Judg3 - Slashdot User

Comment Just like the MS MVP Program (Score 1) 221

by Judg3 on Monday April 27, 2009 @01:15PM (#27732591) Attached to: Unpaid Contributors Provide Corporate Tech Support

Microsoft has it's Most Valued Professional program. I'm one of them (System Center Operations Manager). It's actually a pretty good deal - probably better then most of the other programs out there.
They bring you out once a year for a week long summit (Pay your own way there, lodging and food taken care of by MS), you get cutting edge information in the product you are MVP for, and you get a comped MSDN + TechNet sub (That even their employees don't get). Add on top of that a few hundred dollars in credit to the MS company store and a few thousand dollars in free software from other companies and it's awesome.

Bad mouth MS all you want, but they do take care of their MVPs - and all you have to do is blog/respond on the newsgroups.

1300 Unopened Fry's Rebate Forms Found In Dumpster 433

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 06, 2007 @05:22PM from the put-it-in-the-circular-file dept.

blackmonday writes "The Consumerist is reporting a find of 1,300 unopened rebate submissions in a dumpster belonging to Vastech, a rebate processor hired by Fry's Electronics. Vastech's management blames it on a bad employee."

Submission + - Indian Software Firm Outsourcing Jobs to US

Submitted by

phobos13013

on Thursday September 06, 2007 @05:15PM

phobos13013 writes: "NPR is reporting Indian software maker Wipro is outsourcing positions to a development office opening in Atlanta, Georgia. Although, it sounds good for US job growth, although the implication is that firms outside the US appear to be dominating more and more in the global economy, even from developing and underdeveloped regions of the world. Similarly, salaries of IT professionals world-wide are projected to stagnant or possibly fall due to the large pool of qualified applicants in the market today. Likely another reason companies like Wipro and Cognizant see it possible to outsource to the US and still remain competitive."

Submission + - Sun CEO says NetApp lied in fear of open source (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

Lucas123

on Thursday September 06, 2007 @04:43PM

Lucas123 writes: "In reaction to NetApp's patent infringement lawsuit against Sun, CEO Jonathan Schwartz today said in his blog that NetApp basically lied in its legal filing when it said Sun asked them for licensing fees for use of their ZFS file system technology. In a separate statement, Sun said NetApp's lawsuit is about fear over open-source ZFS technology as a competitive threat. "The rise of the open-source community cannot be stifled by proprietary vendors. I guess not everyone's learned that lesson," Schwartz wrote in his blog."

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