- Enterprise gets DRM
- InfoWorld Daily Podcast
- Talkback: Will Linux survive underground?
- InfoWorld Daily Podcast
- What the heck is Windows Live, anyway?
- What are you putting off right now?
- InfoWorld Daily Podcast
- Islands in the data stream
- Quote of the day: Those pesky IT addictions
- Intel offers multicore CPU help
August 31, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Security: Enterprise DRM shares DRM's basic concept of controlling content use. But this Test Center look at solutions from Liquid Machines and SealedMedia shows that enterprise DRM "goes beyond unauthorized-copy protection to help stop sensitive information from being read, altered, or shared outside an organization."
The news beat: Discord between the Dept. of Homeland Security and the EU over providing passenger data for transatlantic flights could lead to the grounding of flights if an agreement is not reached. Lenovo continues to poach Dell execs in Asia, snapping up its fifth Dell exec in two weeks. And Micron unveils a new 16GB DRAM memory chip that it claims has twice the capacity of current memory modules.
Best of the blogs: With the launch of Apple's fastest Mac ever, the new Intel-based Mac Pro, Dave Marshall raises the question: What about virtualization support?
Posted by Caroline Craig on August 31, 2006 06:29 AM
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Rent-a-grid options coming into their own, Amazon lets Office 2007 ship date slip, free 'Browzar' protects user privacy, and more
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Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 31, 2006 04:51 AM
August 30, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Talkback: Will Linux survive underground?
Tom Yager, in his column Ahead of the Curve: "At the end of the decade, we'll find that Apple UNIX has overtaken commercial Linux as the second most popular general client and server computing platform behind Windows." But the Linux kernel will thrive: "[Linux will] be the de facto choice for embedded solutions. By 2010, 'embedded' will assume its appropriate meaning, which to my mind is 'specialized.'"
Do you agree with Tom's predictions? Talk back to us below.
Posted by Lisa Blackwelder on August 30, 2006 10:42 AM
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Intel busy with Merom and Tulsa, AT&T's online store hacked exposing customer data, Google to make books available for download, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 30, 2006 08:26 AM
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What the heck is Windows Live, anyway?
Best of the blogs: Microsoft's Windows Live QnA service is now available, so what better time to take a hard look into whether Windows Live is the real deal or not. In his TechWatch post Mike Barton cuts through the hype surrounding the Windows Live juggernaut.
Columnists' corner: Jon Udell is wowed by Amazon's just-announced metered virtual server farm called EC2. In this week's Strategic Developer he takes the rent-a-grid for a test whirl and explains why online application hosting just can't be beat.
The news beat: It may have taken longer than expected to get here, but DDR2 is finally crowned DRAM king and takes its place as the most popular memory chip used in PCs. HP and Cisco are teaming up to plan and build wireless LANs that can support applications such as advanced security, location-based services, voice, and LAN access for visiting contractors. And Google has expanded its controversial book search service to let people download entire copies of books in PDF format.
Posted by Caroline Craig on August 30, 2006 05:52 AM
August 29, 2006 | Comments: (0)
What are you putting off right now?
Security: In the event of any security problem, large and small alike, it's all about the response time. And driving late into the night accompanied by Paul Oakenfold, chicken nuggets, diet soda and BBQ sauce got Bob Garza thinkin'. "Taking care of that neglected problem will enhance your response time should something bad happen in the next few hours," he writes in Zero Day. "While we can't ever be ready for everything, we can at least mitigate the risk."
Columnists' corner: When even practicing a little reverse psychology on management doesn't get IT the software package it knows is best, take heed: these things tend to come around in the end. Just not for the benefit of anyone involved. At least that's what happened in the case of our Off the Record author, whose company eventually was guilty of choosing the wrong software. The price? A mere three years, 60 developers, a change of CIOs and a new management team.
Best of the blogs: If you think that Homer Simpson has nothing in common with 23-year-old Nicholas Lee Jacobsen, who was handed a home detention sentence for hacking into T-Mobile's network, then think again. Or just find them both in this TechWatch post.
Podcasts: Even though LTO drives are outselling DLT, Quantum is looking to buck that trend with its DLT-S4 -- a drive with exceptional capacity and powerful management features at a moderate cost. Tune into Storage Sprawl for the entire Test Center review.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 29, 2006 11:08 AM
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Vista RC1 due any day now, Wi-Fi alliance to certify 802.11n gear, Microsoft lets Vista pricing slip, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 29, 2006 07:45 AM
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Test Center review: ESP, as in event stream processing, historically has been about as difficult to pull off as its extra sensory perception kin. But a pair of products, Progress Apama 2.4 and StreamBase 3.5, are changing that. "By improving operational insight and automated response -- in finance, health care, or general SOA infrastructure monitoring, for example -- both solutions can be used to quickly develop apps for building up event correlation out of a flood of enterprise data," writes James Borck. And while IT has come quite a long way in the quest to monitor and streamline operations, Borck adds that "Although stream processing isn't new, it hasn't fully evolved. In the future, ESP systems must develop facilities that more innately finesse complex correlations out of event clouds." Read the full review.
SOA: Dave Linthicum cannot be accused of thinking too little about service-oriented architectures. This week, for instances, he shares some random SOA thoughts he collected over the weekend. For one, most SOA architects are doing a poor job convincing the powers that be that SOA is a good idea. Another: focus on small successes at this point.
Best of the blogs: If you've gotten out of sync with the business owner, a.k.a. your boss, "according to the leadership book, that's his failing. But according to the career management book, it's yours," explains Bob Lewis, even if said owner/boss seems to be heading in the wrong direction, technology-wise.
