- Is outsourcing slowing?
- Talkback: InfoWorld.com's new look
- Your favorite stories this week
- InfoWorld Daily Podcast
- Microsoft's file system dream deferred
- Talkback: Waiting for Office 2007?
- Quote of the day: The last real copy of XP
- Google claims little need for reliable servers
- InfoWorld Daily Podcast
- Thinking about what's after Windows
June 30, 2006 | Comments: (0)
From the analysts: What with the software industry's continued saga of consolidation, services are perhaps more interesting now than ever. Revenues are up and, more interesting, only 21 percent of that rise was garnered by the top 6 firms. But the real juice is that "for the first time since 2000 outsourcing services grew more slowly than project-based services and software support -- a possible sign that outsourcing is slowing," David Margulius reports in IT services keep hope alive.
Best of the blogs: Paul Venezia waves au revoir to FireFox. "I've found that FireFox is simply too much of a resource hog on my 1.67Ghz PowerBook G4 with 1.5GB RAM to be usable," he writes. "Although I never reboot the laptop, I have to quit and restart FireFox every day or so."
Q&A: Black Duck CEO Douglas Levin discusses issues pertaining to intellectual property and open source in this interview conducted by Paul Krill.
The Screening Room: Jon Udell, in episode #6, gets an education about XML for Analysis, an emerging standard for OLAP, and the potential intersection between business intelligence and Web 2.0. Think AJAX and XMLA.
Podcasts: NetApp's carefully planned entrance into the SMB storage realm came this week in the form of StoreVault S500. The company, it appears, kept a close eye on the feature sets rivals offer and, at about $5,000 for the 1TB entry level system, StoreVault should be competitive. Listen to Storage Sprawl.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 30, 2006 10:54 AM
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Talkback: InfoWorld.com's new look
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Your favorite stories this week
These are the five stories InfoWorld visitors read the most this week, in order:
1 The last genuine copy of Windows XP
2 Microsoft ponders Windows successor
3 Symantec to exit security appliance business
4 Sun says open source Java possible in 'months'
And...
5 Robert X. Cringely's Gates on the fence, Nokia makes scents
That's it. Enjoy.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 30, 2006 09:54 AM
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The depressed state of computer security, EMC buys RSA, Microsoft faces class-action suit over Genuine Advantage, and more
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Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 30, 2006 09:11 AM
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Microsoft's file system dream deferred
Columnists' corner: By stating that it will make WinFS a part of SQL Server and ADO.Net, Microsoft has killed the unified file system dream, Oliver Rist writes. "As a stand-alone file system that would have dropped onto existing Longhorn installations, WinFS just did a face plant. Got snuffed. Pushed up a whole pile of daisies." That's not to say developers won't be happy, Rist adds in this week's installment of Enterprise Windows.
Security: EMC says it will buy RSA for $2.1 billion to obtain its information-centric security technologies. "Information security ... has become an inseparable attribute of information management," says EMC CEO Joe Tucci. But one analyst notes that until EMC articulates a security strategy, it's too early to tell whether the purchase was a good idea.
Storage: Gateway jumps into the enterprise storage game (or at least the mid-tier) with a SAN and two backup devices the company hopes will give it spring enough to rebound from a $5.2 million dollar loss last quarter.
The news beat: Microsoft delays Office 2007 by a few months, saying that the extra time will allow engineers to incorporate feedback from 2.5 million beta testers. Two U.S. men are sent to the slammer for software piracy; one for 12 months, the other 18. Microsoft general manager for platform evangelism Vic Gundrota defects to archrival Google.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 30, 2006 04:37 AM
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Talkback: Waiting for Office 2007?
Microsoft is once again singing its now-familiar product delay tune, this time to the beat of Office 2007. Team Redmond says the suite will be delayed again so it has time to incorporate feedback from 2.5 million beta testers into the final version to "make the product as good as it can possibly be," as reported in Office 2007 delayed by a few months.
Can't wait to get your hands on Office 2007? Or, do you prefer to wait longer for what Microsoft says will be a better product? Talkback below.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 30, 2006 04:20 AM
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Quote of the day: The last real copy of XP
When will the last genuine copy of Windows XP fail to successfully run Microsoft's ever-growing gauntlet of anti-piracy weapons? If you think about, it would seem to be just a matter of time until all copies of XP are deemed counterfeit. The only question is just how long after Windows Vista ships that day will come. -- Ed Foster. The last genuine copy of XP
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 30, 2006 04:00 AM
June 29, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Google claims little need for reliable servers
Hardware: Most IT shops would say that the more reliable a server, the better. But not Google. Instead, the search engine builds its own back-end boxes at a cheaper cost, knowing that its software will work around any outages, according to one exec. "For us that's the right solution." It also reduces energy and helps Google avoid cooling costs.
Podcasts: In Zero Day, Bob Garza interviews Deloitte and Touche's Brian Geffert, a partner at the firm. The two discuss Deloitte's recently released security survey, which touches on a range of issues you should be watching out for even if you think you've got a bulletproof infrastructure. Listen here.
Best of the blogs: Matt Asay confesses that he can't pretend to be hip in London's restaurant scene. "The only way to remain perma-hip is to sell things," he explains in On hipness and open source. "Lot of things. Perpetually." And Mike Barton on the mysterious case of Dell's exploding laptop.
The news beat: Red Hat inherits a lawsuit from JBoss that concerns Hibernate 3.0, which FireStar Software is claiming infringes on patents for mapping between an object model and a relational database. Google debuts its online payment system, otherwise known as Checkout. And India stays cool to open source. Come to think of it, "cold" might be a better descriptor as a mere 2 percent of the country's developers contribute to open source anything.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 29, 2006 11:07 AM
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Microsoft eyes Windows successor, Google to tout Checkout payment system, Red Hat faces patent infringement suit, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 29, 2006 08:32 AM
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Thinking about what's after Windows
Platforms: Microsoft is pondering a Windows successor, and saying it will better leverage multicore chips, which requires tools that don't exist today. "It's not a question of running on a multicore artchitecture," a program manager explains. "It's a question of what you do to fully exploit the capabilites there."
