Me

It has been a while since I blogged extensively.  Things have been hectic and I have been keeping busy.

I have been working on the spreadsheets and the papers & write ups.

I guess the economy is also not helping and I have had to pay a lot of attention to other priorities.

May 2009

With the weakening of the dollar, there would appear to be a commodity rally. I guess it would be a good time to invest in commodities.

If you are worried about inflation, TIPS would be a good choice.

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.

Brainstorming

This is for working on the financial SaaS. Consider a deliver platform which could make use of open source.

Jotted down some of the open source tools which could be used in a combination.

APACHE (Web Server)

MySQL, PostGres (Database)

IPCOP (Firewall)

Sendmail, Postfix (Mail Servers)


List to be added up as and then

Microsoft vs Linux Vs Apple

Microsoft.NET vs Java vs PHP vs Ruby (other dynamic languages)

Microsoft SQL vs Oracle vs MySQL vs Postgres

Intel Vs AMD

Directx vs OpenGL

nVidia vs ATI

XBOX  vs PS3 vs WII

MSOffice vs OpenOffice (Not a full fledged competion - will come in the open source category)

Microsoft ATLAS vs AJAX vs JavaFX

IPOD vs Zune

Motorola vs Nokia vs LG Samsung

Please read
Marketing your Consulting Services- Wiley Publications - A good read

Here is a good link which I got to see today which explains the basics of SEO

http://www.seomoz.org/article/bg1

 

Here is an useful article which i found when looking at

Tradiitonal vs emarketing

http://www.group-mail.com/asp/common/articles.asp?id=141

 

 

 

Find out about RFP, RFI and RFQ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFP