Anith Gopal

The next meeting of the Puget Sound SPUG is this Thursday, April 15th.  Two solid partners are presenting.  Pizza and networking begins at 6:00PM. The meeting will be held at the Microsoft office (CIVICA Office Commons) at 205 – 108th Ave NE, Suite 400, Bellevue, WA  98004.  Please park under the building (entrance on 108th Ave NE), and bring your parking ticket to the receptionist to be validated.

Last month Citi, typically known as an IT innovator in the financial services world, announced it is to replace its aging legacy core banking system with another mainframe-based batch system. Because of the relatively large number of mainframe solutions specific to the US market, and a host of outsourced solutions that also run on the mainframe, perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised. But generally speaking, banks in other mature markets are recognizing that they suffer from inflexible batch systems and are rapidly approaching a “skills cliff” of appropriately skilled and priced resources in COBOL and CICS

As I continue my five year mission (no, not really) on covering our current products ( my product support challenge of the day ), today, we’re up to Fable: The Lost Chapters for the PC . Based on the best-selling award-winning Xbox title Fable , Fable: The Lost Chapters is available on Windows – for more, check out http://www.microsoft.com/games/fable/ . http://support.microsoft.com/fablelost where you’ll find everything from what to make of that MSXML Error Message to how to improve game performance .

REDMOND, Wash. — March 11, 2010 — Microsoft Corp. is offering midsize businesses looking to benefit from advanced functionality, easy interoperability with other line-of-business applications, and strong business intelligence reporting options a new incentive to switch from NetSuite to Microsoft Dynamics ERP.

Stand out from your competition. Submit for a Microsoft WPC 2010 Award today! Showcase your ground-breaking solutions at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, D.C ., July 11 -15, 2010.