Columnists' corner: Tom Yager reveals the ugly truth about agencies that promote contract-to-hire positions, dubbing the whole game the tech worker's contract to nowhere. "An employer who uses boiler-room agencies to look for help misses out on prime prospects, and can end up with the agency's dregs: joyless workers who came your way only after being run once too often through the agency's soak cycle. But then, if you use contract-to-hire, you get what you deserve," Yager writes.
The news beat: Net nuetrality gets rejected and will not be added to a broadband bill as it goes to the Senate floor. Google changes its tune on San Francisco Wi-Fi tracking and will no longer require an e-mail address for login, but it is not clear whether privacy issues catalyzed the decision. An Intel executive, speaking at The Venture Forum, cites the importance of innovation, pointing to Netflix and the Toyota Prius as examples. And Red Hat's revenue is on the rise along with subscriptions.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 29, 2006 04:44 AM
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Quote of the day: Inventing everything
We can invent anything. It's just software. The real challenge is to show people what's possible, and to engage them as partners and co-creators. To meet that challenge we'll need to be able to tell stories that make immediate sense to everyone. -- Jon Udell. Say what?
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 29, 2006 04:05 AM
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Now is the time to bargain with Microsoft
Columnists' corner: Paying for more than you need with your Microsoft EA (Enterprise Agreement) or even Software Assurance? No longer does "your company have to continue overpaying for Microsoft license agreements," explains Ephraim Schwartz. And he outlines the big-ticket leverage points any company can use right here, such as convincing Microsoft that you can walk away from the deal and use your current licensing rights, or that you can upgrade the hardware way.
Best of the blogs: "In enterprise IT, all sorts of suffering happens in the good name of security." So begins Harper Mann in Man-made security woes. Login systems that kick a user off after three tries, rather than, say, four or even 100, are one instance of perceived security rather than real security, Mann points out, along with several other examples.
Test Center review: With its SIP phones, Avaya is skipping the PBX -- a move that at first glance might seem surprising given Avaya's presence in the PBX realm. "The phones, in essence, handle all the functions of a PBX," finds the illustrious Wayne Rash. That's not to say it's flawless. "Although the one-X Quick Edition does not offer the full range of features you'd get with a PBX, it's a cost-effective solution, and by July it will integrate with a PBX for more flexibility." Read the full review.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 28, 2006 11:22 AM
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Podcasts: Jon Udell speaks with Suzanne Peck, CTO of Washington D.C. and Dan Thomas, who directs DC's DCStat program, about open government, live data feeds that enable citizens to track the performance of agencies, and Udell offers a link to a mashup proof-of-concept he created. Listen here.
Columnists' corner: The devil is in the details, perhaps nowhere more so than software development. And when the details involve bids so low that his company could not actually pull in a profit, it's not just Lucifer that's evil, recounts our Off the Record author. "Because writing code wasn't in my job description, the company agreed to pay me a small wage for writing it on my own time, and I'd retain 30 percent ownership. We expected the product to sell widely in the printing industry, so my cut would be quite valuable. The number of variables was mind-numbing. I had to develop a suite of front-end programs to handle paper size, drying time, and dozens of other expenses. As we passed the 18-month mark, I had written nearly 40,000 lines of code."
The news beat: Google to kick off an online payment service that potentially could compete head on with eBay's PayPal unit. SugarCRM will unveil a commercial portal next month. And Nortel, chasing profits, says it will cut pensions and jobs.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 28, 2006 05:15 AM
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Quote of the day: A kludge is just a kludge
It's all well and good to define a kludge as using a band-aid to attach a box to the side of the box that's affixed to the main system with chewing gum and duct tape, but that doesn't do much when the time comes to design a solution to a system problem. -- Bob Lewis. The kludge index.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 28, 2006 04:00 AM
June 27, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Microsoft's olive branch to open source
App dev: Microsoft unveils a code-sharing Web site, dubbed CodePlex, that it claims will serve as a forum for both Microsoft code and code from other developers. Jon Rosenberg, director of community source programs at Microsoft, had this to say: "We're actually establishing a venue for the development community to collaborate with us and feed back into these projects," adding that code contributed to the site can be posted under any licensing terms.
Podcasts: Zero Day author Bob Garza speaks with the CEO of Privaris, Barry Johnson, about his company's new biometric device, which in Garza's words "opens several types of doors, all with a push of a button and a swipe of a finger." Listen here.
Security: Microsoft warns of exploit code that targets a flaw in its Remote Access Connection Manager service. Although the company rated the bug as critical, it says that most firewalls will block it.
The news beat: Intel sells its communications unit to Marvell for $600 million, saying that the move is part of its efforts to hone core business and ratchet up the competition with rival AMD. When Sony launches the Vaio U next week, it won't have a hard-disk; rather the company's smallest laptop will be one of the first to tap flash memory instead of magnetic storage. And Blinkx makes amateur clips the focus of its video search.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 27, 2006 10:35 AM
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Microsoft folds WinFS into database, Intel sells communications unit, releases Woodcrest, Sony uses flash instead of hard-disk drive, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 27, 2006 08:43 AM
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Databases: Microsoft's elusive file system, WinFS, the one that was most recently supposed to be the feature in Vista, is now going to be included with the next version of SQL Server, code-named Katmai. Of course, this runs counter to what Microsoft said two weeks ago at TechEd, that it would be in a beta 2 release come year's end.
Hardware: Intel rolls out its Dual-core Xeon 5100 processor, code-named Woodcrest, which the company claims consumes less power while boosting performance. And Gartner says that because notebooks are prone to hardware failure, 15 percent will break within a year, and 22 percent within four years.
