- Catching management's eye
- Talkback: Does Apple moving away from open source matter?
- InfoWorld Daily Podcast
- Web 2.0, mashups and the browser
- This week in print
- Quote of the day: GPLv3
- Defending the desktop
- Your favorite stories this week
- InfoWorld Daily Podcast
- Google's open source repository meets mixed reactions
July 31, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Best of the blogs: Bob Lewis embarks on round 2 of his postings about Mr. Invisible, an IT pro struggling to get noticed by upper management. "If your manager changes, it's going to mean your situation will change. Don't be nostalgic for the way it used to be. If you allow this to happen, and especially if you allow it to happen in a way that you and some of your peers commiserate about, it will poison your new reporting relationship."
Newsmakers: The mind of HD Moore. Sounds ominous and it just might be. Senior Editor Paul Roberts catches up with Moore in this Q&A to discuss what enterprise IT shops should understand about Metasploit, managing the project's growth, and private trading of zero day exploits.
The news beat: India's second largest outsourcer InfoSys turns 25 and faces new challenges, notably offshoring multinationals. AOL tests an enhanced video portal. And some users are mixing open source with Windows in something of a 'WAMP' stack for the best of both worlds.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 31, 2006 10:57 AM
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Talkback: Does Apple moving away from open source matter?
Neil McAllister says to Forget about open source at Apple in his Open Enterprise column today.
Is it that easy for you to say goodbye? Talk back to us.
Posted by Mike Barton on July 31, 2006 08:12 AM
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Microsoft to charge for Office 2007 beta, IBM will announce new hardware, SanDisk buys M-Systems, and more
LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 31, 2006 08:04 AM
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Web 2.0, mashups and the browser
Special report: Getting beyond the hype, mashups are proving to be more than just annotated maps for consumery Web sites. "Because mashups use technology that you already have -- JavaScript, XML, and DHTML, plus fast Internet connections to support graphical and functional richness --- there's no huge investment required," Galen Gruman explains in Enterprise mashups. "Although IT may understand the security issues related to JavaScript or other technologies underlying mashups, it's too early to tell precisely what the new risks are." The full package, Integration at the browser, also includes a look at how Sprint wrangles mashups.
Podcasts: Oliver Rist delves into 'why' you should protect your company from employees or hackers running off with reams of customers data. That's followed by a rant on "what I should have found on my Wi-Fi VoIP phone but didn't." Tune into Emerging Enterprise.
The news beat: Microsoft says it will charge $1.50 for beta 2 of Office 2007 starting on Wednesday. SanDisk buys M-Systems, a competing flash memory developer, for $1.6 billion. And Linksys announces a new wireless LAN product line for SMBs consisting of a router, access point and CardBus adapter.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 31, 2006 04:44 AM
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The following stories can be found in the Tech Watch section of InfoWorld's print edition dated July 31:
HP buys CIO access with Mercury deal
In the Jane Austen novel that has become Mercury Interactive's financial story throughout the last 12 months, it was HP playing the role of Mr. Knightley last week, riding to the rescue with an offer to buy the company for $4.5 billion and, thus, save the company from itself. Of course, the deal has considerable advantages for HP: adding Mercury's application management wares to HP's OpenView family, creating an end-to-end IT management platform. Still, this deal isn't done yet, and Mercury will have to set its books straight before HP will step up to the altar.
IBM, Oracle, SAP update SOA-standards effort
Execs from leading vendors SAP, Oracle, BEA and IBM announced progress on a common architecture for SOA development, including SCA (service component architecture) and SDO (service data objects). Vendor-backed standards efforts often fall flat on their face. This one seems to be working -- and gaining momentum.
AMD's ATI purchase will yield long-term payout
No matter what you've read, AMD's CPU price cuts and its acquisition of silicon artisan ATI are not signs that AMD is heading for a downward slide. Both moves strengthen AMD's already strong position in the market.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 31, 2006 04:33 AM
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I don't actually see any real fundamental changes there, and it all seems to boil down to the same meaning in the end. The FSF is trying to make some things no longer permissible under the GPLv3 that the GPLv2 left open, and I just happen to think that those things were better off being left open. -- Linus Torvalds, as quoted in Linux creator still no fan of GPLv3.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 31, 2006 04:04 AM
July 28, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Security: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the mishaps of unauthorized software, or to take arms against a sea of security troubles by controlling the desktop, that is the question Roger Grimes pursues in Continued debate on desktop lockdowns. "My advice would doom any company following it to utter failure and miserable employees, my critics continue to complain," Grimes writes. "If your current defenses can't stop a user from installing my Trojan program and compromising your network at will, shouldn't you be doing something different to offset the risk?"
Hardware: Speaking of the desktop, price cuts by Intel and AMD, as well as oversupply of LCD panels will lead to the best PC bargains in years, according to Gartner. The buyers market should remain for the next few months.
Notes from the field: Microsoft still has yet to get its Windows Genuine Advantage tool for hunting pirates straight. This week, it says WGA uncovered 60 million XP pirates and maintains that it received only a handful of false positives out of 300 million machines tested. The company also confirmed Zune, its purported iPod killer. And Tom Cruise makes a guest appearance in Windows Pirates abound, iPod killer is found.
The news beat: Microsoft is now saying that it won't ship Vista until the OS is ready, thereby giving some industry watchers reason to believe it is creating wiggle room in terms of an exact availability date. Linux creator Linus Torvalds is still not impressed with the second draft of the GPL 3.0 that FSF issued yesterday and, in fact, has no plans to adopt it for the Linux kernel. And Nokia tests dual cellular Wi-Fi phones.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 28, 2006 10:44 AM
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Your favorite stories this week
InfoWorld visitors read these five stories the most this week, in order:
1 Google adds traffic info to Maps application
2 Paris homes test very high-speed broadband
3 WGA and activation failures don't faze Redmond
4 Dell users get burned, Apple lawsuit spurned
And...