The news beat: The first release candidate of Windows Vista is due as early as today for developers and as soon as September 5 for the general public. Juniper injects antispam, antivirus, and other security capabilities in a new appliance. And server vendors, such as Dell, HP and Unisys, detail plans to use Intel's Tulsa chip.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 29, 2006 04:46 AM
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Quote of the day: Those pesky IT addictions
The 12-step program has become a fixture of American life. In fact, there are now so many recognized addictions — with 12-step programs to match — that you'd think we'd run out of new ones to treat. Not so. In talking with tech movers and shakers through the years, we've identified a pernicious codependency that commonly infects IT organizations: an addiction to consultants. -- Steve Fox. IT consultant addiction.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 29, 2006 04:01 AM
August 28, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Intel offers multicore CPU help
App Dev: Chipmaker Intel this morning ships three threading tools designed to help developers take better advantage of its multicore processors. These include a runtime library, an analysis tool to minimize errors and a profiler that offers insight regarding how application threads interact.
Columnists' corner: Neil McAllister digs down for the root of why Microsoft and open source just can't get along in this week's installment of Open Enterprise. "I'm not going to suggest that it's a new day at Microsoft. As yet there's far too little evidence to support that claim. But, at least where Firefox is concerned, the olive branch has been extended and accepted. Can't we feel good about that?"
The news beat: Oracle rolls out the performance management piece of its PeopleSoft 9 suite. BEA Systems this morning launches an upgrade to its WebLogic Real Time Core Edition, bringing lower latency and runtime analysis. And Atheros details a new chipset it claims will enable makers of LAN gear to sell wireless access points for less than $100.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 28, 2006 11:03 AM
August 28, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Google unveils a Web-based rival for Office, Oracle says most of work on Fusion still to come, Toshiba to build Microsoft's Zune, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 28, 2006 09:11 AM
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Challenging LTO with a DLT drive
Test Center review: Digital linear drives are being outsold by Linear Tape-Open, or LTO, drives these days. But Quantum hopes to change that with its DLT-S4. "The DLT-S4 offers twice the capacity-per-reel of its LTO-3 rivals, and Quantum makes this technical advantage even more appealing with an aggressive price," senior analyst Mario Apicella writes. "The Quantum DLT-S4's remarkable speed is still well behind the nominal 160MBps of the LTO-3, but customers might appreciate its large capacity, moderate cost, and powerful management features." Read the full review.
Best of the blogs: Rpath may be looking to obviate Red Hat, but Matt Asay says that won't be happening anytime soon, in this post. "Still, there's a lot of value in tightly integrating an operating system to an application, so that you take one vendor/moving part out of the support equation. It will be interesting to see how Rpath plays out."
The news beat: StopBadware.org slaps AOL on the wrist and calls version 9 badware because it interferes with computer use and meddles with components, namely the IE browser. Google unwraps a Web-based Office rival compelete with several, but not all, of its services. And BMC whips up better batch management.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 28, 2006 04:52 AM
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Quote of the day: Apple's own brand of vendor lock-in
Realistically, Apple is no better than any other vendor when it comes to lock-in. The fact that all Apple hardware comes from just one vendor presents challenges to all Mac owners. As a user I have no other choice but to buy a new Apple product to replace the malfunctioning one. A 4-6 week wait for a replacement battery is insane for a product that most people use on a daily basis. At least when the Dell laptops started going towering inferno you knew you could switch to HP or Lenovo. No such luck for Mac users. -- Dave Rosenberg. The further effects of vendor lock-in (or, why I am giving up on Apple).
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 28, 2006 04:07 AM
August 25, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Eight tricks in the hacker's bag
Security: There are eight primary ways that attackers can slip into your network. And some of them, such as asking an assistant for the CEO's password, work "100 percent of the time," Roger Grimes explains in How malicious hackers attack. "Every professional penetration tester can easily, and laughingly, recount numerous stories about how easy it is to get unauthorized access from a normal corporate employee," he writes.
Columnists' corner: Never one to withhold tidbits of advice, Robert X. Cringely wonders if maybe, just maybe, Dell should start shipping its laptops with a fire extinguisher included. And ol' Cringe dons his grammarian costume to predict how the word Google will evolve. "In the future, everything will be 'googlized.' As in, 'I need to wipe my nose -- anyone got a google?'" NSA takes the blame, Google protects its name.
Best of the blogs: Verizon is up to its old warranrty runaround tricks. But Ed Foster shares a lesson we can learn from the company in this Gripe Line post. "Whatever part of the company you may be dealing with, the deal you have with Verizon today may be taken away tomorrow. Or 90 days from tomorrow. That's a pattern anyone who has a choice may want to consider before signing up with Verizon."
From the analysts: David Margulius is probably not the only one addicted to YouTube, even if he is alone in fessing up to it with printed words. Withdrawal kicked in when he booted up to show his brother a video on the evolution of dance. "I've clearly morphed into a wuss who gets riled when my DSL gets flaky -- or if YouTube goes down ... I don't envy the IT professionals of the future who'll have to deal with an even more detached-from-reality version of me -- but I wish you luck," he confesses, and asks Can a day without DSL be too far off?
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 25, 2006 11:12 AM
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A look at how hackers hack, Apple recalls laptop batteries, Intel re-issues critical security patch and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 25, 2006 06:19 AM
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Amazon's metered virtual server farm
Screencasts: Amazon dropped the other shoe and added EC2, a metered virtual server farm to its existing S3 storage cloud -- and Jon Udell just couldn't resist screencasting this demo in which he runs a search application on his home server then swaps in the Amazon domain name of an instance he just created. "There's the same application running on Amazon's grid," Udell explains. "That's just cool."
Podcasts: Seagate finally lays down its plans for the Maxtor brand -- a low-end line distinct from the higher-end Seagate one. But it remains to be seen if the strategy will work in a top-heavy disk drive market. Tune in to Storage Sprawl.
