On April 1, the Texas State Senate banned Microsoft Vista use by Texas state government agencies. Citing issues with Micosoft Vista and their current level of satisfaction with XP, the Senate specifically called out Microsoft in its budget. Will Texas be the canary in the coal mine for other government agencies? I imagine that RedHat [...]
Jim Stogdill of O’Reilly relates a presentation by LTG Sorenson about the new Battle Command system. I dare not try to recast his insight here. However, he did bring up one topic which I want to elaborate slightly on. We have noticed a trend to tack on new trends and buzzwords to systems rather than either [...]
I’ve recently discovered Blair Enns’s Win Without Pitching website (thanks to David Robinson of Birch Studio Graphics for pointing me to the fantastic FunctionFox seminar). The main theme of Enns’s site, as I have gathered, is that proposal writing is, for the most part, an ineffective way for buyers to purchase specialized services, and for [...]
Eric’s R&D project is HighTechCville, a website aimed at helping people identify technology communities of interest in the Charlottesville area. The engine behind the website pulls in information about people and companies from disparate sources such as the Neon Guild, the Virginia Biotechnology Association, LinkedIn, and personal and business web pages. It then performs cluster [...]