Aggressive Marketing - is it working or they are desperate
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Q: How many of us are receiving in their email boxes hundreds emails a week from companies or individuals who offer services or products?
How many of us are targets for telemarketers?
A: As long as there are millions of complains about pharmaceutics products and as long as the company assets which is under investigation is going over US$ 800 m, it means the viral marketing and telemarketing have fantastic results. more...
Back to mainframes?
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Since early the 80's IBM(R) and SUN Microsystems(R) are pushing onto the market solutions based on powerful machines (clusters of machines). The differences between the 80's and 2009 is the size and the power processing of those machines. The main idea is the same: there is only one point of power processing and there are many terminals which are using that power. more...
Google Waves
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Somewhere in the world more than 4,000 people took part in a Google conference. Someone can say "so what" and someone else may say that this event is the start of a new era of the Web. I have received a new newsletter from an IT Magazine. I read it. Its end was not optimistic at all, it was something like this: "..who is crazy enough can to try and implement Google Wave following the link.." I clicked on it. Next one hour and half I watched on You Tube the most relevant part of the Google conference. more...
Clouds and the Net
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Very easy, anyone may consider a cloud as being an object with all object means in programming: properties and methods. If we go a bit further it's pretty easy to consider that cloud inherits / shares properties and methods; many clouds can create a new bigger cloud.
This is just a theory easy to be seen by anybody. Into the real life there are hosting companies which host files, which allow people to access and manipulate those files based on specific rules and permissions, for example the owner of a web system can change his space (add / delete its file and configure its environment) and the internet user can interact with his website. more...
SUN Microsystems and Open Source
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Accordion to rumours, someone said that SUN has financial problems in Australia but, from this point was "close to being bought by IBM", there are some huge spaces in between.
Sun Microsystem made a smart move. This company turned around 180 degrees. This company heavily relied on an Open Source community and, more or less supports Open Source community. Sun Microsystem makes money as well doing this. Everybody gets something which is good. more...
