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- Open source and innovation as maintenance models
- Following my piece on a proposed model for enterprise applications maintenance, two fresh posts, one from Matt Aslett at 451.com and another from Leigh Cauldwell offer alternative ideas around how the present conundrum might be solved. Matt offers the open source position arguing that: Â This would appear to be...
- Tags: Innovation, Leigh Cauldwell, Matt, Savio Rodrigues, Open Source, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- The data center cost conundrum
- The data center cost conundrumData Center locationI have to have my data center where it is the most expensive, because I'm a public utility, and I do cost plus accounting.Screw the rate payers.
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, data center, data center cost
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- News to know: Mozilla; Windows Server; LinuxWorld; Apple
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Talking Firefox security with Mozilla's Window Snyder Mary Jo Foley: What's next for Windows Server Microsoft finalizes SQL Server 2008 TechRepublic: 10 questions and answers about Microsoft Live Mesh Dancho Danchev: Today's...
- Tags: google inc., larry dignan, microsoft windows server, server, apple inc., mozilla corp., linux, phishing, smart phones, service-oriented architecture (soa), cyberthreats, microsoft windows, operating systems, unix, open source, software, security, spam and phishing, consumer electronics, personal technology, web services, enterprise software
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- The data center cost conundrum
- The other day I stumbled across a BusinessWeek slide gallery that shows the comparative cost of the five lowest cost data center towns in the US. Not being an expert on these matters, I passed the baton to my Irregular friend Vinnie Mirchandani who understands these...
- Tags: Data Center, San Francisco, New York, Boyd, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Survey: Corporations hold out on Vista
- Sixty percent of IT administrators have no plans to deploy Vista despite service pack 1, which fixed the operating systems problems, according to a survey of 1,100 IT managers. The survey, conducted by KACE, which makes systems management appliances, found that there are 10 percent more holdouts...
- Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Kace, Survey, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Marketing Research, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- An effective way to treat Web 2.0 vulnerabilities
- I'm personally a huge fan of the Matasano blog, and have a lot of respect for their group. I took a peek over at their blog today and noticed an article by Dave Goldsmith that deals with "Vulnerability Reporting in a Web 2.0 World Continued". In this...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Vulnerability, Defect, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-28
- Firefox and Thunderbird phone home daily
- Firefox and Thunderbird phone home dailyReally? What does Windowssend to MS everyday?IP address?What time you were using the product?What exact version number you were using?If you are using any of the plugins or addons sent in the disabled list?Total number of active users of their software?Problem isother companies like Apple...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird phone home, phone home, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Thunderbird, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology is ready to roll
- Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology is ready to rollActually...You should ask THAT to Apple, not Microsoft...Because Apple's usage agreement only allows OSX to run on Apple hardware?And while Psystar might be avoiding a lawsuit, it's very unlikely that Apple would hold back if MS tried to enable it's customers to easily...
- Tags: desktop virtualization, cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Operating systems, Tools & Techniques, non-Windows OS, hardware list, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology, VMware Inc., virtualization, innotek VirtualBox, virtu
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Google reports cause of App Engine failure
- Google reports cause of App Engine failureIt's PREVIEW RELEASEThere are plenty of better reasons to question cloud computing than an preview release of a free service crashing...This is just like Airplanes. Airplanes are much less likely to crash than acar, and you are about 10x safer in an airplane than...
- Tags: beta, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- The search engine conundrum
- The search engine conundrumlove it!Great article. More please...garyAll search engines lack clarityThe simple truth is all text-based search engines lack clarity and reliability.Whenever I search for something, there are literally thousands of ranked results that have nothing to do with what I am doing, and why? Because there...
- Tags: SEARCH, search engine, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- News to know: Vista search; Android; Gmail
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 5: Faster, smarter search Phil Wainewright: Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software Ed Burnette: 50 questions asked and answered on Android News.com: Google to let users test new...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, E-mail Providers, H-1B, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- The search engine conundrum
- I was looking through the Channel 8 Students Union earlier on and noticed an important point concerning search engines. It's widely known that search engines are the most viewed websites on the Internet because they are the starting point to look for something. We may even know the direct link...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Student, Live Search, Search, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- SOA reuse is fine, that is, if you really want the service
- Geek & Poke's Oliver Widder saw my recent post on reuse issues, and points to a conundrum that often gets lost in the argument: what if nobody really wants to use the service in the first place? Hmmm... Be careful what you service-orient, you just may...
- Tags: SOA, Service, Geek & Poke, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- The Netbooks are coming: Laptop cannibalization today; Smartphone war tomorrow?
- The message out of Computex this week is loud and clear: The Netbooks are coming. Intel is touting its Atom processor. Acer is on the board with its Aspire one. Microsoft is adapting Windows to the Netbook market. Nvidia says Netbooks will be graphics intensive. The big question: Are buyers...
- Tags: Computex, Device, Acer Inc., Smartphone, Laptop Computer, Netbooks, Computing Device, Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- 6 reasons government IT projects fail
- 6 reasons government IT projects failContradictory demandsThe complexity of a government project can arise not only from the ordicary technical problems, but from frequently observed situations.The simplest example is a data item which has different definitions and neither can be eliminated because each comes from a higher level of government....
- Tags: Team management, team, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Dear Microsoft: Please get UAC right this time
- Alex Eckelberry of Sunbelt Software vents, intelligently, about Windows Vista's UAC conundrum: UAC could certainly have been handled better. It does something the security industry has been well aware of for a long time — it creates the "cry wolf" problem of popup fatigue (people turn off or ignore...
- Tags: Dialog Box, Permission, Window, Control Panel, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., UAC, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Construction, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Vista screams past XP in gaming tests!
- Sorry for the exclamation point in the headline, but my inner media critic, who is taking over for the second half of this post, insisted on it. It's there for a reason, which I'll get to shortly, I promise. [Update: My inner media critic is laughing out loud at the people who completely missed this...
- Tags: Game, Page, Performance, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- News to know: Dell vs. Apple; Virtualization smackdown; Cisco patch; iCal; SAP
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Could an OEM like Dell ever be as cool and as stylish as Apple? Next-generation Radeon GPUs to feature GDDR5 memory John Morris: Report: Nvidia GTX 200 series will be one big GPU EIC podcast: Microhoo; OLPC and...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Virtualization, Information Technology, SAP AG, Cell Phone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- SAP's Business byDesign: the perfection conundrum
- SAP's Business byDesign: the perfection conundrumUI problems? Mike, I wonder if they are having trouble with the user interface? Last November in a post called Enterprise Applications and User Interfaces , I wrote that: “There are changes afoot in the way enterprise applications are sold....
- Tags: Blogging, Enterprise software, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
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