Open source: If there are winners, then there must be losers, right? Matt Asay learned something like that in school anyway and in some twisted way that same lesson can be applied to open source. "With all the open source momentum (and it is winning), who is losing?" he asks. Not Oracle. It doesn't like Microsoft or Sun are losing either. Well, perhaps there are a few years of peaceful co-existence at hand. "Long term, you can see whom I think will win. It's open source, and by a landslide."
The news beat: Apple gets a recall all its own, and to the tune of 1.8 million laptop batteries. As were Dell's problematic batteries, Apple's were made by Sony, which estimates that the recalls will cost it between $172 million and $258 million. Intel now plans to re-release a critical security patch for Centrino due to a memory-hogging bug. And a U.S. judge penalizes Microsoft with a $25 million fine and 'enhanced damages' for willfully infringing on patents held by z4 and withholding evidence.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 25, 2006 04:21 AM
August 25, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Quote of the day: Sun spends $6,000 on cardboard cutout
In a stunt that appears to be part PR, part prank, and part pestering, Sun has secured a cardboard cutout of HP founders William Hewlett and David Packard for $6,000. Since acquiring the life-size portrait, Sun has set up various photo-ops with it, bedecking the duo in pro-Sun and Solaris paraphernalia. -- Ted Samson. Sun baits HP with cardboard cutout.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 25, 2006 04:11 AM
August 24, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Whatever happened to the 'A' in SOA?
Best of the blogs: SOA is an ESB, SOA is governance, SOA is programming, but SOA is almost never an architecture, points out David Linthicum. Instead, marketing departments are pushing the product-oriented agenda, perhaps because it's easier for prospective buyers to digest than the 'notion' of SOA. "This is a bad trend if you ask me," Linthicum writes in this Real World SOA post.
Hardware: IBM adds four-core processing to its low-end Unix servers. Big Blue refers to the System p5 505Q Express as its first 1U system with four processor cores and, claiming it is priced competitively with x86 boxes, aims the new server at mid-sized enterprises.
Security: The British teen who flooded his former employer's server with some five million e-mails gets sentenced to two months' curfew. That means he'll be confined to his home for parts of the day. Man, I got grounded worse than that the time in high school when I ... well, nevermind that.
The news beat: Oracle buys Sigma Dynamics to add more real-time predictive analytics to its own BI, middleware and applications. Microsoft is making the first release candidate for IE 7, a so-called feature-complete version of the browser, available to developers today. And IDC says that smart phones are losing out to feature phones as users opt for enhanced functions.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 24, 2006 11:04 AM
August 24, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Microsoft strengthens security, IBM buys ISS, Intel talks Tulsa chip, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 24, 2006 07:31 AM
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Best of the blogs: Jon Udell carries the discussion from his column over into his blog, and zeroes in on two ideas for making it easier to help people figure out what's gone wrong with their software: provenance and configuration. Provenance as in tracking down where errors came from; configuration in terms of understanding what changed. "The length limit on the print column precluded a third idea: communication," he writes, and offers a descriptive scenario.
SOA: "Now that we know how to diagnose the performance of an SOA, as well as model for it to determine how it will behave in a changing environment, how do we design a service and SOA with optimized performance?" so begins Dave Linthicum in Designing for performance, monitoring and optimizing. The basic rule to understand: While the value of an SOA is the ability to leverage many remote services, the more services you leverage, the more problematic your SOA will become.
Columnists' corner: AMD's best is still to come. Then again, "hubris born of market domination left Intel without a Plan B," explains Tom Yager. "AMD is ready for 65-nanometer and other mind-blowing things," that are part of a road map Yager claims is guided by IT's needs. Of course, one reader calls him out for always siding with the under dog. But I'll let you be the judge of that.
The news beat: Intel says it will launch the Tulsa server chip on August 29, desgined for systems with four or more processors. The EFF, or Electronic Frontier Foundation, asks the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a patent ruling that could hurt free and open source software projects. And Apple plunks down $100 million to settle iPod disputes with Creative Technology.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 24, 2006 04:48 AM
August 24, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Quote of the day: Biotech, say hello to the blogosphere
IT folks and biotech folks are converging on a similar (maybe the same) problem: modeling and managing complex networks. In principle the blogosphere stands ready to enable the kinds of cross-disciplinary conversations that will move us forward. In practice I suspect that, so far anyway, it is doing so less often and less effectively than it could. -- Jon Udell. The cross-disciplinary blogosphere.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 24, 2006 04:08 AM
August 23, 2006 | Comments: (0)
IBM nabs ISS, BEA grabs Flashline
M&A: The latest in a string of recent acquisitions, IBM snapped up ISS for a cool $1.6 billion to obtain its security products and services and expand Big Blue's portfolio. Meanwhile, BEA Systems buys metadata repository maker Flashline and states intentions to integrate Flashline's product into the AquaLogic family.
Best of the blogs: Talk about a ghost in the machine. Dave Rosenberg writes that his MacBook replacement says "I'm dead." You see, he is in a technology Bermuda Triangle lately and just hanging on until a ThinkPad loaded with Linux shows up.
The news beat: Nexaweb claims to be reducing the amount of hand-coding needed for building Web 2.0 apps with an upgrade to its Eclipse-based development environment, Nexaweb Studio 2.4. Gateway gets an unexpected offer from John Hui, who sold eMachines to Gateway in 2004 and now wants to purchase Gateway's retail arm. And Federal prosecutors in Brazil threaten to shut down Google in their country if the search engine does not turn over customer records for an investigation into pedophilia.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 23, 2006 11:22 AM
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Podcasts: The serial 'road to SOA' has reached milestone 5, as in Dave Linthicum's fifth step toward service-oriented architecture. It's a short one this week: Understand all information sources and syncs available in your domain. Tune into the SOA Report, in which Linthicum also tackles the intertwined relationship between SOA and BPM (business process management.
