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Weekend bits: BEA, executive moves, the triple header

Sitting at O'Hare airport in Chicago, subject to another United Airlines delay, I found a few tidbits worth sharing before I board the place for San Francisco. On the heels of its annual user conference, BEA investor and so-called corporate raider Carl Ichan is pushing for a...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., BEA Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Six Apart Ltd., Technology, Legacy Application, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-15

ESBs: useless as a human appendix?

ESBs: useless as a human appendix?PlumbingSinks and faucets may be what users perceive as holding value or rather what comes out of the faucet but without the plumbing, they're useless. At least an ESB provides the starting point for value in a tangible way where, as you say, SOA is...

Tags: Middleware, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Message Queues, legacy application, Enterprise Service Bus, faucet, e-mail, SOA

Discussion threads 2007-08-24

Four questions to ask before putting SOA 'lipstick' on that legacy 'pig'

SOA is a great strategy for surfacing legacy functionality into newer environments, but it has its limits. There are, quite frankly, many legacy applications that are beyond help. Mike Oara, CTO and co-founder of Relativity Technologies, had some interesting thoughts on my recent post on the efficacy of service-enabling legacy...

Tags: Web services, Development tools, SOA, legacy application, Web service, Web

Blog posts 2007-03-19

SOA on legacy: lipstick on a pig, or extended value?

SOA on legacy: lipstick on a pig, or extended value?SOA on legacy: reuse or not reuse, that is the questionWhile agreeing with Joe McKendrick's entry on "SOA and legacy," I would like to add a few observations.There is a maxim in the software development world: Good programmers write good code,...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, legacy application, Web service, SOA, Web

Discussion threads 2007-03-14

Making Vista run legacy applications is easy

Well looks like I need to bust another myth about Vista not being able to run legacy applications. Mary Jo Foley writes that Virtual PC might theoretically give Vista a way to run all those legacy applications that will break in Windows Vista. Mary Jo opened her blog...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista

Blog posts 2006-10-12

Will Virtual PC 2007 give Microsoft Vista app-compat wiggle room?

Will Virtual PC 2007 give Microsoft Vista app-compat wiggle room?Not goodAny time you need a "kit" to help with compatiblity, you know you are going to have trouble.http://one.revver.com/watch/77170/format/flv/affiliate/23672I take it you never heard the word "SHIM"ntOnly if you have Volume Licensing or Multiple LicenseMS license only allows you to run...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, shim, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, legacy application, Microsoft Virtual PC, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2006-10-11

The real story on Vista application compatibility

First of all, I want to welcome Mary Jo Foley to ZDNet blogs. I've had a blast debating some of her columns within the last few years correcting her when needed. Fellow blogger Ed Bott has also debated Mary Jo Foley in a recent post where he pointed...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista

Blog posts 2006-09-21

Additional Resources

Your computer as your singing coach

Israeli researchers have developed an electronic ear to coach vibrato technique. Until now, the quality of a vibrato -- the pulsating change of pitch in a singer's voice -- could only be judged by voice experts. Now, a Tel Aviv University research team 'has successfully managed to train a computer...

Tags: Researcher, Quality, Teacher, Computer, TAU, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-05

Internet abuse and Cloud Computing

A recent uproar in the right wing blogosphere about the shutdown of anti-Obama sites on blogger.com has some serious implications for those considering cloud computing. What seems to have happened there was a simple, if pernicious, denial of service attack carried out for political reasons - but there's not much...

Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Blog, Blogging, Internet, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-07-05

Weekend Gadget Guidance: Sync files between computers over the Web, free

Freeware application and Web service Dropbox instantly backs up and syncs your files over the Internet and to any Windows or Mac computer. Once you install the application, it will create a Dropbox folder on your hard drive. Any file you put inside that folder will sync...

Tags: Web, File, Computer, Dropbox Web Interface, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Use Google Talk on your iPhone/Touch

Google just released a new version of Google Talk that works on the iPhone and iPod Touch. It's pretty nice looking, and it works well to boot. To use the new application, point your Safari browser to www.google.com/talk. You might want to put a bookmark on your...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Talk, Apple Safari, Web Browsers, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers

Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...

Tags: CAPTCHA, MSN Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc., Spammer, HIP Character, E-mail Providers, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Helpdesks and productivity

Helpdesks and productivityGood start, and then...You lost it.1980 CalledThey want their mainframes back. :DWhy don't you explain your present value...calculation. Do you even know what present value means? What time period are we talking?Huh?You imply that on a Sun Ray platform the only problems are the applications or how they...

Tags: Call centers, help desk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, PC

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Huge Small File (zip)

This is a freeware application which creates fake huge files on a NTFS disk which can be shared using common file sharing clients like DC++. Using Huge Small File you can safely share legal content. partitions.How to use it: Start the application on NTFS partition and press on the Generate...

Tags: Freeware, NTFS, Disk, File-sharing, Free Soft, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet

Software downloads 2008-07-03

Flash Games (exe)

This is a freeware application which contains 700 flash games. Features: using Flash Games you can add new flash games in the program databases or you can delete unwanted flash games. You can also have the possibility to send mail with played flash game or to your friends. The most...

Tags: Free Soft, Flash Games, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-07-03

Lyrics (exe)

It's a free book which contain more than 235.000 lyrics. Lyrics application integrates with Winamp. Lyrics application can read MP3 tags for played MP3 file and give you information like artist and song name. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: MP3, Lyric, Free Soft, Lyrics Application, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-07-03

PDF to Text (zip)

PDF to Text is an Windows program designed to extract text from Adobe PDF files for use in other applications. The program is a standalone application. You do not need a Adobe Acrobat installed to ocr text from pdf files. In order to extract text, the pdf file must be...

Tags: Adobe PDF, St. Andrews Software

Software downloads 2008-07-03

Metadefender Lite (zip)

Metadefender Lite provides application developers with an easy way to integrate ClamAV AntiVirus detection engine into their applications to perform real time virus scanning. Metadefender Lite uses the native port of Clam AntiVirus ClamAV. Version 1.5.62 includes several changes such as file and console logging functionality is expanded, documentation is...

Tags: Metadefender, Metadefender Lite, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-07-03

Tiff Counter (zip)

Tiff Counter is an easy to use Tiff page count application. It supports all versions of single and multi-page tiff files. Tiff counter also support tiff files which is compressed with LZW compression. Tiff counter also the known to be fastest tiff counting application for windows. Ideal for imaging bureaus...

Tags: Imaging, St. Andrews Software, Tiff Counter, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

Software downloads 2008-07-03

PDF Counter (zip)

PDF Counter is an easy to use PDF page count application. It supports all versions of single and multi-page PDF files. Just select folder containing PDF files and press COUNT PDF Files button. And PDF Counter would give you Pages of every single and multi page PDF files and also...

Tags: Adobe PDF, St. Andrews Software, PDF Counter

Software downloads 2008-07-03