5 Mac is back in the big league
With that, I'll leave you to it.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 28, 2006 09:22 AM
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Building smarter authentication part 2, analysts say Vista may slip further into 2007, FSF issues second draft of GPL 3.0, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 28, 2006 07:05 AM
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Google's open source repository meets mixed reactions
Open source: Google says it will make 100 MB of disk space available to developers to store and share their open source project. While some say the Google Code repository be good for the open source community, others said the service is lacking support for certain tools and licenses.
Special report: It's no secret that identity thieves are increasingly becoming more sophisticated. And simple passwords could leave your network wide open. But a whole new generation of authentication technologies are emerging, including biometrics, risk-based authentication and reputation services. Indeed, vendors and enterprises alike are building smarter authentication.
Podcasts: Small and mid-sized businesses are attracting large vendors -- this week that includes HP and Iomega. Listen to Storage Sprawl: SMBs get big attention.
Columnists' corner: "I'm going to review the strategy behind Microsoft's new Forefront security family," begins Oliver Rist in this week's installment of Enterprise Windows. "Might not be as easy as blasting the 12 canons of Redmondian goodness to shreds, but it's probably more informative." The big question, however, is not what Microsoft will do, but how third-parties are going to react.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 28, 2006 05:35 AM
July 27, 2006 | Comments: (0)
M&A: Now that HP has made public its intention to acquire Mercury, the real challenge is ahead -- making sure that Mercury stays out of the HP deadpool. Why did HP acquire Mercury? "Because it's absolutely crucial to HP's Adaptive Enterprise initiative, which purports to connect IT assets to business value," writes Eric Knorr in HP and Mercury: Here's why. "The big question is whether HP is capable of succeeding with software at any layer higher than that of OpenView." Users are saying that HP buying Mercury makes sense.
Best of the blogs: Predictions for the year 2020. Start with the death of locality, and include next-gen speech recognition, open source components at the network edge, a proliferation of sensors, and more in this Tech Watch post.
The news beat: With Bill Gates announcing plans to eventually take a less active role in Microsoft, CEO Steve Ballmer says he must become the primary 'champion of innovation' for the company. In the latest chipmaker skirmish Intel follows AMDs lead and slashes processor prices by more than half. And India may decline the $100 laptop program as it's education secretary says that giving a laptop to every child is pedagogically suspect, and may actually be detrimental to the growth of creative and analytical abilities of the child.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 27, 2006 10:35 AM
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Building smarter authentication, Intel, AMD tout new chips, Samsung flash drive boosts Vista, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 27, 2006 07:53 AM
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Databases: Twisting just a bit his kick about how companies ought to look out for their people, recognize the talent they have and keep it, Sean McCown posts one for managers. Setting: Your main production system goes down, and it's now time for your DBAs to spring into action. After assessing the problem, they decide the database is completely shot and needs to be restored from backup. Here's your quiz: Are they telling the truth, or do they just not really know what they're doing? Are your DBAs working for you?
Podcasts: In The SOA Report, Dave Linthicum brings listeners Step 1 of his 12 steps to SOA, as well as a look at SOA adoption. Service-oriented architecture "requires a systemic change in the way we think about architecture ... to think that the uptake of SOA is going to be anything but slow and gradual is really silly ... we're seeing a lot of growth, but we're definitely not seeing the growth that has been predicted in the marketplace, which I think is good." Tune in here.
Columnists' corner: Looking ahead to Apple's worldwide developer conference, Tom Yager is honing his agenda -- and a good bit of the knowledge on his quest isn't specific to OS X or the Mac, he writes in Mac is back in the big league. "This year I'll learn Apple's new approach to running a mix of 32- and 64-bit applications. I hope to discover how the Mac's Core Microarchitecture CPU, Extensible Firmware Interface, and Trusted Platform Module are exposed to developers. And although this will certify that I'm certifiable, I am salivating at the prospect of seeing hands-on sessions with x86 assembly language."
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 27, 2006 05:54 AM
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Quote of the day: Float like a butterfly from Windows to OS X to Linux
The desktop isn't the battleground it once was. I float like a butterfly from Windows to OS X to Linux. My home is in the cloud, and that's the next frontier for the champions of free and open commodity infrastructure ... We've already seen how open source software projects harness collective effort to produce quality results. We're now seeing how open content projects such as Wikipedia do the same. Can open infrastructure be far behind? -- Jon Udell. The rise of open infrastructure.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 27, 2006 04:05 AM
July 26, 2006 | Comments: (0)
M&A: Hewlett-Packard plunks down $4.5 billion for Mercury Interactive, and plans to combine the latter's suite of application management software and services with HP's OpenView network and IT service management software.
Security: A new Trojan horse infiltrates PCs by disguising itself as a Firefox extension. Once in, FormSpy can steal personal information including credit card numbers and passwords.
Podcasts: Hewlett-Packard announces a new lineup of networked storage wares tailored specifically for small and medium-sized businesses, while Big Blue takes aim at that same space with continuous data protection software. Tune into Storage Sprawl.
The news beat: Google introduces click fraud stats to demonstrate the malicious activity it has discovered and removed. Avaya CEO Donald Peterson gave up his post as the company reported third-quarter profit that fell far below last year's results. And IBM says it will begin basing software pricing on processor performance, rather than the number of processor-cores on which it is running, because virtualization, grid computing and multi-core chips are making current licensing too complex.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 26, 2006 10:52 AM
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IBM pushes Power5+ into high-end servers, HP to buy Mercury, Yahoo hires social search researcher, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 26, 2006 07:12 AM
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Best of the blogs: Having given all forms of copyright protection a hard time lately, Ed Foster stands, via a reader's letter, in defense of DRM. "The idea that DRM itself is a problem has become fashionable, but doesn't hold up to close analysis. It's a bit like saying that safes are a bad idea because banks make too much money. Or, alternatively, that they interfere with the rights of consumers by making it more difficult to access their money," the reader writes.
