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  Sydney Harbor in leadup to Sydney to Hobart race of 2018 This time last year I wrote of how it will not be smooth sailing for all of us in IT. More specifically, for the Nonstop community, I ended that post by asking how you will respond to one more question; will you be setting a course that is true and away from treacherous currents that can be avoided? What I did reference though was how, for the coming year 2025, leverage the strength of the wind which, in the case of Nonstop, simply means leveraging the latest Nonstop systems. Recognizing, too, the strength of the partner ecosystem just as we have seen Nonstop executives begin to do this year. Sailing always comes to mind at this time of year as being a Sydney lad at heart, there was always an air of excitement on Sydney Harbor as the big, maxi sailing yachts gathered for a series of contests that ended on Boxing Day with the start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Many years ago, back in 1998, Oracle’s Larry Ellis...

It may not always be smooth sailing ahead but for NonStop, our journey continues; better hands than mine are on the tiller and nobody is getting wet … Almost forgotten this day, given the world’s current plight of fighting the global pandemic, was how this blog passed yet another milestone. As we started the month of September it was the beginning of our fourteenth year of blogging. Yes, thirteen years have passed since the first post appeared, August 29, 2007.  When it comes to the subject matter of NonStop, there has been no end to the stories that we can tell and even after all these years, I have no thoughts about easing up on the posts. There’s just too much excitement about NonStop still to come! When I first started blogging I did so from a corner desk tucked away on the landing of our Simi Valley rental townhouse. Commuting between Boulder and Simi Valley, even as I was working out of San Francisco, meant time on the road to kick around ideas with Margo that mostly wound up...