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- Holy Grail
- A very desired object or outcome that borders on a sacred quest. There are several Holy Grails in the computer business. Standards tend to be high on the...
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- Release management: Unnecessary evil or Holy Grail?
- Release management is not a checkpoint or a fix for bad development practice when it comes to releasing needed changes into production. But it can improve the process governing those changes -- which can improve the quality of software solutions.This download is also available as an entry in our IT...
- Tags: Holy Grail, Change, Management, Erica Henson, Blogging, Internet
- Download resources 2009-11-17
- What does the Nook need to be Ed Tech's e-book holy grail?
- Cached Data / Store and ForwardAny device that Chris is proposing would have "Store and Forward" capability as well as the ability to cache dynamic data from the internet, so there would be an "Offline" mode, much like GMail uses "Offline" mode when you have Google Gears installed. The device...
- Tags: E-books, Wireless LANs, Wireless and Mobility, Wi-Fi, Holy Grail, e-book
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- What does the Nook need to be Ed Tech's e-book holy grail?
- The Nook may not be the holy grail of educational e-readers; I don't think that exists yet. But if its Kindroid lineage can spur a bit of development, we may be a lot closer than we think. by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Holy Grail, E-book, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- LongJump eyes fully portable, best-of-breed PaaS holy grail for ISVs going to the 'open' cloud
- LongJump won't be alone in seeking the holy grail of a truely open, portable, extensible and neutral cloud PaaS approach, but they have my attention. We'll need to keep an eye on Salesforce, TIBCO Software, IBM, and Oracle/Sun on the topic. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Holy Grail, PaaS, Cloud Computing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Enterprise Single Sign-On: The Holy Grail of Computing
- Today's heterogeneous enterprise means a dramatic increase in the number of identities and passwords we use to transact business. The challenge is to keep costs down while tracking, auditing, managing and controlling identities and passwords. Enterprise single sign-on SSO is the answer. SSO manages the...
- Tags: Holy Grail, Computing, Single Sign-on, Quest Software Inc., Identity, Authentication/Encryption, Security
- White papers 2008-02-27
- Dell wants to sell you systems, but the Holy Grail may be managing them
- Dell is more than happy to sell you well-designed notebooks with neat colors and work its corporate connections to boost sales. But it's becoming increasingly obvious that Dell's future is lightweight software and managing the gear it sells you as a service. The acquisition of MessageOne on...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Holy Grail, EqualLogic, ASAP Software, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Emerging Technologies, Management, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Verdiem gives you more power over your power consumption. And, inquiring minds wonder whether power management might not be Vista's holy grail?
- Did you know that PCs and computer monitors account for roughly 13 percent of the total electricity used each year by commercial enterprises? That statistic from the Department of Energy, which actually is pretty outdated at this point, is just one of the arguments used by power management software company...
- Tags: Power Management, Data Center, Holy Grail, Power Consumption, Microsoft Windows Vista, Verdiem, Electricity Consumption, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- Search for Holy Grail may be nearing success
- Search for Holy Grail may be nearing successJust the tip of the melting iceburg...as nano technology improves along with current battery technology we will start to see lighter, deeper cycle and more powerful batteries. Keep at it!Green America is a reality we can see in our lifetime. ]:)
- Tags: Engineering, Holy Grail
- Discussion threads 2007-09-19
- Search for Holy Grail may be nearing success
- The Holy Grail may be within reach. That would be a sturdy, cheap, rechargable and recyclable battery for American-made hybrid cars if you are a believer in the religion of American enterprise. Today Michael Kanellos blogged about EnerDel, in the auto heartland of Indiana, which is aiming to...
- Tags: Holy Grail, Battery, EnerDel, Thay, U.S. National Renewable Energy, USNREL, Engineering, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- Is Vista stupid (or is it me)?
