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Altiris Business Unit says all is good with Symantec

Posted to an email list today, an Altiris employee talks about their perception of support since Symantec acquired the systems management company. ============= Well I work for the Symantec Altiris Business Unit in the enterprise support group. So here's what I would say about Symantec support: The...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 01-18-2008
Filed under: Security, Software, Systems Management, Industry News
Software + Services Overview

Microsoft has termed the concept behind this transformation: ‘Software plus Services’, or ‘S+S’. “S+S is the weaving together of the best of software and Internet services to provide a new generation of rich experiences that are personalized, integrated and available anywhere...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 01-03-2008
Filed under: Software, Industry News
Shavlik up for sale?

A post to the Patchmanagement.org email discussion list indicated that Shavlik may be up for sale? I’m checking into it. More to come. An interesting blurb I found on their web site is that they recently licensed their technology to Sophos . Hmmm…

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 10-19-2007
Filed under: Patch Management, Software, Industry News
Google buys Grand Central

Grand Central was a pretty cool service. But, now Google has purchased it . In a continuing effort to be Google-free, sadly I asked my Grand Central account to be removed today. You can’t remove it yourself. You actually have to send an email to support@grandcentral.com and ask to be removed. So...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 07-04-2007
Filed under: Internet, Software, Industry News
Funny comment about the Quest purchase of ScriptLogic

I mentioned to the Scripting list today that ScriptLogic had been acquired by Quest . It’s a good thing Quest purchased ScriptLogic when they did because, per the person who replied… “ That's hilarious. We have been looking at replacing Quest with Scriptlogic.”

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 06-21-2007
Filed under: Scripting, Software, Systems Management, Industry News
Read the NY Times on your computer

What is Times Reader? Times Reader is a new, downloadable software application that lets Windows XP and Vista users read The New York Times electronically, online or offline, in a paginated format as opposed to scrolling down a Web page. Times Reader lets users retrieve all the latest news and photos...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 09-26-2006
Filed under: Software, Windows, Industry News
Digg produces an Internet TV channel

Other companies have been doing this for years, so is it now time for it to really take off? I bet a lot of companies, today, are putting in filters to block the new service. Just like YouTube.com, Revision3 will be a time, money, and business waster. http://www.revision3.com/

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 09-26-2006
Filed under: Software, Industry News
Free is what?

I watch the communities. When someone is looking for software, the first post is about some free or Open Source software somewhere that no one has ever heard of before the post. How many insurance companies would be out of business if they gave insurance away for free? Yet, we need insurance. In the...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 09-21-2006
Filed under: Open Source, Software, Industry News
Adobe and Google in bed together

Adobe Systems Inc. said on Wednesday Google Inc. had agreed to pay the multimedia software maker a "significant" amount to distribute Google's Web search software over several years. The deal calls for users to receive Google Toolbar Web search software each time they download Adobe's Shockwave player...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 06-21-2006
Filed under: Software, Industry News
Tandy computers

Microsoft released news about Microsoft Robotics Studio today. These are definitely exciting times. I wonder how long it will be before Google tries to duplicate this with some effort of their own. Anyway, do you remember Radio Shack and their Tandy Computer line from the 70’s and 80’s? If...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 06-20-2006
Filed under: Hardware, Software, Industry News

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