Columnists' corner: If you're lured by the romance of Paris enough to consider working there, then I don't want to be the one to deter you, but our Off the Record author has some advice. You see, she was caught programming in Paris without a work permit. "In order to stay employed, I had to learn the fourth-generation language the system was written in. I was already struggling to master French. I seemed to have given up sleeping entirely, and I never saw the inside of that cafe I'd imagined." This one, folks, does have a happy ending.
Open source: Why can't Google and Yahoo be better open source citizens? According to reps from both companies, the answer goes something like this: They don't open up their code because "no one would understand our code, or be able to make use of it - it's too specific to a massive Web company." Oh, really? Matt Asay asks. And he uncovers another reason that is "much more compelling -- disappointing, but compelling."
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 26, 2006 04:29 AM
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Quote of the day: How companies treat IT staff
You know, one of the things that has really surprised me is how many people are tired of the same things I am. Since I started the series on how companies treat their IT staff, my mailbox has been full of people urging me on and telling me their horror stories. A lot of you are right ... I do seem to be the only one sometimes who fights these kinds of fights. I don't mind being the one to champion these causes because I really believe in them. -- Sean McCown. A glimpse into my inbox.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 26, 2006 04:04 AM
July 25, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Special Report: Finding that precise piece of data you need among the mountainous silos in some back office may be the biggest challenge BI users face. That's where search comes in. The article BI's new power users rely on advanced search, in fact, looks at the intersection of the two technologies, and what it means for real-time analytics, while Enterprise search vendors bet heavily on BI examines how the likes of Cognos, Google, IBM, Oracle and X1 are injecting BI with enterprise search capabilities.
Best of the blogs: Bob Lewis offers advice for those on the wrong end of age discrimination. Feeling antiquated at just over 40, and tempted to run into business for yourself? Before you do, Lewis has some questions you ought to consider. If you're "having trouble finding employment in your chosen field due to age discrimination, I'd advise you to pursue one of two other alternatives. Either chase opportunities for which gray hairs give you credibility, or find a good staffing agency to handle the selling for you."
The news beat: Open source database provider Ingres acquires Thinking Instruments, one of its resellers and services providers, with the intent of extending its presence in Germany and the Middle East. Yahoo teams with Symantec to offer an Internet security software suite it claims will help protect users from viruses, spyware and other online threats. And Motorola unwraps several new incarnations of its Razr cell phone.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 25, 2006 11:03 AM
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Symantec says Vista to bring new security problems, Intel touts 'Rosedale 2' WiMax chipset, $100 laptop gains ground, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 25, 2006 07:03 AM
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Best of the blogs: His lab littered with PCs used for software trials that are now in need of being regenerated, Brian Chee is tapping Microsoft Virtual Server R2, which he calls "a significantly different beast" from previous versions. And not just because it's now free, either. Geeks in Paradise: Affordable virtualization.
Test Center review: Network Composer from Cymphonix is a veritable Swiss Army knife of network-management, usage-reporting, and threat-protection tools rolled into a single appliance, explains Keith Schultz. "Traffic shaping and content filtering are good and the malware and virus scanning kept out all of the bad stuff I could throw at it. There's not much more you can ask of an SMB threat management box." That said, the product is "light on QoS." Read the full review.
The news beat: Hewlett-Packard lays out its plans for SMB-class networked storage, with a family of products due to be launched in September. Intel plants the 'Rosedale' WiMax chipset in small quantities so equipment vendors can begin developing devices even while Intel is still testing. And Apple has built a wireless Mighty Mouse.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 25, 2006 04:40 AM
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Quote of the day: Self-serving distortion of facts
As the shared body of knowledge around malware techniques has evolved, it is no longer sufficient for companies such as McAfee to act as gatekeepers of that knowledge for the security community. Share the code. Expose the threats. Make the solutions known. -- Neil McAllister. McAfee cries wolf on open source.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 25, 2006 04:01 AM
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Best of the blogs: Although the hosted model is maturing somewhat there are at least 3 areas in which SaaS could use some improvement. Take, for instance, the fact that SaaS vendors don't consider integration with each other. Dave Linthicum shares the other two, as well as how to fix them, in this Real World SOA post.
Test Center review: Appian Enterprise 5.1 fits the bill when it comes to James Borck's four key elements for gauging ROI and success of BPM packages. "With Version 5.1, Appian Enterprise has truly hit full stride on the fast track of human-centric process management," he writes. Read the full review.
Podcasts: Jon Udell speaks with Bob Glushko, who recently authored the book Document Engineering, about information architecture, XML, Web services, and the hybrid discipline of document engineering.
New to InfoWorld.com: In both our print publication and online, we'll now have a Newsmakers section, in which you'll find more than 'just the facts, ma'am' stories. This week: A discussion with the CEOs of Secure Computing and CipherTrust, which was just gobbled up by Secure Computing, about the increasingly crowded security space and some of the fiercest competitors.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 24, 2006 10:49 AM
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Pureplay SOA vendors join forces, AMD says it will buy ATI, Microsoft confirms iPod rival, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 24, 2006 07:33 AM
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Test Center review: Even if it still gets pushed to the back burner, data modeling remains the preferred method for creating database schemas, explains Sean McCown, at times for lack of adequate tools. But those folks longing for better tools just might appreciate Embarcadero's ER/Studio 7.1, which "may be the best overall data modeler on the market. Its combination of features and ease of use puts it leagues ahead of competitors ... The data lineage tool still needs some work, but it's an excellent start and will be of good use to serious data architects." Read the full review.
Columnists' corner: It seems that Forrester Research considers product management to be a dimension of IT marketing, reports David Margulius in Marketing IT in a noisy world. While he agrees with Forrester's report, Margulius can spot one problem. "It's got so many moving parts, and the concepts are so theoretical to IT, that no one will ever do it."
