Enterprise email: News of its death greatly exaggerated

  The Long View (Computerworld)

Email is dying, say the pundits. It's being replaced by social media and texting, they claim. Balderdash, say I. Email is alive and thriving in the enterprise. Even if Robert X. Cringely disagrees with me. See what I mean, in The Long View...

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Wait, is Comcast really putting the squeeze on competitors?

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I'm not sure Robert L. Mitchell is being entirely fair and balanced. His article posted earlier, Comcast puts squeeze on competitors, seems a bit one-sided to me. In the interests of balance, here's the other side of the story, in The Long View...
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Awesome! 1,000 cores on a chip ... one tiny catch

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How do you fancy a 1,000-core processor in your next PC? Intel's proud to announce that it's working on one. However, you might not actually want it, as we'll see in The Long View ...

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Facebook social inbox: Disaster for enterprise email

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What can enterprise messaging developers learn from Facebook's email 'Project Titan'?
Monday's Facebook Messaging announcement wasn't quite what many had expected. It's not the latest step in some naively-imagined death-march of email. But it does have some interesting things to say to today's email developers, in enterprises and smaller businesses everywhere. What can enterprise email developers and administrators learn from Facebook's new ideas? Let's take a look, in The Long View...

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Restoring old backups: Lessons learned the hard way

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Ancient HP OpenMail backup restore request presented a pretty poser.
I've recently been helping a consulting client restore some ancient data. It struck me that there are lessons here for today's IT operations: lessons to be learned from the mistakes of the past. Mistakes we'll try not to repeat, in The Long View...

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