The official “end of life” for Windows XP, when Microsoft will cease to offer support for Windows XP will be April 8, 2014. Although you can still use your Windows XP, Microsoft wants its users to move from the 12 year old operating system to a more current alternative (Windows 7 is preferred for non-touch […]

Are you still clinging to your Blackberry mobile device?  Are you expecting that they will make a miraculous comeback? It used to be that Blackberry offered some very compelling reasons to use their technology: An actual keyboard that makes it easy to type out messages. Instantaneous email (could almost use email as a text/chat service) […]

Windows is losing market share – Microsoft needs to start looking at ways to reorganize and reposition itself after being faced with the realization that their existing vision “Windows on Every Device” is no longer viable. Microsoft chooses Server and Services as their future – The mid to large business market serviced by Microsoft’s enterprise […]

Virtualization allows you to use one piece of hardware to run multiple virtual servers. You can basically disect your server hardware (CPU, Memory, Disk Space) into mutiple independant units. In this diagram you can see that the web/database server for the SugarCRM application (Guest A) shares the same hardware (Host) as the Microsoft Exchange Server […]

Open Source is a methodology and concept used by organizations and software companies to produce a specific software technology. In an Open Source model, a company or organization publishes a programing code base to a community of programmers so that they can contribute to the core programming, correct bugs, and enhance the technology’s offerings. This […]

If Alaska’s government business is being transacted using a Yahoo account, you can bet that you and your employees are doing the same thing. Today we learned that Governor Palin, for reasons that still mystify us all (it took some restraint not to take a political stab), was using a Yahoo account to communicate with […]