New Computer…
It has been a while since I last posted anything here. I have been very busy recently both at work and at home.
[Personal Updates]
A lot is going on right now at home. The wife is about ready to graduate from medical school. It seems hard to believe that we have been living here in Hershey, PA for 4 years now! She’s actually done with rotations and just “hanging out” until the actual graduation ceremony later in May. After that we will be moving back closer to the Pittsburgh area so that she can start residency in Latrobe (home of Rolling Rock beer).
To make everything a little more exciting we are expecting our first child! A little boy to be due on July 21st. She’s 27 weeks pregnant and it’s been quite an adventure already.
[The New Computer]
A couple weeks ago we met the mother-in-law in King of Prussia. She was there for a conference and we decided to head over to go shopping. While there of course I stopped at the Apple store and picked up a new iMac! I have been talking about getting a Mac for years and finally did it.
The Apple store was absolutely packed. Interestingly enough it wasn’t people just browsing around or buying iPods. These people were buying everything. Everything from iBooks and Macbook Pro’s to iMac’s and Cinema displays, it was quite a site to see. To check out alone was a 15-20 minute wait. If this is any sign I would say that Apple is doing pretty good.
[Work]
At work we have been implementing some interesting new stuff. We have been experimenting with SugarCRM for a while now, basically just seeing what we could do with it and how beneficial we felt it could be within the company. A couple weeks ago we deployed it live. We intend on using it as a replacement for Act!
We have had several issues with Act! recently and would rather not spend the extra money on new/upgraded licenses for their latest version (2006) to “fix” their problems. Fortunately for us the people that were using it weren’t using it to its full capabilities so migrating to SugarCRM to maintain contacts, notes, leads, etc. hasn’t been too bad.
We have also deployed Zabbix to monitor the network and servers. We are still in the process of setting it up but it’s been interesing to be able to monitor the performance of most of our servers at one time. We can also view trends and uptime as well.
Right now we are looking at moving off of our current email platform. We are in the process of examining Zimbra and Scalix. At one point I had high hopes for the Hula-Project as well but those hopes seem to have diminished. The one thing I don’t like about Zimbra is that you have to go through a lot of hassle to get it to work on a server that already has an existing webserver and database server.
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