Columnists' corner: The end of the Gates era at Microsoft cannot come fast enough, writes Neil McAllister in Open Enterprise. Why? "A Microsoft that can learn to play fair, be more transparent, and embrace the radical changes taking place in the way enterprises procure, develop, and deploy software could be a powerful boon for the industry," he explains. "But I'm not holding my breath."
Best of the blogs: Jon Udell fesses up to being indicted. For the crime of businessspeak, that is. "The dope slap continues and it's worth reading if, like me, you aspire to do more than speak to hardcore geeks about esoteric technologies. I care about ends not means, and the ends that matter to me also matter to everyone: finding information, using it effectively, working together to solve problems," Udell adds.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 27, 2006 04:40 AM
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Test center review: Data leaks that lead to devastating identify theft -- and costly consequences for business -- have reached epidemic proportions. In addition to the financial burden to enterprises, the U.S. government recently raised the stakes by forming an identity theft task force. Fortunately, data theft prevention solutions are improving. The latest offerings from PortAuthority and Tablus, for example, boost their detection accuracy and provide policy customization, writes Mike Heck. Read the full review.
The news beat: Beating Microsoft to market, IBM said Monday that Lotus Sametime, version 7.5, the company’s instant messaging and collaboration tool, will integrate with Microsoft Outlook, Office, and SharePoint applications. Another story brought to you by our intrepid editor at large Ephraim Schwartz, is news that Salesforce.com will extend its CRM reach to partners with Partnerforce, a PRM (partner relationship management) service, next month. For all the latest, stop by news.
Linux watch: Desktop Linux has wings again this week with news that it could take off at airports. Pierre Benne of Unisys France, speaking on the sidelines of a conference in Paris on Monday on the use of Linux in the enterprise, said Common Use Self-Service (CUSS) check-in terminals at airports could present an opening for Linux.
Best of the blogs: SMB IT's Oliver Rist goes gadget with Treo Mods. He writes: Treo Black Tie Edition version "really doesn't thrill me". But the The Treo TripKit is a little more sensical, and it's compatible with all model Treos from the 650 to the 700p, Rist writes. "It's a useful kit, containing a Bluetooth wireless headset, a car charger, an extra battery, a new stylus that doubles as a pen and an international charger with attachments. All of that in a leather roll-up case that goes for $199. A little pricey, but still a better value than the Black Tie version."
Posted by Mike Barton on June 26, 2006 12:33 PM
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Best of the blogs: Microsoft released a service pack for the .Net Compact Framework 2.0 this week that supports development of Windows CE-based "headless" devices such as embedded systems that lack a keyboard and display screen.
News beat: The USDA said on Thursday a computer hacker may have stolen "personal identity information" for 26,000 current and former Agriculture Department headquarters employees. The state of the government's security status has slipped to an alarming low, but the news was followed by the FTC saying laptops were stolen, exposing the private data of another 110.
Columnists' corner: In Real World SOA's When does SOA stop being worthwhile? Part II, Dave Linthicum tackles a question posed by Joe McKendrick: When building a SOA, how do you know when you're done? Dave: "It's really about attempting to figure out when to slow down the investment in SOA...when the benefits no longer seem to be there in great numbers, or don't equate to the incremental investment."
Podcasts: Tom Sullivan is taking much-deserved short vacation, so he invites regular listeners to browse the archives to reflect on podcasts past. He'll be back on Monday.
Posted by Mike Barton on June 22, 2006 05:11 PM
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Best of the blogs: As if VMware wasn't in the news enough lately, here they come again writes the InfoWorld Virtualization Report. "The company is announcing with Intel the launch of something called the Intel-VMware Virtualize ASAP. The aim of the global program is to accelerate IT customer deployment of applications in virtual environments using VMware infrastructure on Intel Xeon processor-based platforms. See more www.virtualizeASAP.com.
News beat: Researchers have demonstrated the ability to hack Wi-Fi drivers and take control of a laptop computer. Plus: A third Microsoft Excel attack has been disclosed. The latest attack takes advantage of Adobe Systems's Flash technology, which can be used to provide graphics and animation to Excel documents.
Columnists' corner: Jon Udell writes that IT is key to energy crisis fix, saying "Last Friday, I got a glimpse of what such a partnership might look like. For my weekly podcast, I interviewed Mike Frost, CEO of Site Controls, a 3-year-old Austin, Texas, startup focused on the part of the energy web that can be built out now, for profit, with near-term ROI and a growth path that could eventually produce macro-level network effects."
Podcasts: The new NAS is cheaper, faster and more scalable. It's even clustered. But it's not for everyone. Plus, the week in storage news. Listen to Storage Sprawl.
Posted by Mike Barton on June 21, 2006 05:19 PM
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Hardware: IBM researchers have simulated a silicon chip blistering along at 500 GHz, in conjunction with Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The new chip, not likely to land in hardware anytime soon, could eventually find new applications in commercial communications systems, defense electronics, space exploration and remote sensing, according to IBM.
Columnists' corner: Doctor T (not to be confused with Mr. T) seemed to have it all: a nanotech research background, an advanced degree, and a prior working relationship with the hiring director at a computer service agency. All that was enough to impress the CEO. Yet, Dr. T never really seemed to do much. "His real areas of expertise appeared to be avoiding controversy, steering clear of risk, and claiming credit for high-profile projects only after they became successful. He was also very good at flattering the CEO, who adored him," our Off The Record writer explains. But that flattery sure was handy come layoff time. Hiring heads-up: Watch out for phonies.
Podcasts: The new NAS is cheaper, faster and more scalable. It's even clustered. But it's not for everyone. Plus, the week in storage news. Listen to Storage Sprawl.
Test center review: Alfresco doesn't pull any source code tricks, such as limited-function 'community' editions designed to lure users into paying for beefier, and pricier versions, begins Mike Heck in Alfresco delivers an open CMS alternative. Instead, you get the same functionality across all three versions of the "ready-to-run CMS with high-usability" and pure open source model. "Compared to commercial content management and portal offerings, however, Alfresco lacks advanced workflow and the capability of publishing Web sites."
