- IDC: Attack of the BlackBerry clones
- Your favorite stories this week
- Talkback: MS anti-malware biz a conflict of interest?
- InfoWorld Daily Podcast
- Open source by any other name
- Quote of the day: How grid resembles Linux
- Dawn of the open source database
- InfoWorld Daily Podcast
- Can SOA save our government?
- Quote of the day: the downsides of Adobe's license management
September 29, 2006 | Comments: (0)
IDC: Attack of the BlackBerry clones
Wireless: No, it's not a cheesy horror flick. Market researcher IDC says that there may be trouble ahead for BlackBerry, particularly in the form of growing competition for its largely untapped space. And who is riding those tracks right behind RIM? You guessed it ... Microsoft and its cadre of Windows Mobile handset OEMs.
From the analysts: This week David Margulius takes on a handful of IT conspiracy theories. Such as behind-the-scenes master plans of Google and Sun who, by the way, are in cahoots to score tons of dark fiber, and lots worse. But even they don't know about the power companies quietly steering everyone toward broadband over power lines by selling them energy-efficient light bulbs that render wireless networks fuzzy at best. The truth is in here. Well, perhaps not the whole truth, but at least more about these and other theories.
Notes from the field: This week Cringe's tales span from Kona, Hawaii (HP chairman Patricia Dunn) to the Amazon (think WiMax for the far reaches of Earth), with a taste of what they shovel in Washington (no clarification needed on that one, methinks) somewhere along the route. Not to worry, though, stepping back to reality he visits Microsoft's 'MeTube' and then washes it all down with this video of Diet Coke and Mentos mixologists. HP on the skids, Microsoft's online vids.
The news beat: The notebook battery debacle just won't end. In the latest, Toshiba says it will exchange 830,000 more Sony batteries, though it claims there are no safety issues. Dell, meanwhile, expands its own recall and Fujitsu considers taking action. And, in news that has nothing to do with batteries that blow up, IBM gets into karaoke.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 29, 2006 09:54 AM
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Your favorite stories this week
These are the top 5 articles that InfoWorld.com readers clicked on this week.
5 Feds weather fictional attack, Oracle cuts workers some slack
4 Test Center tracker: Why more than four cores?
And...
1 An Apple for the enterprise?
I gathered those based on the traffic they yielded. What were your favorite stories this week, either on InfoWorld.com, or elsewhere around the Web? Use the comments function below.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 29, 2006 09:19 AM
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Talkback: MS anti-malware biz a conflict of interest?
InfoWorld Security Adviser Roger Grimes writes the Microsoft's new malware-fighting tools raise debate about making profit from holes in your own products.
"The company's worst critics are worried that key vulnerabilities could be left in Windows longer to benefit additional Microsoft revenue streams," Grimes writes.
"I think it is a fair question, and I encourage the discussion and debate."
Care to join-in? Talk back to us.
Posted by Mike Barton on September 29, 2006 09:00 AM
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10 rules for OS upgrades, HP blasted by U.S. House, Lenovo recalls 526,000 ThinkPads, and more
LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 29, 2006 07:09 AM
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Best of the blogs: Gatner's code reuse suggestion smells like open source advocacy. When speaking about reusing components, a Gartner analyst posed the question, 'Why would you ever code an app from scratch again?' There is more to that answer than just reuse. "Reading between the lines, or reading into his comments my own bias, this sounds like a clarion call to use more open source software," Matt Asay writes.
Columnists' corner: With Windows Vista right around the corner -- regardless of the final delivery date -- it's time to begin planning that massive migration. So Oliver Rist has 10 rules for OS upgrades. First, delay, delay, delay. And, no, these rules are not directed at Microsoft. Just don't rush it. Others include 'harass your applications vendors' and 'impress the brass.' For what it's worth, they don't all have that Dylanesque rhyme scheme.
The news beat: Lenovo joins the problematic notebook party and recalls 526,000 ThinkPads with Sony batteries. Google complies with Brazilian courts and hands over data about its Orkut social networking service. And analysts say that HP's pre-texting scandal won't degrade the company's ability to compete in the long run.
Virtualization: Now for some shameless self-promotion. And when I type 'self' I do mean InfoWorld and not just me. Anyway, this week was the first InfoWorld Virtualization Executive Forum, held in NYC. David Marshall reports on Day 1 in this post, and follows that up with a look at Day 2.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 29, 2006 04:57 AM
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Quote of the day: How grid resembles Linux
The issue once Grid is ingrained and growing within the data center is that the lack of standards hurts over time. So, grid becomes a victim of its success. Boy it's cool and it helps our business run but without standards supported and delivered, how can I keep it in my data center. This reminds me of the early days of Linux. -- Greg Nawrocki. eBay, grids and standards.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 29, 2006 04:02 AM
September 28, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Dawn of the open source database
Best of the blogs: "It's still funny to me that MySQL isn't considered mission-critical," writes Matt Asay. Yes, that's funny to me, too, and anyone else who has seen them spread. In open source databases are taking over, Asay points out that Google, Yahoo, even Oracle all run MySQL. "Don't you think that MySQL is well-positioned to do the same [as Oracle and use the database as the hub for all ERP, CRM, etc.], except with open source applications?"
Screencasts: Jon Udell speaks with Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos about his company's S3, EC2, and MTurk services, as well as whether or not Amazon hates Udell.
The news beat: Hewlett-Packard's general counsel Ann Baskins resigns and plans to invoke the Fifth Amendment, rather than testifying in front of a U.S. House committee. Gateway picks Intel's Woodcrest chips to put into three new midrange servers. And Alfresco previews an open source Web content management product, the final piece of its ECM suite.
