the stinkin' blog

I realized after looking through my posts that I rarely post anything about what is going on in and around me personally. Not that anyone really wants to know, but hey tough shit.

Work has been dogging me lately. I have been pounding the streets (well the airlines) killing myself and not making any money. This begs the useless question of why? Let me see if I can provide some color. The company I work for has been going through a transformation ever since I have been working for them and I am about to start my ELEVENTH year. Yes. Eleven years. It is a great company, they just spin wheels really hard and make a lot of smoke burning the tires only to never take off the brake lock to shoot down the speedway.

I have worked with some great minds and we have put together some great projects that were way ahead of their time, but no one would ever stick with the projects. The quest for shareholder value kills the projects after a quarter of no revenue. Very frustrating because competition starts a similar project and stick with it – they make money hand over fist. AAAAARRRRRGGGH.

Case in point, we have a great ISV team that is working on certifying apps on SLES and SLED. All is good there, but one thing – that is OLD school. In today’s world we really need to think ahead. The model is very different and I cannot convince anyone (besides the fact that I am struggling to keep MY head above water) to look at anything different.

So that is leading me on my quest. My quest to find 3-5 companies that are up and coming so that I can flex my knowledge and desire to drive the future and quit dwelling in the past! It is working. I am finding all kinds of interesting things.

That brings me back to the reason for this post – I NEED TO GET TO REGULAR POSTINGS! I am so haphazard on things like this that are not in my face regularly. With that being said, I am challenging myself to write 3 posts a week on various topics. Let’s see how well I can manage that!

Coming soon – views about cloud computing. What is it? Who are players? and why do we care?