...

4:07:53 PM    

Things you never wanted to know about the PATRIOT Act

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3:34:50 PM    

Bumps and bruises on the learning curve

Spent too much time learning how to do the links in a decent fashion on the right hand side of the page.  Thanks to the notes by Jake Savin, I learned to use the blogroll macro from Radio. 

I think part of my problem is that I am trying to use Radio by forcing it to adopt to my thought process/organization preferences.  Perhaps I need to bend with the wind and stop fighting where the product wants to go...

2:27:13 PM    

A State CIO Blogs

Check out the Utah CIO's site.  Now, that is real time information.  I wonder if there is a community of State CIO blog's?

7:45:41 AM    

Is Aunt Mable Concerned?

P2P Pugilists Put Up Their Dukes. Combatants on both sides of the Internet peer-to-peer fight trade verbal thumps over the merits of a bill that would allow copyright owners sweeping digital control. Michael Grebb reports from Washington, D.C. [Wired News]

Politicians are taught to focus on "kitchen table" issues, things mom and dad talk about around the ole table.  If it isn't discussed there, then the issue doesn't have legs.  Until we educate a larger constituency on the danger of these types of issues, then we are faced with the prospect of fighting very well funded lobbyists behind closed doors.  And that is not a fair fight.

6:57:18 AM