Podcasts: Although storage software is not typically open source, that may be about to change. At least if projects such as Aperi and startup Zmanda have any say. Zmanda, you see, is now selling support services in a fashion similar to Red Hat, only for the open source backup application AMANDA. Tune into Storage Sprawl.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 28, 2006 10:58 AM
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Intel's Santa Rosa due in 2007, HP CEO Mark Hurd says investigation spun out of control, new PowerPoint bug and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 28, 2006 08:07 AM
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SOA: The U.S. government is very interested in any concept that will fix their core IT architectures, which were built over many years of procurement cycles and thus have many layers of complexity and are about as agile as a pile or rocks, asserts Dave Linthicum in U.S. government...SOA to the rescue? (Okay, okay, it's tempting to insert a joke or many here but I'll leave that up to you readers...)
Best of the blogs: With a headline like 'Outing Cruella de Ville' I could just leave it at that. She's a corporate Cruella who also just might be a sociopath. You know the type, I'm sure: all smiles in the halls, reasonable and maybe even sweet at meetings, but behind closed doors, well, that's another story. Or, actually, that's the real story. Worse, she's unfireable. And even has one consultant reluctantly considering measures to prevent her, or anyone else in the company, from being alone with an employee. Bob Lewis offers three promising possibilities for dealing with Mz. de Ville.
Hardware: Intel says that the forthcoming Santa Rosa platform will become available in the first half of 2007 and bring with it faster processing power, longer battery life and improved wireless connectivity.
The news beat: Hewlett-Packard's CEO Mark Hurd blames the spying scandal on a Machiavellian investigation that spun out of control. Sun buys Neogent for its identity management tools and services. And six men are charged with a phishing scheme that harvested thousands of AOL e-mail addresses and infected victims' computers.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 28, 2006 04:41 AM
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Quote of the day: the downsides of Adobe's license management
Most customers want to stay in compliance with their software licenses, and most would probably acknowledge they could do a better job of it than they are. In that context, what do we make of the decision by Adobe to include embedded license controls in Acrobat? Will it on balance prove to be a benefit for volume license customers, or an imposition? -- Ed Foster. Vendor specific license tools loom.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 28, 2006 04:08 AM
September 27, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Microsoft betas data protection software
Storage: With the test edition of System Center Data Protection Manager 2006 version 2, Microsoft is inching further into the data protection realm. This latest iteration brings the ability to monitor data changes and can recover with no data loss, the company claims.
Hardware: Tom Yager asks "If your wildest dreams were realized, how many cores per CPU would you have in your servers, workstations and power desktops right now?" You know, Mr. Yager, if my wildest dreams came true, no CPU cores would be anywhere near the picture, but I digress. "Well, Intel and AMD are giving it lots of thought right now, and I imagine the burning question at AMD is this: What do we do after AMD and Intel are matched at eight cores?" Chip wars go to the core.
The news beat: Microsoft sues DRM hackers who, it alleges, gained access to the company's source code and then broke its Windows Digital Rights Management software. Fugitive Jacob "Kobi" Alexander gets arrested in Namibia for conspiring to commit security fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud. And IBM opens a venture capital center in Dublin.
Podcasts: EMC's new Infoscape product, as well as its purchase of Network Intelligence, form the basis of its grand vision. Plus, the week in storage with news from IBM, Storage Bridge Bay and Oracle. Tune into Storage Sprawl.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 27, 2006 11:23 AM
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Oracle issues first Berkeley database, Intel to ship quad-core server chips, Microsoft patches IE early, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 27, 2006 07:41 AM
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Not just for spies: a recordless message system
Show of the week: Demofall '06 is underway this week and one of the more interesting technologies to be pitched is Void Communications' VaporStream, a Web-based hosted message service that destroys messages and any traces once they've been read.
Best of the blogs: Inside a report about disposable printers, another facet for SMBs emerges, and it's pay-for-print services. Advantages for SMBs? "You know what your printing costs are up front. No muss, no budgeting fuss," Oliver Rist explains. "Sounds good, but I'd think it's most useful to outfits that really do a lot of printing."
Columnists' corner: If your boss directs you to create a Windows version of an existing DOS application, there might be more at play than just an odd request. "Unfortunately, we hadn't shown it to any of our users. Apparently I was the only person in the company who was feeling nervous about this." Our Off the Record author's sales staff was then rendered unable to answer even the most basic questions customers asked.
Special report: The next wave of software licensing is poised to crash upon IT shores, but carrying with it much confusion. How will you pay for it? How do you know you're not paying too much? The old licensing models, meanwhile, are crumbling. Find all the stories in How you will pay for software.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 27, 2006 04:54 AM
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Quote of the day: Step 10 of 12 to SOA
Select your technology set -- and do so through traditional means. The tempting thing to do is select a suite of technologies...in many instances, that's not the right thing to do. Slecting your technology set is not something you do lightly. Everybody's technology is different and you have to understand that. -- David Linthicum. BPEL issues and step 10 of my 12 steps to SOA.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 27, 2006 04:04 AM
September 26, 2006 | Comments: (0)
A new generation of IT services
Professional services: When thinking about offerings from services organizations, the word 'product' doesn't typically spring to mind. But IBM aims to change that and a tradition of one-off customized services with what it is calling "services products." Big Blue is unwrapping the first two of those today for building converged networks as well as for designing, deploying and managing IP telephony infrastructure.
Podcasts: Nearing some sort of end, Dave Linthicum presents step 10 of his 12 steps to SOA. Select your technology set -- and do so through traditional means. Also, how BPEL 1.1 defeated the purpose of using a standard and why it never worked as advertised.
Q&A: The man charged with building a trust ecosystem around Vista, corporate vice president of Microsoft's security technology unit Ben Fahti, speaks about Vista's progress, and the world beyond Vista -- including two of the half-dozen "big bets" within his unit. Read the full interview.
