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October 2008 - Posts

• Early phone retirement is being addressed by market forces anyway. Green wins nonetheless.

  Since my recent posting about extending the life of mobile phones , mobile phone operators have reacted responsibly: " T-Mobile, O2 urging customers not to upgrade " With such influence I shall have to very careful what I say ;o) They hint in the article Read More... Posted 27 October 2008 17:11 by James.Saull | 1 Comments

• Amazon Web Services part 2

  I should have mentioned it earlier, but the Microsoft offerings are based around Windows Server 2003 R2 and SQL Server 2005. I wonder why this is not Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008? Were Microsoft unwilling? Did it take a long time to certify Read More... Posted 27 October 2008 16:53 by James.Saull | 0 Comments Filed under: Architecture, SQL Server, Virtualisation, Cloud Computing

• Did Amazon land Microsoft on the Cloud first?!

  I received my Amazon Web Services developer's news shot last week. It followed up on recent announcements that their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offering was moving from Beta into General Availability. With that announcement came a Service Level Agreement Read More... Posted 27 October 2008 12:04 by James.Saull | 0 Comments Filed under: Architecture, SQL Server, Virtualisation, Cloud Computing

• A period of arbitrage in the Build vs Buy balance

  The rate at which .Net advances and improves is fantastic. Everything from LINQ to ASP.Net MVC via F# and parallel programming advances. The roadmap for on-premise and cloud computing shows that the future will be far from dull. Alongside the platform, Read More... Posted 27 October 2008 11:15 by James.Saull | 0 Comments Filed under: Architecture, Engineering Practices

• If you've got it - use it. You didn't buy all that RAM for bragging rights.

  I get regular marketing emails from e-buyer offering lots of shiny technology at competitive prices, and I have noticed how for around £300 you can have a pretty reasonable laptop with Vista pre-installed. When I say reasonable I mean it has 2GB of RAM. Read More... Posted 14 October 2008 11:48 by James.Saull | 0 Comments