Cartoons Cartoon: Maybe Start Using Get Satisfaction, Too? There's something about the way people at the top of the heap react when they start to feel the hierarchy shift beneath their feet. It's as though they go through four of the Kübler-Ross stages simultaneously - denial, bargaining, violent rage and depression (actually, that last one looks a lot more like self-pity). Acceptance only seems to kick… Play Rob Cottingham View comments
News VMware Shows Different Direction in Support for Microsoft Hyper-V Colin Steele at IT Knowledge Exchange points out something very interesting about this week's announement that VMware will support Microsoft Hyper-V. "This release contradicts everything VMware has said about multi-hypervisor infrastructures," Steele writes. He cites Eric Siebert's VMworld 2009 recap. VMware CEO Paul Maritz said that VMware… Klint Finley View comments
E-Learning Skype in the Classroom Launches As its major outage in December demonstrated, Skype bridges the personal and the professional, and many of us have come to rely on its VOIP calls to family, co-workers and colleagues. Skype has also been embraced by many educators who are using it in the classroom in some innovative ways. Teachers use Skype to open their students to a world… Audrey Watters View comments
Events Guide ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, Feb. 26 2011 We're always on the lookout for upcoming Web tech events from around world. Know of something taking place that should appear here? Want to get your event included in the calendar? Let us know in the comments below or email us. imported_1 View comments
Tools Rackspace Cloud Offering Free New Relic Accounts This week New Relic announced that its Bronze accounts are available to all Rackspace Cloud customers at no additional cost. New Relic offers a software-as-a-service for managing, monitoring and troubleshooting cloud-hosted applications. We covered the service previously here. New Relic Bronze accounts normally sell for $75 a month. The Bronze… Hack Klint Finley View comments