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Ok on this second round up before we totally say nay to ajax apps from Michael. I was compelled to take a quick look at the ajax Applications. Check out the ajaxLaunch.com yourself. ajaxwrite(Word type) Choose your region... It does load fast! Some observations... Interoperability... ajaxsketch(Diagrammer) ajaxxls(Excel type) ajaxtunes(play mp3s) eyespot(play/run videos) My Quick observations: They are indeed: fast (they're just couple hundred KB files) user friendly Work fine on Firefox Interoperable No matter what these market developments only show that MS's OS and Office suite are going to come under serious fire in the coming months (I don't think they should wait for years). Things are moving on the web and the pace is really picking up real fast. My word of advice to all these webOS folks? Two words: Security Performance (And by performance I mean user experience, not the performance from a performance engineer point of view!) Don't have these, you won't e...

Well , not actually :-). But this might help Michael Robertson ( Who is he? ) pick up the trails of Linspire (formerly known as Lindows) and bung it all on the web with web 2.0 (yawn) with the newly founded ajaxOS (Well its just a webOS like so many). Anyways I'm curious how it'll turn out. I'm not sure if I want to apply for an early invite.

Here's the deal. You don't have a product but a pretty darn good strategy: You spread the word through Seminars, Training You have an average product but a robust (customer is programmed to drool on your suite of management tools) management pack Frameworks are put in place to cultivate a culture of zombies But what about Figures Numbers Benchmarks Performance tests Demos face-to-face tete-e-tete's Reality checks Dos and dont's I think a lot of companies have succeeded in selling software which actually didn't/doesn't do much. No one (during the intake of a software) played the role of the *devil's inquisitor*, on the contrary a lot of *devil's advocates* who snubbed your "Wait a minute, but what does the product actually do?" OR "Hey, where is THE product? I have already bought the management suite, now please end my agony". Lots of things like these happen all the time. WHY? Please don't look for answers at my end, look into the...

Well the Server market is already in love with VMware. You will have to be downright ignorant if you were not deploying VMware's ESX Server in your Server environment. But hey what about the desktop? Sure VMware has its VDI. So what is VDI ? VDI is a server-centric computing model that borrows from the traditional thin-client model but is designed to give administrators and end users the best of both worlds: the ability to host and centrally manage desktop virtual machines in the data center while giving end users a full PC desktop experience without limitations. Again its going to be soon the huge mainframe and users with terminals. No hassles, no complaining, plain work! Read here what VMware and Linux vendors are doing to combat the Vista's desktop offering. So much so Shiloh Industries are deploying VDI as we speak! Shiloh Industries is a full-service manufacturer of engineered steel products that serves the automobile and heavy trucking industry. With more than ten plant...

We all know how Oracle gave Redhat publicity couple of years back with the unbreakable message. But recent talks and rumors and Larry Ellison's own admission to getting more than cozier to Linux seems like a thing that will probably close the usurpation spree. Probably, I said. So should Oracle take over Redhat or Novell? I think this will be a smart move given that Redhat now has JBoss under its hood. So Oracle will have a cool lightweight Application Server to target the SMB market and the most popular (in the Enterprise world, at least) Linux distribution to its name. So why do users need a tightly integrated Oracle (tightly as in an Oracle application delivered with the Oracle OS, so to speak)? Very simple, it makes the whole ball game all that easier... Easier to sell (No more confusion as to, pick any OS you like) Customer is confused already, why confuse him with the choice of portability (look at MS SQL Server, it runs fine on Windows , Customer buys Windows contract/site l...

The beta testfest continues! Got an email from the Beta Manager on the release of ESX 3 RC ( Release Candidate ) and Virtual Center 2.0. Later on the day we will do a quick run on the (market) developments in the Virtualization arena.

Ok all the talk about GFS (Google File System) and the leaked stuff around it. Anyways these guys have released a GMailDrive. Check it out. So what is GMail Drive? GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to. ...says the creator of GMail Drive. Use it with caution. Its still in its beta phase but cool to play around with the added disk space! No doubt about that. There is also another cool tool P Poperti which does the same. Eventually you'll have GMail which will have the P2P concept which Pando uses (among others) After installing it looks like this... Login