Attracting and hiring qualified IT folks

Careers: Pausing to celebrate an article that actually presents a dose of solid ideas concerning how managers can meet good workers has Nick Corcodilos sharing one simple tip: hang out in the right places. "Who has time to find people who are worth recruiting and hiring? Uh, I dunno ... Headhunters who charge $50,000 for the service to managers too lazy to do it themselves?"

From the Test Center: Whereas Network Appliance was once just about the only player in the multilingual file sharing space, much has changed. We looked at 4 such products, one each from Adaptec, Celeros, Dell and, of course, NetApp. Paul Venezia ran them through the same series of tests, and determined that "the numbers were generally all over the place. That said, all four did well," he writes. "As front-line filers, they will do fine up to a point, and then it's time to break into the piggy bank for some higher-end storage." Read the full review.

The news beat: Sun details AJAX alternative Project Flair, which one official describes as a self-supporting Web programming kernel. The One Laptop Per Child program increases the price of notebooks to $175, up from the $100 dollar original dream the organization had. In hopes of becoming a global security solutions company, Websense puts in a $400 million bid for SurfControl. And also on the M&A front, Mitel buys Inter-Tel for $732 million to target IP communications products at SMBs.

Best of the blogs: A layer of confusion around SOA lingers within the U.S. government, just as it does in corporate IT, and the issues are more people than technology related, David Linthicum reports in Practical SOA for government . ROI still rules the day, he adds. Oh yes, and drinking "20 cups of coffee makes you shake."

Posted by Tom Sullivan on April 27, 2007 04:56 AM