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- Update: ZFS will be in Leopard--sort of
- InformationWeek is reporting that contrary to prior reports, a version of ZFS will be included in Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard.Brian Croll, senior director of Mac OS X product marketing, previously said that ZFS is "not happening" for Leopard. Now Croll is clarifying what he meant by "not happening":"ZFS...
- Tags: Sun, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
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- Putting Workday on SAP's radar
- Now that SAP's SaaS project Business ByDesign has gone on the back burner, I've been wondering how I'm going to pass the time next week at SAPPHIRE Berlin. One thing I'll be asking the enterprise software giant is how it feels about losing out to SaaS startup Workday for a...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Radar, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Workday lands big Flextronics deal
- Flextronics will install Workday's on-demand human capital management software for 200,000 employees. According to InformationWeek, Workday beat out SAP and Oracle for Flextronics business in what Mary Hayes Weier described as tipping point deal for SaaS. Workday also won a 26,000 employee deal with Chiquita. ...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- No Office 2007 for UK classrooms?
- InformationWeek is reporting on new complaints from the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency BECTA against Microsoft's lack of support for open standards. Now that OOXML has been adopted as an ISO standard, it's hard to say where this will go; however, the agency makes the case for steering...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- New AMD Opterons are good news for schools
- AMD, a company that has been struggling to compete meaningfully with Intel in the last year, announced new "highly efficient" quad-core processors for blade and rack servers. With energy costs increasing drastically and no relief in sight, schools looking to shave costs, as well as green their IT departments,...
- Tags: Desktop, Data Center, Performance, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Thin Clients, Performance Management, Storage Management, Storage, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Components, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- McAfee's HackerSafe: When all else fails, rebrand it!
- Not to beat a dead horse, that's already been beaten to death time and time again, but... Update 05/12/08: Russ McRee has actually just posted a story about "Why PCI DSS is Doomed". Came across this page on McAfee's site about their "McAfee Secure", "McAfee...
- Tags: Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns abound
- NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns aboundGluteus maximus I suspect you mean ;-)Unless America has its own stupid version of that too.RE: NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns aboundEmjoyed the English (and correct spelling ;)) of the glutus maximus area.Boo WhooI should feel bad the media is being...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Yahoo! Inc., media, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Four Reasons To Skip Web Conferences
- Remember when PowerPoints were first created how we were flooded with every special effect in the PowerPoint pail? Text would come swooping in from the right. Clip art would fade-in out of thin air. Sometimes, I would get downright dizzy watching the damn show. The only...
- Tags: Microsoft PowerPoint, Web Conferencing, Internet, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- More bad news for McAfee, HackerSafe certification
- Dan Godin posted a great article that was picked up by The Register a couple days ago about continued challenges for McAfee's newly purchased HackerSafe division. I find the article interesting as HackerSafe uses a scanning tool that probes for web application security flaws... of course, tools are limited in...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Security, Certification, Vulnerability, XSS, HackerSafe, Godin, Goodin, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Psystar: Apple's terms violate U.S. monopoly laws
- Psystar, a Miami-based OEM which is now offering OS X on generic PC hardware, claims that Apple's restrictive licensing terms violates U.S. monopoly laws. Whoa, bold claim there. Better have some deep pockets if the company wants to take the fight to court. In an interview with...
- Tags: EULA, Apple Inc., Psystar, Monopoly Law, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Who won CyberStorm II?
- The only question that mattered during an RSA Con session on the government's cyberwar game, CyberStorm II was asked by a typical sort of fellow at these things -- " a pony-tailed RSA attendee, presumably a security pro," as InformationWeek described: "Was there a...
- Tags: Team, RSA Security Inc., Team Management, Games, Management, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- 1.6GHz processor and 2GB of RAM not enough for Mac OS X?!?!
- 1.6GHz processor and 2GB of RAM not enough for Mac OS X?!?!You are being mean[i]If the MacBook Air really isn’t up to web browsing and email, then maybe this system should ship with a Vista Capable or should that be Vista Incapable sticker on it.[/i]Mean, but absolutely hilarious!!!! :)Maybe [url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=399]...
- Tags: Memory, Notebooks, Desktops, Mac OS X?!?, RAM, MBA, processor, Apple Mac OS, Jason, notebook, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- Can the Microsoft cathedral really do business with the open-source bazaar?
- It sounds like the "show-down" between Senior Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith and a panel of open-source backers at the Open Source Business Conference OSBC on March 25 didn't plow any new ground. Smith extended the same olive branch that Microsoft has been holding aloft,...
- Tags: GPL, Patent, Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- JuicyCampus, free speech, and personal responsibility
- JuicyCampus, free speech, and personal responsibilityOn ending anonymity.When people write about ending anonymity, I always wonder how something like that could be accomplished. For example, how does any social site, forum, what-have-you actually _verify_ the information I give to them? Sure, they can log an IP address, but...
- Tags: INTERNET, Workforce management, JuicyCampus, personal responsibility
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- Voice over SOA sounds promising -- will vendors deliver?
- Can SOA add automation and intelligence to the way calls and other communications are routed throughout the enterprise? This may be the next great frontier for SOA -- and, at long last, a tangible benefit of architecture for the business. Digital communications, enhanced by SOA ...
- Tags: Business Process, Voice, Communications Server, Server, SOA, Microsoft Corp., David Greenfield, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- Should software be patented? This site would like the practice stopped
- Should software be patented? This site would like the practice stoppedNo, no, a thousand times noLet's put it this way. I'm a small software innovator. And I do mean innovator: I'm on my fourth startup, and every one of them has been in the business of producing stuff that is...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Games, Microsoft Corp., patent, software, innovator, game
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- Yahoo says no to Microsoft: what's next?
- Yahoo says no to Microsoft: what's next?Yahoo knows that MS will pay more, they are in no hurry. The price willrise to over 60 billion. Microsoft is desperate.LeverageWho can leverage that amount of money? Too few domestic companies would risk it, however, overseas is another story--pleanty of concerns have...
- Tags: Investment, Outsourcing, Financial accounting, MICROSOFT JUST, MSFT, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-09
- Ballmer%27s+swan+song
- Ballmer%27s+swan+songBetter keep your tin hat onI thought you would have had enough from the last blog you did on this.Anti-Trust Oversight / Kibosh?[url=http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206100319]FYI[/url]Google needs the competitionGoogle needs some good competition. I'm not sure if this will result in true competition for Google, but it's not a bad thing.Having said that,...
- Tags: Western Civilization, World of Warcraft, Internet, Microsoft Corp., Ballmer%27s+swan+song, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Would+a+Microsoft%2FYahoo%21+deal+mean+more+junk+and+OS+bloat%3F++Probably
- Would+a+Microsoft%2FYahoo%21+deal+mean+more+junk+and+OS+bloat%3F++ProbablySAAS is EvilYou know where I lay the blame for this? Google. They made SaaS incredibly sexy and this has resulted in all of the big players wanting to cash in. As a result, the future of computing is moving toward online services and advertising. Call...
- Tags: Operating systems, Google Inc., SAAS, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Pidgin, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Yahoo! buy would give Microsoft ownership of open source e-mail, projects, code. Ugh.
- Yahoo! buy would give Microsoft ownership of open source e-mail, projects, code. Ugh.Open source people should man/woman up and pay for what they useOpen source folks... stop being stingy and pay for what you received. Nothing in life is feel and you should stop trying to leave on a free...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
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