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Pentium III’s and II’s are useful! ... if you know how to fix them up.
You can get them free from friends or companies or even www.freecycle.org.
Machines that are obsolete in “Windows world” work great for many tasks when running free software!
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Here are some of the DBA articles I wrote for the now-defunct website DBAZine.com --
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Years ago I wrote an article for an obscure technical publication. The paper introduced a model for understanding how and why companies adopt new technologies. Called the hype curve, this model identifies proven versus un-proven technologies. It presents a simple methodology to evaluate how useful various technologies are to organizations.
The hype curve concept found widespread success. It's been adopted and elaborated upon by the Gartner Group as their major paradigm for understanding technology evolution (as hype cycles). Silicon valley venture capitalists employ it in evaluating and marketing technology. Groups as far away as the Tasmanian and Russian governments have used it for managing technological change.
Download the original, un-altered paper from 1992 below, and see the best-selling book that uses the paper as a starting point.
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