Author Archives: Vlad

Amy’s Support Network Grows Larger

Posted: 12:22 pm
August 13, 2009
Friends
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Amy’s kingdom at Third Tier keeps on growing: Yesterday Third Tier announced a formal relationship with Calyptix for support services. Calyptix has found that in working with partners that often times the project involves areas outside of the expertise of … Continue reading →

ykhikir?

Posted: 6:27 pm
August 6, 2009
Events
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I’m writing this post at the Las Vegas airport, with one of the most expensive skylines in the whole world. Nearly all of it built over the past 15 years. It has a lot in common with the computer business … Continue reading →

Career or Job?

Posted: 9:35 am
August 3, 2009
IT Business
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Happy Monday! Enjoying the beautiful Las Vegas after going to sleep on the west coast schedule and waking up on the east coast schedule. My brain is shot so I figured I’d offer you some of the idle cycles of … Continue reading →

Good or Bad?

Posted: 5:01 pm
July 28, 2009
OwnWebNow
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I was looking at the financial breakdown of our company today, tracking some of the trends and trying to gain some confidence in the new business models, annual shift of responsibilities and the next huge growth curve we’re (hopefully) about … Continue reading →

Ownership

Posted: 5:04 pm
July 25, 2009
OwnWebNow, Vladville
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Once upon a time, in the long long ago, I was a broke college student. After series of tables that you would see broken in half during WWF fights, I actually sublet a furnished room in an apartment from a … Continue reading →

The best blog post I’ve read in a long time

Posted: 11:46 am
July 25, 2009
Microsoft
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Over at MarketWatch: “Is the party over for behemoth Microsoft?” If you read that and don’t feel uneasy; read it again. I don’t really have a comment short of just nodding my head in disbelief.

Windows 7 RTMs; Already gets bad reviews

Posted: 6:08 am
July 23, 2009
Uncategorized
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From one of the most respected and fair people in the IT industry, Walt Mossberg of the WSJ. While I totally agree with Walt’s assessment that Windows 7 migration will suck for Windows XP users I wonder just how fair … Continue reading →

Selling a clue. $1 obo

Posted: 4:20 pm
July 20, 2009
IT Business
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True conversation from earlier today, partner/friend of years that seems to be stuck in the past, finding the future isn’t for working out for him: Bob: Economy sucks. Vlad: Really? Bob: Yes. Vlad: Are you selling anything new? Bob: Nobody … Continue reading →

WPC: The Afterthought

Posted: 10:46 pm
July 18, 2009
Microsoft
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Last year was the first in the recent memory that I skipped out on WPC; two from my team went and had a far different impression of it than I used to. This year, I went again with the team … Continue reading →

WPC Day 3 – A Glimmer of Hope

Posted: 8:13 am
July 16, 2009
Microsoft
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Since Chris Rue is now done speaking and I can attribute quotes to him without fear that he’ll be gunned down for his low “Microsoft opinion / revenue” ratio, last week he really called the Microsoft/Partner relationship: It’s kinda the … Continue reading →