InfoWorld Daily: Gulping enterprise technology Kool-Aid

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Monday, Dec 17, 2007
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Table Of Contents:

* Gulping enterprise technology Kool-Aid (and living to tell)
* InfoWorld Daily Podcast
* Good tech stocks for a bad economy

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Now get the inside scoop in this exclusive Webcast as Mike Neil from
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GULPING ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY KOOL-AID (AND LIVING TO TELL)

Columnist's corner: I've just to got love David Margulius' honesty even
if I do find it hard to believe. "When I wrote my first InfoWorld
article back in December 2001. I had absolutely no clue what I was
talking about." Margulius reflects on his columns and confesses, "worse,
I drank the Kool-Aid that technology was moving so fast it would soon
solve all enterprise problems." The six years since have to done to him
what they have to so many in ...
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INFOWORLD DAILY PODCAST

Sun announces support for OpenOffice, Apple patches QuickTime, Intel
unveils solid-state storage drives for ultramobiles, and more LISTEN!

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http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2007/12/infoworld_daily_480.html?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2007-12-17

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GOOD TECH STOCKS FOR A BAD ECONOMY

Tech's bottom line: Picking stocks is difficult in the best of times.
Making things even trickier, "it's been a Maalox, or maybe even a Xanax,
couple of months," Bill Snyder writes. "Investors have been whipsawed
by market tumbles sparked by the still out-of-control mortgage mess."
And it's not going calm anytime soon. Good tech stocks for a bad
economy. Yes, Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Xerox are among those.
Just as important are knowing which to avoid, the companies that "aren't
necessarily ...
More of this blog at:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2007/12/good_tech_stock.html?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2007-12-17

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ANNOUNCING THE WINDOWS SERVER 2008 HYPER-V BETA

On Thursday, 12/13, Microsoft announced the public beta of Hyper-V,
the hypervisor-based virtualization feature in Windows Server 2008.
Now get the inside scoop in this exclusive Webcast as Mike Neil from
Microsoft discusses key technical information and how to successfully
test it within your organization. He concludes with a live Q&A session.

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