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- ProtoTest readying open source commercial alternative to IBM Rational, HP's mercury tools
- ProtoTest readying open source commercial alternative to IBM Rational, HP's Mercury toolsNice start, but...Competition is always good, but I checked this out and it has a looooong way to go to really put any pressure on the paid products. Good to finally see some open source stuff in this...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, ProtoTest, open source, Mercury, IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., tool
- Discussion threads 2008-03-27
- MB Free Zodiac Communication Sign (exe)
- MB Free Zodiac Communication Sign describes your characteristics based on the placement of Mercury in your birth chart. Mercury is a planet which is considered to be the planet of Communication. This sign describes your communication abilities, thinking and learning capabilities. This sign also shows your decision making skills. This...
- Tags: Planet, Decision-making, MB Free Zodiac Communication Sign, Mercury, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-02-13
- Antibacterial paint is on the horizon
- Antibacterial paint is on the horizonSounds good butwill it just be churning out more resistant bacteria?Probably notThe action of silver on bacteria is quite different from the action of anti-bacterial medical agents on bacteria. I'd compare it to mercury. I don't think people are going to become immune to mercury...
- Tags: Real estate, bacteria, Antibacterial, mercury
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- EPA, CO2, coal and mercury
- The E.P.A. is embroiled in several crucial green tech issues right now. The newest alarm has been sounded by forces wanting the Environmental Procrastination Agency to do something about CO2 emissions from airplanes. Who are they kidding? Do something? It's a serious-enough issue, and...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, E.P.A., Airline Industry, Mercury, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- 2008 mercury Mariner Hybrid
- Photo gallery:2008 Mercury Mariner HybridFord Motor Company finally realized that if you want to sell a high-tech car, you need to put high-tech gadgets in the cabin. In truth, the highest tech feature about the 2008 Mercury Mariner Hybrid is still the hybrid power train. But the newest model gets...
- Tags: Engineering, Mariner, Mariner Hybrid, Mercury, battery, Mercury Mariner, Mercury Mariner Hybrid
- Product reviews 2007-05-16
- Lights out for conventional bulbs in California?
- Lights out for conventional bulbs in California?Humming?I have CFL's throughout my home as well as at work. Although my hearing may not be that good, I have never heard them hum nor have I heard anyone complain about it.As for the environmental concerns of temperature and humidity, not as big...
- Tags: Engineering, CFL, mercury
- Discussion threads 2007-01-31
- Cheaper LEDs to light a green path?
- Cheaper LEDs to light a green path?Color Will Be the IssueThe problem with fluorescent and other forms of energy-efficient lighting is the color and flicker and how it they effect the eye. If they can adjust these to properly emulate the common light bulb, or better yet, the Sun, then...
- Tags: Engineering, sunlight, light-emitting diode, mercury
- Discussion threads 2007-01-19
- Images: mercury transits the sun
- Mercury passes between the Earth and the sun only 13 times per century and the next time is on Nov. 8.
- Tags: Mercury, Earth
- Image galleries 2006-11-07
- HP's mercury acquisition fortells changes for SOA infrastructure
- As Dan Farber mentioned earlier this week, HP acquired Mercury. Not long ago, of course, Mercury acquired Systinet, who's product line includes a very capable SOA registry (I reviewed Systinet's registry last year for InfoWorld.) This makes the HP acquisition very interesting from...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mercury, Systinet Corp., SOA
- Blog posts 2006-07-28
- HP bids $4.5bn for mercury for lead in IT center management tools
- HP bids $4.5bn for Mercury for lead in IT center management toolsHP/Mercury Merger Is Good For SOAThis is a big move for HP. The points of interest are two-fold:1 - from the technology perspective, I see increased convergence of testing, network monitoring and management, and governance. This is much bigger...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, information technology, points of interest, SOA, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mercury
- Discussion threads 2006-07-26
- HP's bold purchase of mercury ups the SOA governance ante
- HP's bold purchase of Mercury ups the SOA governance anteGreat news but not SOA fast...HP, Mercury and Systinet now provide a strong solution for governance, monitoring and testing. This is good news for customers looking to embrace SOA to manage and simplify the complexity in their environments. The next step...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, Mercury, SOA governance, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2006-07-26
- HP to acquire mercury
- HP to acquire MercuryYaaawwwnnn!*smack, smack, stretch* .......Beware of serial acquisitorsFor a company whose slogan is "Invent", HP sure buys a lot of companies. Leads me to believe that they now pay only lipservice to R&D.Gee, so is it 5.4 or 4.5 billion?Headline says 5.4, story says 4.5. Tell...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Mercury, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2006-07-25
- Keeping time with a mercury atom
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST has announced that a new experimental atomic clock based on a single mercury atom is now at least five times more precise than NIST-F1, the U.S. standard clock. This mercury atomic clock "would neither gain nor lose a second in about 400...
- Tags: NIST, atom, mercury
- Blog posts 2006-07-15
- mercury goes shopping--HP and EMC nowhere to be seen
- Rumors have been swirling the HP or EMC would acquire Mercury Interactive, but for now the company is continuing on its own buying binge. "It's further evidence that we want to be the acquiring company as opposed to the acquired company," Christopher Lochhead, Mercury chief marketing officer, told me today...
- Tags: Mercury Interactive Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-06-13
- mercury automates change control management
- I hear a lot about change control these days. During the Churchill Club CIO panel discussion last week, Randall Spratt, CIO of McKesson Corp., talked about the quality of the change management function as an indicator of whether an IT project will succeed or fail. Enterprises are constantly making application,...
- Tags: Mercury Interactive Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
- mercury expects boost from IBM's Cell blade
- Mercury expects boost from IBM's Cell bladeand now for some real newsIt's a shame ZDNET doesn't come up with these stories , MPAA gets caught doing what they tell others not to do . http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060124-6036.htmlUnfortunate that it tuns Linux.Not that Linux is bad or anything but I am hoping to...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, IBM AIX, MPAA, Linux, IBM Cell, Mercury, blade, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-02-11
- mercury catapults role of governance with Systinet acquisition
- With the just-announced pending purchase of Systinet, Mercury has begun joining traditional application development and deployment governance with the higher-abstraction SOA policy-based governance. This should lead to a powerful central-yet-flexible source for managing policy and governance information across an entire enterprise, something that has been sorely missing. ...
- Tags: Mercury, Systinet Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-01-09
- Planet mercury 3D Screensaver (exe)
- Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, and the second-smallest planet in the solar system. It is about the same size as our Moon and their cratered surfaces actually have much in common. Mercury travels around the Sun faster than any other planet. It can only be seen from...
- Tags: Planet, Mercury
- Software downloads 2006-01-05
Additional Resources
- HP's bid for EDS: Opportunity costs loom
- The debate around Hewlett-Packard's purchase of Electronic Data Systems follows three primary questions. Is the EDS acquisition another Compaq--a deal that will take years to pay off? Is EDS the right acquisition for HP? Are there other places where HP should spend its money? HP on Tuesday...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Dennis, Tools & Techniques, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Psystar: Just how loud is it? (updated 2x)
- Today was my second day with my spankin' new Psystar Open Computer. Following are some observations. I don't have a wireless card in it yet and my desk is too far away from my router to string an Ethernet cable, so I'm offline for the...
- Tags: Database Administrator, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
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