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October 3, 2005
What not to say in proposals — a quick list
What Not To Say In Proposals is a good resource for review prior to submitting a proposal. Since proposals are the final chapter in closing professional services and development projects, it never hurts to get advice and reminders of what might make…
September 30, 2005
Small businesses struggle to win business after Hurricane Katrina
With the need for emergency efforts and immediate response, small businesses fall short of providing their services in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, even though they want to be able to offer assistance and be part of the recovery. Why?…
Amendment could hurt small businesses
(Via VAR Business) There is currently a proposed DOD pricing amendment that will require prime contractors engaged in time and materials contracts with federal agencies to pass through subcontractor rates for firms added to a program after contract award. Unfortunately this will…
September 14, 2005
Experiments in Rapid System Restoration using Tardiff
One great feature of Linux and other Unix variants is that you can quickly make a “bare metal” restoration or duplicate of a system provided you have a full backup of the original. (With Windows, the registry requires special tools in order…
September 9, 2005
Running Linux Fedora Core 2 on VMWare 4.0.0
At TCG, many of our servers are running Fedora Core 2. As an emergency restore technique, I wanted to be able to quickly recreate a server on a VMWare virtual machine running FC2. In addition, virtual machines are a great way of quickly creating…
September 1, 2005
CMMI FAQ
TCG’s Senior CMMI Level 2 Mentor, Maureen Sullivan, just published a great article on www.tcg.com: What is CMMI Level 2 … and How Do We Get There?: A Brief Guide to CMMI Level 2 for Small Software Development Organizations. The article is intended to…
August 30, 2005
NGP article in GCN
Before I went on vacation last week I was interviewed by Government Computer News’ Jason Miller about the National Grants Partnership’s first white paper. The resulting article was published yesterday and I think it captures the core of the white paper very well,…
August 18, 2005
Oregon govt uses Asterisk and other open source
Slashdot has a posting today. about the Oregon government’s use of open source technologies, including Asterisk (an open source PBX system).…
August 11, 2005
The Business of IT
An article in the June 2005 issue of MIT’s alumni magazine Technology Review by Howard Anderson called “Good-Bye to Venture Capital” got me thinking. The article says technology spending has crashed because there’s a limit to the number of things that…
August 10, 2005
HHS multi-agency systems
Charles Havekost, HHS CIO, was a speaker at an IAC-sponsored lunch yesterday, which I attended, and he spoke a little about a HHS system that services multiple agencies for their ata-collection approval process. This isn’t the only example of such a multi-agency system at HHS:…