Joseph George's Weblog Joe's Soap Box

Mitek bundles its IP Phone with Sun's Sun Ray thin-client. A great combination in office environments. Check out the Computer World article here. 

InfoWorld has announced its BOSS-ie (Best of OpenSource Software) awards for some open storage software. ZFS figures prominently. I also found some interesting tid-bits from the article.

Finally, there are a few areas we're keeping our eyes on but aren't yet prepared to pick any winners. One of these is backup and recovery, where Amanda is well-known and there are too many up-and-comers to mention. Also on the watch list is NTFS Mount (Solaris), UFS Reader (WinXP), a project that is still in beta but promises to break down the wall between Solaris and Windows, allowing either operating system to directly access the file system assets of the other. Now that's what community is all about. 

I like the bit about breaking down the walls between Solaris and Windows. 

Has anyone checked out ISOHUNT lately? BeleniX is on the front page. And can you imagine how many folks are downloading BeleniX? I almost fell out of my seat when I saw the numbers. 

3810 - seeds and 1821 leechers! Wow, that is the kind of numbers pirated blockbuster movies run into.

If you have not heard it yet, here it is ....

NetBeans Pod Cast - with reference to Code For Freedom.

2007 DataQuest IDC - Best IT Employer Survey

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Sun Microsystems with an employee base of about 1,000 made its entry into the Dataquest-IDC Best Employers listing at No, 10 largely driven by a high employee satisfaction score. It scores high on compensation and topped the rank on the new age priority, work-life balance.
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Woo hoo!