UNIX

The March, 2010 launch of the new HP-UX 11i Operating System

Since I promised to share as often as possible on the topic of operating systems and especially those related to organizational IT, I...

Intel’s Itanium 9300 is finally here

When I bought my first car, a 1983 BMW 320iS, it came with a license plate...

Linux or UNIX?

UNIX vs. Linux for Enterprise workloads

I originally set-out for...

Videos for Chief Information Officers

The group I work in at Hewlett Packard often needs buy-in from the CIO for the large IT...

How much will you pay for ‘mission-critical’ IT?

What criteria do enterprise customers use to deem a workload or application ‘mission-critical’?

October 26, 2009  5:33 PM

UNIX, love is good, but given unsought, is better

Posted by: Jamen Koos
AIX, Gabriel Consulting, HP-UX, Marketing research, Solaris, SUN, UNIX

Yes, that's a Shakespeare quote.  No, I'm not going to explain how I assert it applies to the following. Being a marketing person, there are a few things that really get me going.  One of them is customer research with compelling results.  What marketing person out there doesn't just love...

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September 23, 2009  6:13 PM

Oracle for president?

Posted by: Jamen Koos
Hewlett-Packard, HP, IBM, Solaris, SPARC, SUN, UNIX

"I would like us to be the successor to IBM. Not Gerstner's IBM. Not Palmisano's IBM. But when IBM was the dominant software company in the world and translated that to being the dominant systems company." --Larry Ellison.

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