יבמ "Verse" עכשו בעברית

מי חושב שחברת יבמ רוצים לקחו אתנו לדואר אלקטרוני חדש.

זה לא כל כך הדואר של האמא ואבא.

יבם רוצים  שאתם מוצאים דרך חדשה לעבודה.

אם אתה מעוניין ב"יבמ וורס" אנא צור קשר איתי ואני אשמח לדבר על זה איתך עוד.

  ב"יבמ וורס" לומד עליך יותר אתה משתמש בו.האנשים שאתה עובד איתם, כולם יכול להיות מצא את המידע שאתה רוצה או צריך, הפרטים שאתה מחפש בקלות.
 

אם אתם מחפשים אלטרנטיבה מ- Outlook, Gmail ורוצים פתרון אלקטרוני מאובטחת, מודרנית אלקטרונית, כמה, אז אתה צריך להעיף מבט על יבמ וורס.

 
לקבלת מידע נוסף מיבמ, בבקשה ללכת ל

http://www.ibm.com/social-business/us/en/newway/ 

פרטי הקשר שלי נמצאים בצד של הדף

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Email, and Email Services, are not a Commodity

Do you think Email is a commodity, but SMTP service is not? If you think it is, have you planned for what happens when your primary mail service, including SMTP goes down?

I doubt it, because most people do not even realize how email is broken down into parts that only a small bit are the responsibility of your own IT team.

When you have in house email, everything, except the ISP providing your bandwidth, is your own world. You break it, you fix it. You do, or do not, plan for business interruptions. Maybe you have a secondary ISP, even if it is some lousy DSL line, you have something, anything. You do, right?

What about when you get to cloud apps and you have a LDAP in one service or server, your app on one server, your mail transport on another, mobile site on another, your company website on yet another one.

When any of those parts fail, most of the rest fails and you have zero capability to resolve it. Zero. You are at the mercy of whatever Cloud provider, Host facility, kid with an iPhone controlling your VMs and whenever they get around to fixing your problem they will.

Utility? Commodity? Sure, but so are cars, yet many people will not drive a (fill in the blank for your country) because of the lousy service record or safety. Why is your Cloud provider any different.

You may ask about clustering, fail over, etc.. but that does mean you will get an answer that makes sense to you or to them sometimes.

Email is still the #1 business tool because so many rely on it. Do they have to rely on it? Not at all, but they have not made the leap yet to extended applications that notify via other methods. Maybe they did take the leap, but our customers have not yet. The customers expect to be able to interact with us through an old medium which is so easy even the term used, SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, makes it sound easy. Can you plan for every contingency? No, sometimes stuff really happens you can not work around easily. But if you believe all your IT services are just commodities, then you will get what you pay for and should not expect better.

Running a mail server, and related services is not so simple and takes people that truly understand what they are looking at when they get RFC codes in reply and other "errors" as users report them.

I know, I have been doing it for 20 years, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Novell and so many long gone that it is hard to really believe anyone when they say they have a new email app. Email is an app, a huge one, and though you may argue it should just do email, we both know it does so much more and can do so much more. The problem is when the other services, which most people take for granted, stop working and your commodity or utility is unable to do anything.

Makes for a really different work day. or maybe you should spend the time thinking about how to get off the email drug and move to a better way to work.

3 years down, 4.5 to go

If you have been around long enough to follow this thread, then you know this is about the Daf Yomi which I am just about at the half way point.

The 7 and a half year cycle to read and learn through all of the Babylonian Talmud.

My posts from the 1st year anniversary and 2nd year anniversary in case you want to know more about it all.

What have we learned this year?

Currently we are in the midst of Nedarim or loosely translated as vows and not just simple things but serious "I will not do this EVER" type vows. And of course, how to get out of these vows, if necessary and the consequences of making such vows.

Last August we were just finishing Megillah all about Persia, Purim, Esther and Mordechai and of course the good and bad ways of the world.

We rolled into Moed Katan which discussed the interim days known as Chol Hamoed, which are the middle days between the beginning of the holiday of Passover and Sukot and the ending of them. Naturally there are discussions about cooking, carrying, what prayers to say, or not and a very practical book.

Next up was Chagigah which went into more details around the 3 Pilgrimage festivals, Passover, Shavuot and Sukot. More stories than laws and discussions about the creation of the world, the universe and some similar mystical/mythical (depending on your view) topics. It then leads into a discussion on ritual purity.

The next section was Yevamot, the first tractate in the section called Nashim or Women. Yevamot deals with the Levirate marriage. Levirate marriage, for those that don't know, this is a simple explanation, is when a man dies and has no children to carry on his name and if he has a brother that brother would take the widow as a secondary or primary wife and have kids. While this may sound crazy to modern people, the laws around this are still followed, not the polygamy stuff, but there are documentation required to be satisfied, think of it as a prenuptial religious relinquishment. It is an interesting tractate once you understand all the relationships and names for everyone. There is a study guide that all it has is charts of who/how can be married to each other. It is that complicated to follow the lineage.

And just before Nedarim we did Ketubot. I had previously learned Ketubot, which is about marriage, marriage contracts, dowries, divorce, age of consent and documentation. The marriage contract in Judaism is called a Ketuba and tends to be elaborate artistic efforts surrounding the actual text. Like ancient illuminated manuscripts, this tradition continues on to this day. I'd show you mine, but it is still boxed as we never unpacked the hanging items when we moved. Google has numerous images here.

While I don't get to do it every day, I tend to catch up a lot on shabbat.

This year coming up will include some out there topics, like Nazir on Nazirites and Gitin which is about divorce.

Here's to 3 and a half more years