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An entrepreneur’s journey into grid computing and partnering with Microsoft, by John Powers

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Entries from June 2006

.NET Grid Projects, Mono, and CCS in Finance

June 30th, 2006 · No Comments

In his blog “Tales from a Trading Desk,” Matt Davey poses some interesting speculation: Will any investment bank has the guts to deploy Mono on its servers to run .NET trading software? I’m not sure. If the bank has already deployed Microsoft .NET to all its workstations why wouldn’t it just use Microsoft .NET on […]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Grid applications

Partnering with Microsoft — Promotional Opportunity for VSIP Members

June 28th, 2006 · No Comments

If you’re a Microsoft partner, (specifically, in the Visual Studio Industry Partners, or VSIP program), and you have any sort of free offer, you owe it to yourself to check out something called an MSDN Flash.  (It is, of course, not easy to find this opportunity on the dreaded partner.microsoft.com site.  Searching on “MSDN Flash” finds a single […]

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Tags: Partnering with Microsoft

Work it, or it’s not worth it

June 24th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Here are a few more observations based in part on Digipede’s experience at the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference in New York this week. I posted about this earlier today; this post is less fact, more perspective. For a small company like Digipede, a trade show can be a frightening investment. Travel is […]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Events · Partnering with Microsoft · Presentations · Startup Life

Linux Community Notices Windows CCS

June 23rd, 2006 · 1 Comment

Well, it looks as though the Linux community has noticed Microsoft’s entry into the HPC market.  In reviewing Tom Groenfeldt’s financial services blog on MSDN, I ran across a comment that led back to a longer post by Brad Chamberlin, expressing his incredulity that anyone could take an HPC offering from Microsoft seriously.  Brad’s comments […]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server

Digipede at SIA — Big show, big partners, big news

June 23rd, 2006 · 2 Comments

Digipede’s trip to the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference went better than planned. With a presence in four locations (the Digipede booth, Microsoft booth, HP booth, and the Microsoft / HP “break room”), we were rocking pretty hard for three days straight. If you have not been to this event, it is unlike […]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Events · Grid applications · Partnering with Microsoft

New York, New York

June 19th, 2006 · No Comments

I’m at the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference at the Hilton in midtown Manhattan this week.  I took the redeye on JetBlue last night to make it to a meeting that’s been canceled, I’ve been ineptly “helping” Dan and Nathan set up the Digipede booth (#4506), and have not slept in exactly 24 […]

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Tags: Compute Cluster Server · Events · Partnering with Microsoft · Presentations

More on the BioIT Alliance

June 15th, 2006 · No Comments

George Laszlo has responded to my comments about about his earlier post, regarding the Microsoft BioIT Alliance.  It’s easier to just reproduce most of his response here: First, please note that my primary concern is the welfare of the client who buys hardware, software or services from any vendor. My experience tells me that while […]

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Tags: Partnering with Microsoft

Partnering with Microsoft — part deux

June 8th, 2006 · 4 Comments

I just posted some advice about the benefits of partnering with Microsoft.  Those benefits are real.  Now, for an equally real rant. It’s not until you’re fully engaged with Microsoft, and you are in fact working like hell to make the most of that relationship, that you realize just how fully maddening their Partner Web site really is.  […]

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Partnering with Microsoft

June 8th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Don Dodge and Cliff Reeves of the Microsoft Emerging Business Team (EBT) continue to crank out good advice about partnering with Microsoft, especially for ISV startups — but I think it’s time for some of us ISV startup partners to weigh in, too.  “Partnering with Microsoft” is an easy thing to say, and, superficially, an easy thing to […]

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Tags: Partnering with Microsoft · Startup Life

Asking for Help

June 5th, 2006 · 6 Comments

I have a better-than-usual relationship with my current laptop — a Dell Lattitude D610.  It’s my one work machine — at the office, at home, on planes, at conferences, etc.  It’s a year-old, right-down-the-middle combination of fast-enough and light-enough and nice-enough-screen to be a good place to put my work life.  It’s been very reliable (ok, I […]

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Tags: Usability