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As many of you probably saw (thank you, Google News Alerts), Digipede has just released a new version of our award-winning grid computing software, the Digipede Network.  Whew. One of the most painful and joyful events in the life of a software company is the release of new software.  While this seems like an obvious […]

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Leaving the energy industry turns out to be harder than I thought. When we started Digipede (more than 7 years ago!), my partners and I had spent more than a decade working together in the electric utility industry, and frankly were ready for something new.  While some of the ideas that eventually became Digipede had […]

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As has been widely reported, Microsoft is ditching the “Gold” designation for its partners.  We’re OK with that — in fact, we thought we’d get ahead of the curve and ditch our Gold certification now. It’s time to renew our Microsoft partner program membership (always an adventure, although somewhat easier than it used to be).  […]

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I went to Microsoft’s Mountain View office last week, where I did an interview with William Leong, Microsoft ISV Evangelist.  We talked about Digipede’s market, products, and the need for grid computing in businesses of all sizes.  We even talked about IronPython, and how a last-minute addition to a recent version of our software has […]

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I have blasted Microsoft (more particularly, the Microsoft Partner team) about their Partner Web site in the past, and was particularly vocal about the problems with the process of renewing our membership as a Gold Certified Partner in January, 2008.  (You can see my rant here, and my follow-up rant here.)  In the spirit of […]

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I’ve written here about Digipede’s financial services customers (about half of Digipede’s business is in that market), but today I’ll talk about an interesting project from the other half of our business.  We did a press release today  about the recent sale we made to the US Navy.  You can read that here, so let’s go […]

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Now that the big announcements about Microsoft’s cloud computing platform are out at PDC, I can finally talk about stuff formerly under NDA. All I can say is — wow.  The Microsoft transition from cloud-absent to cloud-giant has begun.  There have been hints and leaks and guesses for quite some time now, but the announcements […]

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After two years of testing the promises, wishes and hopes of the Microsoft AdCenter team, and thousands of dollars spent to no avail, Digipede is done with Microsoft’s online advertising. I, CEO of a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, do hereby proclaim my opinion, based on firsthand experience, that Microsoft AdCenter is entirely without value to […]

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The San Francisco Chronicle is not exactly the planet’s leading source of technology news and analysis.  So many of you probably haven’t yet seen Deborah Gage’s excellent article today about Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft’s ambassador to Silicon Valley.  Dan’l is among our most important contacts (and favorite people) at Microsoft, and despite his high-visibility role, many […]

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The world is indeed getting smaller — and quicker, and better connected. And you might as well talk about what you’re doing, because smart well-connected people will figure everything out immediately anyway. Case in point: Marc Adler’s recent post about Velocity, in which he says: . . . It is no secret that the most […]

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