Author: Vince Kimball

From NT/5.5 to 2000 or 2003?. Are you planning to upgrade from NT4/5.5 to Windows and Exchange 2000, or are you perhaps considering jumping all the way to 2003? Exchange 2003 offers many new benefits and features over Exchange 2000, as this Microsoft chart shows, however there may be a few more things to consider before… Continue reading From NT/5.5 to 2000 or 2003?

Software Customer Bill of Rights. As the software infrastructure has been going through chaos, reporters (and others) have been called me several times to ask what our software-related legal rights are now and what they should be. I propose 10 rules that are more modest than other suggestions but that could go a long way… Continue reading Software Customer Bill of Rights

IEEE's “Body of Knowledge” for Software Engineering. The IEEE Computer Society has been developing its own statement of the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK). They are now calling for a review of SWEBOK, which you can participate in at www.swebok.org. SWEBOK pushes the traditional, documentation-heavy approaches. I have read several drafts of it over… Continue reading IEEE's “Body of Knowledge” for Software Engineering

Best value conference?. Here's a great analysis of some techn conferences….. [thanks Jason] The Science of Conventions. Great breakdown of tech conventions…. [Jason DeFillippo's Journal] Putting a Value to a Conference In the past days there has been some discussion about the registration cost of professional conferences, especially the PDC ($1700) and BloggerCon ($500).  The… Continue reading Best value conference?

theinquirer.net – Microsoft software 'riddled with vulnerabilities”, trade body claims. Dept of Homeland Security should avoid Microsoft The US Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) has urged the US Department of Homeland Security to avoid using Microsoft software. The Washington based association, which represents members that generate over $300 billion, has issued an open letter… Continue reading Microsoft software 'riddled with vulnerabilities”, trade body claims

On Business Models. Don Park and Tim Oren are engaged in an interesting discussion of business models in the wifi world. Don kindly makes a suggestion to have Access Point hardware vendors subsidise the price of the wifi Access Point (AP) by bundling it with a services oriented business model.  It's like a blast of deja… Continue reading On Business Models

More pleasant surprises, please. I want to be pleasantly surprised by software that notices when message patterns indicate the formation of a group or project, and volunteers to set up folders and filters for me. Likewise, I want to be pleasantly surprised by an RSS newsreader that notices how I save and organize items from… Continue reading More pleasant surprises, please

SMTP Virtual Server Learning…. The're's a new tutorial over at MSExchange.org that's definitely worth a read “SMTP Virtual Server Uncovered”…. The article provides “some insight into better SMTP queue management to improve your ability to cope when your queues get swamped with spam and… [MS Exchange Blog]

Exchange 2003 Deployment. Microsoft have published an Exchange 2003 Deployment Guide… it's available here…. [MS Exchange Blog]