Test center review: Enerjy Software is forging into new terrain (and I'm not just referring to the spelling, either) with its CQ2 software for quantifying and displaying the progress of projects, including that of individual developers and teams -- a roll which no previous software filled, even if point products are edging that way. "If your site relies on Java and has small developer teams, and you need better oversight of projects and developers, Enerjy CQ2 is a must-have," advises Andrew Binstock. That's not to say that Enerjy is without limitations and concerns, such as the fact that CQ2 does not currently ship with support for external enterprise DBMS. Read the full review.
Storage: Gunning for rival EMC, IBM offers up new 'Turbo' storage products that it claims bring faster performance, better systems management and lower cost of ownership than predecessors. The high-end array features what Big Blue calls an industry first: 4Gbps FICON throughput, double the 2Gbps available now.
The news beat: Microsoft adds support for Firefox to its new MSDN Wiki, previously tailored only for Internet Explorer. Both Salesforce.com and rival NetSuite enable customers to manage Google's Adwords marketing campaigns. And a U.S. government lab offers an open source grid computing toolkit designed to make remote collaboration easier.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 23, 2006 04:51 AM
August 23, 2006 | Comments: (0)
FTC to examine Net neutrality, Microsoft pushes back re-release of buggy patch update, NetSuite and Salesforce.com add Google Adwords, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 23, 2006 04:42 AM
August 23, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Quote of the day: A paramedic's approach to upgrading Exchange
I was an EMS paramedic in a prior career. At age 19, I was starting IVs, delivering babies, shocking cardiac arrest victims, and using the 'jaws of life.' I saw and learned a lot. Strangely, I find upgrading Microsoft Exchange on a huge network much more stressful. -- Roger A. Grimes. Proactive incident response: Do it by the book.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 23, 2006 04:08 AM
August 22, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Baldness, hacked hacker and too much faith in outsourcers
Columnists' corner: When lawyers turn into de facto IT staffers, it cannot speak good things about the tech staff, be that in-house or outsourced. Take the network of this week's Off the Record author, for instance. It serves a mere seven workstations, each of which ran a different OS. "I find it troubling that inept IT support firms like the one we use continue to enjoy the blind faith of their clients. The company my firm retains is still under contract. But the number of times they have been called since I (unofficially) took over the network is zero," he explains in In outsourcers we trust.
Best of the blogs: Notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick was himself the victim of hackers. In this case, they crept into the computer hosting his Web site and replaced his front page with a vulgar message in a move he claims was apparently directed at him.
The news beat: Mac dreamers get a chance to put code to work in a new contest that offers developers a chance to have their ideas turned into bona fide shareware. A regulatory battle is brewing over VDSL in Germany. And Verizon aims to ease the move to IP contact centers with two new products.
Careers: Bob Lewis explains the intricacies of reacting to comments concerning hair-loss. And not the kind that is necessarily specific to IT, though the reader was troubleshooting an employee's laptop when the topic arose. Handling accidental rudeness.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 22, 2006 10:43 AM
August 22, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Salesforce integrates Adwords, Lenovo opens center to focus on customers, Intel faces new shortage, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 22, 2006 07:16 AM
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A new generation of automated backup solutions
Test center review: SonicWall's CDP 1440i provides customers with a choice between disk and data vault storage. It's the "first of what may be a new wave of personal and small-business automated backup solutions with optional off-site storage just a click away," points out Brian Chee. "Even if you just use the internal hard disk, you can still ... get a pretty darn nice restore system. Add the off-site storage, and you get truly inspired end-to-end backup-and-restore." Still there are some capabilities Chee would like to see added. Read the full review.
The news beat: Salesforce.com integrates Google Adwords so that customers can manage those marketing campaigns through Salesforce's CRM service. Sprint Nextel COO Len Lauer leaves the company while CEO Gary Forsee assumes control of operations. And Lenovo creates a new 'Center of Excellence' to monitor and improve its responsiveness to customers' needs.
Best of the blogs: Dell batteries are not the only recall for IT this month. Microsoft's Small Business Server R2, too, is being recalled, Oliver Rist reports in SMB IT. "In case you got your hands on it somehow and were thinking of upgrading -- don't."
Gripe Line: Evergreen services clauses from the likes of Protection One (and countless others) that require customers to pay for services months after cancelling them raise the question "what can any of us do about the money traps companies are setting for us in their fine print?"
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 22, 2006 04:44 AM
August 22, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Quote of the day: A differing view on Red Hat vs. Novell
In his analysis of Novell vs. Red Hat, Neil McAllister wonders if Red Hat is complacent? He leans towards yes, suggesting that Novell recognizes their challenger role while Red Hat takes a less interested approach in growing their brand and community. And while it may be true that Novell is doing a lot of things to engage users, Red Hat remains a cash-cow ... Can Red Hat screw things up? Definitely. But the Red Hat opportunity is to become not just the Linux leader but the OSS leader. Novell isn't even close to either one. -- Dave Rosenberg. Red Hat's complacency vs. Novell's terrible marketing.
Rosenberg's comments come in response to McAllister's column Novell and Red Hat compete for the king penguin crown.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 22, 2006 04:05 AM
August 21, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Test Center review: The IWSA (InterScan Web Security Appliance) 2500 enables the two-pronged approach of scanning incoming traffic for viruses and preventing users from visiting sites that push problematic files. Trend Micro's rack-mount device "is a solid performer for protecting users from Internet-borne viruses and malware, but that security comes at a high cost." Read the full review.
Newsmakers: Webify's CEO Manoj Saxena talks SOA in this interview. The question at hand: Will the advent of SOA change the very nature of behemoths such as IBM (which earlier this month acquired Webify) and draw them out of their comfort zones in middleware and professional services?
Storage: Mario Apicella ponders how Napoleon would feel about iSCSI. "To be honest, I am not sure." What does Napolean have to do with transport protocols anyway? "The IT department of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy, a university that was reportedly founded by Napoleon in 1810, must appreciate iSCSI because they decided to adopt Datacore SANmelody to create a centralized storage network that will cover the needs of students, teachers and administration." Based on that and more, Apicella predicts that Napoleon would have appreciated iSCSI, in The Storage Network.
