One of the goals I’ve had since day one with my consulting company is to run as lean and efficiently as possible. One of the most simple things that I adhere to in that philosophy is to attempt to prevent any expenses from being generated that are not directly covered by generation of some form [...]
Since almost the day we started my consulting company I’ve been wanting to change the name as I haven’t truly been happy with it. Personally I am enamored with the idea of running a company with a name like Architel or Everon, and want to change my name to something similar.
I believe we may have [...]
I’ve been keeping what amounts to a blog since 1997 in one form or another, but up until starting this blog had always kept my writings more on the personal level. I had brought up ideas or problems I had run into, but always kept a very personal and sometimes adversarial tone to topics. I [...]
I awoke this morning to a post on smbITpros.com about CRM and PSA tools, and the limited scope of products a provider had been looking at for the transition to managed services. What interested me the most was Josh’s mention of how he was shocked to see that the provider had only considered Salesforce.com and [...]
One of the common themes I’ve found over the years, especially when dealing with potential or new clients, is disconnect between a client’s pricing expectations versus reality. Often a client has been running their business technology needs at a certain level, and is either moving up to the next tier, or is retiring a previous [...]
Seems that Microsoft has withdrawn its offer to purchase Yahoo. Easiest way to find more details is to hit the Slashdot article. Frankly I’m very happy to hear this news, as I’ve had some talks and discussions about possibly using Zimbra recently, but was possibly going to delay or scuttle those projects due to the [...]
So I have been reading a lot about Xobni recently, most notably on Lifehacker, and finally received my invite to try the product today. Download was simple and easy, and after about 5 minutes, it had scanned my recent e-mails and moved on to indexing the rest of my mail.
Even after just a few minutes [...]
Yesterday I came across an addition to a post on the History of Geeks On Call blog that pointed to an article regarding the formation of a new technical consulting company called Tech Herd. The company just happened to be formed by former Geeks on Call Vice President of Operations, Michael Vanderslice.
I’ve always respected Michael [...]