With several models to choose from, it’s great to see Dell still offering XP machines, while everywhere else you look, Vista is all there is!

I’ve never been a huge fan of Dell, but I’m starting to come around. They’ve been doing a pretty good job lately, in their effort to give customers what they want.

Source: dell.com

~LC

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ROUND ROCK, Texas — Dell Inc. plans to sell computers and other electronics gear at 1,400 Staples Inc. stores, the latest departure from the direct-to-customer business model pioneered by the No. 2 computer maker.

Dell and the world’s biggest office products supplier announced Monday that Staples would offer Dell desktop and notebook computers, monitors, printers, ink and toner starting Nov. 11. Dell products also will be available through Staples’ Web site.

Source: Globe & Mail

~LC

As more organizations adopt server virtualization software, they’re also looking to hire people who have worked with the technology in live applications. But such workers can be hard to find, as Joel Sweatte, IT manager at East Carolina University’s College of Technology and Computer Science, recently discovered when he placed a help-wanted ad for an IT systems engineer with virtualization skills. Sweatte received about 40 applications for the job at the Greenville, N.C.-based university, but few of the applicants had any virtualization experience.

Now here is a job op for folks that say it is too hard to get their foot in the door. I know from personal trials that this is one field that is almost a untouched area that really needs more folks to learn it and I mean learn it, Baldy

 

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Virtualization: Everybody’s Doing It, but Few Know How