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 20, 2006 10:26 AM
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I'm on vacation for the rest of this week. Please feel free to browse our podcast archives LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 20, 2006 09:00 AM
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The news beat: With the new Oracle Event-Driven Architecture and its Fusion Middleware, Oracle is aiming to boost the SOA 2.0 concept, of which EDA is a key component. Verizon slaps Vonage with a patent suit that threatens to shut down Vonage's business. And IBM pushes online contract management with a hosted app that enables the review and signing of documents on the Web.
Open source: BEA Systems adds support for the Ingres 2006 database to its Workshop Studio 3.1 developer toolbox for Eclipse. And startup A la Mobile launches a Linux platform for smartphones.
Storage: Intending to plug two BPM holes in its Documentum software, EMC bought ProActivity for an undisclosed sum. ProActivity's software will provide business process analyis and business activity monitoring features.
Podcasts: Zero Day author Bob Garza interviews Microsoft senior product manager Peter Eicher about the newly-released Antigen roster and how these products protect enterprises from viruses, worms, spam and inappropriate content. Listen here.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 20, 2006 04:19 AM
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Quote of the day: Knowing when your SOA is complete
Just thinking, as those building SOAs in their organization ... how do they know when to stop, or slow down? I mean, you can service enable and orchestrate the entire enterprise, perhaps your supply chains as well, but I doubt the cost of doing that is going to justify the benefits in most cases.
-- Dave Linthicum. When building an SOA, how do you know when you're done?
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 20, 2006 04:00 AM
June 19, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Test center review: ISM's Predective Pro uncovers code weaknesses, according to Rick Grehan, and "processes data harvested from the past to inform the future." The more you use it, the richer the history from which it can draw, thus "it will get better and better at spotlighting specific weaknesses in your team's development efforts -- and may just save you a boatload of time and frustration." Read the full review.
The news beat: Google Pages plays host to a Trojan horse and hackers use the hosting service to steal real money via a malicious program. SOA Software, Systinet and Mindreef all bring new SOA tools to market, with a focus on managing ESBs, quality testing and policy enforcement. And Nokia says it will run its managed services business from India.
Hardware: Samsung's Q1 Ultramobile PC is getting mixed reviews. Those who have encountered the Origami-running Q1 with no prior knowledge are generally positive about the device while those who read a lot about the Origami platform prior to seeing the Q1 have been more negative, according to one Samsung exec, adding "it was always going to be a test for us."
Best of the blogs: IT Troubleshooter Harper Mann asks are SANs really as infallible as vendors would have you believe? Since he's asking, one can guess the answer is not so simple. Indeed, Mann shares some of the common SAN inflictions in this post. These include a poor set of standards, room for human error in configuration, and management headaches.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 19, 2006 10:56 AM
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Talkback: Are patents killing innovation?
In Patent overload hinders open source innovation, Neil McAllister asks, what good is it to release source code under a free software license if anyone who compiles it will have to pay patent license fees?
Are patents killing innovation? Talk back to us.
Posted by Mike Barton on June 19, 2006 09:59 AM
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This Week in Print: All the news we ran in the InfoWorld hard copy dated June 19, 2006 LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 19, 2006 08:37 AM
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SOA tools abound, Nokia, Siemens merge telecom units, FDA boosts RFID, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 19, 2006 08:21 AM
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Special Report: What with more solutions available than ever before, NAS is becoming fast, cheap and scalable. And, with data growing in leaps and bounds, the new generation of NAS will be welcome in many an enterprise. Take Cedars-Sinai, for instance. The hospital opted for clustered NAS to save time analyzing and diagnosing and saving lives, as seen in this case study. There are times, though, when just plain NAS beats clustering. All the stories are wrapped into Special Report: The new face of NAS.
Columnists' corner: When even a major vendor like Sun Microsystems has to wade through intellectual property issues to drive its open source DRM, perhaps patent overload hinders open source innovation, points out Neil McAllister. "Open source licenses work with copyright law to ensure that code always stays freely accessible, but copyrights aren't the only kind of intellectual property in the software world. Patents can be equally troublesome; in fact, they can often be showstoppers for open source," McAllister explains.
The news beat: Yahoo enters enterprise waters with partner X1. Nokia and Siemens will merge telecom infrastructure units in a joint venture worth $19.9 billion. And a ruling by the FDA is seen as a boost for RFID.
Best of the blogs: "I'm growing a wee bit impatient with the major enterprise ISVs and their alleged support of open source," Matt Asay begins in Open Sources. The latest to do so: Oracle, with its content management for the masses, which Asay calls a "feature-weak, closed-source, closed standards CMS."
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 19, 2006 04:40 AM
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Here are the stories we deemed worthy of going into the Tech Watch section of InfoWorld's print edition, dated today.
Microsoft weighs strong app IDs for Windows future
With Vista Beta 2 going out to millions of beta testers, Microsoft engineers are already looking to the future and evaluating ways to expand technologies like User Account Control (UAC). In particular, researchers at the Redmond, Washington, company are looking for ways to introduce hardware based cryptographic signing for common applicaitons and embed those signatures in the Windows OS. The new application signatures would be stronger versions of the UAC "manifest" and would make it harder for malicious programs to hijack common programs, but the company will have to clear many technological hurdles as it tries to build application signatures into future versions of Windows, including charges of vendor lock-in and thorny PKI infrastructure, according to company executives.
Microsoft announces Office Line of Business service
Microsoft Corp. Monday unveiled a technology that will let business customers see information from all of their enterprise applications via its Office software. Microsoft is positioning the next version of Office, Office 2007, as the front end for all of a company's line-of-business applications, as well as the platform for business intelligence, collaboration and enterprise content management.
Yahoo worm demonstrates Ajax threat
The appearance of a new Yahoo IM worm last week raises the spectre of more Java and AJAX based threats.
Gates to step down from Microsoft
Microsoft founder states his intentions to turn chief software architect role over to CTO Ray Ozzie in two years.