Podcasts: Some questions border the inevitable and seem downright obvious once posed, but are important nonetheless, and David Linthicum asks one of those: Is EAI a good fit for the new world of service-oriented architectures? Listen to his answer in The SOA Report.
The news beat: AMD says it will buy ATI for $5.4 billion and, in so doing, become one of the top players in graphics chips. Microsoft offers a full-featured second beta of Exchange Server 2007. And an NYU computer science profesor says Google is making a reasonable effort to control click fraud.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 24, 2006 05:55 AM
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We deemed these stories print-worthy for InfoWorld's edition dated July 24.
Intel in tough fight, even with Montecito
Intel released its long-delayed Montecito chip on Tuesday and has already begun shipping the dual core Itanium chip to server vendors. Montecito will offer a number of advantages, among which are lower power consumption. But with other alternatives already available for high-end servers, what will the real impact of the long-awaited processor be?
Xen primed for the mainstream
It was a good week for open source virtualization vendor Xensource, with the company announcing deals with both IBM and Microsoft to support the company's Xen virtualization software. IBM said on Monday that its low-end servers and middleware will support Xen along with Novel's latest release of SUSE Enterprise Linux distro. Then on Tuesday, Microsoft and Xensource announced plans to work together so that Longhorn virtualization technology will support Xen-enabled Linux operating systems. With Linux vendor Red Hat expected to follow Novell in its support of Xen, and more product news scheduled for the summer, Xen is shaping up as a serious competitor to EMC's VMWare in the virtualization space.
Microsoft, Nortel team up on unified communications
Signaling its intention to get serious about unified communications, Microsoft announced a four year deal with Nortel Networks to jointly develop and sell unified communications products that combine e-mail, IM, and voice using a platform based on Microsoft Office Communications Server, Exchange and Nortel's existing communications infrastructure.
AmberPoint, Reactivity team up for SOA management
Reactivity and AmberPoint are announcing a tight technical integration deal on Monday.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 24, 2006 04:48 AM
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Quote of the day: Software is from Mars...
A recent court ruling will have me watching almost no movies going forward. A recent software trend has me using a lot more software. The use is directly proportional to the copyright owners' willingness to open up ... All the players who scream for IP freedom in software are strangely (or not so strangely) silent in defending CleanFilms, CleanFlicks, and their ilk. Without a lobby, the judge decided and these companies go out of business. -- Matt Asay. Software is from Mars and entertainment is from Venus.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 24, 2006 04:05 AM
July 21, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Q&A: Sun's co-CTO Robert Brewin speaks in this interview with Paul Krill about Java, Web 2.0, potential next moves for the company, and the arrangement under which he serves as one of two CTOs for software.
Platforms: Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage is no stranger to controversy. In the latest, the company is under the gun because WGA misidentifies some real copies of XP as impostors, pirates. Fighting back, Microsoft defends WGA -- in a blog posting, no less, stating that nearly all of the 60 million PCs that failed validation are in fact violating Microsoft's policies in one way or another.
(Thanks to InfoWorld sister publication Computerworld and Eric Lai for this story.)
Notes from the field: By now you've all read or heard about the mysterious exploding Dell Laptops. Well, one of Robert X. Cringely's cronies left a Dell in the cab of his pickup truck where it burst into flames. The fire reached the truck's gas tank and you know what happened then. Alas, our saga grows worse: Dell declined to help the lad until he could retrieve the 'service' tag from the bottom of the notebook in its resting place beneath the rubble of a burned out truck. Dell users get burned, Apple lawsuit spurned.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 21, 2006 10:43 AM
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Your favorite stories this week
Here are the five stories InfoWorld visitors read the most this week, in order:
1 Winternals buy is bittersweet
2 Toshiba reneges on on-site service
3 FBI gets hacked, video blogger sacked
4 Borland set to sell IDE business
and...
5 Web site disasters made easy
That's it folks. Enjoy.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 21, 2006 09:20 AM
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Vendors ease BI via search, Intel reshuffles execs, Google CEO says no limit to growth, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 21, 2006 06:14 AM
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The $100 password cracking challenge
Security: Roger "The Gambler" Grimes is at it again, this time posting 100 bones plus several of his books for cracking his Windows password hashes. "For everyone using six- to nine-character passwords with 'complexity,' I appreciate it. I get paid to break in to systems for a living, and you make my job easier ... For my money, length is all the protection I need." Disagree? Then take the challenge outlined in this week's installment of Security Adviser.
Podcasts: Without dismissing the exceptional capacity for backing up and archiving data, Sony's first foray into Blu-Ray recording can store hours of high-definition movie clips. And we look at Maxell's holographic storage efforts, too. Listen to Storage Sprawl.
Best of the blogs: A vertical search engine focused on open source is not only interesting, but it can be useful -- as in financially useful, Matt Asay explains. "I would argue that as Krugle grows and improves, it will become as critical to development as the IDE. There will simply be no reason to not facilitate development using Krugle. Keep in mind, however, that Krugle is not relegated to the airy confines of the uber-elite developers."
The news beat: A Windows Metafile image exploit in IE may have exposed more than one million visitors to MySpace.com and other Web sites to adware being spread by a banner ad. A federal judge decides that the wiretapping suit against AT&T can go forward. And Nokia's CEO says that CDMA is financially untenable, plagued by challenging growth prospects and that companies will find it too difficult to support businesses that build CDMA products.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 21, 2006 04:52 AM
July 21, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Quote of the day: Winternals buy bittersweet for the rest of us
Sure, I know Sysinternals was the fun side of the business and Mark/Bryce are gonna have to get their kids' teeth straightened just like the rest of us. But the tools they created and then gave away -- dozens and dozens of them -- are incredibly adept at cutting through the layers of administrative UI gobbledgy gook and making important features easy to access and use. I often found myself wondering 'Why did Winternals have to do this?' Did MS need a third-party developer to tell them that it would be nice to be able to view and edit the programs that start up with (and often slow down) Windows? -- Paul Roberts. Winternals buy is bittersweet.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 21, 2006 04:11 AM
July 20, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Cisco in Black Hat hot seat already
Security: The Black Hat conference has not yet begun, and already Cisco is under the gun. Show organizers are saying that of the 15 new exploits to be discussed two target NAC (Network Admission Control) and VoIP vulnerabilities that affect products from Cisco and a number of other vendors.
