"The new Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program unveiled this week certifies cloud-computing providers to offer applications and infrastructure based on Red Hat software, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and JBoss Java middleware, according to Red Hat."
- Kevin Cearns
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"ABOUT three months ago, Gianfranco Lanci flew into San Francisco International Airport, got off the plane and made his way to the passport control stations. As he pulled out his documents, the passport agent immediately recognized him as the chief executive of Acer. “It was the first time in my life that has ever happened,” he says."
- Kevin Cearns
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"When a Microsoft (MSFT) salesman dropped by IT consultant Westcon Group's Tarrytown (N.Y.) headquarters for a round of negotiations in late 2008, Westcon's chief information officer, William Hurley, decided he had had enough. "I'm sick of this," he said to the sales rep, complaining of the high costs of buying and maintaining Microsoft's broad portfolio of business software. "I don't want to do this anymore.""
- Kevin Cearns
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and the march to Bell recovery seems a distant far off place - another region gone, yeah, I'm looking at you Westmount
painfully aware of how high BSG raised the TV bar - nothing for the last few months has been close - didn't expect to hit the reruns so soon after the finale...