Best of the blogs: Despite all the attention open source gets for being low-cost, it is difficult to price in the real world. Bearing that in mind, Matt Asay discusses an open source value payment model. "Why not try something like what management consulting firm Trium does? Namely, let customers pay for the perceived value they get from a product."
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 21, 2006 11:28 AM
August 21, 2006 | Comments: (0)
webMethods scoops up Cerebra, Dell and Sony knew about battery problems, Microsoft fixes patch, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 21, 2006 08:15 AM
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webMethods scoops up Cerebra for SOA technology
SOA: webMethods this morning acquires Cerebra and its semantic metadata management technologies. The company plans to use the wares as a federated metadata repository to be featured in an upcoming version of its Fabric business process management platform.
Columnists' corner: Vertical markets hold many, many lessons for the broader realm of IT, writes Eric Knorr in A big picture view of IT. "Sure, I'm aware that nobody pushes performance like financial services, but I wouldn't have guessed that the biggest problem at some large retail chains is switching stores from dial-up to broadband, nor did it occur to me that in hospitals, where knowledge workers lack desks, laptops on wheeled carts and SSO (single-sign-on) are necessities."
Security: Microsoft fixes a memory bug in security patch MS06-040 Windows Server services update. The patch was released last week and the problem affects applications that demand very large memory, such as Microsoft Navision.
The news beat: A spike in PC demand is resulting in a new Intel processor shortage, which some say could re-ignite a problem blamed for Intel losing market share to AMD in the past. Borland preps new ALM tools, dubbed Gauntlet. And Dell's battery recall is causing enterprise headaches.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 21, 2006 04:38 AM
August 21, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Quote of the day: New Novell and Old Red Hat
Novell is well-aware that it is the New Novell. New Novell's success depends on engaging the market, getting its message out to customers, winning developer support, and building community -- and it knows it. It may not be the market leader today, but it wants to go where its customers lead it. Increasingly, however, Red Hat is aware of the fact that it is The One and Only Red Hat. Red Hat is holding the cards, and the customers will come to Red Hat. Old Novell used to think that way. -- Neil McAllister. Novell and Red Hat compete for the king penguin crown.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 21, 2006 04:29 AM
August 18, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Best of the blogs: Taking a quick look at Devon IT's ThinManage 2 software for, as the name implies, managing thin clients, David Marshall finds that it "reduces IT management costs by managing thousands of thin client devices, including desktop and wireless thin clients, using less staff. It also enables administrators to update thin clients in a fraction of the time previously needed."
Test Center review: Sun has made its Sun Ray thin clients more stable and much thinner. "With the server running, powering on a Sun Ray client would bring up a Solaris Desktop log-in quite quickly, and from there, the experience was more or less like working on a local system, including stereo sound and USB device support," explains Paul Venezia. "If delivering a secure, manageable Solaris or Windows desktop is the goal, the new Sun Ray solution is worth a look." Read the full review.
Columnists' corner: Leaving thin clients alone for the time being, Oliver Rist points out that even though Windows Live Writer brings a Word-like text interface, and catalyzed another round of speculation that Microsoft is migrating Office to the Web, the new blogging tool is no Word killer. "These rumors are usually fueled by folks who haven't really looked at the evidence; in this case, that would require actually using Live Writer for a while. First thing you'll notice is that it's not a Web application at all."
Storage: This storage-related post comes from one of the more unlikely places: the Open Sources blog. EMC consolidation is helping no one. "One would think that consolidation would trend toward fewer repositories, but that has yet to evidence itself," Matt Asay writes. "Instead, we get fewer companies with the same volume of confusion."
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 18, 2006 05:24 AM
August 18, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Quote of the day: Older printers still best varietal
Some things get better with age. To judge by the comments I often hear from readers, that seems to be particularly true of HP printers, because they just don't make 'em like they used to.
-- Ed Foster. HP printers: The older the better?
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 18, 2006 04:06 AM
August 17, 2006 | Comments: (0)
A new favorite money-saving platform
Best of the blogs: For basic office productivity workers, Oliver Rist calls Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 his new favorite platform in this post, even if he might not give it to serious Windows power users. "It's a money saver. Not just because the software is cheaper, but because you can roll it out on machines that are considered robust for XP."
Columnists' corner: In Storage Insider, Mario Apicella reports on how Xiotech is honing its compliance focus. The elements are fast-tier storage, SSD drives and an Archive Management Service. Read the column via the link above, or tune into the Storage Sprawl Podcast.
The news beat: Industry experts at the LinuxWorld show say that users are more excited by gadgets than by mobile Linux as a software platform. For a short period on Tuesday night Google mistakenly attached Checkout icons to ads from companies that have yet to sign up for the transaction system. And a survey finds that U.S. firms frequently lose sensitive information; it's worth stating up front that the report was released by Ponemon Institute and Vontu, which sells products to guard against data loss.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 17, 2006 11:08 AM
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JBoss makes SOA moves, Unisys posts reward for missing VA computer, 'Net crime soars in Japan, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 17, 2006 07:58 AM
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The changing face of database storage
Test center review: In addition to expected performance, scalability and security boosts, IBM's DB2 9.1, better known as Viper, sheds many limitations of its predecessor -- and the innovations are tempting. "One feature in particular, the hybrid XML/relational engine, gives this Big Blue serpent its distinctive shape," writes Sean McCown. Big Blue bests competitors Oracle and Microsoft by preserving the native format of XML data. "Maybe over the next couple releases, as IBM and its customers start to build on these technologies and do things nobody else can do, the true payoff of the DB2 vision will emerge." Read the full review.