Platforms: Microsoft commits to new competition principles, saying it will expand the 2002 antitrust settlement by releasing all of its software APIs -- not just those for middleware -- for programs including the Office suite. The software giant will also allow OEMs to remove any Microsoft products prior to shipping a PC.
Podcasts: Running a virtual data center on VMware ESX Server and need backup? David Marhsall delves into esXpress. Shifting gears ever so gently, he then discusses Tideway's Foundation 6 for 'cutting through the complexity of managing virtual environments.' Listen to Virtualization Report.
The news beat: Skype debuts Wi-Fi phones for use at Wi-Fi hotspots. Intel continues to shake things up, this time reshuffling senior executives. And Opera Software unwraps Widgetize to ease, you guessed it, creating widgets for the Opera 9 browser.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 20, 2006 11:05 AM
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Hackers hit databases hard, Microsoft sticks to U.S. antitrust settlement beyond expiration, Cisco to be under gun at Black Hat, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 20, 2006 08:24 AM
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Microsoft delays proving irresponsible to users
Columnists' corner: Sure, pushing back the shipping date of some products is acceptable to Oliver Rist, but only to a point. "The Vista delay announcements haven't really been that troublesome; if I were contemplating a new desktop OS rollout, a sudden delay tossed my way would bother me only a little," he writes. "Having the '20 percent chance of another delay' announcement tossed at me, on the other hand, followed by yet more silence would be downright annoying. Pick a date that's far enough out to be safe and be done with it -- what's with the stringing along, already?" And there are more annoyances in Microsoft delays cause more than just frowns.
Security: Perhaps the heat is making them crazy, but I kind of doubt that. Hackers are striking databases in record numbers, using SQL injection attacks toin search of untold riches in personal and financial data, according to SecureWorks.
Best of the blogs: One of "my most beloved companies and Web sites," has been snatched up by Microsoft, writes Roger Grimes in Microsoft buys Sysinternals. That's the Web site of Winternals, which the Redmond giant bought earlier in the week, but has offered little insight regarding its plans for the company and its technology. "My guess would be that Microsoft will continue the same great licensing scheme for existing programs. New programs, we'll have to see."
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 20, 2006 04:52 AM
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Quote of the day: Free, the way virtualization ought to be
We're diving down, down toward the disposable server, the machine that's cheaper to rip and replace than it is to diagnose and fix. Don't place your faith in trends, friends. The next cut of x86 virtualization is here. It calls for bigger servers, which I predict you will purchase willingly. As of this week, the two biggest names in microcomputer virtualization -- Microsoft and VMware -- are giving away their banner server virtualization products. Neither vendor can claim that its work is anywhere near finished, which means that spending will continue on the development of products that, like Web browsers, will either be free or dirt cheap from now on. But that's how it should be. -- Tom Yager. Virtualization free-for-all.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 20, 2006 04:05 AM
July 19, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Columnists' corner: Amazon's ongoing adventure in metered Web services continues with the announcement that SQS (Simple Queue Service) is joining S3 (Simple Storage Service), in the realm of commercial offerings. "Like S3, SQS is an extremely general-purpose service offering that will undoubtedly be used in ways nobody can predict," postulates Jon Udell in Amazon's pragmatic approach to metered infrastructure. "When you plant a new field of grass there's an old adage: Watch where the footpaths go before you lay down the sidewalks. Amazon's S3/SQS duo is a green field that invites entrepreneurs to think way outside the box."
Security: Oracle patches 65 security holes thereby addressing flaws in its app server, database and e-business suite. And the prototype memory chip that HP touted earlier this week, Memory Spot, now presents a security risk -- in that the chip's rice-grain size and wireless ability could be used by thieves to copy or steal valuable information. Such risk, however, is manageable, one expert says.
The news beat: AOL aims (pun indeed intended) for business users with the Pro version of IM software that integrates with Outlook. Microsoft is evaluating whether to put Blinq, a new tool for creating ASP .Net 2.0-based Web sites, into its next rev of Visual Studio. And China's Internet population hits 123 million people.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 19, 2006 10:24 AM
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Microsoft scoops up rootkit sleuth's company, AOL targets business with IM, IBM results rise on software, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 19, 2006 08:47 AM
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More to migrating data than just pipes
Test Center review: There are deep challenges to getting information from one system to another. "Jitterbit aims to make the job simple enough that, as its Web site says, you can 'integrate your data out-of-the-box without any coding expertise,'" explains Peter Wayner. The tool is not perfect, though. "There are data-transfer glitches ... only a programmer would know about." That doesn't mean the tool won't make both casual and serious programmers pretty happy, Wayner adds. Read the full review.
Best of the blogs: Jon Udell is breaking habits. "My distraction-free desktop has turned into a great example of that. For years I've been subconsciously annoyed by desktop clutter, never realizing that the whole time it was just a bad habit -- and one that's surprisingly easy to break."
Columnists' corner: Upper management wants to replace your revenue-generating LAMP stack with a proprietary version -- we'll call it 'NetTurkey' -- but due to a lack of familiarity with NetTurkey, the hired guns have to crack books to learn it. Then they outsource HTML pages to India. Then, that team calls for a Web site content freeze. Well, as you can guess, a string of clueless project managers came and went. Our Off the Record author lost count after 8, in fact. Where does it end? Not with $6 million spent on the new Web platform, but yet another merger ...
