by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 | Architecture |
Link and run Came across a great one-long-web-page intro to distributed systems design on Google Code. If you work on a distributed systems project, everyone on the product team ought to at least understand what’s on this page. That means marketing, tech...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 7, 2007 | Off-Topic |
We’ve all heard the story before: little company mugged by Microsoft. So I was inclined to be sympathetic to Mandriva’s complaint against Microsoft last week. Until I looked into it. Mandriva makes the sale They signed a contract to sell 17,000 notebooks...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 6, 2007 | Enterprise, SOHO/SMB |
The most famous computer ad that never ran was created for Data General. As told in Tracy Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine (still a great story of the inside of a major product development cycle) after IBM announced the Series/1, a 16-bit minicomputer designed...
by Robin Harris | Monday, November 5, 2007 | SOHO/SMB |
Dell’s $1.4 billion, all-cash acquisition of EqualLogic is the beginning of a stampede by big storage vendors to pick up appliance storage vendors. Dell should know: they’ve been having support nightmares with the Clariion line for years. The stuff is just...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, October 31, 2007 | Security & Public Policy |
What is Cantonese for “sucks”? A piece in the UK web site The Register, says of some recent Mac drives: According to Retrodata, its customers have sent in a much higher number of failed Seagate 2.5in SATA drives made in China and loaded with firmware...
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