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Rodney Dangerfield & IT Services: The Invisible Third Choice

In the 90s, a reporter at the Wall Street Journal once dubbed me, “The Queen of Outsourcing.”  The outsourcing market has changed quite a bit since then.  Today with outsourcing’s reputation under fire by American workers and, well, Lou Dobbs, I’m not sure I’d want that title again. Yet, when...

Tags: outsourcing, General IT Services, HRO, F&, A Outsourcing, Systems Integration, IT Consulting, Management Consulting, Applications Development, Applications Maintenance, IT Outsourcing, Interactive Agency, Web Services, SaaS, Offshoring

Blog posts 2006-11-01

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Thanksgiving reading. Soccer and enterprise apps: the similarities and differences

The other evening I had the pleasure of visiting Old Trafford soccer stadium. It's the home of Manchester United, arguably the most successful soccer team in living memory. Consistently at the top or near the top of the British Premier League and European Champions League in the late 20th and...

Tags: Team, SAP AG, Team Management, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-25

Chrome OS: More questions than answers?

And exactly why....would students be part of the target market or any other particular group for that matter?This is a silly post. Chrome will be lean, cloud based, local caching of data, some and growing off-line capabilities and probably grow in features/capabilities over time. It will NOT be everything to...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Outlook, Wi-Fi, operating system, Google Inc., Chrome, HTML5, Chrome OS

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with Windows, Mac and Linux

Chrome OS - The good, the bad and the ugly, and how it fits in with WindowsI gave it some thought too and realized that Chrome OS only has the bad and the ugly. There is nothing good about it. All data stored in the cloud, and on Google's...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Chrome, Google Inc., Chrome OS, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Google makes Chrome OS open source today

I like itThe ChromeOS demo looked pretty cool!I'm almost 100% webapp-based already, so I could see myself using a simple, fast & no maintenance OS like that the majority of the time.I like it too, but, for me, I need to compile and run programs locally. I would imagine that...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, open source, Google Inc., Chrome, operating system, ChromeOS

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Terracotta buys Quartz

Open source Java clustering software developer Terracotta announced its intent to buy an open source job scheduler known as Quartz. The integration of Quartz into Terracotta's platform will ease high availability job scheduling and scaling applications to multiple nodes, the company said. Quartz is currently integrated into...

Tags: Job, Clustering, Terracotta, Quartz, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-11-19

IceClean 3.3.2 (Mac)

IceClean is a powerful Finder and System optimization tool using ONLY built-in Unix system tasks to help your System stay healthy and to keep it running smoothly. IceClean lets you execute the following tasks: System Maintenance Process & Infos Periodic Routine Scripts Verify Preferences .plist files Repair Permissions Update Prebindings...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Network, MacDentro.com, IceClean, UNIX, Tcp/Ip, Operating Systems, Networking, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Super Utilities Pro 9.8.1 (Windows)

Super Utilities Pro offers 27 tools for fixing, speeding up, maintaining, and protecting your PC. It encompasses four suites of utilities: system cleaner, privacy protector, system maintenance, and special utilities. System Cleaner features a spyware-removal component as well as tools for cleaning your disk and the registry, and for performing...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Tool, SuperLogix, Privacy Protector, Productivity, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-18

Next year is THE year for cloud computing

Here is what Indu Kodukula, CTO of SunGard Availability Services thinks how cloud computing is likely to transform the computing industry landscape in 2010. Commentary - Yogi Berra had it right - it?s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. It?s especially difficult...

Tags: CIO, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, cloud, Indu Kodukula

News items 2009-11-17

Webinar: Securing the Cloud Dec 10th, 2pm ET / 11am PT

Cloud computing promises to provide vast computing power, reliable off-site data storage, wide availability, all at lower maintenance and investment costs. But recent cloud computing mishaps have underscored the need for consistent and thorough security policies implemented in the design stage. Hear security experts explain recent key...

Tags: Webinar, Digital Equipment Corp., Enterprise Florida, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-11-16

Groklaw suggests Microsoft sue, do over authentication

Are you in any way trying to legitimize patent trolling?You are well aware that what Microsoft is doing is what we all used to call patent trolling aren't you?My guess...Nothing will happen... this is just MS trying to protect UAC and runas from paten lawsuits.Besides MS would be idiot... well...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, authentication, Groklaw, patent, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

OnyX 2.1.1 (Mac)

OnyX is a multifunction utility for Mac OS X. It allows you to verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure the hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock and of some of Apple's own applications, to delete caches,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Onyx Software, Titanium, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Management

Software downloads 2009-11-11

Seven great (and free!) applications for Windows 7

You added Windows 7 to the title for page hits...Any tech enthusiast worth their salt has long known about all these apps. Nah ... ... for page hits I'd have added XP ... bigger user base ... User base yes but Windows 7is what everyone is interested in reading...

Tags: Operating systems, Ubuntu 9.10, Linux Distro, Paint.net, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, 7-zip

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

JumpBox for the Joomla 1.1.14 (Windows)

Joomla a Content Management System CMS that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. It's one of the most popular Open Source applications around and the JumpBox for Joomla is a huge time saver. It captures the experience of a skilled IT admin in a package that's...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, JumpBox, Benefits, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-11-09

JumpBox for Tomcat Java Web Application Deployment 1.1.1 (Mac)

Apache Tomcat is an open source servlet container that implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages specifications. Like other deployment JumpBoxes, the JumpBox for Tomcat makes it easy to deploy a web application (specifically a java-based web application). Notable features of this JumpBox include: Flexible deployment options: Applications...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Web Application, Backup, Apache Tomcat, JumpBox, Application Servers, Open Source, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Figuring the value of software

Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-02

JumpBox for LAMP Deployment 1.1.13 (Mac)

The JumpBox for LAMP Deployment is a great utility system that allows you to easily deploy applications where a tailored JumpBox may not exist. It contains MySQL plus PHP, Perl, Ruby and Python along with PHPMyAdmin to help you manage the database. Using the JumpBox for LAMP Deployment you can...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Ruby, JumpBox, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Benefits, Servers, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Management, Human Resources, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-02

JumpBox for LAMP Deployment 1.1.13 (Windows)

The JumpBox for LAMP Deployment is a great utility system that allows you to easily deploy applications where a tailored JumpBox may not exist. It contains MySQL plus PHP, Perl, Ruby and Python along with PHPMyAdmin to help you manage the database. Using the JumpBox for LAMP Deployment you can...

Tags: Perl, Python, PHP, Microsoft Windows, Ruby, JumpBox, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development

Software downloads 2009-10-30

JumpBox for the MySQL Relational Database 1.1.11 (Mac)

MySQL is probably the most widely used relational databases around. It's used as an integral component in many JumpBoxes and is also useful to have available in an easy to use standalone version. This JumpBox includes MySQL 5 along with PHPMyAdmin setup and ready to run. It's a great tool...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, MySQL, Benefit, JumpBox, Databases, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Open Source, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-30

My Top Scary Technology Trends

The Most Terrifying:Google.Kills good companies by handing out "freebies". VERY scary.Machines replacing humansI thought they were tools to enhance our experience on earth.The worst is when customer is an AI telephone. "I'm sorry, could you repeat your last phrase. I did not understand". I thought the buttons were bad enough.RE:...

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Google Inc., hardware, virtualization

Discussion threads 2009-10-29