I just hopped on a plane from Chicago, IL to Richmond, VA. I had a great seat, right up front, which meant I had plenty of legroom and I could get off this germ tube as soon as we pulled up to the gate. Then, the flight attendant told me and three other folks that we had to move to the back of the plane because the plane was a little ‘nose heavy’. Translated – ‘You are on a small plane and we need to move you chocolate chip cookie-eating folks to head back to the cheap seats or this thing isn’t getting off the ground’. The flight attendant did start her request with ‘No offense, but you have to move…’ None taken. I prefer to live than worry about what anyone else on this tin can thinks of my waistline. I think that line is a good idea for this list. No offense, but…
- ..I am bored with electronic discovery being the only real application of search technology outside of advertisements. I finally met a company that uses search to solve a different type of problem. Krugle helps developers locate code from internal and external sources. The benefits are less repetitive development, fewer patent infringements, and better quality software / microcode.
- …HP’s acquisition of Tower is big news. The media just isn’t smart enough to ‘get it’ and therefore customers are being mis-educated. Tower has some good Enterprise Content Management solutions but the real steal for HP was Tower’s partnership / integration with Microsoft SharePoint. Sure, some archiving solutions already support SharePoint, but Tower has taken it to a new level and added incremental capabilities that it will share with the public soon enough.
- ...IT has no more excuses for mailbox quotas. E-mail attachment management is making a comeback. Yep, that’s right. Because two thirds of organizations have mailbox quotas (which is just silly in my opinion), IT departments have to find other ways to handle large attachments that often burn through a quota. Thru, Inc. and Proginet are two that have caught my eye recently. If you use one of these solutions, you may not need a mailbox quota because any message with a large attachment will be sent with these solutions.
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