BackupBrain: My MicroISV Venture

I was pleased to come across a couple of posts on virtualisation recently.

• XEN and the art of Virtualization
• Free VMware Server in action

Sometime in the next month I am planning on building a server to be a host for VMs, so these came at just the right time for me. I was planning on using VMware Server, which I have done a small amount of experimenting with, but Neville’s article about Xen makes we want to take that for a spin. I’ll also be taking a look at Parallels to see what their current offerings are like. Of course, there’s also Virtual PC and, possibly, rpath although that appears to have a different focus - I need to check it out further though…

This is a little late, but I’m going to comment anyway

A couple of weeks ago, Bob Walsh posted about plans for his mymicroisv.com site and mentioned that he was going to add a wiki to the site. I added a brief comment over there about PMwiki being easy to setup and use.

I just thought I’d add that I also have a private copy, sorry not ‘net accessable, that I use almost every day to track anything and everything related to my business. Any ideas I come up with for ThoughtFiler or other potential products or services go there, budgets, plans, goals and pretty much anything else I need to record about the business goes into the wiki. Makes it quick and easy to retrieve later.

November, 27th! Heck, that feels like so long ago now it’s not funny. Definitely what I would call a blogging hiatus.

So much for my monthly goals, eh! I did one so far (updates on that shortly). Some of you may have thought that I have given up on this whole Micro-ISV or “escape the cubicle” dream. Not at all! I still believe that there’s a market for my ThoughtFiler idea and I fully intend to build it, but… once I quit and am building it full-time I am pretty sure that I will want to eat, pay some bills and have somewhat of a life.

To that end, I have been rethinking my plans a bit. I have been thinking about contracting sources in my local area and of various other services I can offer businesses around here to provide income streams. I will post some thoughts on all this here shortly if only to provide clarity for myself (as I’m sure most of you have long since left for more exciting uISV blogs!)