Powers Unfiltered

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

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What are they thinking?

May 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment

OK, I’ve posted about our positive experience at a recent Microsoft conference, and I meant every word of it — it was a great event, and we had great treatment by all the Microsoft folks in attendence.  Now I want to address an issue about how policies attributed to Microsoft Legal have the (possibly unintended) consequence of reducing […]

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Tags: Customer Service · Events · 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