The news beat: San Francisco to study an alternative to the citywide Wi-Fi plan from EarthLink and Google. Cisco hops on board the enterprise video publishing train. And Nokia unwraps new multimedia phones.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 26, 2006 11:18 AM
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IBM overhauls services packaging, hackers intensify IE attack, ex-WorldCom chief Ebbers to start jail sentence, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 26, 2006 08:45 AM
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10 ways to quiet those anti-Mac folks
From the feature well: Now that 64-bit computing is poised to dramatically impact PC servers the way it revolutionized RISC-based UNIX systems, "Apple's latest Macs and OS deserve a good, hard look as mainstream enterprise fare," Tom Yager argues. Not so fast, plenty of folks are sure to say. Macs are too expensive, or a PC is just a PC, after all. Well, Yager rebutts ten common objections to Apple as enterprise-worthy. "Today, Macs may or may not appeal to you as enterprise machines. But don't underestimate the company's drive to compete."
The news beat: IBM is reworking the ways it packages global services, beginning with the introduction of what it calls "service products." Oracle says it will begin certifying its database to run on Itanium 2 servers. And the pressure is building on Microsoft to patch a critical flaw before the next Patch Tuesday, slated for October 10.
Best of the blogs: Reaching a conclusion he acknowledges others have come to, Jon Udell determines that his quest for a loosely-coupled comment system has led him to WordPress. And he manually thinks through a plan for integrating it into his own blog, then throws that out there seeking advice from anyone who has been there, done that.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 26, 2006 04:44 AM
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Quote of the day: Putting old PCs to rest
The sound of the shotgun blast is still ringing in my ears. The security practice I work for had decided that one of our client's machines was just too far gone and that we should wipe it and start from scratch. The client is fairly new and has been maintaining their systems fairly haphazardly up until we came into the picture. I and another principal don't like to give up on such systems, but this specific IBM laptop was just too far gone and we (I) eventually had to pull the trigger. -- Victor Garza. Does your computer have rabies?
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 26, 2006 04:07 AM
September 25, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Adobe's coming license manager
The Gripe Line: It's not been widely reported, but neither is it secret that Adobe, in the fall of next year, will no longer give customers the choice to 'opt out' of using Acrobat 8's Adobe License Manager, a.k.a. ALM. Ed Foster sees this move raising a number of questions, such as whether or not corporate customers really want to have to deal with vendor-specific license control systems? "Cynics might suggest that the prospect of the ALM becoming mandatory next year could spur corporate customers to adopt Acrobat 8 more quickly than they might otherwise, just so they can get the software without ALM embedded," he explains in The Adobe License Manager and Acrobat.
Columnists' corner: While open source has a significant number of programmers backing it, contributing code and choosing to use it, very few fields other than coders have come to the party. "Graphic artists and designers, in particular, seem resistant to the idea of community collaboration," writes Neil McAllister in Graphic eye for the open source guy. "And yet, today's GUI applications need these kinds of contributions almost as much as they need the program code underneath."
The news beat: Oracle releases Virtual PBX, a J2EE-based platform on which developers can build new telecom services. Skype aims for the enterprise with a beta version upgrading its Internet telephony system that will be available within weeks and enable systems administrators to tap Windows management tools to set how Skype connects to the Internet. And Klir Analytics unveiled today a beta of its IT management product for publishing and sharing favorite fixes.
Best of the blogs: The characteristics that make up winning athletes can also be found in successful business executives, and the open source realm is no exception. At least four attributes can span both worlds, Matt Asay points out in this post. Two open source execs strike him as excellent examples.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 25, 2006 10:48 AM
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Talkback: Is SaaS a money sieve?
In our Special Report, How you will pay for software, InfoWorld notes that software-as-a-service, dual-core processors, and virtualization are changing the software licensing game.
But is SaaS really a money saver, or a method of nickel-and-diming you to death until it costs more than a traditional on-premises license?
What has your experience been? Talk back to us.
Posted by Ephraim Schwartz on September 25, 2006 10:45 AM
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A safe browser is hard to find, HP CEO Hurd apologizes for spying scandal, IBM eyes Red Flag Linux, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 25, 2006 07:30 AM
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Columnists' corner: There are free security wares to be had, particularly for penetration testing, hack testing and password cracking. And they work rather well. Why? "The past few months of patches have been as brutal as ever -- the number of patches, the patch bugs, and increasing number of zero-day exploits being released just after Patch Tuesday," explains Roger Grimes. So he thanks the vendors and developers who provide help in the form of these utilities and tools.
Podcasts: Oliver Rist is podcasting to save his life, kinda sorta anyway. That's why he details his reason for liking REV drives, before transitioning his musings toward Web-based office suites. Tune into Emerging Enterprise.
The news beat: Motorola details plans to push more wireless data devices into all corners of the enterprise. The Demofall show will feature 66 startups delivering pitches on products ranging from middleware, security and mobile services. And Black Duck Software updates its protexIP system for software compliance management with a new, Ajax-based user interface.
Notes from the field: Cringe reports that Oracle is transitioning many of its salaried employees to hourly status, thereby making them eligible for overtime, just not bonuses. And a new survey finds that IT geeks are more likely to wear heavy metal T-shirts than Brooks Brothers suits. Feds weather fictional attack, Oracle cuts workers some slack.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 25, 2006 04:48 AM
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Quote of the day: Apple backing away from enterprise
Although its products are probably better suited to big business than ever before, Apple is studiously backing away from that position, practically campaigning against it. One of its latest taglines, in fact, is 'No IT required.' -- Steve Fox. Apple avoids the "e" word.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 25, 2006 04:06 AM
September 22, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Q&A: Howard Dresner coined the term 'business intelligence' in 1989. Now Hyperion's chief strategy officer, at that time he was a Gartner analyst. Dresner spoke with China Martens of the IDG News Service for this interview about how BI has grown in the past 17 years, what has hindered BI adoption, and how different industries stack up in terms of usage.
Podcasts: Oliver Rist is comin' at you from Interop NYC where he not only reveals one secret about Brad Pitt, but also goes-a-rantin' about where the WAFS standard truly is. Listen to Emerging Enterprise.
