One of the blog’s I’ve been following (besides Bob’s here at Appistry) is Marc Andreessen’s from my old nemesis Netscape. I really have enjoyed some of the insights Marc has shared around startup’s, VC’s and most recently, Career Planning.

In his career planning post, he shares a couple of rules that really resonated with me and I think they are worth repeating. Marc’s career rules –

I just got back from attending a Microsoft HPC conference in Redmond Washington this week and during one of the breaks I had a chance to talk to another attendee who had previously worked at Microsoft back in the late 80's / early 90's. What this gentleman and I found we had in common was that back in the late 80's he taught at Microsoft University (which was Microsoft's only training facility in the 80's) where I had attended a couple of OS/2 development courses.

In today's Grid Today blog, All Things Distributed, Derrick Harris talks about another legacy-grid player that is re-positioning it's market approach to include application virtualization. What I find interesting is how the CMO from the company describes their reason for re-positioning based on the fact that it's "all about the application".