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 19, 2006 04:41 AM
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Quote of the day: Cheating your way to DBA certification
Let me tell you something about the MCDBA cert. It's so incredibly easy to cheat it's not even funny. There are several sites out there where you can download every question on the exam and ace it without any trouble. You don't even have to understand the question. All you have to do is memorize the answers. This is what a lot of MCDBAs have done. Hell, every developer I know has his DBA cert ... big deal. They still don't even know the basics. I honestly can't count the number of times someone bragged to me they were certified, and then couldn't even prove the simplest of skills. Trust me on this one: The only thing a cert means is that the guy had an Internet connection and $100 burning a hole in his pocket. -- Sean McCown. Can YOU pick a good DBA?
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 19, 2006 04:11 AM
July 18, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Java business rules tools showdown
Test Center review: "Fair Isaac's Blaze Advisor and ILOG's JRules are the longtime leaders in enterprise BRMS (business rule management system). JRules has always played catch-up to Blaze Advisor on rule building and management, but has led Blaze in speed. Now, as each reach version 6, JRules has some advantages in rule management and Blaze Advisor has turned on the after-burners, surpassing JRules in performance," writes James Owen. Having stacked the two up against each other, ringing all the bells and blowing the whistles, Owen determines that the better pick depends on your exact needs. Read the full review.
Podcasts: David Marshall shares his disbelief of sorts about how quickly virtualization is becoming a commodity -- and discusses VMware Server and Microsoft Virtual PC, both of which recently became available free of charge. Listen to Virtualization Report.
Best of the blogs: "It's never fun when a product arrives without the drivers you need to make it work. But one reader recently discovered it can be a particular problem when the product is from Umax." Thus begins Ed Foster in the aptly-titled Driver education from Umax. Moral: "If you are a public institution without credit cards DON'T buy a UMAX product unless you are prepared to deal with a hassle," one reader wrote.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 18, 2006 10:41 AM
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Researcher posts Google-based malware tool, Sun's CTO says open-sourcing Java will be incremental, India blocks blogs, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 18, 2006 08:42 AM
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Paint-by-numbers project management
Best of the blogs: Plagued by project managers stricken with 'check-the-box' syndrome? You know the type, regardless of the fact that requirements handed to development cannot be measured and are literally untestable, when something changes hands, they check the box and deem it done. If you know what I mean, you're not alone. Bob Lewis offers readers some advice on handling such managers. "The short version of how to solve this problem, if it's just a few among many, is to hire better project managers." Yes, there is a long and more practicable version in this post, too.
Test Center review: "There aren't a lot of database benchmarking utilities out there, and the ones that do exist have traditionally been ... rather complicated to understand, configure, and operate," explains Sean McCown in Quest brings sweet simplicity to database benchmarking. As the title suggests, "all that has changed with Quest Benchmark Factory 4.7.1." There are downsides, of course, such as an inability to produce pivot reports that creates more work for users.
Open source: Matt Asay reveals the biggest gun in open source services. And the answer might surprise you: Unisys. The trick, he writes, is "to figure out how to be a few significant things to a decent swath of the buying population. That's where the money is, and Unisys is going about open source services in an optimal way."
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 18, 2006 05:24 AM
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Many of the early adopters, first movers and others who bet on services-oriented architectures are now finding rewards. Take Wachovia Bank, for instance, which built a multi-hundred million dollar, end-to-end, services-oriented development and delivery platform, backed by a business-focused, product management culture in IT.
The package SOA gets real includes a look at Wachovia's product management approach as well as its 12 steps to SOA success.
Like most exploratory ventures, building an SOA begins with a map of the future and a plan to work toward it.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 18, 2006 04:58 AM
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Quote of the day: Users keeping you up at night?
Typical IT administrators have no shortage of worrisome situations to ponder during those long, sleepless hours. Surprisingly, though, the culprit isn't necessarily faulty software or hardware. It's often well-intentioned users, who may do something foolish like set up an unauthorized Wi-Fi device at work or take a laptop home. -- Steve Fox paraphrasing contributing editor Dan Tynan. Exploiting everyday end-user behavior.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 18, 2006 03:57 AM
July 17, 2006 | Comments: (0)
How hackers learn from open source
Security: Ripping a page right out of open source's playbook, hackers are practicing some of the very same techniques that have made Linux and Apache so successful. Take the growing generation of 'bot' software, for instance. "Bot development in particular has latched on to open-source tools and the open-source development model," a McAfee official is quoted as saying in this article.
Columnists' corner: Lotus Notes breaks away from Windows, and ahead of schedule. "Still, even a year early, what took IBM so long?" asks Neil McAllister, who won't go so far as to proclaim this the year of desktop Linux. "But one thing I can guarantee you: This year, Microsoft won't be laughing. Not even a chuckle."
The news beat: TI, McAfee and others join the LiPS (Linux Phone Standards) Forum to advance the use of Linux in mobile phones. Citing customer concerns, Microsoft took the Private Folder 1.0 freebie off of its Web site. Hewlett-Packard shows off a prototype of Memory Spot, its 4 MB memory chip with wireless networking capabilities that is about the size of a rice grain. And now that Novell is shipping Suse Linux 10, IBM says it is supporting the new OS's Xen virtualization technologies within its low-end servers and middleware.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 17, 2006 10:43 AM
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Borland close IDE unit sale, Microsoft yanks Private Folder 1.0, Novell unwraps new Suse Linux for enterprises, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 17, 2006 08:29 AM
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Screencasts: Thinking about how his entire computer desktop could be more distraction-free and task-focused, Jon Udell came up with an experimental approach for the Mac, which he documented in this screencast. The elements: DesktopSweeper, a Mac shareware program that hides desktop icons, along with use of the Mac's Apple-Tab switcher and the Mac's Hide Other Windows feature.