Columnists' corner: Fulfilling his geo-penance brings David Margulius to Prague and Italy, into the latter of which he takes a deep dive on the state of IT in that country. "The problem for Italian CIOs is that you can't think outside the box if your bosses don't care what's outside the box," he writes in Driving IT innovation abroad.
The news beat: Security experts are giving Microsoft credit for improving its software. The U.S. Commerce Department says that 1,137 laptops have been lost, 249 of which housed personal data. And AOL sells off AOL France.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 22, 2006 10:52 AM
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Your favorite stories this week
Here are the top 5 stories that InfoWorld visitors read this week:
5 New AIM worm may prove difficult to fight
4 HP's Dunn impeached, Jobs extends his reach
3 IT's seven deadly career sins
And...
1 WGA and activation failures don't faze Redmond
I collected these based how much traffic they garnered, but what were your favorite stories this week, either on InfoWorld.com, or elsewhere around the Web? Use the comments function below.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 22, 2006 08:53 AM
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Spamhaus aims at zombies, HP CEO Hurd to brief press on scandal, Germans aim to make hacking a punishable crime, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 22, 2006 07:20 AM
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A different perspective on getting users to change processes
Best of the blogs: Most everyone in IT has been through the pain and agony of leading users to alter their work processes. But if you and your users are trapped in a monolith, Bob Lewis has some advice: Don't tell users they have to alter processes because, chances are, they won't even really know what that means. Instead, add process change to the project plan. Just watch out for radical scope creep.
Hardware: Another chapter was revealed in the interminable exploding laptop battery story when a Dell notebook caught fire and catalyzed an evacuation at Yahoo's Santa Clara headquarters. Smoke alarms went off, scaring several hundred employees outside. One exec says that even though the fire was on the eighth floor, employees could smell it on the third.
Test Center review: With its new StorageWorks AiO systems, HP is pushing to make unified storage accessible for the masses. And there are reasons to consider the AiO 600, such as support for iSCSI targets that complements traditional file sharing via CIFS, NFS, among others, as well as simple migration and easy snapshot management. Read the full review.
The news beat: What with all the hubbub around Hewlett-Packard's top execs for the spying scandal, it should come as no surprise that the U.S. SEC is broadening its probe of HP. Researchers at Sunbelt Software report that a critical bug in IE that also impacts Outlook is more serious than previously thought. And Yahoo adds sections for Flash and Ruby to encourage external developers to create mashups.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 22, 2006 04:36 AM
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Quote of the day: SOA as an investment strategy
I've been receiving a lot of e-mails this week. Not from technology guys looking at SOA but from investors looking to invest in companies that have SOA technology and services. Indeed, the stock market has been raging lately, and while I don't think we're filling up a bubble with hot air again, there is much money to be made in technology over the next few years. -- David Linthicum. SOA as an investment.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 22, 2006 04:03 AM
September 21, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Best of the blogs: Thinking about joining that weird subculture of Turkers, or Amazon's MTurk-enabled folks? Jon Udell did just that, wherein he found a podcast to transcribe that just happened to be about Bill Clinton's romantic past. "Celebrity dirt notwithstanding, my encounter with Turk Work wasn't very satisfying. There was no context, no orderly progression, no sense of collaboration, no awareness of (or pride in) a finished product." Turk work.
The news beat: Now that reports are suggesting Mark Hurd was involved with Hewlett-Packard's spying scandal, the HP chief says that on Friday he will hold a briefing on what HP's law firm found in its analysis. Meanwhile, spam fighters are losing ground and the explosive volumes of spam could potentially bring the Internet to a crisis point. And IPv6 is coming sooner than most folks think and will bring with it a raft of new security problems companies will be forced to deal with.
Podcasts: Even though IBM and Sun just unveiled new encryption technologies, it takes more than that to cover your tape assets. That leaves storage admins everywhere still searching for that data security turning point. Tune into Storage Sprawl to hear about one possible breakthrough.
Columnists' corner: Microsoft issues beta 2 of SCE (System Center Essentials) 2007. SCE, according to Oliver Rist in this week's installment of Enterprise Windows, is more than a rehash of the low-end MOM and higher-end SMS. Instead, it's a ground-up new tool to provide systems managers a single console from which to do their entire job. "Typically, I don't play with these things much in the real world, but what Microsoft is promising with SCE is cool enough that I'd say to look at it early."
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 21, 2006 10:53 AM
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Symantec says Vista to make security harder, HP CEO Hurd might have known about spying, coders tune Firefox version for privacy, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 21, 2006 07:37 AM
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First day of recorded history in IT
Columnists' corner: Playing at once the historian scribe and future-gazer Tom Yager puts on record that this is the first day of recorded history for IT. Well, technically, that would be yesterday, as in Wednesday, September 20, 2006. "On this day, the phrase 'information technology,' abbreviated IT, came into being as shorthand for electronic devices that aid humans in storage and sharing of, analysis of, protection of, and access to significant amounts of digitized content." Perhaps more important, though, is what IT will no longer be: a department or group of people in the back-office somewhere. "It's a smart phone. It's a room full of SPARC servers. A telephone headset? A keyboard?" Technology with no past.
Open source: While there's no disputing open source's popularity, much debate burns around just how much money can actually be made in the realm. "The longer I work in open source, the more it's clear to me that open source can crack the billion-dollar barrier. I live it every day, and advise a range of companies that are successfully tracking billion-dollar trajectories," chimes Matt Asay in Is there money in them thar open source hills?. "Will people pay seven figures-plus for open source? Of course."
Best of the blogs: Brian Chee is a geek in paradise. And proud enough of it to title his blog, well, Geeks in Paradise. The paradise is Hawaii, where he lives and works. But this week he's in New York City at the Interop show. In this post he recounts a visit with Wild Packets and its view of InteropNET, as well as the announcement of integration with Splunk for log and trap collection.