The entire contents of this week's issue can be found here.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 19, 2006 04:18 AM
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Quote of the day: Grid computing's lack of management mindshare
When I think of grid computing, for some reason I think of my waffle iron. In addition to being grid-shaped, it makes high-performance waffles -- nice and crisp with perfectly shaped ridges just waiting for the Vermont maple syrup layer. It's also horizontally scalable -- I can always get a friend to bring another waffle iron over to double my throughput. Alas, neither my waffle iron nor grid computing seem to get much use. -- David Margulius. Waffle on grid computing.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 19, 2006 04:00 AM
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Weekend edition: Part 2 of our look at second beta of Windows Vista, our annual salary survey brings good news, mostly. Oliver Rist on the lack of laptop security. And more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 17, 2006 04:00 AM
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Divergent paths for SOA governance
SOA: As two SOA governance interoperability initiatives are developing on parallel paths, tech experts at the Burton Group's Catalyst conference questioned whether the industry needs both the Governance Interoperability Framework and the SOA Link. "It doesn't benefit to have a standard that is not a standard," says Charles Stack, Flashline CEO.
Notes from the field: Microsoft, it seems, is ticking off plenty of folks with its "Windows Genuine (dis)Advantage" validation tool, Cringe reports, including some who are being prohibited from downloading updates until they install WGA. Microsoft fesses up that WGA phones home every day, too. That and the fact that Google unveiled a Web-based spreadsheet service have Ballmer allegedly remodeling his office. Microsoft validation hell, Google outexcels Excel.
Security: Excel is home to a new vulnerability, which comes from an e-mail with a malicious document attached, according to a blog entry posted by a Microsoft security program manager. But he provided no details about what the malware does when downloaded.
Podcasts: In his Interviews with Innovators series, Jon Udell speaks with Mike Frost, the CEO of Site Controls, about intelligent energy management. The energy Web ought to be a national priority, Udell explains. But it's not, and that's where entrepreneurial efforts such as Site Controls come into play.
Best of the blogs: In the midst of commentary on the World Cup, Matt Asay calls for more candor from the open source vendors, such as what Red Hat's Matthew Szulik produced when admitting that JBoss's implementation is superior to Red Hat's own JOnAS effort. And Dave Linthicum asks are there any good SOA design tools?
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 16, 2006 11:07 AM
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Your favorite stories this week
Here are the five stories that InfoWorld visitors read the most this week, in order:
1 What users hate most about Web sites
2 Why Apple snubs its open source geeks
3 The Gripe Line: Culture Clash over sneakwrap and iTunes
4 Robert x. Cringely's Windows Genuine Advantage a poor bet, bank snags domain from pet
5 Wrestling with Windows hidden 'features'
That's it. Have at 'em.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 16, 2006 09:04 AM
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U.S. Government goes soft on ID theft, Gates to step down as chief architect, Oracle tops earnings expectations, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 16, 2006 07:55 AM
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Part 2: A look inside Vista's second beta
Columnists' corner: Oliver Rist caught some heat for saying that Vista is more revolutionary than evolutionary, but in part 2 of his look inside the second beta, Rist sticks to his guns. Though Linux faithful might not agree, "for folks moving from Windows XP to Vista, you're really going to see a difference." The Aero interface, for one. Search and security are others, though Rist points out that neither is perfect. "Vista by itself is a big change from XP. In conjunction with Longhorn server, it can literally change (mostly for the better) most ways that users touch their desktops as well as the network. Revolutionary enough for me."
The news beat: Bill Gates says that in two years' time he'll step down as Microsoft's chief software architect, leaving that helm to Ray Ozzie, and spend more of this time focusing on philanthropy. InfoWorld editor in chief Steve Fox likens Gates to Spider-man, in that they are both misunderstood, while analysts are saying that CTO Ray Ozzie will fill Gates' shoes well.
Geeks in paradise: In the latest post, Brian Chee offers up some background on the Advanced Network Computing Lab, aka ANCL, he was a founder of in 1995. It all started somewhere under the D.C. October rain, pina colada's and a few wise-cracks. Ten years later and, well, I'll let him tell the story.
Best of the blogs: When a kludge isn't really a kludge. (Or is it?) Bob Lewis advises a reader to "automatically handle what computers can do, and kick out an excpetion list so humans can intervene" when necessary. And Paul Venezia on his homegrown Ultra40 update. This one, folks, ends with a 'sigh.'
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 16, 2006 04:24 AM
June 16, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Quote of the day: BPM and SOA need each other
There seems to be a silly chasm developing between the SOA guys and the business process management guys. I can see it now, two gangs on either side of the dark street, one with black leather jackets with "West Side SOA" embroidered on the back, and the other gang wearing tank tops with process symbol tattoos all down their arms and legs, both tossing boxes of enterprise software at each other. -- Dave Linthicum. SOA Needs BPM and the other way around.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 16, 2006 04:07 AM
June 15, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Broken Windows: Why Vista's so late
Best of the blogs: Dave Rosenberg posts a crack at explaining why Windows Vista is so late. Think code that is way too complicated, more than 50 dependency layers, and Windows process that has gone thermonuclear. Broken Windows Theory.
Columnists' corner: Search is a game-changer, explains Jon Udell in Building connection engines with metadata. But only if it "radiates potential connections." Hence, the applications InfoWorld Power Search and InfoWorld Metadata Explorer he created. "By syndicating that metadata, I'm inviting others to more richly contextualize their aggregations of our stuff," Udell writes. "If other publishers will return the favor, I'll gladly make better use of theirs. Any takers?"
Podcasts: Hitachi goes for the content-addressable storage goal, but the competition heats up as NetApp took to that field, too, on Monday. Listen to Storage Sprawl.
