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Virtual work at Sun Microsystems is a Wonderland

by @ Friday, November 16th, 2007. Filed under New Paradigms, Open Source, YukYuks

It was the spring of 2006 when The Portable Consultant first posted comments here about Second Life’s virtual world.
That was a playground (umm… for adults, you know - like Vegas).
Now we can go to work in a similar environment.
Sun has recently set up a virtual world for its teleworkers, very much like Second Life.
…and they […]

Dell goes virtual… users go broke?

by @ Wednesday, August 8th, 2007. Filed under New Paradigms, YukYuks

The Portable Consultant just read about Dell’s plans to increase support for virtualization in their PCs.
The article is another case of technology overtaking common sense. While virtualization is indeed a great tool, for certain jobs and in certain situations, the article’s description of users running multiple operating systems sounds like the kind of fantasy usually […]

What’s in a name?

by @ Friday, June 1st, 2007. Filed under New Paradigms

domain auctioning gone mad?
Why do I find this CNN Money/Business 2.0 article on Kevin Ham, master of Internet domain names, so depressing?
He does what he does very well. To a certain extent his work serves a purpose and society values it to the amount of some $300 million.
Perhaps it’s depressing because it speaks to some […]

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