The news beat: Oracle releases add-ons for managing unstructured content with its Oracle Database 10g . The IEEE's 802.20 working group that was suspended in June is now permitted to move forward with its efforts to develop a rival to WiMax. And managed security services companies SecureWorks and LURHQ merge , under the SecureWorks moniker.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 21, 2006 04:38 AM
September 21, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Quote of the day: The black art of open source support
Open source is all about support. The difficult part of this model is that very few companies have figured out how to do it well. Most small OSS companies tend to stick with their development teams as their support team which works for awhile but doesn't scale. I have been trying to figure out how one goes about packaging support in a manner that is repeatable for more than the individual company. Essentially there are two halves, customer facing and internal facing ... In general support still feels like a black art. -- Dave Rosenberg. A blueprint for support organization.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 21, 2006 04:12 AM
September 20, 2006 | Comments: (0)
SAP and Oracle fire arrows back and forth
Applications: Oracle chief Larry Ellison used its strong quarter (the guy doesn't need much) as a platform to throw punches at rival SAP, claiming that Oracle's Fusion middleware is years ahead of SAP's Netweaver which, Ellison says, is still relatively new and incomplete. Perhaps showing how seriously SAP bigwigs take Ellison, they sent in a VP, Bill Wohl, to battle. Wohl shot back by saying that Oracle's next-generation applications exist only in PowerPoint and won't be delivered until 2008 or beyond. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is where I step out of the ring.
Security: A researcher has warned that customers switching over to VoIP thereby render themselves vulnerable to phishing attacks. Or, at least, more vulnerable than they were with those old school telephone systems. The problem is that would-be cybercriminals can potentially penetrate banks and hijack phone lines.
Columnists' corner: Of course, security pros know there's no perfect defense against a determined hacker. So begins Jon Udell in Watching out for own security. In short: Since we can't stop hackers altogether, it's vital to do a little detective work. "That's easier said than done, but there's hope."
Current events: This one might not help you write better apps or run that network more efficiently, but it's bigger than that so I'll point to it just the same. This Tech Watch post contains senior editor Paul Roberts' take on the coup d'etat that's going in Thailand. "As we all know, democracy is fragile."
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 20, 2006 11:18 AM
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Alliance advances Ajax interoperability, HP chairwoman Dunn to answer questions in front of U.S. House committee, Oracle reports strong quarter, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 20, 2006 07:11 AM
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Careers: While it's true that Google is always on the prowl for top talent, what is perhaps lesser known is that the company is having a problem finding enough folks with the right skills to plug all of its openings. Thus, the great question becomes, how does one get a job at Google? Hint: Go above and beyond, both in and out of the office. Read the full story to learn what should and should not be on your resume, the cutting-edge work you could participate in, as well as what the culture at Google is like.
Podcasts: David Linthicum weighs in with Step 9 of his 12 Steps to SOA. Define new processes that you need to build within your domain. Short and sweet, but he dives deeper in Real World SOA.
Test Center review: Infragistics and telerik both inject AJAX into their NetAdvantage and r.a.d. controls, respectively, to grant better control over ASP.NET 2.0 development. "Both deliver excellent grid controls, rich edit controls, and a useful assortment of user input controls," explains Martin Heller in this comparative review. "Frankly, you can’t go far wrong choosing either one." But there are differences and Heller gives the nod to one for superior chart capabilities and documentation. The above link also leads to accompanying screencasts of each product in which Heller runs through their functionality.
The news beat: In the latest story to emerge from the ongoing Hewlett-Packard pretexting scandal, outgoing chairwoman Patricia Dunn will testify before a U.S. House committee on Capitol Hill next week. The OpenAjax Alliance today plans to introduce its OpenAjax Hub project to develop a standard set of JavaScript functionality for easing interoperability problems. And BEA Systems takes the wraps off of what it describes as a native SOA platform -- and calls SOA 360.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 20, 2006 04:55 AM
September 20, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Quote of the day: Ma Bell lingers on and on
They have our phone numbers held hostage if we try to switch service providers without settling up. Ma Bell didn't really go away, she just split into many little Bells that still behave the same and wring just as shrilly." -- a reader writing into Ed Foster's Gripe Line. XO'ed by double billing.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 20, 2006 04:07 AM
September 19, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Special Report: As I promised this morning the second aspect of our package Break through to IT career bliss is tailored for execs and shops with advice on attracting and retaining top talent, particularly in this tech workers' market. Hiring the right people is just the beginning to running a successful staff: Targeted training keeps IT workers sharp. And while outsourcing or offshoring are tempting and often instantly gratifying, when it comes to strategic talent -- you know, project managers with highly-sought skills -- proceed cautiously because offshoring is not the answer.
Columnists' corner: If your co-workers spend less time working than they do showing off their sports knowledge, it might seem like a good idea to surrender Super Bowl tickets awarded by the CEO and volunteer for some crisis code debugging. Then again, as our Off The Record author discovered, it might get you branded as lazy and, ultimately, let go. It didn't come easy, but this one does end well.
Best of the blogs: The right tactics help you play the budget game to win. "The way the game is played they blindfold you, hand you the pin, and let you wander all over the place trying to find the right spot. When you don't, all they do is criticize you for failing to find the critter's backside," Bob Lewis explains in Advice Line.
The news beat: Hewlett-Packard hands over thousands of documents to a House panel that is investigating its pretexting scandal. Google forms a political pressure group, Google NetPAC, to promote the 'Net as a free and open platform for information, communication and innovation. And the European Union denies having a vendetta against Microsoft.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 19, 2006 10:49 AM
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IT's seven deadly career sins, EMC buys Network Intelligence, Toshiba to replace defective notebook batteries, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 19, 2006 05:39 AM
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Special report: If your career needs a jump, or even a fresh start, begin by becoming your own career coach. A headhunter lets slip his best techniques for nailing that interview. And once you land that dream job, don't forget to avoid the seven deadly career sins of IT. We didn't leave out advice for companies trying to find top talent, either. Check back for my afternoon post with more on that.