The news beat: Motorola and others launch a foundation to create an open Linux-based software platform for mobile devices. Startup Parallels' Desktop is now available for the Mac, enabling users to run Windows and Mac OS X side by side. HTC unwrapped two new 3G handsets that run Windows Mobile 5.0. And here's a look at June's coolest gadgets.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 15, 2006 10:55 AM
June 15, 2006 | Comments: (0)
In CIOs: Fear the worst, IDC chief research officer John Gantz warns today's big trends -- net-telephony convergence, open-source software -- will remake the IT landscape by 2012, and drive CIOs crazy.
What's the next big IT worry? Talk back to us below.
Posted by Mike Barton on June 15, 2006 10:02 AM
June 15, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Part 2: A look inside Vista's second beta, HP 'blades everything,' AOL reworks Netscape.com into social news site, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 15, 2006 09:39 AM
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Security: Rarely does good news come about viruses, even from the cadre of security of vendors, but Sophos found that 'e-mail, as far as viruses are concerned, is actually safer than it was last year.' That's right: Only one in 91 e-mails bring forth malware, compared with the malicious code carried by 1 in every 35 last year, the vendor says. Just don't go predicting the death of malware anytime soon. Fewer e-mails bear malware.
Best of the blogs: Greg Nawrocki delivers the second piece of a three-part series digging deeper into Microsoft's new clustering technology. In this post, Patrick O'Rourke, lead product manager of the Windows Server Division, responds to Nawrocki's question regarding how Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 addresses data interoperability considerations.
The news beat: Oracle releases two tools that it claims will make content management accessible for the masses. Microsoft is pushing ahead with its Atlas AJAX framework, though the project is considered a tough undertaking by some. Hewlett-Packard banks on next-generation blade architecture which, it says, will bring new features, such as systems management and power and cooling, to ease datacenter challenges. And after what seemed to be a bloody battle, Cisco embraces Black Hat by signing on as a platinum sponsor.
Services: IBM adds a new consulting practice to help companies get more out of their own research and development efforts. So it is undoubtedly good news to Big Blue that Gartner says IT services revenue rose 6 percent in 2005.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 15, 2006 04:29 AM
June 15, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Quote of the day: A Lawyer on EULAs
Law is not like engineering. In fact lawyers tend to joke about how all engineering trained people think they don't need lawyers, because they can understand 'the law' by reading it. What lawyers know that engineers -- and that includes software engineers/programmers -- don't know is that the law is not a specification. You can't just look the law up and then you know what is going to happen ... One way to look at the law is that it is a continuous argument between competing interests. A judge, as Oliver Wendell Holmes said over a century ago, (if he/she is a good judge) will try to rule in such a way that the rule, which is called an 'opinion' for good reasons, will not ignore prior precedent and at the same time not produce an unacceptable result. -- An InfoWorld reader writing into The Gripe Line, in A lawyer's take on EULA's.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 15, 2006 04:00 AM
June 14, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Open source and the persistence of evil
Best of the blogs: Between group hugs, diaper changing and eating a lot at a family reunion, Matt Asay trudged through the tome Creation and the Persistence of Evil. Something about it has him firing potshots at co-author Dave Rosenberg and contemplating how it somehow relates to the origination of open source. So, there's a bit about open source's potential to conquer evil, or at the very least order the existing intellectual property world, and a picture of Richard Stallman that worshippers might find, err, umm, I don't know, fill in the blank here.
Q&A: Ben Fathi is in charge of Microsoft's response to hacker threats. I could just leave it at that ... but, as the corporate vice president of Microsoft's Security Technology Unit, Fathi has a role that many in the industry do not covet, let alone wish upon their enemies. In this interview Fathi discusses the notion of a trust ecosystem, complaints about Windows Vista's security, the Forefront Client Security Microsoft released this week, and more.
Columnists' corner: Why Apple snubs its open source geeks. Well, because the company believes, or at least publicly claims, that the subset of IT people interested in recompiling the Mac OS X kernel is only a 'fraction of a fraction' of Tom Yager's regular readers. "Before consummate wealth and success, Steve Jobs was the poster boy for that misunderstood fraction-of-a-fraction to which my erstwhile handlers referred," Yager writes.
Podcasts: SMB IT guru (or geek depending on your personal take) Oliver Rist talks about Windows Vista, why "upgrading your desktops might not be such as a stupid idea after all." And what fun would any of his Emerging Enterprise podcasts be without a rant? This time he's all worked up about stopping unsecured laptop madness.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 14, 2006 11:08 AM
June 14, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Our annual salary survey, VoIP wiretapping could cause security problems, Microsoft's ream of patches, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 14, 2006 08:57 AM
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Columnists' corner: Working the IT gig for a model turned Web site proprietor might not be the dream it seems. Especially when a salesperson gets his hands on beta code and puts it into production. Next thing you know, the code starts deleting user accounts, creates an uproar and, somehow or other, concludes with a congratulatory champagne toast. When beta software deletes your client list.
Test Center review: While small companies are often known for that old-fashioned feel-good style of customer service, CRM software is not where that originates. "Lacking IT savvy and budget to automate, many SMBs are still mired in an error-prone mix of manual e-mail, spreadsheets, and word processing applications," explains James Borck. The Nsite 6.0 "SaaS package delivers on-demand, browser-based quote and proposal generation, as well as channel management -- fully customizable to meet the specificity of even the most oddball pipelines." And though it could give even Willy Loman hope, "Nsite is not without its shortcomings," Borck adds in Nsite 6.0 serves up small-scale CRM add-ons.
