April, 2006

I believe there is a lot of value in getting information direct from the source and especially an acknowledged authority in software development. Here is Part 1 in the Q&A series with Soma. I encourage you to make comments here or send me an e-mail at sibaraki@cips.ca . Profile: S. "Soma" Somasegar is corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft Corporation . The Developer...

Recently I wrote about an opportunity to work with a company called JDQ and their 3Spheres of Reciprosity program ( www.jdq.com/3spheres ). After being approached by Jon Morris (JDQ President) I was able to help find 2 volunteer developers for an upcoming community IT project for the Surrey Food Bank in BC. Last Friday I attended JDQ's quarterly progress meeting (breakfast was generously supplied...

Today I had the opportunity to talk with Ron Roy, the IT Services manager for the City of Stratford . Ron and his team have recently gone through a migration from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 as well as upgrading from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003. Additionally, Ron’s team have been able to use Virtual Server 2005 to consolidate some older servers and help to reduce both costs and...

Virtualisation takes a number of steps forward... In an announcement today at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston , Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise Edition will now be available as a free download. What this means is that everyone will be able to make use of the Virtualisation platform for server consolidation, OS and application compatibility, deploying test networks and a huge number...

Margaret's March 20 th and March 28 th blogs, " Global IT Skills shortage fact, or fiction? " triggered discussions both inside and outside the CIM forum: - Most Wanted: a Multi-Specialist with Business Acumen or I.S.P. - What’s a Versatilist - Multi-IT Specialist with Business Acumen=A Versatilist . In part 3, Margaret discusses several practical solutions. I encourage CIM readers to make...