Best of the blogs: Never one to shy away from lofty goals, Microsoft is at again. This time it's in the virutalization realm. Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager "has one goal - to make Windows the best platform for virtualization," explains David Marshall. "A lofty goal, especially with VMware having already released VMware Infrastructure 3 into the wild as well as having years of run-time on its own virtualization management software - VMware VirtualCenter."
The news beat: JBoss is preparing upgrades to its Java Business Process Management software by adding support for BPEL, and releasing a beta version of its ESB this week while parent company Red Hat also works on an upgrade to its Linux. Sun sells its mainframe re-hosting business to Clerity Solutions. And Lenovo snags more Dell executives.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 17, 2006 04:39 AM
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Quote of the day: Secret of happiness
There you have it. The secret of happiness, and all you had to do was read this blog for five minutes to find it. -- Matt Asay. Money and happiness.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 17, 2006 04:09 AM
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The ongoing tale of Dell's fiery batteries
Hardware: Those now notorious flaming batteries in Dell laptops were made by Sony and, as such, go beyond just Dell products. And while Sony says it will share the cost of recalling the batteries with Dell, the company is not naming the other companies or devices, citing confidentiality agreements.
Columnists' corner: If the newest Mac Pro workstation strikes you as another stereotypically overpriced Mac, Tom Yager writes, you've not been in the market for a workstation lately. While pricing is not the whole story, it does change Apple's position dramatically and might have anyone saying 'If only the Mac wasn't so overpriced,' looking for different reasons to stick with Windows or Linux, Yager points out in Apple hears concerns over price.
Best of the blogs: Dave Rosenberg is done looking for reasons to avoid Apple hardware. "I am using [my new 15-inch MacBook Pro] for the last time right now to type this and tell everyone that clearly Apple can do wrong,' he explains in this post. "Two machines, two serious quality problems."
The news beat: Microsoft says it will fix the patch currently crashing IE 6, MS06-042, and do so by next Tuesday. Google opens a free Wi-Fi network in Mountain View, California, the home of its headquarters. And Chevron springs a data leak when a notebook housing Social Security numbers and other personal information for thousands of employees was stolen.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 16, 2006 11:12 AM
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Lenovo loads ThinkPad with Linux, Cisco unable to reproduce PIX firewall flaw, search engine satisfaction slides, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 16, 2006 07:43 AM
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SOA: Lots of questions this morning. Dave Linthicum kicks us off with the ostensibly easy to answer is SOA boring? "I was thinking this weekend that indeed, if SOA is done right, and the right processes are in place, it's downright boring." True, perhaps, but so is the fact that many companies are still working, and hoping, to achieve such technological doldrums.
Best of the blogs: The wrong questions often won't get you very far. With that in mind, Bob Lewis offers the right one to ask when selecting CRM software. Well, technically, there are three for two audiences: the sales force and sales management. Answering them will better arm you to find software that will satisfy management and, equally as important, that the sales force will actually use.
The news beat: Search sites Google, MSN and Yahoo are sinking in terms of customer satisfaction, according to the annual E-Business Report. Police officers at the University of Maryland in College Park are now riding Segways to patrol busy areas with an above-the-crowd view. And IBM is expanding its open source strategy beyond Linux.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 16, 2006 04:26 AM
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Quote of the day: Sun and open source? Wait and see
At a press conference at this week's LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems reiterated yet again its commitment to release the source code to its Java language under an OSI-approved open source license.
Which license? Undecided.
What governance model will be used? They're working on it.
How will the community be organized, and who will participate? Wait and see.
-- Neil McAllister. Sun talks Java, storage at LinuxWorld.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 16, 2006 04:06 AM
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Hardware: Advanced Micro Devices details its latest Opteron processor, the Rev-F, and lists HP, IBM and Sun as backers that will sell servers housing it. Vendors, in this news story, applaud Rev-F for its support of virtualization and DDR2 memory.
Databases: Ingres and rPath heat up Project Icebreaker, a combination of Ingres' open source database with rPath's Linux distribution that will enable customers to update and patch both databases and operating systems simultaneously.
Columnists' corner: H-1B employees may be controversial but one thing is for certain: it's not easy for all of them to get green cards. Our Off the Record author, for instance, has been slaving away for nearly 6 years, including promises of a green card from 3 different companies, but still nada. Zip. Zilch. Even though the current company has yet to file the paperwork, it keeps telling him that the cost prevents them from giving him a yearly raise. "If you're an H-1B looking for that green card, take care! There are plenty of employers who will promise you the world when, in fact, they've got you chained to your desk, going nowhere."
The news beat: IBM's Tivoli arm previews management software for its System z mainframes that it claims will better equip the machines to handle workloads and diverse computing environments and more securely manage SOAs. Oracle ups the number of Linux systems it pretests via the Validated Configurations program. And Lenovo releases the first laptop preloaded with Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, the ThinkPad T60p.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 15, 2006 11:24 AM
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Sun steps closer to open source Java, Dell recalls 4 million laptop batteries, OSDL bands with LiPS for mobile Linux, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 15, 2006 06:59 AM
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Best of the blogs: Paul Venezia has been using an MXI Security Outbacker MXP for months now and, contrary to most portable storage devices, he finds that the 2.5-inch 20GB drive with a fingerprint scanner is "a good solution for carrying around sensitive information."
Open source: IDC finds that, of those surveyed, open source is being used by 71 percent of the developers in the world, and is in production at 54 percent of their organizations, reports Dave Rosenberg in IDC on the impact of open source. Rosenberg lays out some more of IDC's findings as well. "None of this sounds new but it's always good to have analysts on your side."
Podcasts: In a conversation with Charlie Hoffman and Brian DeLacey, Jon Udell delves into the history of XBRL, how it relates to XML, and what the future holds in terms of XBRL's goals, successes and challenges. The real story, in Udell's words: The inherent complexity of accounting standards, the competitive forces at work in the realm of global finance, the regulatory pressure being brought to bear -- these and other factors form the context in which the development of XBRL must be understood.
