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Vimia's infrastructure has been based on Ubuntu 9.04 server VMs running under Xen. The clients are nearly all Mac OS X machines. Retiring one of those Mac OS X clients has freed up a machine on which to try Mac OS X Server, which in Version 10.7 (Lion) is available for only CHF 48.00 from the Mac App Store.

I will admit to being a Dilbert fan. Given my background in standards, I particularly enjoyed Tuesday's comic:

I'm not saying this was my experience – far from it – but I find the scenario amusing.

I am interested in the ISO standard 20022 aka UNIFI (Universal Financial Industry Message Scheme), and one assumes that the people who wrote the standard are interested in making it as widely known as possible. However, if you go to iso.org and search for the standard, you discover that the 5 relevant documents which comprise it cost a total of CHF 588.

Today I published the new Vimia website, which I hope will give a clearer view of the activities and services offered by my company, Vimia GmbH, than the older website did. Like the old site, the new one is bilingual (English and German).

What has changed?

I hope that it is now clearer what Vimia offers you. In brief, this is: