Category Archives: IT Business

Disturbance in the Microsoft Patching Force

Posted: 12:55 pm
February 13, 2008
IT Business, Microsoft, Security
2 Comments

Looks like there was more fun overnight than the Central Florida hurricanes, check out what OWN was up to: For the past 10 hours or so we have been handling an 820% surge in reboot requests for hung Microsoft servers … Continue reading →

AuthAnvil 1.5 is out!

Posted: 9:34 pm
February 11, 2008
Deals, ExchangeDefender, IT Business
on AuthAnvil 1.5 is out!

Check out the new stuff in AuthAnvil 1.5: For starters, there are plenty of fixes and updates to the core system. There are over 50 usability bugs that have been fixed ranging for faster communication in the AuthAnvil DCOM Bridge … Continue reading →

More Yahoo Drama, who cares? The answer to why people hate Microsoft so much.

Posted: 11:20 am
February 9, 2008
Google, IT Business, IT Culture, Microsoft
3 Comments

This question came up during the geek lunch here in Orlando, far far away from the neverland of the Silicon Valley. Who cares about Yahoo and Google and Microsoft, I am tired of that drama said one of our local … Continue reading →

Business Without Fear

Posted: 11:55 pm
February 7, 2008
IT Business
on Business Without Fear

Being a business owner can be an intense, scary, anxious lifestyle. It gets worse when you find out who your competitors are and when you look at what analysts predict your market to look like* (note to self: blog about … Continue reading →

When you’ve got nothing good to say…

Posted: 1:45 pm
February 7, 2008
IT Business
on When you’ve got nothing good to say…

Point to someone that does… The Killer Objection by Karl Palachuk I’ve said this a million times, there is only one proven sales strategy out there short of outright intimidation and its called “sold you a dream” – if you … Continue reading →

Microsoft blows the Zimbra Pig House

Posted: 12:31 am
February 6, 2008
Exchange, IT Business
on Microsoft blows the Zimbra Pig House

In another desperate Microsoft-bashing event, eWeek (surprise!) is predicting the end of Microsoft in a desperation move to buy Zimbra. Yeah. Forget the advertising. Forget IM share. Forget the webmail dominance in the consumer space.. It’s all about Zimbra.. Yeah. Sure. … Continue reading →

What is your biggest fear as the CEO of a software company?

Posted: 5:02 pm
January 31, 2008
IT Business
on What is your biggest fear as the CEO of a software company?

I got that question posed to me today in an entrepreneur interview for UCF. What I proceeded to say was a PG-13 rated response of tourette’s syndrome that most VARs, partners, techies and CIO’s spout about nearly every company they … Continue reading →

FMR: Kick Vlad Day in Full Effect

Posted: 11:27 am
January 24, 2008
IT Business
2 Comments

I rarely blog about my actual work and what I truly do as a CEO. Too much of what I do is so unbelievable that I think most people would misread my blog posts as true ramblings of an insane … Continue reading →

"Rackspace Sucks"

Posted: 11:12 am
January 23, 2008
IT Business
5 Comments

It’s what you’re hearing more and more these days. Rackspace is a direct competitor of ours, I have a lot of respect for their marketing and don’t have anything bad to say about them. They certainly are a leader in … Continue reading →

Another miss, W. The post you really ought to read but I know you won’t because there is too much text in it and it doesn’t address your immediate concerns.

Posted: 10:26 am
January 18, 2008
IT Business
4 Comments

By now you’ve surely heard the assessment of the US economy from the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke which was basically a two hour oration summed up best in these words: “We’re fucked.” Not to be outdone, Captain Chokes On … Continue reading →