Month: September 2005

Ebay buying WHAT for HOW MUCH?!?

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Ebay just announced they’re buying Skype for $2.6 billion dollars. Here’s the press release. For those of you who don’t know what Skype is…exactly. That’s the point. Skype is a free (FREE) online phone service so you can instant message with people, except you’re actually talking to each other instead of typing. It’s like free…
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Database & Network Administrators are really Customer Administrators

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The first thing administrators want to monitor is their resources: file servers, database servers, app servers, etc. That’s understandable, since they’re system administrators. In order to be really successful with monitoring, though, we need to think like customer administrators – for both our internal and external customers. Forget the hardware, and think about the people.…
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