Breaking news … in the wake of President Mbeki's resignation, Trevor Manuel, who was previously reported to have indicated that he willing to remain Minister of Finance, has resigned along with 13 other Ministers (more to come I'm sure).
I was wrong … more ministers valued their salaries than their ethics. As did Manual, they should have all resigned only to be reinstated at the choice of the interim president. Manuals process was interesting though, only post fact did he back track and say this is something that is "done" in other democratic countries.
I hope he negotiated a well deserved $-raise- $ for his reappointment!
Back in August, I blogged about the buzz being created around the pending released of the Dynamics CRM 4.0 Accelerators.
Since then, I've been closely following the Microsoft Dynamics CRM – Team Blog where Ruben, Jim and the rest of the team have strategically been leaking more information about the Analytics, eService, Event Management, Enterprise Search, Sales Methodologies, Extended Sales Forecasting, CRM Notifications and Business Productivity accelerators. The news of these pending releases is incredibly exciting as there are numerous customers (in our market space for sure) who require this type of functionality.
The CRM team also has a few screen shots up … just to tease us even more ahead of the accelerators release!
Example of a Dashboard for Dynamics CRM 4.0 powered by the new accelerators! Note the MUCH prettier graphics than previous releases!
…you scream, we all scream for ICE-CREAM!
Starring Mike Oshea – As himself J
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… not Eve, but rather an "Apple", and in this case I seem to be Adam!
Being such a hardcore Microsoft Dynamics fan, and raised on an Microsoft Windows platform (although I was a hardcore DOS user at age 8) has meant that while I've always admired Apple products (aesthetically of course), I would never use let alone buy one.
Then I got an iPod … which was … nice. Then I read a couple of Steve Jobs stories (can't read Gates stories without them it seems). Then I kind of liked the MacBook Pro (once again aesthetically). Then Apple launched the Macbook Air …
NO NO, enough of that! I couldn't possibly use a Macbook Air in a hardcore Microsoft environment despite some hogwash story about virtualization and dual booting. While considering the 20k bullet I just dodged by not buying an Air, I hopped on a flight to Cape Town for work, only to meet up with a fellow consultant and hardcore Microsoft Dynamics fan, Attie Retief (don't let the picture scare you), who was carrying … you guessed it – a MACBOOK AIR!!
Not possible - how on earth could he run his customers software demos? Could he even dream of developing Microsoft solutions on this wafer thin "stripped down" unit? Surely he must have another cool PC which he uses for this purpose?
Attie then proceeded to shatter every single (miss)conception that I had about the Air: It's his only unit, integrates perfectly with his Microsoft environment, runs customer demos like a monster and best of all … it makes him look cool (which he actually is, but this advertises the fact a little more obviously).
Hmm… don't tell my wife, but I may have a 20k bullet heading my way (built mainly in wafer thin aluminum – not the spelling – chip sets, circuit boards, plastics and glass).
