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I am out of the matrix
Posted on 15. Aug, 2010 by Amit Jindal.
This evening when I started booting my reformatted laptop, I realized that I am no longer at status quo.
Reminds me of the conversation in Matrix.
At first Neo’s new world seems rather unreal to him, and he begins to doubt that he has entered a new world at [...]
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Exploring an unchartered territory, the world of Ubuntu ‘Lucid Lynx’ Linux
Posted on 08. Aug, 2010 by Amit Jindal.
Aug 8, 2010: I finally got away from Windows XP on my Dell Latitude D630. 80 GB of data, firmly archived, saved on 2 external hard drives in 2 different formats. Then sanitized the disk with mhdd ERASE command.
Why do I hate windows? Or do I?
Actually I don’t. I use windows more than Linux and [...]
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Microsoft losing its primary entry point. Developers!
Posted on 17. Jul, 2010 by Amit Jindal.
As I have blogged before, Windows mobile has never really been a true business phone. It seems like I am not alone. Windows mobile is really losing ground.
With Android and iPhone on the shelves, and most developers developing for these platform it is simply a matter of time before Microsoft is history on phones.
Microsoft Calling. [...]
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Importance of TIME in rapid, low cost, we-want-it-now Software Development
Posted on 17. Jul, 2010 by Amit Jindal.
I have been a software process practitioner for a greater part of my professional life. I have managed project that are very large in scope, change and complexity. I have tried all approaches, Scrum, XP, Agile, Classic, Prince2. With every approach comes benefits and pitfalls. Still I find all these approaches are too vague for [...]
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The Great Linux Migration
Posted on 29. Jun, 2010 by Amit Jindal.
Those who know me already know that Aquevix is a Linux based Infrastructure. Our mail servers, virtualization, thin clients, firewalls, application servers, database servers, monitoring servers, all are Linux. I have been a Linux user since 1997 when Redhat was 6.x (before their Enterprise products).
Moreover, somehow I just couldn’t bite the idea that we need [...]
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The Odds Are Increasing That Microsoft’s Business Will Collapse
Posted on 26. Jun, 2010 by Amit Jindal.
As scary as this may sound, I kind of have the same opinion. Microsoft is simply trying hard to cash in on their successes. I do not see major innovation coming from them. They may have a huge research & development, but most of the new technologies are coming from Apple and Google. Apple is [...]
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Where is Microsoft Mobile headed
Posted on 06. Jun, 2010 by Amit Jindal.
I have used Microsoft Mobile phone for past 5 years. Used iMate, O2, Asus, HTC. The speed increased from 64Mhz to 200 Mhz to 524 Mhz. Then I got fed up with hangs, slow opening applications, dying voice and what not. So I threw away all my applications and restarted with Nokia E71. For first [...]
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Red Hat’s CEO: Clouds can become the mother of all lock-ins | Cloud Computing - InfoWorld
Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by Amit Jindal.
Is it only my feeling or is it that all business leaders those are not offering Cloud are commenting against cloud. Although what’s said is common sense, still I do not understand why businesses fail to see these simple issues.
Red Hat’s CEO: Clouds can become the mother of all lock-ins
Cloud architecture has to be defined [...]
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Is the future of data services Azure?
Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by Amit Jindal.
Last Thursday I was at Microsoft ISV day. To my surprise, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) was there for keynote. I was expecting a virtual Steve Ballmer on a screen. That was nice of him to show up.
Anyway, the conference did not turn out as useful as I had hoped. The initial talks were about Cloud Selling. [...]