Wouldn't it be great if there were a Windows port of Hydra? The main thing you need is a Windows port of Rendezvous to build upon. Is there a Windows port of Rendezvous? Yes, there is. It's call Howl. Not only does Howl support Windows, there is also a port available for Linux. In reviewing the FAQ's on the Hydra site I discovered there is no chance of a Windows port because of Hydra dependence upon Cocoa. Bummer.
Paolo has been playing with Hydra quite a bit and his writing has got me entrigued. This is the type of application that could change the way we work. It is already changing the way Paolo and his colleagues work. I have downloaded Hydra and will post my reactions.
I have been receiving intermittent email from all of the Yahoo! Groups I belong to. Some of these emails are delayed as much as three days. I have received duplicate emails that are up to a week old. What is going on over there?
No, I'm not talking about golf. I would be interested in anyone's reaction or experiences with 3PARdata. I did an evaluation of their product last year, but it wasn't what we were looking for on that particular project. I loved their architecture, but the software had not quite caught up with the hardware. How do things sit today?
I have a situation on my hands that is a significant deviation from EMC's standard processes. I am going to pop on them tomorrow and see how they react. Everything that I am about to ask them to do is technically possible, but not within their normal operating parameters. This could make or break the project. It should be interesting.
I finally figured out what the premium is that you pay for purchasing EMC products today after almost an entire day of meetings with our implementation team -- their internal processes. You arenât paying for the product or not the excellent software engineering (it any exists there), or the name brand. No matter how large or small your purchase is or how complex the installation might be, the internal processes that project managers, solutions architects, and customer engineers have to go through to get anything certified is the same. It doesn't matter if it is a simple disk upgrade or an implementation of SRDF across the country. This is huge overhead and a significant impediment to customer satisfaction. They can reorganize their personnel all they want, but until they rationalize their processes customer satisfaction will remain in the dumper and no efficiencies will be generated.
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