I’ve been away for a long time, but have slowly been posting again. This wasn’t the typical abandonment of a blog though. Long story short, I had a job, lost said job but stayed with the same company, went TDY (Temporary Duty) to Sicily twice in 2 weeks (Ever had a 3 day turn around time then planned an international trip 2 hours before your flight leaves? Not fun…) then picked up a new job with the same company. After anticipating having most of the summer off, it didn’t happen.
Over the summer, however, some plans did worked out. I managed to get permission from the wife (a large task that took 2 months of talking - ok begging, planning, ordering, building and installing) to setup a new Enterprise Class server in my office. I am now sitting in a very cold office (due to the AC that I have to run year-round) almost on top of a server. Over the next few stories, I’ll talk about the server and options you have if you want to build something similar.
While doing this, I decided that I might as well take advantage of the situation and provide the installation process for SharePoint and Alfresco as well as some other odds and ends. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be releasing updates of installations of various packages - call them walk throughs so you can compare Tangerines, Oranges and Apples right from the beginning. I’m also going to extend my coverage on those packages by getting detailed quotes of the full price for my server, if I where an IT dept, along with the Connection Licenses (CALs) for a user base of 1,000 people using said system. You did know that you have to buy CALs for Sharepoint, right? This will give anyone thinking about installing SharePoint, Alfresco and others, an itemized, price tag of most of what I install.
Preview of the Next Blog Post: Krugle Nails Major Code Search Customer:
I’m only 10 days late on this due to a new job (YEA!), but I’ve talked about Krugle before (here and here), but this is one company that I really enjoy talking about for various reasons. This time, they’ve managed to nail one of the biggest software companies in the world…