The news beat: Oracle offers Linux system recommendations via its new Validated Configurations program that it claims will lower support costs in hopes of making customers more comfortable with Linux and, ultimately, speeding deployment. Panelists at Microsoft's TechEd say the commercialization of malware is the primary reason that security remains a problem. And experts predict that all-you-can-eat 3G may not last.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 14, 2006 04:27 AM
June 14, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Quote of the day: Google Calendar and its API
Last week I pitched a hissy fit when Google PR stomped on my inquiry about GData, which is the RESTful, RSS-and-Atom-oriented architecture of which the Gcal API is the first concrete manifestation. This week I want to show what can happen when communication and collaboration flow as they naturally can and should. Google's instincts about web architecture are spot on. Sort things out on the developer relations front, and it'll be amazing. -- Jon Udell. Google Calendar and its API.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 14, 2006 04:05 AM
June 13, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Best of the blogs: Bob Lewis explains some of the reasons why doctors, lawyers and other egotists won't use IT. And, it does have a little something to do with IT. Greg Nawrocki, meanwhile, kicks off a series of posts in which he'll share Microsoft's response to his complaints about some information gaps in Microsoft's new clustering product press release. "A lot of folks in the grid community I suspect will find the elaborations helpful," he writes.
Show of the week: Microsoft's annual TechEd developer conference is this week and, as is nearly always the case, the company is making myriad announcements there. For starters, it is wrapping several security products into Forefront, recommending that customers upgrade Web services technologies with the new Windows Communication Foundation, and saying that Exchange 2007 will be tailored for mobile workforces. For our complete coverage, see: Microsoft Tech Ed 2006.
VoIP: Vonage gets smacked with a second lawsuit this month over its IPO-gone-awry, this one questioning whether the company made full disclosure of information regarding its management team and its service, including 'known' problems with call and fax quality.
Columnists' corner: Are LCD vendors in cahoots to manipulate prices? Ephraim Schwartz presents that possibility in this week's installment of Reality Check. "Shortages, of course, mean higher prices and longer waits for products, facts that IT buyers need to keep abreast of. So every couple of years I put it in my mental calendar to call an LCD analyst and ask whether any shortages are coming up." Word on the street is that chatter about an artificial shortage is getting louder by the day.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 13, 2006 10:42 AM
June 13, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Quote of the day: Microsoft loves open source
I genuinely think Microsoft wants to cooperate with the open source world. Not because it is generous, but because it is in its shareholder interest to do so. This is the right motivation for any corporation. It still has a lot to learn but, then, so does the open source world. -- Matt Asay. Microsoft loves open source (but worries about GPL infection)
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 13, 2006 10:34 AM
June 13, 2006 | Comments: (0)
LCD makers forcing shortage? JBoss opens ON, Wisconsin to ban forced RFID implants, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 13, 2006 09:07 AM
June 13, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Has Congress gone soft on ID theft?
Best of the blogs: Ed Foster dissects how Congress is moving toward weaker identity theft laws. "Wouldn't you just know it, the approach our elected representatives seem most attached to is one that -- instead of strengthening privacy protection -- will actually deprive consumers of the most effective privacy protections we now have."
Special report: In the 2006 InfoWorld Compensation Survey we found that IT pay is higher than it was last year. Indeed, myriad factors fuel the salary increases and bonuses were key, but many in IT still fear the ax that outsourcing often wields. This package contains too many elements to list in this entry, but you can find them all right here.
Podcasts: A new episode of Storage Sprawl looks at how the marriage of NetApp's clustered architecture and the Ontap OS spawns storage for high-performance computing.
Open source: Matt Asay on Gartner's assessment that open source applications are hot. "For those who still think we're light years away from open source applications going mainstream, you need to jump ahead with your handy-dandy time machine. The future is already here," he writes.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 13, 2006 04:15 AM
June 12, 2006 | Comments: (0)
This week in Print: All the news we ran in the hard copy of InfoWorld that came out today LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 12, 2006 03:02 PM
June 12, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Microsoft wraps security products into Forefront
Security: Microsoft gives its security portfolio the name 'Forefront.' The umbrella brand will encompass ISA Server 2006, Antigen enterprise antivirus and antispam tools, and the service formerly known as Client Protection. Microsoft is also releasing research, based on what its security software digs up, that finds 1 in every 300 PCs has malware.
Columnists' corner: The biggest Linux vendor you've never heard of just might be Oracle, writes Neil McAllister in this week's Open Enterprise. "It was only natural for Oracle to enter into the Linux support business. It's not widely recognized, but Oracle has provided enterprise Linux support through its Unbreakable Linux program for about four years. Now, with its new Oracle Validated Configurations initiative, it is poised to take that a step further." An Oracle exec claims that when it comes to Linux "We're trying to use our influence to do something good."
Podcasts: Jon Udell has a conversation with CJ Rayhill, O'Reilly and Associates CIO, in which they discuss the SafariU project, of which she has been one of the leaders, as well as the intersection of publishing and education. And David Marshall, in Virtualization Report, takes on PlateSpin and Double-Take Software's partnership, then delves into AMD's answer to Intel's vPro.
Quoteworthy: "Fewer than half of senior managers surveyed believe that top brass understands the value of IT. Compare that with 2004, when 62 percent said executive management got it. Yet, here's the disconnect: Despite the perceived vote of no-confidence from the corner office, 56 percent of senior IT managers believe they have adequate funds to get the job done. One year ago, that figure was just 46 percent. -- Steve Fox. IT stats, IT salaries.
The news beat: Intel bumps up the release date for Tulsa, one of the multicore chips that comprise the Xeon family. Network Appliance targets storage for higher-performance computing. And Seiko Epson develops an e-paper display.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 12, 2006 10:47 AM
June 12, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Microsoft kicks off TechEd with four promises for IT, Intel says more efficient chips are on the way, Scoble leaves Microsoft for podcast startup, and more
LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 12, 2006 08:55 AM
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Test Center review: Lexmark's X646e is superior to its predecessors, but it's not perfect. What it is, though, is inexpensive compared with the 10 large you might expect to slap down for a high-quality stand-alone office copier. Dan Littman writes that this MFP is "versatile, moderately priced, and reasonably easy to use. But the machine's copy quality may put off some potential customers." The full review is here.
Best of the blogs: Management guru Bob Lewis answers a reader's question about how to promote good project management. "I don't know how to make good project management exciting. The whole point of it, after all, is to prevent excitement."
