Can “Geek Chic” help reverse the IT staffing shortage? This is an interesting article I read at www.ITBusinessEdge.com about the shortage of IT staff and how we aren’t doing enough to attract High School and College kids to follow a technical track. Athough it touches on the [...]

The longstanding stalwart PBX giant Avaya was recently bought by Silver Lake Partners and the Texas Pacific Group for $8.2 Billion. Aside from it being a lot of dough, this illustrates the turmoil happening in the competitive corporate phone system business. From my perspective, I think they paid [...]

I recently stumbled upon a cool web 2.0 application called dabbledb. As the name might suggest, it’s an online database. So what you say, DBs are everywhere. The difference here is that for a very low price (free if [...]

Yahoo recently purchased Zimbra for $350 million. This a great example of good things happening to good products. For those who don’t know, Zimbra is an open source Email, Calendar and file collaboration suite that is simply amazing. They have an AJAX based UI that is simple, elegant and IMHO [...]