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Welcome to ExtremeLabs
Wednesday, September 08 2010 @ 10:02 AM EDT

How to Make 200,000 Enemies Per Day

Friday, August 20 2010 @ 02:21 PM EDT
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 27

Imagine you're one of the largest systems companies in the world. Imagine also that your organization is admired for its fearlessness, its tenacity, and its quality of product. You're made astute if occasionally hostile acquisition to built up your revenue.

Now, however, you've decided to make 200,000 enemies each and every day.

Your name might be Oracle.

Why Tablet Machines and E-Readers Will Be Free -- And Soon

Thursday, July 29 2010 @ 01:38 PM EDT
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 49

Amazon has announced a new Kindle for just $139. Another $35 "tablet" is said to be being built soon in India.

Clearly, the category is gaining steam. LG has announced, Dell, HP, and others. What's emerged are two categories: ecosystem and without. Here's how that works.

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Yeah, Just Upgrade the Motherboard

Thursday, July 29 2010 @ 01:02 PM EDT
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 141

There is was: the USB bus on the motherboard had cooked. It was time for a motherboard upgrade. Heironymous Bosch would have been proud.

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2010 So Far

Sunday, April 25 2010 @ 12:08 AM EDT
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 223

Here's where you'll find us, so far, in 2010:

Go to http://www.itworld.com/blog/5506?source=peer2peerpromo to read my blogs

Go to http://www.networkworld.com/alliance/henderson.html#recent to read our reviews

Go to http://www.goitec.com/tv.html to watch the webcasts

Easy. Fast. Convenient.

DailyTechBites

Monday, November 17 2008 @ 02:13 PM EST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 852

Check the http://www.dailytechbite.com website for more frequent updates. And bites.

The 2008 Online Articles and Research Update

Wednesday, July 09 2008 @ 08:03 PM EDT
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 942

We've been busy this year, so far. I looked back on the published online list and found lots of links to where we've been either published or cited. Here's the short list:

Hypervisor Evaluations Part I - Performance

Linux Vs Windows, Which Is Greener

Privileged Access Management Software Comparison

Windows 2008 Enterprise Server Review

Virtualization Tools Comparison

In total, there are approximately fifteen products in total so far this year, and there are many still to go.

The Daily Rant April 4: CPU Madness

Friday, April 04 2008 @ 04:07 PM EDT
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 923

In the computer industry, the rave used to be CPU speed. Faster was better, usually. Today, we have lots of family names, each more indistinguishable than the next. I propose the Fubar Family. Read more for the specs.

Windows 2008 Server Review Now Online

Monday, February 25 2008 @ 12:32 AM EST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 1,240

Our review of Windows 2008 Server Editions is online at NetworkWorld or in the print edition. The good news, better and certainly more feature packed than before. The bad news is that the Hyper-V technology is not out yet, and some of the benefits are very Microsoft-specific.

Lab Update: What We're Using in the Labs Right Now

Wednesday, January 23 2008 @ 09:28 PM EST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 973

A lot of equipment goes through the lab. Some of it's interesting, and we hate to send it back, other items go back with a blessing, post haste.

I thought I would list all of the equipment to do an inventory and sanity check. The list is good for the next ten days, by which time, it will have changed again.

Goodbye, Cheaptickets

Thursday, January 17 2008 @ 09:35 AM EST
Contributed by: Admin
Views: 1,012

I travel perhaps 25,000-50,000 miles per year. When I started traveling in 1974, the method was pretty simple: find a travel agent that knew his or her chops at using the SABRE or other online access system to find inexpensive flights.

A savvy agent could cut through the airline pricing crap (which grew linearly worse over the years) to find reasonable flight schedules and prices. They earned their fees. Then they were cut out of the supply chain by the airlines in the 1990s. I felt for them, but worse, flyers were subsequently subjected to surcharges for using airline reservation systems by phone. The desire on the part of the airlines was to use their online systems.

Travelocity, Orbitz, and other online sites became very useful alternatives to the ensuing mess. I started using another site, Cheaptickets.com, as an even seemingly wiser alternative. Cheaptickets designed their software well, making shopping for flights comparatively easy. Over the past few years, I've purchased many tickets from them.

No more. My most recent experience has caused me to move on.