The Restart Page

January 16, 2012

Here’s a good example of why the Internet is amazing: experience the restart sequences from a bunch of operating systems, audio and all. No navigation necessary; do it all from a single page. Brings back memories. Workbench, anyone? ### More links: MIPRO Consulting main website. MIPRO on Twitter and Facebook. About this blog.

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 1/13/11

January 13, 2012

I came home early from work the other day. I hung my jacket up, kicked off my shoes and began what I thought was a normal walk to the bathroom. And then I saw this. If you’ve been reading this blog on Fridays — and my condolences if you have — you know this is [...]

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ERP Makes a Comeback

January 12, 2012

Dan Tynan, writing for CIO.com: For the past decade, ERP has been the poster child for IT projects that overpromise and underdeliver. It was notorious for painfully complex rollouts that took years to implement, required massive customization, and were often only partially realized. Billions of dollars were spent just trying to get ERP systems to work [...]

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Windows Phone Was a Response to Apple’s iPhone

January 11, 2012

Josh Ong, reporting for AppleInsider: Microsoft’s head of software design for Windows Phone has admitted that the company completely redesigned its mobile operating system platform as a response to Apple’s iPhone and the “sea change” it created in the industry. Joe Belfiore, one of the first engineers brought to the new Windows Phone team when [...]

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The Importance of True Collaboration Between Executives and IT

January 10, 2012

I came across this article over at CFO.com and couldn’t agree with it more. It illustrates the importance of collaboration between business stakeholders and IT to any successful technology project — a topic we’ve all heard a dozen times. What’s the big deal? We all do things with the best of intentions; nobody ever begins [...]

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Looking Forward: Why Enterprise Software Is Changing

January 9, 2012

It’s clear that 2011 was the year of the cloud, with many traditional enterprise vendors accepting that the cloud is something they can no longer denigrate or ignore. The ‘cloud’ buzzword has been (sometimes annoyingly) tossed around for upwards of two years, but last year is when it hit critical mass in terms of action, [...]

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 1/6/11

January 6, 2012

Recall, if you will, my post from a few months ago in which I introduced you to my Bengal cat, who sits at the dinner table, like a small, furry, vaguely smelly human and stares at us while we eat. That was pretty bad. If you guys cared enough about my cat/dinner/manners matrix to email [...]

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What Apple’s iMessage Does to Text Messaging

January 5, 2012

Here’s Neven Mrgan illustrating what Apple’s iMessage — the new iOS-to-iOS messaging service — did to his text messaging usage: Note the iOS 5 launch line — that’s when iMessage was introduced. This matches my experience directly. Almost everyone I message frequently has an iPhone, and my sending of actual text messages has dropped massively. [...]

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Mainframe, Distributed, Personal, Cloud: Back to Where We Started?

January 4, 2012

My days of selling ‘high tech’ products date back to the mid 80’s.  Since some of our blog readers were only 2 years old then, let me detail what our computing world was like. CAD/CAM (computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing) was the product.  In order to do a demonstration of our CAD application, we had [...]

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The One Leadership Quality That Will Make or Break You

January 3, 2012

Happy new year, everyone.  Glad to be back. Today’s post is about pursuit, and how it applies to leadership. What is pursuit? How does it relate to leadership?  Good question. Mike Myatt over at Forbes.com says that great leaders aren’t content with the status quo, static thinking or conventional wisdom. Instead, they purse excellence, truth, [...]

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