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Google conquering the enterprise space

Holy cow - GOOG is getting serious about competing against MSFT in the enterprise. My wife, who is a manager in a SMB, says she wouldn't want to leave the familiarity of Office, but apparently some Fortune corporations are willing to give Google Apps a shot. How about you?

Watch FRONTLINE

As always, FRONTLINE is the premier current events program on television. It's amazing how you can live through these events and not understand what has happened until someone places it in context. And PBS is the only network objective enough to host a show like FRONTLINE. By contrast, CNN has been a dismal failure in covering the war. What amazed me as I watched was the consistent view among the military advisers in the show that this is still mainly our problem, and that if we leave and chaos and suffering ensues, it will be mainly our fault. We have such a sky-high-minded view of ourselves - we think the rest of the world will blame us if we leave. In reality, the rest of the world is criticizing us for staying - and the future is up to the Iraqis themselves. We cannot stop people who do not want peace from engaging in violence within their own country. We need to return to a more realist view of foreign policy, hyperpower or not. The standard for justifying foreign i

30 days with Linux

This is a link to a review of Ubuntu by Brian Boyko, a self-described power user who tries to test systems using real-world hardware. He's done the same thing for WinVista and Mac OS X. He seems quite objective and even-handed. I'm trying out Ubuntu myself. I installed it with wubi , which I found to be painless and smooth. That's not what Brian did, though; he's got dedicated hardware. So far I've found it to be a much smoother OS than WinXP, more responsive even through it's running on a separate hard drive. I haven't done a lot with it so far but will let you know how it goes. http://consumer.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTI5OCwxLCxoY29uc3VtZXI =