Ryan Jauregui

Sun Microsystems announced on January 16th that it is to purchase MySQL for a total of $1 Billion USD, broken down to $800 Million for all MySQL stock and another $200 Million for options. The final process should be happening around Q3 or Q4 of Sun’s fiscal 2008.

I think this is going to mean some big changes, and most of them probably a good thing for an ever-expanding community of open source and enterprise solutions!

You can read more detail of the buyout at the MySQL website.

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The time flies when things get busy! DotResolve Consulting picked up a cabling job for a Sears in Riverside, so two days of this week were inundated with physical work and stress of poor project management (on the contractors part). I have a sales meeting on Friday with a prospective client; I hope for the best on that front.

I have worked with N-able quite a bit during the past week, but there is still a lot more potential that is untapped. I am hoping to have time tomorrow through this weekend to really get a bearing on the Momentum System. A MSP solution is going to be the most vital portion of DotResolve Consulting and the integrated solutions we offer, so I must make sure N-able is the perfect fit for what we need.

Anyway, that is about all I have for now, so stay tuned for more news on the horizon.

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I had been searching for and researching MSP software for the past few months. I have been trying to find the right fit for the needs of my business DotResolve Consulting and during my searching and researching I found a company called N-able. They offer great MSP solutions at seemingly affordable rates, so I have signed my business up for the free 30-day trial of the Momentum System. This consists of: N-central OnDemand, Remote Support Manager, and MSP Operations, Marketing and Sales Best Practices. You can get more detail of the Momentum System at the N-able website.

You can check out a video demo of their software, or contact their sales department to get signed up for the free 30-day trial. You will, however, have to watch a 45 minute webinar before you are able to sign up for the trial.

I will be testing out the software as soon as they approve my account, and I will post in more detail about what I think about the N-able: Momentum System solution.

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For my business DotResolve Consulting we decided to go with a open source contact manager; SugarCRM: Commercial Open Source. I had started developing my own version which offered about 1% of what SugarCRM can currently do. We felt that the maturity of the SugarCRM software development and the large community input (for module, features, etc.) was a strong reason to pursue installing the software.

SugarCRM: Commercial Open Source is a great starting point for any small and new business with small budgets. Since the product itself is free, it can be installed by a professional and extra fields can configured by a manager, thus saving your company money. Once your company grows into a medium to large business, SugarCRM Inc. offers a Professional and Enterprise Edition of the free open source alternative.

Check out the live demo that SugarCRM, Inc. has on their website. If you decide that you want to get your SugarCRM solution installed and hosted contact me and we can discuss hosting it and installation.

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I am pulling in old messages from my prior blog because I thought some of them had good insight.

Windows XP has the ability to protect itself from system instability caused by 3^rd party software overwriting important system files, this built in functionality is called “Windows File Protection.”

By default, Windows File Protection is enabled and allows Windows digitally signed files to replace existing files safely. Currently, signed files are distributed through:

• Windows Service Packs
• Hotfix distributions
• Operating system upgrades
• Windows Update
• Windows Device Manager

If you or a program installer introduces a file replacement in any other way, Windows File protection will warn you of such changes and ask you to insert the proper CD to fix the issue at hand.

An important part of Windows File Protection is the command line utility:
System File Checker (sfc.exe)

The main reason for using this utility is when you suspect there may be a problem with a Windows XP system file. (See quote below for situations)

Perhaps you get a dialog box appear informing you of a problem with a .DLL file, or your computer may also be getting a dialogue box from SYSTEM\NTAUTHORITY and that it will shutdown in a minute. (To abort the shutdown, navigate to Start > Run… and type “cmd” -without quotes-. Within the new Command Prompt Window, type “shutdown -a” -without quotes- This should then abort the shutdown at hand.)

To run the System File Checker, simply navigate to Start > Run… and type in:
sfc /scannow

This command will immediately initiate the Windows File Protection service to scan all protected files and verify their integrity. If any erroneous files are found they will be replaced with the correct versions from the CD and Microsoft Update Cache.

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