The news beat: In what some are calling the largest of its kind in consumer electronics history, Dell recalls 4.1 million laptop batteries due to the potential fire hazard. CA says it will layoff about 1,700 employees as part of cost-cutting efforts. And the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs now plans to spend $3.7 million on encryption software.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 15, 2006 04:28 AM
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Quote of the day: The PC's road ahead
Since August 12, 1981, vendors have sold 1.6 billion personal computers, creating an industry with annual revenue of $200 billion today, according to Gartner. The earliest machines offered 40K bytes of memory, a gross luxury for the rudimentary programs of the day. But operating systems, applications and databases soon grew to fill all available space, and engineers returned to their labs to improve the PC. Now experts warn that the PC may begin to lose its central place in personal computing to wireless and mobile computing platforms unless it returns to its original strengths: simplicity and flexibility. -- Ben Ames of the IDG News Service. After 25 years, PC struggles with new challenges.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 15, 2006 04:00 AM
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Test Center review: This latest incarnation of what is now Adobe's Flex product is no longer plagued by the limited features and hearty ticket that it once was, James Borck finds. "Today, Flex is an affordable solution for developing RIAs (rich Internet applications) with an approachable toolkit and reliable delivery mechanism." Of course, Adobe still faces some obstacles. Read the full review.
Newsmakers: Computer science Ph.D. and renowned expert in 'nonclassical' computer forensics Dr. Neal Krawetz speaks with senior editor Paul Roberts in this interview about how he ties together evidence to pin down online criminals, and his claim that he may have uncovered the author of Agobot, Phatbot and rBot malware.
The news beat: Microsoft's blogging tool, Windows Live Writer, enters beta testing. Hewlett-Packard becomes the first major hardware vendor to support Debian Linux, which it says will run on ProLiant and HP BladeSystem servers as well as a thin client. And hackers are trying to sneak into unpatched PCs via the flaw in Windows that generated a warning from the U.S. government.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 14, 2006 10:33 AM
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IBM, PalmSource talk open source, Dell faces legal action in China, Lenovo dropped from Hong Kong stock index, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 14, 2006 07:36 AM
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MacBook displeasure, to put it politely
Best of the blogs: My MacBook sucks and I am returning it. Okay, with a headline like that I don't need to add much, but one of Dave Rosenberg's five reasons is "the keyboard is weird and stupid." Despite what everyone tells him, there is no getting used to it, either. Same goes for the Apple stores.
Columnists' corner: A surprisingly modern antique chair, of all things, has David Margulius wondering what are we building today in IT that could last 100 years? And, perhaps more important, should we even be trying? "I wonder whether 100 years from now, Google will show up in Google?"
The news beat: Researchers at the French Ministry of Defense find that 'the general security of OpenOffice is insufficient and the open source rival to Microsoft is 'now still vulnerable to malware attacks.' Nokia says it will cut hundreds of jobs in the process of closing down its CDMA handset business. And Zimbra launches version 4.0 of its suite to kick collaboration up a notch into the document creation and sharing realm.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 14, 2006 04:44 AM
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Quote of the day: Open source hardware
The dirty little secret of real-world Linux installations is that they load and execute proprietary, binary blobs all the time, and users hardly bat an eyelash. At the heart of the matter is hardware. Hardware vendors have been reluctant to delve too deeply into open source. They worry that by releasing open source drivers for their products they will give their competitors too much information about their hardware. As a result, Linux users are regularly forced to compromise their 'pure' open source environments for the sake of hardware. -- Neil McAllister. Beware the blob.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 14, 2006 04:21 AM
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Best of the blogs: The key challenge with the adoption of new and systemic technologies is to get beyond fear and control issues, points out David Linthicum in Is IT scared of SOA? "The problem with both SaaS and SOA (which I think are intermixed at a few levels), is that both technologies are so different from the current IT practices, and will change the fundamental way that IT works. Many in IT found those changes threatening to the way they operate today."
Notes from the field: Robert X. Cringely tries to drum up a new tagline for the beleaguered AOL: You've got manslaughter. Apparently, Cringe draws inspiration from the search records AOL released, which include one chap researching how to murder his wife. And while Cisco and Microsoft don't face such harsh fates this week, Cringe opts not to let them off easy, either. Cisco foots the bill, Microsoft swallows pill.
Podcasts: Storage and security are intersecting and, as such, are leaving many IT shops feeling most vulnerable at their wallets. Plus, new products from IBM and Bus-Tech. Tune into Storage Sprawl.
The news beat: Rumors are swirling that some PC vendors will ship computers with free upgrade coupons for the forthcoming Windows Vista OS; confirmation, though, has yet to surface. IBM says it will supply servers and software for a grid computing project geared toward studying hurricanes and the human genome sequence. And Cisco takes an 80 percent stake in Nuova Systems with the intention of building out its datacenter products.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 11, 2006 10:55 AM
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Your favorite stories this week
InfoWorld visitors read these five stories the most this week, in order:
1 Surveying open source AJAX toolkits
3 Dell's rep in flames, Vista's online fame
4 Plextor firmware upgrade turns into Vaporware
And...
5 Screencast: Dojo Web toolkit
That last one is a demonstration of one of the toolkits reviewed in this week's most popular story.
Enjoy!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 11, 2006 09:17 AM
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Talkback: Does 'built to last' apply to IT?
In David L. Margulius' column Does 'built to last' apply to IT?, he writes: Today's innovation influences tomorrow's products, but does Google have 100 years left in it?
Does 'built to last' apply to IT? Talk back to us below.