Columnists' corner: Calling it "the most significant change that has occurred to computer security in recent years," Roger Grimes points out that nearly 99 percent of all malware exists to steal victim information. "Let that sink in a moment. We now call it crimeware, and nearly 99 percent of all organizations aren't doing enough to prevent it," he adds. The risk is high, no question. "Most companies need a drastic wake-up call. It can be my column or a security event. It's your choice." Unauthorized applications are (still) a bad idea.
Podcasts: Oliver Rist, in Emerging Enterprise, reveals why SMBs should start thinking about all-out Voice over IP (VoIP), plus a good way to protect data from going mobile. Unless, that is, you want it to. And Jon Udell has a conversation with Mike Hudack about blip.tv and the future of Web video. "We discussed blip.tv's efforts to ensure that videos, as well as metadata about videos, flow freely on the web. Blip.tv is working with Dabble, FireAnt, Technorati, and others in a collaboration called Video Vertigo to federate video-specific metadata, such as viewership stats, as well as general metadata such as tags," Udell explains.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 17, 2006 05:24 AM
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We deemed the following stories as worthy of going into the Tech Watch section of InfoWorld's print edition, dated July 17.
Microsoft's Vista, Office delays complicate partner plans
Office 2007 is delayed and Vista's January 2007 ship date is an open question, but its still business as usual at Microsoft's Partner Conference in Boston, where the company is touting a variety of initiatives to make its wares more appealing, including a new pricing model for its ERP wares, aggressive plans to promote its security wares and more.
Borland set to sell IDE business
Big names in running for Borland's tools business. Borland might think that IDEs are commodity technology, but a list of big name companies, including Google, Oracle and IBM see it different, and are rumored to be in negotiations for the company's IDE business.
Salesforce introduces partner management
Microsoft used its Worldwide Partner Conference to signal its entry into the CRM on demand market, with CRM Live, due in the second quarter of 2007. Not to be outdone, Salesforce on Monday plans to announce a new version of its software plus "integration capabilities" with an unnamed ERP vendor, possibly Oracle.
Juniper, Cisco focus on access control
After buying Funk Software for $122 million back in November, Juniper is finally whipping its network access conrol story into shape. The company will announce updates to its Funk Odyssey client on Monday, along with a new version of the Steel Belted RADIUS authentication server. This, just days after dealing Funk's Proxy Remote Control wares to a new startup set up to sell the software.
OMBs encryption deadline hinges on enforcement
Zero to encryption in 45 days? That's the amount of time that the White House OMB gave government departments were given to implement NIST guidelines regarding the encryption of stored data and the use of multi factor authentication for remotely accessed data. The guidance follows similar language from FFIEC last October. But even with a head start by most govt. agencies, is a month and a half enough time?
Notes on Linux: One small step
IBM's announcement last week that it was releasing an update for the Lotus Notes collaboration software, one year ahead of schedule, was a sign that the company is serious about putting muscle behind its desktop Linux strategy. What's next for IBM and Microsoft?
Experts warn about MS DHCP hole
Microsoft patched bugs in its Windows Server, Office and Excel products on Tuesday. The release includes fixes for critical "zero day" holes in Excel that were used in Internet based attacks, ana a new critical vulnerability in the Windows Server DHCP client service.
The entire contents of this week's issue can be found here.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 17, 2006 05:15 AM
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Quote of the day: Bye bye rebates
With major retailers recognizing that rebates generally make for a bad customer experience, can't they just be eliminated altogether? Rather than forcing the customer to fight through complex procedures designed to keep succesful claims low, then argue with foot-dragging rebate fulfillment houses over mysteriously missing receipts or moving deadlines, and finally wait months for a check that may never show up at all, why not just give us all the same discount at the register? -- Ed Foster. Reader voices: Eliminating rebates.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 17, 2006 04:06 AM
July 14, 2006 | Comments: (0)
In the darkness: A bright future for open source
Best of the blogs: Matt Asay has been collaborating with Tim O'Reilly on the upcoming Open Source Executive Briefing that is part of O'Reilly's Open Source Convention. "Working with [Tim] has helped me see a bit farther out into the darkness to see where open source is going ... The picture is very, very bright," Asay writes.
ITxtreme: Since in this obfuscated, overheated, hype-laden mushuggeneh Internet bubble 2.0, a 'product manager' can refer to an engineering manager, a brand manager, a design visionary or, umm, a product manager, Paul Ryan asks Where have all the good product managers gone? Yes, he's beating to the tune of Van Halen's song with the only slightly different name. Lyrics included.
Security: Roger Grimes, in Security Adviser, links to "an excellent introduction on honeyclients" that Robert Danford presented to SANS.
Notes from the field: Always antagonistic, Robert X. Cringely this week picks on the FBI. Not to worry, though, that doesn't mean he's left behind the likes of Microsoft and its lingering malware problems, or refrained from suggesting how The Redmond Giant can overcome the E.U. once and for all. And he laments the departure of Amanda Congdon from Rocketboom. FBI gets hacked, video blogger sacked.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 14, 2006 10:05 AM
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Talkback: Desktop lockdown pros, cons
In Roger A. Grimes' Unauthorized applications are (still) a bad idea he notes the range of response he received from last week's column, Effective security isn't easy, but it is possible.
This week, Roger makes the case for unauthorized software bans more clear by heading once more into the breach.
Where do you stand? Talk back to us.
Posted by Mike Barton on July 14, 2006 10:00 AM
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Defining Windows Live, Skype dismisses crack claim, U.S. States sue DRM makers for price fixing, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 14, 2006 09:36 AM
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Your favorite stories this week
Here are the five stories InfoWorld visitors read the most this week, in order:
1 Verizon never stops lying to you
2 The Ten Commandments of cell phone etiquette
3 Cringely: Bills, bills and billionaires
4 Way off-topic: Jeans + Sportcoat = business mullet?
And...
