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OPC Servers Integrator 2.0 (Windows)

OPC Servers Integrator OPCSI integrates OPC servers in a networked environment by a set of COM objects and interfaces, and a chunck of shared memory. It offers a tool for OPC programming and serves as a middelware for application development. It includes a configuration utility to help configure your OPC...

Tags: Utility, New Century Technologies, Software Development, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Development Tools, Middleware, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems

Software downloads 2009-05-25

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Are you using Joomla! yet? Why the heck not?

One of my big projects over the last month, aside from taking care of a c-sectioned wife and new daughter, was rebuilding our district's website in Joomla. The short-term goal is, of course, to just make our web presence far more user-friendly and attractive. The long-term goal, however,...

Tags: Web, Content Management System, Joomla, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-12-01

ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall

Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Network technology, ChromeOS, netbook, fiber

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 public betas now available for download

Microsoft still firmly planted in the LAST century.NTLinux Kernel speaks?Hmmm, I'd fear for the future of Linux if this is what comes out of it. You'd think the "many eyes" would have caught such silly logic in the kernel years ago...and looking ready to dominate this oneas well.Google is...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, public beta, Microsoft SharePoint, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Office suites, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary

This month marks the centenary of Management guru Peter Drucker's birth, and the Harvard Business Review - the Vogue magazine of management fashions - has a terrific section devoted to his legacy and ideas this month. The paper version is a keeper. Drucker's...

Tags: Performance, Knowledge, Drucker, John Hagel, Knowledge Stock, Lloyd, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Enterprise 2.0: What do we know today about moving our organizations into the 21st century?

Enterprise 2.0 ROIDion - An extremely interesting article. As a vendor of social software, we're often exposed to an intriguing mix of the trends that you've outlined above. In particular, we've noticed that those common internal advocates you mentioned (e.g. corporate communications, knowledge management) are already sold on the benefits...

Tags: Sales force management, Enterprise 2.0, E 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

U.S. unemployment rate highest in 26 years, at 10.2%

Misinterpreted numbers..."In October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million."That's not 190,000. The 190,000 is non-farm payroll decrease, which doesn't include farm workers or self-employed persons who have hung it up.Maybe we need a NEW "New Deal?"Remember the 3 R's of Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal?"...

Tags: Operational accounting, Personal finance, FDR, Common-sense, unemployment rate, New Deal, Obama, Reagan

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Why Google released Closure Tools

another nail in M$ coffinIt seems Google is second to FSF to send M$ to its grave.You are an idiot....First of all did you even read the article...Not only the article makes no senselike your idiotic rant aggainst MS but it contains several errors.AJAX is javascript and is not unique...

Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, tool, Rhino, JavaScript, Java, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

The really inconvenient truth: real price of our energy

A different take"Economics and business have a notoriously short-sighted, narrow-minded set of considerations. Haven?t we just re-learned that ancient lesson from the hedge funder corruption and the phoney mortgage miasma?"What lesson did you learn? Did these markets fail or did government intervention in market operations corrupted them? Why are tax...

Tags: Inconvenient Truth

Discussion threads 2009-10-17

Google gets more aggressive than Microsoft at moving users off IE 6

Could be a great product, and a great way for companies to keep IE6 forcompatibility reasons, but, pack a modern browser for modern websites. And, for all those users that still think that IE is the Internet, adding a Google plugin might just be the easiest way to get them...

Tags: Web browsers, Web site development, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE8

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Students vs. Google Apps vs. Office Web Apps

Buyer bewareBefore people get too excited about Office Web Apps, they need to remember that:- Google's strength comes from its ability to create quality, innovative products, based on open standards. Google has even established the "Data Liberation Front" (http://www.dataliberation.org/), to make it easy to migrate user data in & out...

Tags: cloud computing, Google Inc., Office Web Apps, Office Web, Web application, Microsoft Office, Google Apps, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Course Credits as a Reward for Collaboration

Distance learning -  providing access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and/or distance -  has been around since the dawn of postal delivery services. In the current economic climate further education seems likely to take...

Tags: Education, Distance Learning, Collaboration, Training, Enrollment, Straighterline, Employee Orientation Training Day, E-learning, Training And Certification, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-06

Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in New York City

Developers, developers, developers, developers... [nt][nt]Here's to that rounding error getting smaller:DRE: Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in New York CitySweet! Wish I could be there to see it. Who knows, maybe something will come up in NYC and I'll be there.RE: Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in...

Tags: Chipsets, Branding, developer, Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, Gigabyte Technology, motherboard, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

2010 Volvo XC60

Photo gallery:2010 Volvo XC60Volvo's emphasis on safety goes back deep into the last century, with innovations such as safety cages, child door locks, and the three-point seatbelt. That emphasis hasn't changed in the digital era--the 2010 Volvo XC60 takes advantage of electronics for high-tech safety solutions. Although it incorporates past...

Tags: Leadership, Volvo, Volvo XC60, navigation system

Product reviews 2009-07-28

A success story out of Florida

Before I left on vacation (I'm back, by the way and officially jacked in...Go WiFi!), I asked what all of you were doing this summer. I heard from and got a few ideas from a tech coordinator out in Oregon. A couple days ago, I heard from a...

Tags: Certification, Professional Development, Student, Academy, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-18

Global Collaboration Competitive Success: Old Dogs, New Tricks & The Shift Index

The above CNBC video of John Hagel Deloitte Center for the Edge discusses the huge problem of applying old business thinking when adopting new technology, and the scary new realities around global business competitiveness. 'Measuring the forces of long term change - the...

Tags: Collaboration, Knowledge, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-10

Has the U.S. already lost green tech to other nations?

Has the U.S. already lost green tech to other nations?No.Govt. sponsored research is only a big edge for products where the government is the customer (nuclear bombs, stealth jets, tanks, etc.)When the market decides that green products and tech is desirable, then a market with less government baggage will produce...

Tags: COMPANIES, green technology, government

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

What do Green IT, the economic crisis, and best selling author, Thomas Friedman, have in common? Poor accounting

Consider the following questions posed by Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and author of The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, and more recently, Hot, Flat And Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How it Can Renew America: “Was it an...

Tags: Accounting, Friedman's Inc., Financial, PC, Information Technology, Environment, Green IT, Economic Crisis, Printing, Strategy, Management, Doug Washburn

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Coal: more on the fall-out

Coal: more on the fall-outCoal is not perfect......but right now it is what we have. I used to live down there in SW Colorado, and have seen first hand the effects of living near large coal fired power plants. I used to fish in those lakes, until the...

Tags: breeder

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Building a vision for Government 2.0

Government 2.0 isn't waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation's first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he...

Tags: Web, Citizen, Web 2.0, Vision, Vivek Kundra, Government, Vertical Industries, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-03