The news beat: Microsoft touts multi-facted 'People-Ready' plan, with a little help from a TV actress who stars on '24.' The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upholds VoIP wiretapping. And an Intel researcher says that more efficient chips are on the way.
Off topic: Slayer? Your favorite t-shirt? What do these things have to do with open source other than the fact that Open Sources author Dave Rosenberg writes about them? Not much, you're thinking. And, I tend to agree. But Rosenberg brings it back home with a post about his wife open-sourcing part of her upcoming clothing line. I don't know, maybe the shirts are a hit in the back office or datacenter, but InfoWorld readers accounted for a good percentage of the voting, he claims.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 12, 2006 04:56 AM
June 12, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Here are the stories we deemed worthy of going into the Tech Watch section of InfoWorld's print edition dated today.
Google gets Groove-y with spreadsheet
Google moved the ball further down field in its effort to challenge Microsoft's decade old monopoly in the productivity software space, releasing an evaluation version of Google spreadsheet. True to form, media hype about the new application far outstrips its reported functionality.
Intel puts chipsets on the table
Intel last week launched a new chipset for desktop computers and said it would use it to win back market share from chief rival AMD. The P965 Express, code-named "Broadwater" works with Intel's new Core 2 Duo processor ("Conroe") and has already started shipping to PC makers.
IBM set to unveil DB2 Viper after five years in the making
Big Blue details the long-awaited release of the next version of the DB2 universal database, aka "Viper." The database promises new features for storing, managing and searching XML data and new options for storage management, indexing and optimization techniques.
Reactivity adds Auto-Discovery
XML security shop Reactivity will be unveiling technology on Monday that it claims can cut service-oriented architecture deployment times by as much as 75 percent, automating and accelerating XML messaging and Web services.
Or, you can listen to the podcast of these stories, at the This Week in Print episode link.
The entire contents of this week's issue can be found here.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 12, 2006 04:43 AM
June 10, 2006 | Comments: (0)
This post houses the best of the best InfoWorld Daily entries for the week that began June 5, 2006.
Special report: Our package Vista: The next generation includes reviews of the beta 2 releases of both Windows Vista and Longhorn, as well as stories on Vista's potential to alienate business users, and how users are in disagreement with analysts about the pros and cons of Microsoft's forthcoming OS.
Best of the blogs: Vista is close enough to being widely available that IT shops should cfactor it in when planning hardware purchases. Oliver Rist outlines what hardware to buy for Windows Vista. "Okay, no offense Microsoft, but after playing with this OS for a while, [the recommended hardware specs] are a fairy tale," he writes.
New to our site: We've added another blog, Geeks in Paradise, spearheaded by Brian Chee, who founded the Univ. of Hawaii School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology's Advanced Network Computing Laboratory (SOEST ANCL). Mr. Chee will share tales and tips from ongoing hands-on tests and explore myriad other technology topics.
Notes from the field: Hobnobbing with scurvy pirates, the elusive Robert X. Cringely claims to possess no secrets, for now anyway. But that doesn't mean he's not suspicious of the DOJ's request that online services voluntarily store subscriber data for two years minimum. Personally, I suspect Cringe's real concern is that, much like Baroness Penelope Cat, someone will uncover his fetish for underage mice. Someone such as the Rio Grande Web cam patrol, perhaps. Alright, alright, for that to make any sense whatsoever you need to read Windows Genuine Advantage a poor bet, bank snags domain from pet.
Security: Whoever said that hacking, cracking and other malicious computer tactics are just for the young and nimble? An ostensibly disgruntled UBS employee stands trial for detonating a so-called computer bomb that cost the company approximately $3 million to assess and repair. Name: Roger Duronio. Age: 63.
Hardware: I could break it down to 17 poetic syllables but, really, it would still just be computer hardware, albeit an ultra-mobile PC. Microsoft is working on a mini-Tablet PC concept it calls Haiku.
Video: The IDG News Service 'casts live from the Computex trade show in Taipei, where Greenpeace is protesting the use of toxic substances in high-tech products.
Check out the podcast companion to this blog: The InfoWorld Daily Weekend Edition.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 10, 2006 04:00 AM
June 10, 2006 | Comments: (0)
InfoWorld Daily Podcast: Weekend Edition
Weekend Edition: PPW as misleading metric, inside Vista beta 2, the 2006 CTO of the Year awards, and much more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 10, 2006 04:00 AM
June 09, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Quoteworthy: Don't go half-way on open source ... Eventually, unless you go open, you'll go under. Sorry about that. It's one of those harsh realities. -- Matt Asay. Open source and the living dead.
New to our site: We've added another blog, Geeks in Paradise, spearheaded by Brian Chee, who founded the Univ. of Hawaii School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology's Advanced Network Computing Laboratory (SOEST ANCL). Mr. Chee will share tales and tips from ongoing hands-on tests and explore myriad other technology topics.
Columnists' corner: How do you investigate potentially malicious Web page code without infecting yourself? Roger Grimes opens this week's installment of Security Adviser with that very question. "Of course, when analyzing malware, the investigator should use appropriate caution. But any of the methods beats clicking on the malicious link or content in IE and hoping nothing happens," he explains.
Open source: Dell says that 25 percent of its enterprise market is Linux, points out Dave Rosenberg in Open Sources. And OpenVZ solves one networking problem with a new virtual ethernet device.
Notes from the field: Hobnobbing with scurvy pirates, the elusive Robert X. Cringely claims to possess no secrets, for now anyway. But that doesn't mean he's not suspicious of the DOJ's request that online services voluntarily store subscriber data for two years minimum. Personally, I suspect Cringe's real concern is that, much like Baroness Penelope Cat, someone will uncover his fetish for underage mice. Someone such as the Rio Grande Web cam patrol, perhaps. Okay, okay, for that to make any sense whatsoever you need to read Windows Genuine Advantage a poor bet, bank snags domain from pet.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on June 9, 2006 10:48 AM
June 09, 2006 | Comments: (0)
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