VoiceCon coming soon

VoiceCon will be at Moscone Center August 21-24th. The exhibits are the 21-23rd and you can sign up for a free pass. Should be a good show to check up on the state of VoIP.
- Ed

IT buying spree

I was talking with Doug Spindler yesterday and he and I both felt like there seems to be an increase in the amount of acquisitions going on. With HP buying Mercury, AMD buying ATI, Microsoft buying Winternals, and a whole slew of other purchases going on it feels like there is some opportunity buying going on. I guess a lot of companies have more cash laying around then I thought.
- Ed

VMware Server License

I was getting the free license for VMware Server (you know it is free, right?) on the website and thought it was pretty wild when I was filling out the form that I could get 100 licenses at a shot. Yeah - 100!! So I did it, just because I could! hahahaha So cool.
- Ed

HP buys Mercury

It was just announced that HP is buying Mercury for their application development management platforms. I wonder what is going to happen to SiteScope now with HPOV being the big boy on the block.
- Ed

TechSmith's SnagIt 8.1

SnagIt Screen Capture from TechSmith is a very cool product. If you are doing any presentation work and need to do screen captures their product is one of the BEST ways to do it. The product just works as you would expect. To top it all off, TechSmith gets the user group side of the fence completely. They even have a way to request materials like eval cds, door prizes, and literature for your user group meetings to give out. You have to give them credit, TechSmith even has a Chief Evangelist (Betsy Weber - hi Betsy!) which I find remarkably refreshing. Hats off to Guy Kawasaki for really building the evangelist style and kudos to TechSmith for using it!
- Ed