Professor Randy Pausch has died in pancreatic cancer

When I woke up this morning, I read from Wall Street Journal that Professor Randy Pausch from Carnegie Mellon University has passed away 04.00 AM am local time in his own house. Professor Randy Pausch made a decision to document as much as he could of his final months so he could leave a legacy to his very young children. His famous speech "The Last Lecture" has been one of the most viewed Youtube videos, his book has been listed as bestseller for weeks and his home pages have been visited by millions and millions of viewers.

What Randy Pausch brought to us was the lesson of living each and every day to our fullest. Let's remember this when we go with our business on a daily basis. We tend to stress about the small things when there are people around the world that suffer and have huge issues on their hands. I try, even if it is hard, to remember this when stress or other issues creep up in my life. I was reminded about this personally in 2003 and therefore I know what I am talking about. The world famous cyclist Lance Armstrong that almost died in testicular cancer is educating people around the world about how to battle cancer and how to live your life.

I have created a new blog for global software business

Blogging is like writing a book. You are trying to figure out what your audience will be and this blog http://www.telluspublications.com/ was intially built to review books and other interesting things in my own core competence areas. However, my background is heavy in software development and my passion is to work with ISV's around the world. Of this reason, I decided to create a new blog purely to track what is going on in the world of software. This blog http://www.globalsoftwarebusiness.com/ tackles issues and questions of different things such as earnings models in software, and other international issues that entreprenours have to face on a daily basis. This blog will stay more like a review of books and other literature related stuff. My Finnish blog http://www.onnistusuuressamaailmassa.com/ is built from ground up in Finnish and I will keep maintaining that as well. These are the three blogs that I will continue maintaining and the forth one is a blog that I maintain with experiences of my travel.

Microsoft's Hosted Services: A Turning Point for Partners?

Microsoft at WPC today unveiled its hosted service offerings and pricing -- something that has been deferred, to partner unease, for about two years.Redmondmag.com reports about the accouncements from Microsoft Worldwide Conference in Houston this week. In his keynote, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was clear: the market is changing and Microsoft partners needs to change with the market. It is very clear to me that classic Microsoft partners have to do drastic changes in their business models as otherwise they will not be able to compete in the new SaaS world.

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The Future State of the CRM Market

Tough economic times for North American enterprises will create uncertain, challenging environments for corporate CRM systems, according to an AMR Research report. Here's what you need to know about the CRM market and the vendors who will be left standing in 2012. The market is very interesting at the moment with lots of companies moving into software-as-service environments. This market will continue to grow and niche players will be able to compete in selected verticals. It is about the value that the vendor can provide to the end user organization.

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Microsoft Acquires MobiComp: got to love the competition

The new deal expands Microsoft's mobile platform to include backup services focused on social networks.Microsoft continued to expand its mobile portfolio June 26 with its acquisition of MobiComp, an open-source cloud computing company that specializes in storage, backup and restoration of mobile data. Microsoft declined to reveal the financial terms of the deal. What makes this acquistion interesting is the fact that the company is based on Braga, Portugal and according to eWeek.com, the company is bought due to the strong skills in research. Whatever the cause, the competition in mobility is heating up with Nokia taking over Symbian and others also trying to figure out how to be part of the competition. I love this type of market evolvement.

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Randy Pausch and his battle of pancreatic cancer

I read about Randy Pausch, Computer Science Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, who has been struck with terminal pancreatic cancer. Professor Pausch is a very well known and liked lecturer that you can see from the included video clips from Youtube.com
I immediately googled the lecture from youtube.com and ordered his book as physical copy and I also ordered a Kindle version so I could start reading it immediately. Professor Pausch decided to make his story remembered, not because he wanted us to feel sorry for him, but to make us remember that each and every day is a gift to us and we should make sure we take advantage of that.

I was reminded of our short stay on this planet by a friend and colleague of mine recently. A former colleague from the past has recently passed away in another form of cancer and it is hard to accept that a person that I have spent numerous hours with different clients and internal meetings is no longer with us. Each and every day that we live, we need to make sure that we celebrate our living and live our lives to the fullest.

Another person that survived cancer and decided to spend time to educate the public about cancer is Lance Armstrong who had a sever form of testicular cancer with poor prognosis of survival. He survived and has spend a tremendous amount of time educating people around this topic. He has a foundation to help to raise the awareness of cancer and this work is tremendously valuable. Each and everybody of us have friends and family around us that will sooner or later face cancer and the more we are aware of it, the sooner we can help these people to cope with the battle of cancer. The Lance Armstrong Foundation LiveStrong blog has discussions and entries about people from all walks of life and I have to say that this type of work is tremendously valuable and I appreciate the people doing this type of work.

I flew to witness Lance Armstrong to get his 7th Tour de France win in France (we spent a few days in Paris). Lance has been interviewed many times in different medias, one of the latest ones was in CNBC by CNBC's maria Bartiromo (I like her reporting style). Wall Street Journal made a story of Professor Pausch final lecture as can be seen below:





The full lecture can be see below:




These will show to the listeners that fight for cancer has to continue and we all need to be reminded of. Let's live our each day to its fullest!

Ten Blogs You Should Be Reading DAILY

The countless amount of blogs in the cyberspace makes our lives difficult but PCMag.com has listed the top then that everybody should track on a regular basis. We live in a world with too many blogs and news channels and we try to find ways to list them in a way that we can track the most important newsfeeds of choice. I used del.icio.us as of source to make sure I remember sites, but I am sure there are many others that people use. Regardless, we have our own choices and the list of 10 blogging sites from PCMag.com is just one view of one editor.

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