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- Choosing the Right JVM for Windows - JRockit 5.0
- The java virtual machines have been optimized for specific hardware. IBM has a JVM for power. HP has a JVM specifically for PA risk. On Intel processing platforms such as the Itanium, whether running Windows or Linux, J Rocket is the JVM of choice. The thing to remember is that...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows, BEA WebLogic JRockit, JVM, IBM Corp., Sun Solaris, J Rocket, Goal Obviously, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
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- Can Icahn bring Microsoft's Yahoo bid back?
- Updated: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn announced an alternate board of directors for Yahoo in a move that could revive a Microsoft bid. Will Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer bite? As expected Icahn announced his alternate slate, which includes Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Icahn reportedly eyes Yahoo proxy fight
- Just when you thought the Microhoo saga was over billionaire investor Carl Icahn wants in on the act. According to CNBC, Icahn has amassed as many as 50 million shares of Yahoo and is mulling over a proxy war. He has until Thursday to declare an alternate...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Will OpenSolaris bring a chill to Sun-Ubuntu romance?
- You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. That seems to be the mantra of Ubuntu and Sun, both open source underdogs whose relationship and mutual platform support has been growing for three years. On the eve of the release of OpenSolaris, both companies are banging the drum that the...
- Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Word up to Linux fan boys: Multiple Linux flaws show that Linux also has kernel issues
- Not to defend Microsoft, as kernel exploits that provide privileged access are terrible flaws, but we had an interesting discussion in the talkbacks where several people acted as if Microsoft was the only place that could've made such mistakes. Well, the proof is in the pudding that this is a common flaw...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Microsoft Word, Kernel, Debian, Flaw, Linux, Security, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbentsThose are all smart arguementsApple, Salesforce.com, Google, VMWare, Amazon:They're companies who were supposed to die and/or who grew from nothing. If it's a forgone conclusion that the big IT guy landscape is cemented, then we should all just give up and go home. The...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Groupware, social Software, incumbent, software, Sig Rinde, Social Software
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- SugarCRM 5.1 sails into beta with mobile phone support, monitoring, advanced reports
- Open source CRM star SugarCRM has released into beta testing an upgrade of its platform that offers new wireless support and vastly enhanced reporting capabilities. SugarCRM 5.1, which is available for testing now, supports mobile phones including the Blackberry and iPhone as well as advanced reporting and analytics, data import...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Monitoring, Cell Phone, Beta, SugarCRM, SugarCRM 5.1, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- News to know: Microhoo; Taming Vista UAC; iPhone; Google; CIO Sessions
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UAC. Images: Taming Vista's User Account Control right Larry Dignan: Microhoo: Wall Street gets antsy Mary Jo Foley: XP SP3 delayed by glitch New test releases...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Vista UAC, Jason O'Grady, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, 3G, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Microhoo: Wall Street gets antsy; Microsoft's big move
- Wall Street is a big prediction market and traders are increasingly getting antsy about Microsoft's next move regarding Yahoo. Thus far, Microsoft has kept people guessing, but may reveal its plan on Wednesday. As we all know, Microsoft's negotiate or else deadline passed on Saturday and it...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Wall, Wall Street, Corporate Governance, Construction, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Delivery of Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager beta adds credibility to virtual story
- On April 16, 2006, I wrote in another unnnamed tech pub about Microsoft's plans for a virtual machine management platform , then code-named "Carmine," which was being designed for Microsoft's much touted virtulization hypervisor under development, then code named "Viridian." These product promises were downright ethereal at a time when market leader VMware was printing...
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Beta, Virtual Machine, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, prooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Oracle closes BEA deal; Last 'logical' purchase?
- Oracle closes BEA deal; Last 'logical' purchase?Right!Mergers and acquisitions are like drugs; once a company gets into the habit of making them, it's not likely to stop, logical or not.At least the claim came from an analyst, rather than an Oracle executive.
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Oracle Corp., BEA Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- Oracle closes BEA deal; Last 'logical' purchase?
- Oracle said Tuesday that it closed its acquisition of BEA Systems following European Commission approval. In a statement, Oracle president Charles Phillips BEA will help the company's vision of a "a modern service-oriented architecture SOA infrastructure" and provide "a series of complementary and well-engineered middleware products." ...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Wall Street, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mergers & Acquisitions, Construction, Middleware, Corporate Law, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Microsoft to begin automatic distribution of Vista SP1 today
- If you're a Vista user and you've been waiting (patiently!) for Service Pack 1 (SP1) to be pushed to your systems automatically, your wait is nearly over. As of today Microsoft will begin automatic distribution of SP1 to Vista users. I've covered SP1 in great detail on...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Forrester: Social networking will be biggest enterprise 2.0 priority by 2013; Smaller businesses reticent
- Enterprise 2.0 will become a $4.6 billion industry by 2013 and social networking tools will garner the bulk of the money, according to a report by Forrester Research. The report, released on Monday and penned by Forrester analyst G. Oliver Young, shows a few notable trends that...
- Tags: Social Networking, Web, Network, Enterprise 2.0, Forrester Research Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Thought leadership grows around advancing 'WOA plus SOA' as enterprise-cloud duo
- Respected developer, adviser and thought leader Dion Hinchcliffe has posted a watershed blog that develops a compelling rationale for Web Oriented Architecture's (WOA's) advancing role in enterprises. The logic is not to supplant or dismiss Service Oriented Architecture SOA, but rather to examine how WOA -- also...
- Tags: Leadership, SOA, WOA, Dion, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- WOA may soon eclipse SOA as most impactful business transformation agent
- In a recent blog post I questioned whether services oriented architecture SOA was driving substantive transformation inside of enterprise IT. My conclusion is that something is not quite right in SOA-ville. The uptake of general-purpose service enablement is by no means a hockey stick trend line. The...
- Tags: Web, Agent, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Edelman on Sustainability Reporting: Call in the PR Pros
- It's a conundrum every company faces when thinking about sustainability reporting - who reads this stuff anyway and do these reports actually assure anyone of anything? Sustainability reporting methodologies have grown up, for better or for worse, to ape financial reporting, replete with their own standards of assurance audit and...
- Tags: Sustainability, Public Relations, Standards, Financial Reporting Methodology, Edelman, Assurance Standard, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Apotheker on the offensive
- In the second of SAP's press calls today, Leo Apotheker brought some of the sex and sizzle for which he is well known to the discussion around the previously announced boardroom changes. Asked to comment on the fact Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO was pretty much silent about the BEA acquisition...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Sales Strategy, Research & Development, Sales Force Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sales, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Red Hat: JBoss picks up steam, but were the earnings that great?
- Red Hat reported strong fourth quarter results and indicated that it was managing through economic adversity well. More importantly, Red Hat indicated that its JBoss middleware business may be gaining at the expense of Oracle. The Red Hat conference call Thursday relative to Oracle's was an interesting...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Earnings, JBoss, Open Source, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- When the going gets tough, Oracle talks less smack
- Analysts are lamenting Oracle's February quarter and the lower than expected new license revenue growth, but the lack of competitor bashing should really have folks worried. Oracle's quarter wasn't bad, but investors are clearly spooked by new license growth of 16 percent, which was at the low...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Analyst, Deals, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
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