Chat: In conjunction with the previously mentioned special report on IT jobs, we're hosting an online chat at 11 a.m. PST in the IT Exec-Connect section about the disconnect between employers who complain of trouble filling positions and IT professionals who cite the difficulty in landing a job. Topics include: what skills are most in demand, a headhunter's take on interviewing, and jobs that simply can't be outsourced.
Podcasts: Copan promises to help companies make better use of persistent data with a brand spankin' new architecture dubbed PDSA, or persistent data storage architecture, and a fistful of partnerships. The technology is clearly a boon, but the reliance on partners might not be. Tune into Storage Sprawl.
The news beat: As it it closes the acquisition of RSA Security, EMC states intentions to buy Network Intelligence for its appliances that probe computer networks, providing security and compliance analysis. Sun Microsystems says its customer advocate Larry Singer will be leaving the post next week, but gave no reason for his departure. Toshiba offers to exchange 340,000 defective notebook batteries that were manufactured by Sony. And the U.S. Department of Homeland Security chooses a cybersecurity czar: Gregroy Garcia, who previously served as vice president of information security policy at the Information Technology Association of America.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 19, 2006 04:21 AM
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Quote of the day: Nailing that interview
That great job you want is a lot of hard work, so be ready to do the job in the interview. One candidate answers questions; another demonstrates how he or she will do the job. Which candidate would you hire? -- Nick Corcodilos. Nailing the interview: A headhunter tells how.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 19, 2006 04:01 AM
September 18, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Ubiquitous and wearable computing
SOA: The trail, this time, starts with a pair of those O ROKR Bluetooth sunglasses, which leads to the topic of wearable computing and that, quite naturally, points journeymen toward ubiquitous computing. "You have to admit this day is coming quickly, if not already upon us, including cell phones that are now really small PCs, microwaves that calculate the cooking time for 3 potatoes, and information systems in cars that not only tell us when the oil needs changing, but schedule the appointment at the dealer," explains David Linthicum in Real World SOA. I'm sure you know where this is going: the idea is to include all computing power in your SOA to bolster its value. "This is not science fiction, this is doable today."
Best of the blogs: In the ongoing discussion of translucency and selective disclosure, Jon Udell shares several thoughtful responses, including disagreement with his choice to publish AOL user Thelma Arnold's name and AOL user number, the liability for storing more of a customer's data than is strictly necessary, and what compels organizations to hoard and trade our data, among others.
The Gripe Line: EarthLink is upsetting customers with a wildcard DNS record it calls "dead domain" handling system. The provider, it seems, has tweaked its DNS servers in such a way that they return invalid results designed to herd users to a portal, as is the experience of one reader. "As Verisign discovered two years ago, any unexpected DNS behavior drives network administrators crazy. And Earthlink appears to be getting an earful about it from some of its customers," Ed Foster reports in Earthlink tries a Site Finder of its own.
The news beat: Even more has come out about Hewlett-Packard's spying scandal and the latest report indicates that the company's internal investigation included physical and e-mail surveillance. SAP extends its relationship with CA (the company formerly known as Computer Associates) and, under terms of the deal, SAP will use CA's Introscope application management software for remotely diagnosing performance and availability issues. And EMC launches new data management software.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 18, 2006 11:25 AM
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BEA branches out, Forefront sues Microsoft, VA laptop thief arrested, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 18, 2006 07:15 AM
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The 14 best ways to protect your users' PCs
Security: Even in such list-laden days, it's not a number you see attached to many magazine articles. But with these 14 tips, IT can really get the most of its security dollars. Oh yes, and according to Roger Grimes, you can "forget expensive IDSes, host-based IDSes, and unified threat management appliances." That alone might even inspire IT to memorize this one.
Best of the blogs: Norton presents an interesting twist on the ol' bait-and-switch that goes something like this: Carefully describe some nice features in the product's documentation, but then require the customer to buy a more expensive version of the product to get them. When the data recovery feature wouldn't work, our reader wrote to Symantec. Canned responses, of course, left him writing, "I like Norton products. But I have a terrible problem with their support people. I'd rather be shot than have to deal with them."
The news beat: BEA says it will be diving into Web 2.0 soon with intentions to take advantage of del.icio.us, Wikipedia, and YouTube. More players announce NAC plans, but with so many getting into the ring, it's become difficult to ascertain exactly what each has created. And some of the security measures that have been put in place since Sept. 11, 2001 have been doing more harm than good by strengthening control over citizens and eroding democratic freedoms, according to two experts who are slated to speak at the Hack in the Box Conference this week.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 18, 2006 04:36 AM
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Quote of the day: Sun's open source silicon
What if chip design could work more like open source software? What if even smaller customers could have input into the components that power their devices? If a whole community of engineers could work together to tweak and adjust a processor design, a single chip might grow into a family of parts that serves the needs of a variety of unique niches. -- Neil McAllister. Sun blazes trail with open source silicon.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 18, 2006 04:07 AM
September 15, 2006 | Comments: (0)
From the analysts: Fresh from Gartner's Financial Services Technology conference, Dave Margulius attended a session on trends in the investment services industry and, believe it or not, he calls that the most interesting session he sat in. The main point: as the industry consolidates, companies that can either operate on a massive global scale with high transaction volumes or deliver a lot of product innovation will be the winners. And guess what? IT is crucial to both.
Security: Losing your wallet or checkbook is more likely to result in identity theft than the computer breaches grabbing so many headlines these days. That's according to a year-long study by Javelin Strategy & Research that examines approximately 5,000 U.S. consumers. Data breaches, in fact, were responsible for a mere 6 percent of all known cases of ID theft.
