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Customization: curse or blessing?

At the high end of the platform-as-a-service spectrum, there's a cluster of vendors that offer fully templated but still highly customizable business applications, targeting small to mid-size businesses and departmental managers in larger organizations. Interestingly, in a poll of ZDNet readers I ran earlier in the month asking where you'd...

Tags: Application, Curse, Platform, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, Customization, LongJump PaaS, Mike McGinn, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-03-24

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Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs

Terry Childs's lawyer, Erin Crane, offered the court some insights into the Childs' motivations in changing SF's network passwords. She will argue today for a reduction in his $5 million bail, perhaps to something closer to the bail set for common murderers ($1 mil.) In her written...

Tags: Password, Network, Backup, Terry Childs, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Apache's open source governance model

Apache's open source governance modelI give Murph a 10 on this onentMike Cox couldn't beat this one...NTIIS dominates the market, of courseThough Apache has almost half the web servers in use, the more important number is the Fortune 1000 result. There Microsoft has 55% vs Apache's 25%, with Microsoft...

Tags: open source, Microsoft IIS Server, Apache Software Foundation

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook again

Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook againApple on the MoveApple continues to impress both in unit sales and marketshare gains. It has taken Steve Jobs awhile to make significant inroads into PC marketshare, but you are now witnessing the fruits of his perseverance. If Apple only had a development...

Tags: Development tools, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

AT

ATyes, it's disappointing...first tmobile...now at&twould be nice for someone to 'get it right'. Tmobile's service really sucked and it looked hopeful when AT&T let the cat out of the sack about free wifi. I left my house with iphone in hand and dashed over to Starbucks, got my drink, sat...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Wi-Fi, TMobile

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Can XM-Sirius merger stand up to Washington politics?

Can XM-Sirius merger stand up to Washington politics?Every second they delay adds another nail to satelite radio's coffinMajor car makers will all be adding net access to all of their new vehicles soon, which will add yet another choice streaming radio for consumers.I'm not sure if streaming radio in cars...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Federal government, Sirius merger, merger, stand-up, Sirius, XM Satellite Radio Inc., FCC, radio, Sat Radio

Discussion threads 2008-07-19

SAP 'Mittelstand' customers upset at new maintenance charges

Following on from yesterday's announcement of a hike in SAP maintenance charges, the German title Computerwoche implies that the powerful 'Mittelstand' group in the German SAP user group are far from happy. Under the title: "Higher maintenance costs upset SAP customers ," Computerwoche interviewed Gunther Rheinhart, executive member of  the...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Mittelstand, Gunther Rheinhart, Auto-renew, Software As A Service (SaaS), Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'

Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'So Linus admits that there are security flaws in linux as well as other bugs? I've been saying that for a long time but the fanboys wouldn't believe me. Now that their leader finally admits to it perhaps...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, L.D., Name-calling, Linus, Torvalds, security, attack, IT industry, OpenBSD

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

SAP pulls the trigger on higher support costs

SAP pulls the trigger on higher support costsPlease be careful when you claim "paid support"Dennis, Unless you have a copy of the invoice from IDC, you shouldn't flatly state that she was paid or otherwise compensated for her quote in a press release. Bad form from an otherwise reliable...

Tags: Firewalls, Dennis, SAP AG, support cost, financial relationship, trigger

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

iPhone how to: Take screenshots on your 2.0 iPhone

iPhone how to: Take screenshots on your 2.0 iPhoneScreen snapsthanks for sharing this tip. Worked like a charm. Not sure how it works in action games. Very quickly in Bejeweled2 I was able to snap the next set of jewels coming down and the points showing. The game did not...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Take Screenshot

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

iPhone 3G succumbs to being jailbroken

iPhone 3G succumbs to being jailbrokenWhat good does it do to "jailbreak" an Iphone?Now that Apple and AT&T require the 3G Iphones to be activated in the store, it must mean that a person might be able to use another carrier, but AT&T and Apple have made their profit, at...

Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., AT&T Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare

Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmareRE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmareThe legal "Phalanx" is only one of several tools that Apple is heating in the furnace of hi-tech to fight the Cloners and maintain their iron grip on quality control of their hardware, which is their major...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, hardware, Thermopylae, clone nightmare

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

SAP pulls the trigger on higher support costs

SAP has announced that it plans to transition all customers to its new Enterprise Support offering from January 1st, 2009. SAP is pitching this as a service that adds customer value but in reality it means a cost increase. According to the press release, SAP will incrementally ratchet support costs...

Tags: SAP AG, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Corporate Governance, Construction, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Twitter going commercial?

According to Mike Arrington, there is a commercial play for Twitter in the works. During a conversation with Ev Williams, Twitter co-founder: MA: What is your revenue model? Do you know yet? Have you thought about it? EW: We've thought about it. We had...

Tags: Twitter, E-mail, Operational Accounting, Productivity, Processors, Online Communications, Finance, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Firefox 3.1 alpha 1 code freeze is next Monday

Firefox 3 has only recently shipped but the first public milestone for its successor is fast approaching.  The Mozilla team is expecting that the code freeeze for alpha 1 of Firefox 3.1, code named Shiretoko, will be next Monday and that alpha 1 be available for early adopter testing on July 25....

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Tagging, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Team, Web Browsers, Internet, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloads

Spammers announce World War III with spam emails packing malicious payloadsSorry Nate - have to disagreePlease everyone - do not "spread the word" as Nate says it - I spend more time looking up these e-mails, and then convincing people that the e-mail they got was a hoax than I...

Tags: Spam, ReceiverNet technology, spammer, World War III, spam email, malicious payload, payload

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Gallery: iPhone 3G launch at the Apple Store in Atlantic City

Atlantic City -- I arrived at the Apple Store at The Pier here today with Rob Parker at about 7:30am and we were given wrist band numbers 49 and 50 and took our places in line. I talked with the first 10 people in line and Matthew Diullio...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Atlantic City, 3G, Corporate Governance, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-11

Senate, Web ad titans joust over behavioral targeting

A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday picked apart behavioral Web advertising as executives from the likes of Google, NebuAd and Facebook touted their privacy controls and even went as far as noting that ads are good for you. The hearing before the Senate Committee on Senate Committee...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Advertisement, Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Behavioral Targeting, Service Provider, U.S. Senate, Online Advertising, Internet Service, NebuAd, Privacy Law, Tom, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Microsoft to sell hosted service subscriptions for $3 a month

Microsoft to sell hosted service subscriptions for $3 a monthWith collaberative suites like Zimbra....why pay MS a dime. Even the smallest IT departments from 1 person on up can install Zimbra on a Linux box, spend $1000 or less on the hardware(for small business, a little more fore medium size...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., service subscription

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

Ticking bombs in enterprise land

I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKenna  where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...

Tags: Software, Audit, Francine, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-07