Name That Tune!

Do you remember this TV show?  A dinosaur would!

Apparently some intrepid Cisco gnome can deploy 200+ Jabber clients in ONE DAY.  Good on ya, man!  I suspect, however, that as a best practice, one should plan for a slightly longer and more controlled rollout.  I'll be spending a lot of time here when the time comes!

Masters Degrees don't pay off for IT?

New study from Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce says sometimes a graduate degree pays off -- potentially up to 40% earnings boost.  But sometimes not so much.  Especially in IT (and four other fields I don't care about).

I find it interesting that they quote Modis (a big IT body shop) as saying improved skillsets and interpersonal skills are more important than greater academic qualifications.

So many people I know are thinking about getting a M.A. or a M.S. to get out of a slump, a slot, or otherwise jump-start their IT careers.  Hit the brakes! 

Mama?

Dino skeleton expected to return to Mongolia

Is that you, Mama?

I wonder if Tyrannosaurus bataar is on LinkedIn. . .

War of the Email: Outlook\Exchange 2010 v. Notes 8.5

I'm intrigued.

I've been living the argument for many years, but I've never seen this particular comparison before.  Author Martijn de Jong is not unbiased, but he is open about his background and tries to stick to facts.  And he's quite right, IBM should have published a comparison like this a long time ago.

Unfortunately this comparison won't change minds when it comes to the Big Picture, but it might open eyes in the Little Picture -- if some people still think certain Outlook-y things can't be done with Lotus Notes (and vice versa).

Well done, Martijn.

"Connections, what?"

Congratulations, IBM Connections!  Worldwide market share leader in social business three years running.  Nice!

So what is it?  A suite of everything you need to get going in the social business world, all interoperable, all streamed together, all together capable of making email obsolete.  35% of Fortune 100 companies are using it.  No other software supplier has anything quite like it. You'd think IBM would be marketing the h*ll out of it.

Have YOU seen a commercial for it lately?  Yeah, me either.

Until they do, here's a 4-year old goodie they could dust off and re-air -- if they felt like selling software.