Columnists' corner: The crotchety columnist Robert X. Cringely reports that now even a Gateway notebook has turned into a burning hunk of love. This one even catalyzed the evacuation of 500 employees. Gateway officials say it was an isolated incident and their boxes are not prone to inflammation in quite the same way as Dell and Apple. That brings us to Jobs. Steve Jobs. Cringe heard, perhaps from the wind, that Apple's chief healed a sick laptop by changing Windows into OS X. Neither Jobs nor Cringely, though, seem able to bail Madonna out of trouble with the Russian Mafia, or so Cringe tells us. HP's Dunn impeached, Jobs extends his reach.
Best of the blogs: There is, indeed, virtue in half-baked ideas and Jon Udell confirmed that in Guadalajara. In this instance, those notions concerned bartering what Udell calls "learning-objects," as in, say, "a video of your guitar lesson in exchange for my screencast on animating scatterplots in Excel." Initially, his idea got shot down, but it didn't die there on the stage, either...
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 15, 2006 10:51 AM
September 15, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Your favorite stories this week
Here are this week's five most popular stories, according to InfoWorld.com readers:
5 Paying good money for bad software
4 Is the end of anti-virus finally here?
2 OS priced to the max, Radio Shack's electronic ax
And...
1 Embroidery piracy and eBay/PayPal privacy
My list encompasses the most popular, in terms of the almighty clicks, but what were your favorite stories this week, either on our site or elsewhere around the Web? Talkback via the comments function below.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 15, 2006 09:10 AM
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U.S. gov't cybersecurity under scrutiny, Chinese chipmaker reaches 1 GHz, Microsoft says Zune player will arrive in time for holidays, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 15, 2006 05:58 AM
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Microsoft betas dev tools for Office 2007
App dev: As the final version of its next Office suite moves forward, Microsoft issues a beta of Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Office Second Beta Edition. I'm guessing they didn't run that name by any focus groups, but the tools, previously code-named Cypress, "give developers the power to take advantage of the 2007 Office System as a development platform and create scalable Office-based solutions," in Microsoft's own words.
Storage: There are those celebrating the hard disk drive's 50th birthday. But not Mario Apicella. "Maybe it's because I am not much for celebrating anniversaries, especially those related to unanimated objects, but isn't all the hubbub around the disk drive hitting the big five-o getting annoying?" A clever invention, indeed. Then again, so were printers, monitors, keyboards. "Aren't those machines at least equally important, not to mention more reliable, than disk drives, those irritating recycling bins for bits of data?" For those of you wondering what the first hard drive looked like, Apicella includes a link to it in Fifty years of hard drives: It's time to move on.
Test Center review: Genuitec has just released version 5.0 of its MyEclipse product. Yes, as in the Eclipse open source Java IDE. "This productized collection of plug-ins smoothly expands Eclipse functionality at a competitive price. I found few things to complain about, save for the fact that many of the plug-ins provide only basic functionality," Andrew Binstock writes in the full review. "As much as I was impressed by MyEclipse 5.0’s range of plug-ins, however, I was disappointed with their lack of depth." Senior editor Stephanie McLouglin, meanwhile, counts the ways in which MyEclipse 5.0 benefits consumers.
The news beat: Google is losing users in China, a report by the China Internet Network Information Centre states; indeed, 62 percent of Chinese users typed their way to Baidu for search, up from 52 percent in 2005. The FBI floats a wide-ranging wiretap proposal under which foreign ISPs and application providers would be legally required to base servers they use for U.S. customers inside this country. And the FTC shuts down four illegal spamming operations.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 15, 2006 04:42 AM
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Quote of the day: Making Office easier
Many of the complaints I had after [Office 2007] Beta 1 are gone because Microsoft has since made more than 1,000 changes to the Office menu. What I found most surprising was the way in which those changes are made. In my little software company, we decide UI issues by talking, arguing, yelling, and me finally tossing someone over a desk. Redmond's a little more scientific. -- Oliver Rist. Microsoft aims to open an easier Office 2007.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 15, 2006 04:04 AM
September 14, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Best of the blogs: Blame the vendors for inflating expectations. Dave Linthicum does just that "for pushing SOA technology as a cure-all for the years and years of bad architecture and lack of integration." Read Linthicum's 4 tips for moving forward with your SOA projects despite the downsides.
Security: We all know Microsoft's track record with security, but now it's inviting breaches with InfoCard. "I find it hard to even believe they are suggesting that InfoCard is in any way a good idea," Dave Rosenberg writes in this post. "Seriously, does Microsoft need to invent more security holes? Business users should not be responsible for others' IT behavior, just like IT staff shouldn't be responsible for deciding sales discounts." And then Rosenberg wanders way off topic and into the realm of metal bands Slayer and Mastodon, but I'll just let you read about that for yourself.
The news beat: Novell's recently ousted chief executive Jack Messman quit the board a month-and-half earlier than expected. Intel joins forces with Siemens to create secure VoIP for enterprises based, of course, on the chipmaker's dual-core processors. And Microsoft tries to dazzle E.U. antitrust regulators by claiming that Vista will benefit Europe in revenues and jobs, and referring to analyst firm stats to prove its point.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 14, 2006 11:03 AM
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Microsoft tries again with buggy patch, Office 2007 inches forward with beta 2 refresh, HP may face charges from California AG, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 14, 2006 07:23 AM
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Our government's failing cybersecurity
Security: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security releases findings from Operation Cyber Storm. The report is based on the simulation of a cyber attack against the government and critical infrastructure. Not surprisingly, our government didn't fare so well. "The government needs to find a central body to coordinate response," writes Paul Roberts in this TechWatch post. "Right now, it looks like they've got two in name: National Cyber Response Coordination Group and the Intragency Incident Management Group. The reality on the ground may be different still."