5 Google search helps dig up malware
N.B. As I pointed it out last week when it reappeared among the pieces garnering the most clicks, The Ten Commandments of cell phone etiquette is an oldy-but-a-goody that originally ran way back in 2000.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 14, 2006 09:09 AM
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Columnists' corner: Did you know there are 18 Windows Live services? Indeed, and while many are geared toward consumers, several are enterprise-class. Oliver Rist bluntly breaks those down, and sifts through the confusion. "If you're thinking it's just meek retaliation to the Web service juggernaut that Google is becoming, you're only partially right," Rist begins. "The product responses themselves are neither brand-new nor meek. Redmond's been planning this for some time."
Platforms: Microsoft releases Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, which is essentially a new OS that calls old PCs home by metamorphosing them into thin clients and, thus, extending their lives. Microsoft says that the old clunkers will be able to run the latest security and management tools, and refers to the user experience as similar to that with XP.
The news beat: Intel confirms that it will slash 1,000 management jobs by the end of this month. MySQL says it will pull the plug on free updates for older versions of its open source database. And the new PowerPoint flaw is being used in attacks. "It's similar to the pattern we've seen over the past few months where they're using a previously unknown Microsoft vulnerability, and an e-mail enticement to get a backdoor on someone's machine," says one security researcher.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 14, 2006 04:35 AM
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Quote of the day: Grid not as big as many would like
There is still today a lack of the enterprise proof points and third party validation that is needed to show that there is substance to the promise of grid computing. Organizations like OGF will help, but there needs to be an increased concentration on organizational support, enterprise case studies and direct application of the technology, to name a few. -- Greg Nawrocki. A broader scope needed for grid standards bodies.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 14, 2006 04:09 AM
July 13, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Hardware: The U.S. House of Representatives approves a bill that charges the EPA with studying energy consumption of servers to determine potential cost-savings the federal government could achieve by moving to energy-efficient hardware.
One I simply could not resist: Jeans + Sportcoat = Business mullet. That headline pretty much says it all.
Podcasts: The summer storage tournament begins: Charged with new products, purchases, and alliances, storage vendors including EMC, Exanet, Sun, and NetApp mount up to joust. Listen to Storage Sprawl.
The news beat: Firefox 2.0 beta stokes browser wars, and according to developer docs it includes all the new features for version 2.0. AMD says it will file a complaint against Intel relating to anticompetitive behavior in Germany. And researchers in Europe are developing a prototype Super Firewall for stopping DDoS attacks that uses hardware and software on the edge of a provider's network, rather than within.
SMB: Fresh from a phoner with Avalara CEO Jared Vogt, Oliver Rist reports on Managing Internet sales tax. "The bad news is that state budgets can no longer afford to ignore the revenue they could be making if they simply enforced the sales tax laws that exist today -- to say nothing of creating new dollar-sucking legislation," Rist explains. There is good news in his post, though, even if in the end, "We're paying more money both to the states as well as Avalara, but at least it won't slow business down."
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 13, 2006 10:25 AM
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Exploit code for Windows bug on the way, Court questions approval of telco mergers, Yahoo and MS make IM interoperable, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 13, 2006 08:22 AM
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Security: The security researcher who developed the Metasploit hacking tool says he is weeks away from issuing code that exploits the recent Windows bug and could be used to crash unpatched systems. Other researchers believe that if hackers figure out how to reliably tap into this flaw, an outbreak akin to Blaster could occur, though Moore referred to that possibility as unlikely.
Podcasts: The prolific 'caster Bob Garza catches up with the senior director of Cisco's security technology group, Tom Russell. The conversation focuses on Cisco's newly-released ASA 5505 and ASA 5550, and how they integrate with your infrastructure, both local and remote. Listen to Zero Day.
Best of the blogs: Bob Lewis steps in and helps find in "an objective fashion how online discussion groups in general deal with issues that individuals raise, and how this compares with other approaches to seeking assistance, such as face-to-face informal meetings, facilitated meetings, etc.," in Comparing different interaction forums. A taste of his advice: Just remember to be sufficiently fine-grained. There are open wikis and edited ones, for example; they'll have different characteristics in some of the attributes.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 13, 2006 05:29 AM
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Quote of the day: Lawnmowers and video-sharing
If I'm right about where this is headed, the video-sharing sites will soon offer more than cute animal tricks, stupid people tricks, and experimental artwork. They'll start to be windows that open on many areas of knowledge and experience, the sharing of which will accelerate the production of new knowledge and the deepening of experience. -- Jon Udell. Clean air gardening and the future of shared experience
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 13, 2006 04:04 AM
July 12, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Java, .Net and ticking timebombs
Columnists' corner: "Java and .Net turned all existing native software into ticking time bombs, infinitely exploitable by shadowy figures, impossible to hand from the fired to the hired, and rife with blue screens, kernel panics, and divisions by zero. Developers scurried off for retraining, new languages, new tools, new books, new friends, and new employers," Tom Yager espouses. "It's time for developers and IT buyers of software and development services to drop the presumption that Java's and .Net's training wheels are essential equipment. Java is no longer the only path to writing once and running everywhere, and .Net is no longer the only path to stable and secure Windows applications." Don't fear native code.
Podcasts: Microsoft and Sun groom their OSes for 10 Gig, and executives from both vendors discuss those visions, in particular the specific capabilities that Longhorn and Solaris have to tap into 10 Gig. The discussions are broken into two separate 'casts that can be found here.
The news beat: After being slapped with a $357 million antitrust penalty, Microsoft asks the EU to quash the fine. SixApart touts blogging software cultivated for the enterprise to bolster internal communications and knowledge sharing. And, on a rather sad note, after a software developer in Japan committed suicide a Japanese court cited overwork as the catalyst.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 12, 2006 10:40 AM
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PC makers will offer Office 2007 trials, EC Fines Microsoft $357 million, InfoSys predicts 36 percent growth, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 12, 2006 08:45 AM
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