You are right - I was feeling "maudlin" when I replied... Actually - nothing would ever capture him or his communication style - and I always have his YouTube videos to fall back on... https://www.youtube.com/c/budo... He passed away Thursday morning peacefully.

Thanks! Actually - nothing would ever capture him or his communication style - and I always have his YouTube videos to fall back on... https://www.youtube.com/c/budo... He passed away Thursday morning peacfully.

I am currently at the hospital, with my dad in palliative care - it will be any day now. He had a stroke a couple weeks back and cannot speak. I absolutely despise Alexa, or Google Home or Siri. .... But this? .... It would be great to hear him...

Bravo... ...slow clap... Tastes Like Despair

This is great, because in 6-months or so, everyone will be able to post the following when it dies: "Gettr Done"

Oh, maybe... because of the 2008 recession, which was caused by the financial crisis meltdown? The crisis which became widely public in late summer/early fall of 2008, while he was still in the process of actually getting elected? He didn't actually take office until 2009... This has been a standard part of the republican playbook since the 80's... Either run up massive debt and ignore fiscal responsibilities just before leaving office, so that when democrats are elected, it "appears" as if it was all their fault, and then they have to spend time recovering...

So - they don't plan on using public cloud and combining with perhaps more than one vendor and/or using publically hosted websites? (i.e. Github, etc.) If they stick with one or two vendors, then private connections are possible, but this seems to be quite a step backwards in todays network-neutral, cloud, SaaS & managed web services connected world...

Um - you realize the almost ALL of RIM's stuff is in Java. There are some smaller integration peices to interop with Exchange - but the BULK of their platform is Java-based...