The news beat: Lawmakers and representatives of cybersecurity trade groups, meanwhile, are questioning the DHS about why, after creating the assistant secretary for cybersecurity position more than a year ago, it has failed to find someone to take the job. Microsoft issues Office 2007 beta 2 Technical Refresh, as the suite nears the end of its testing process. And Google enriches its earth mapping service.
Best of the blogs: Speaking of Google Maps, Jon Udell takes the 30,000-foot view, quite literally, and comes up with a notion that is rather far-out. I'd be remiss not to take the whole chunk of his introduction verbatim: For years I've entertained a fantasy about air travel that I'm sure many of you share. You're staring out the cabin window, watching the landscape scroll tailward, and some feature catches your eye: a building, a highway, a lake, a ridge. You touch the window and a heads-up display fades into view. It's kind of like Google Earth, but live and in realtime. You summon and dismiss layers of annotation, and you bookmark locations for later study.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 14, 2006 04:48 AM
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Quote of the day: Sun's server coup
What really puts Intel in the doghouse is Sun's decision to open the design of UltraSparc T1 for public use. It is the silicon equivalent of open source, and it's no lip service. Inexpensive and readily available programmable logic puts anyone a few hundred dollars away from being able to mint their own 64-bit Sparc CPUs. Of course, it takes more than that to make it do anything; but the point is that Sun has matched IBM in opening its server processor technology. -- Tom Yager. Sun is winning in the server market.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 14, 2006 04:07 AM
September 13, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Big Blue's first Cell computer emerges
Hardware: Claiming its new BladeCenter system can perform like a supercomputer, IBM has started selling the first machine based on its multicore Cell processor. The QS20, naturally, is aimed at companies with compute-intensive tasks, such as oil exploration, medical imaging, or digital animation.
Ongoing: A spokesman for California Attorney General Bill Lockyer says that the state has enough evidence to formally charge people within HP and outside contractors in the pretexting scandal that has rocked the company enough to create a shakeup among the highest ranks.
App dev: Microsoft and Sun might be bitter rivals -- and nowhere more so than in the Java vs. .Net development trenches -- but "a bid for peace for between two warring camps" has been thrown down in the form of IronPython and Sun's hiring Thomas Enebo and Charles Nutter, maintainers of JRuby, the JVM-based Ruby implementation. All of which leads Jon Udell to ask in this week's installment of Strategic Developer, "Can't we all just play nicely together?"
The news beat: Business Objects states intentions to buy ALG Software for its corporate performance management wares. Skype taps video calling to bridge Macs and PCs in the new Skype for Mac 2.0 beta. And Sun teams up with Accenture on identity-enabled SOA in a deal that will see the companies create a center for developing custom services.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 13, 2006 11:26 AM
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Hard disk drives turn 50, Microsoft issues security patches, HP chairwoman to step down, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 13, 2006 07:39 AM
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SAP's foray into enterprise search
Applications: With the goal of diving deep into structured and unstructured data, SAP unveils Enterprise Search, a tool for querying its own and other vendors' applications. One company official described it as a means to tie search to business context for a "Google-like" experience.
Special Report: Customers win with virtualization. Okay, so by now that is pretty well-known. Bearing that in mind, this package looks at ways to tap server virtualization to accomplish more with less. It's not just servers, either. Virtual databases are providing an excellent alternative and, in some cases, are more efficient than virtual servers. And, of course, desktop virtualization is making PCs more manageable.
Best of the blogs: Continuing his look at piracy, Ed Foster can't help but ask "what duty of privacy does eBay and its PayPal subsidiary owe customers purchasing goods via their services?" Unfortunately, that and related troubling questions do not bring their own easy answers. "Yahoo thought it at least owed its users some notification that information about them was being subpoenaed. Instead of just rolling over time and time again, doesn't eBay at the very least owe its customers the same?"
Careers: Bob Lewis espouses more on bypassing the chain-of-command in Advice Line. "Any time anyone working on any case disagrees with the conclusion reached by the lead investigator, that individual bypasses not just the chain-of-command but the entire organization and its decision processes. I'm not sure that's a great answer." Just don't forget to consider the consequences.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 13, 2006 04:17 AM
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Quote of the day: SOA governance
I suspect that the driving force behind this acquisition is the fact that the other major integration and SOA players are adding governance to their respective stacks, either building or buying. What is more, many in the market are asking for governance solutions as part of a complete SOA product offering, and this is their response to both protect their market position and generate new name sales. -- David Linthicum. webMethods gets Infravio.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 13, 2006 04:02 AM
September 12, 2006 | Comments: (0)
EMC touts content management tool-to-be
Storage: Delving deeper into the realm of Web content management software, EMC details the forthcoming Documentum Page Builder. Designed to enable users to create, manage and deploy Web sites, the tool is due in the fourth quarter of this year, and will handle content layout as well as management.
Open source: Red Hat invites its users to test the forthcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, though at this point it remains unclear whether the final version will hit its target shipping date. New to RHEL 5 are virtualization technologies, the disk dumping tool Kdump, as well as the SystemTap and Frysk analysis and development tools.
Columnists' corner: When non-techie VP's start buying applications the size of point-of-sale programs, well, only bad things can happen. In the case of our Off The Record author, the result was paying good money for bad software. "This turned out to be a big mistake." Two years later, all the IT department or the VP have to show for it is a programmer fired by the vendor and her PowerPoint presentation about how the product will look someday.
The news beat: Amid scandal, Hewlett-Packard's chairwoman Patricia Dunn says she'll step down come January, 2007. Juniper and Symantec join forces to create UTM and IDP wares as in unified threat management and intrusion detection and protection, respectively. And coming out of its India research labs, IBM unveils a location-based service that lets mobile phone users find businesses.
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Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 12, 2006 11:04 AM
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SOA consolidation continues, DOJ inquires about HP conduct, Windows Live search leaves beta phase behind, and more LISTEN!
Posted by Tom Sullivan on September 12, 2006 06:39 AM
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