A post about nothing.

Hmm how bazaar I’m writing another post in the same week and one of more than two in the same month. Work has been crazy in that I have spent a lot of time at customer sites doing installations or training resellers how to better gather the customers requirements and tailor the evaluation process to meet those requirements. We also had our Telepresence setup completed this week, however it is already booked out for weeks. Also we only got a TP1000, however we are supposedly upgrading it in the near future to a TP3000. On the subject of Cisco I heard and read some interesting things we have in the pipeline.

A lot of speculation has been in the IT industry for years about how Microsoft Office is dead or dying and that the Windows era of desktop dominance has an expiry date. This is due to the network being the platform and the desktop OS does not need to provide anywhere near the resources and features we use now due to it being able to be virtualised at an application layer and delivered on demand. Well as you know I work at Cisco and Cisco is certainly not renowned for writing desktop operating systems or desktop environments, but I would watch this space. If you look at some of their acquisitions and look who would benefit the most if the network was the platform then it wouldn’t take to much of a leap to see where Cisco might be going to play one day.

Anyway all this work has slowed down my world domination plans through building an iPhone application development shop.

While I’m talking about the iPhone let me bring you up to date on all the rumors I have heard of late in regards to the famous device:

1. Apple will announce the 3G version at the Apple Developer Conference in June.
2. Telstra wont allow the iPhone on their network and that Optus is already in talks with Apple.
3. Apple are going to release the iPhone in Australia in the last week of June and its not going to be bound to a carrier.

As you can see speculation is rife, I personally like number 3, however don’t see this being true.

On the home front my nearly 2 year old son still isn’t walking on his own. My wife is not happy about it and wishes he would hurry up. I never walked until 2 years and 3 months, so hes got until August to walk and beat me. Personally I think hes smart as people carry him and he has all his life to walk, so whats the rush?

Well thats enough rambling from me, I might go and stir a good friend of mine who works for Microsoft about that crappy WinMobile OS he suggested should be on the iPhone.