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One of my colleagues recently asked this question. Through a series of detailed logic-gates, we can conclude the following two scenarios: In much zombie lore, zombies don’t like to eat (long) dead things or even diseased humans (cf. World War Z, the movie). Therefore: vampires win because they’re immune. However, if the cause of zombie-ism was a “virus” that effected any dead body, not just one bitten by zombie, (cf.

First, Microsoft and other vendors like IBM still have a tight grip on the largest companies. Gartner analyst Tom Eid—who predicts that enterprise email alone will be a $5 billion global industry this year, growing about 10% from last year—confirms this. He estimates that Microsoft still commands 75% of the market’s spending, versus about 3% to 5% for Google. I like that specificity of “spending.” The email iron grip

I had a briefing with Serena a short while ago around the new release of their ALM product Dimensions. They’re interesting to talk with because of their conservative customer base: so it’s a good way to track mainstream adoption of emerging developer practices. Things seem to be moving along nicely there. Since changing PE hands, they seem to have a renewed interest in shipping new releases, which should be fun to watch as well.

Meta-dataHello again, welcome to #11. Today we have 22 subscribers, so we're +1 (leveling back after yesterday's -1). I'll have a drink to celebrate! I'd love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsor451 Research, is having it's big cloud conferences this Fall, Oct. 6th to 8th. I'll have a session or two on developer relations and marketing, and other analysts will be talking about their area.

Meta-dataHello again, welcome to #9. Today we have 21 subscribers, so we're -1. I'm crying right now into my vesper martini. I'd love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). SponsorMy work, 451 Research has it's big cloud conference coming up in October. More of the agenda has been posted today, it seems.

Rather than build out your next Instagram or SnapChat knock-off, consider disrupting 30 years of clunky software with horrendous user interfaces. The office-drone masses will bless you for it. Let’s take “enterprise” out of the parking lot

Meta-dataHello again, welcome to #8. Not so brief today with all the typing, I know. Today we have still have 22 subscribers. I'd love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsor451 Research has our big cloud conference this October 6th to 9th. I'll be there giving talks on developer relations and marketing; most vendors and service providers getting into cloud need to start catering to this core set of decision makers and buyers.

All you’ll need is an idea and some free time. The platform and the infrastructure underneath will not be anything for you to ever worry about. I think this is most people’s view of programming. Yes, folks, it’s just that simple!