This is a great idea. My email provider offers WebDav, so I might set up something similar where I most frequently used applications.

Quoted: Even better, though, you can open up Windows Explorer and point it to \\live.sysinternals.com\ to browse and launch any Sysinternals app as though you've already downloaded and installed it on your computer. That means next time you're doing tech support for friends and you forgot your PC Rescue Kit, you can quickly get to any Sysinternals tool for help.

Quoted: The services by design approach, if it works, could let SAP protect its profitable licensed software business, get more services revenue from those customers, and address concerns large companies have with putting some of their most sensitive business data in the cloud. For mission-critical applications like accounting, "I don't think large companies will go on demand," Kagermann says.

Quoted: A new report released today by Forrester Research is predicting that enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies is going to increase dramatically over the next five years. This ...

I agree 100% that high quality engineering alone is generally not enough to make a great company. You need the right market opportunity, relationships, and distribution channels.

However, some folks take the extreme perspective -- describing programmers as commodities or resources. I'm happy that some prominent bloggers have challenged this perspective over the last few weeks:

Quoted: 3. Programmers have not been, and never will be, commodities. If you think this way, I'd quit now.
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2. Great software is produced by great people. Mediocre people don't ever accidentally produce great software that makes millions of dollars.

The other insights in this post are well, very insightful, too.

Quoted: [From a commenter] In my experience people with this proposition are just as seriously underestimating the business side. If you're going to take on a business partner, that partner better be able to bring in money. You should ask how much money they're bringing to the table and what the sales pipeline looks like. If both are empty, then they aren't going to hold up their end of the bargain no matter what you build.

This is probably a good thing to download and install on your Windows machines before they remove it.

Quoted: The Giveaway of the Day web site is offering the normally $90 Data Recovery Wizard Professional software as a free download today only. If you've accidentally deleted important files or documents, chances are the Data Recovery Wizard Professional edition can recover them (if another process didn't overwrite the disk space with new data).

How the Obama campaign is using wikis (and other Web 2.0 technologies) to organize volunteers.

Quoted: That the Obama campaign is so tech savvy and so open to using social software is unsurprising. They have run one of the most comprehensive online campaigns in recent memory -- perhaps ever -- generally outperforming opponents on nearly every social network or social media site, and according to a recent post from Ning's Marc Andreesen, Obama has long been very interested in social networking and how it can affect politics.

Quoted: PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application.

Overheard our officemates talking about this.

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