Posted by Mike Barton on August 11, 2006 09:15 AM
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IBM ratchets up SOA buying spree again, Microsoft manager says Windows Live is paralyzed, laptops banned from plane cabins, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 11, 2006 07:03 AM
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From the feature well: Accelerating from the pole position to a full-scale service-oriented architecture in six months seems like it might require an engine worthy of a Lamborghini. But that's exactly what Oded Noy, CTO of startup Zag set out to accomplish. Based on a partnership with Capital One, Noy, in fact, was charged with giving consumers "no-hassle pricing and availability for new and used cars, as well as the ability to configure new vehicles and arrange financing online." It wasn't easy, but "Zag's experience demonstrates that there is no single correct approach to SOA. The architecture can vary while still delivering on the key SOA principles," writes Galen Gruman in Racing to market with SOA.
Security: Presenting what one researcher calls "a great opportunity for an unskilled hacker to launch a worm," attack code targeting a recently patched Windows vulnerability has been posted to the Internet and added to the Metasploit project, leaving experts concerned about the potential for a widespread attack.
Best of the blogs: Having trouble balancing work as a DBA and study to keep your skills up, all the while continually tasked with being productive? Most DBAs fit that bill. So Sean McCown offers some tips. "It is easy for me to sit here and write out this blanket policy of what DBAs should be doing. Then again, I also practice what I preach," he explains in Database Underground. That includes making time to study each day and, when appropriate, letting your boss decide what gets bumped to the bottom of your task list.
The news beat: Outgoing Microsoft manager Niall Kennedy says that "Windows Live is under some heavy change, reorganization, pullback and general paralysis." Juniper will restate its earnings, though amounts and time period are still not decided. And Lattix makes its architecture management wares available for .Net projects.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 11, 2006 04:21 AM
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Quote of the day: Microsoft ought to open XAML
Here's a crazy idea: Open-source the WPF/E, endorse a Mono-based version, and make XAML an open standard. Why? Because an Adobe/Microsoft arms race ignores the real competition: Web 2.0 ... Imagine a world in which browsers are ubiquitous, yet balkanized by incompatible versions of HTML. That's just where RIA (rich Internet applications) players and their XML languages are taking us. Is there an alternative? Sure. Open XAML. -- Jon Udell. Why Microsoft should open XAML.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 11, 2006 04:02 AM
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Open source: In an effort to differentiate between its enterprise and community distributions, Novell slaps the moniker openSuSE on the latter. The company will continue to offer openSuSE for free to the general computing market while SuSE Linux Enterprise is tailored for businesses.
SOA: IBM is at it again. This morning it scoops up FileNet. In exchange for $1.6 billion dollars, Big Blue obtains business process and enterprise content management wares which it plans to integrate into its own SOA systems. FileNet marks the company's third SOA-related acquisition in just two weeks.
Best of the blogs: Firmware is not always as, well, firm as it appears. Take Plextor's firmware upgrade that actually dissolved into something more closely resembling vaporware. "The message was all the more infuriating since the reader felt he was perfectly justified in having interpreted the sticker to mean that the firmware was already available," Ed Foster reports in this Gripe Line post.
The news beat: After foiling a terrorist plot to blow up airplanes, authorities in the U.K. are banning electronic devices, including laptops, as carry-ons for all flights. Sun Microsystems took the covers off Sun StorageTek 6140 and 6540, a new family of external modular storage arrays. And a Utah man is charged with accessing the e-mail of a tech firm after his employment there ended, for which he faces as many as 15 years in prison.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 10, 2006 10:39 AM
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DHS cautions about Microsoft patch, Nokia files complaint against Qualcomm, Google Checkout draws criticism, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 10, 2006 07:26 AM
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Visual Studio 2005 hammers new path
Test Center review: With Visual Studio 2005 Team System, Microsoft is forging "a path familiar to participants in global-scale projects but which has never been scaled down for small to moderate efforts," begins Tom Yager. He predicts that project managers will go crazy for this version from day one. Deployment is easy. Testers have an array of new tools. And while the product is not intended for large teams, its value is that "it handles the paradigm complexities while your people focus on their jobs." Read the full review.
Podcasts: The storage news this week arrives in the form of Brocade buying McData and EMC embracing an SOA-based approach to records management. Tune into Storage Sprawl.
The news beat: IT comes to prime time. Well, sort of anyway, in a British comedy titled The IT Crowd. Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that, due to security measures his company has in place, the release of search records plaguing AOL could never happen at Google. And Oracle denies reports that it is going to acquire Kingdee, a Chinese ERP provider. (Sorry, those are not the first two episodes of The IT Crowd, even if they could be.)
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 10, 2006 04:43 AM
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Quote of the day: Seeing the emerging Web
Web 2.0 is one of those marketing words I don't like to use that often, but unlike SOA 2.0, the Web 2.0 is a reality. It's really a change in platform at its essence, but there are also many social issues there as well ... information sharing, collaboration, and social networking to name a few. -- David Linthicum. Can your enterprise see the emerging Web?
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 10, 2006 04:09 AM
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Podcasts: David Linthicum presents the third of 12 steps to SOA, and discusses Open SOA Collaboration. Step 3: Understanding all application semantics in your domain. "If you don't understand the semantics, then you're not going to be able to integrate [an application] and you're not going to be able to build a service-oriented architecture around it." Tune into The SOA Report.
Best of the blogs: Need to know how to kill a good idea? Self-proclaimed cynic Matt Asay has some thoughts in Killing vs. cultivating good ideas. 'Manage by consensus' is one.
Storage: The Aegis Mini is "a personal storage device that hides a large capacity in a compact footprint." In The Storage Network Mario Apicella sums it up: Good speed, choice of connectivity, great capacity, well equipped with applications and accessories, light weight and not too expensive.
The news beat: Linspire releases the Linux OS Freespire 1.0 one month early. Apple reveals some, just not all, of Leopard's secrets. And Sage buys its way into the healthcare software market by purchasing Emdeon Practice Services.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on August 9, 2006 11:14 AM
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