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Oracle buys Sun: Sad to hear

We would've been happier, had IBM closed the deal with Sun Micro; but Oracle buying Sun? To do what? Remembering the past, if this deal hasn't gone through, would they have created UBS (Unbreakable Solaris)? Shame on them for creating UBL in the first place! It is anybody's guess what they have achieved with UBL.

If everything goes smoothly regarding this buy, we need to rethink whether we have to continue our SSE partnership or not. In all probability, we might not. Let's see if Oracle changes its mindset and becomes a better company that we would want to deal with. As of today, we don't want to.

Joomla! Day Pune 2009

Here is a chance to attend the first ever Joomla! Day in India, to learn more about Joomla CMS and to meet others working on Joomla in India. We will be there. If you plan to attend, reserve your seat by March 15th in order to get the early bird discount. Hope to meet you all out there.

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New design of SolarisMadeEasy Site

It happened somehow finally. Solaris Made Easy , one of our sites which gets lots of diverse traffic (despite nothing much currently ;-) ), has a new look finally. We uploaded the new design today. Hope we get time to add all the content in the near future. Keep watching...

SEO and marketing of our web hosting service

Lately, we have seen a few companies trying to mimic our site wordings etc in order to rank higher in search results for their web hosting services. So, we decided to show them the taste of a proper SEO and marketing effort. We knew that we neglected doing this for quite some time. Two weeks ago, we got started with a clear strategy of improving the visibility and rankings of our Web Hosting Service. We started getting calls this week as a result of this! Last night we checked the rankings, and the results are quite pleasing (at least to us ;-) ). While this effort continues, we were disappointed by Google serving spam links, despite our complaints. Time to bug Matt Cutts on this!

Our 2nd year experiences

Due to workload, we couldn't cover this in our last post. Our second year of operating The UX Group has taught us some more lessons. While we continue to believe that persistence and hard work pays off, we are pleasantly surprised to note that a few companies are getting inspired by us and implementing our ideas at their workplaces. We do encounter other copycats, who just try to mimic us, thinking that it works!

While we are at it, we would like to inform that we ourselves have been inspired by a great company called Taos, which provides top-notch sysadmins (gurus). While Taos calls itself as "The SysAdmin Company", we are humble enough to call ourselves as "A SysAdmin Company". Our goal is to change that A to The, as we progress.