- Is Vista stupid or is it me?Why? Is stupidity reserved only for big things?;^)It's stupid IMO - and it's not restricted to a single drive - it affects all of the drives I regularly use.Just because it's a small issue doesn't make it unqualified for the label.Interesting that you have...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Windows Vista, USB flash drive, operating system, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPod, Holy Grail, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-12
- Java may be free under GPL -- but end-to-end development remains the holy grail
- Java may be free under GPL -- but end-to-end development remains the holy grailSweeeetI can see some very interesting opportunities here for just for example $EMPLOYER. Our suite of embedded-application dev tools has mostly avoided Java until now because it was too "heavy" for most of our applications --...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Programming languages, OPEN SOURCE, tool, Java, IDE, SDK, GPL, Holy Grail
- Discussion threads 2006-11-13
- Java may be free under GPL -- but end-to-end development remains the holy grail
- While an open-sourcing of Java ME under a GPL license has exciting implications for hardware vendors to ease the porting of JVMs, other announcements today offers developers ease in crossing the gap between enterprise-class development and the exploding market for device-level development. It turns out Eclipse as an end-to-end development...
- Tags: Open Source, Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, DSO, Application Lifecycle Management, Mobile, Embedded, IDEs, Developer Tools, Sun Microsystems, Software Development, Eclipse, Linux, Enterprise Java, Agile Development, Java, GPL
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- Windows Vista to 'freeze dry' PCs before patching
- Windows Vista to 'freeze dry' PCs before patchingBeen doing this with *nix for years~Obviously Microsoft is behind the curb on this one~Windows 2003 SP1 Already Has Hot-PatchingThe fact that they're moving this already-used technology to their new product isn't news.Holy grail[i]"The Holy Grail is total hands-off patching,"[/i]No, the Holy Grail...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Holy Grail, Microsoft Corp., operating system, Linux, PC
- Discussion threads 2005-09-02
- Profitability Analysis: Not the Elusive Quest for the Holy Grail
- The "Holy Grail" of corporate performance management is profitability. Just as there are many pitfalls in any quest, the search for understanding profitability can be fraught with peril, most significantly by that alluring concept of revenue. Sophisticated businesses understand that revenue needs to be analyzed, assessed and allocated in order...
- Tags: Holy Grail, Applix Inc., Analysis, Financial Services
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Resilient: Making processes into objects
- Resilient: Making processes into objectsTypo?Funny it says Commentary on the top where I believe someone should have written Advertisement.Holy Grail ... Holy Merde?????"Pursuing the Holy Grail of enterprise software is much easier if you use Microsoft infrastructure and tools instead of building your own." A lazy, frightening, foolish...
- Tags: Funny IT, Holy Grail
- Discussion threads 2004-07-13
- Gates: Some 'holy grails' to be found within decade
- Gates: Some 'holy grails' to be found within decadeAt the Gartner Symposium/ITExpo in San Diego, Microsoft's Bill Gates discusses how innovations such as reliable speech recognition software will succeed in the next 10 years.
- Tags: Holy Grail
- Videos 2004-03-30
- Warcraft III - AR: PicNic for the Holy Grail movie (Windows)
- This is the AR: PicNic for the Holy Grail movie for Warcraft III. It requires the Frozen Throne Expansion pack to use.
- Tags: Holy Grail, Movie, Microsoft Windows, Gal Weisberg
- Software downloads 2003-11-03
- Cecraft Pinball: Crystal Caliburn 1.00 (Mobile)
- Crystal Caliburn is the 4th of CECRAFT Pinball series, which is also the 2nd release of LittleWing's solid state pinball series. Crystal Caliburn was designed to be a '80s style pinball. The main features of '80s style pinball are three dimensional ramps and speedy ball movement. 12 Knights of the...
- Tags: Holy Grail, Mobile, Feature, Crystal Caliburn
- Software downloads 2002-12-03
- Tyneside College Achieves 'Holy Grail' in Teaching by Personalising Education for Every Student
- Monkseaton Language College wanted new technology to link student records with other IT systems in the school and secure access to its servers from thousands of external users to achieve the following: Integration of all systems and information about students into a dynamic database; To use that integrated data for...
- Tags: Education, Holy Grail, Student, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Servers, Directory Services, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software
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