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- Open source should support Apple over Psystar
- What is at the heart of open source? Contracts. The BSD and GPL licenses are contracts, which people freely enter into before they agree to download. Apple's EULA is the same sort of thing. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: GPL, EULA, Apple Inc., Principles, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Architecture Principles: Creating the Foundation for Robust Architecture
- This paper discusses the role of principles in developing an architecture, whether it is a reference architecture, an application architecture, or one of the other architecture types. Architecture is a complex effort that must balance the needs of the business with the reality of how technology can support it. Principles...
- Tags: Architecture, Principles, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-03-27
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- SOA: it's only rocket science
- What can go wrong with SOA? Let me count the ways. Better yet, Miko Matsumura, Bjoern Brauel, and Jignesh Shah, all with SoftwareAG, have done the counting for us, in a new book that shows how to overcome various SOA issues, called "SOA Adoption for Dummies." (Available...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Can Facebook do anything without raising a ruckus?
- Facebook rolls out what appears to be a fine move: Verify applications are trustworthy and validate them. I could use the help given I don't download a lot of Facebook apps since a lot of them would be described as crap. But this seemingly straightforward effort has raised a ruckus...
- Tags: Facebook, Pricing, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- New carbon monitoring resources available via the Web
- If one of your near-year-end resolutions is to build out the carbon and greenhouse gas emissions reporting for your company, there are a couple of new resources that have been released in the past week. First off, Sun Microsystems has updated the tools that are available on...
- Tags: Web, Monitoring, Greenhouse Gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Five things you should know about virtualization [video]
- If you're not working with virtualization today, you likely will be. Whether it's through consolidating a data center, deploying software appliances or streaming applications, virtualization will bring dramatic change to IT over the next decade. In last week's Sanity Savers for IT Executives episode, Jason Hiner outlined...
- Tags: Information Technology, Video, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Election Day '08: Where to get live results
- Election Day '08: Where to get live resultsthose are all biased toward obamawatch the real news atwww.johnmccain.comor www.foxnews.comThe rest are unreliable or in bed with the liberals.RE: Election Day '08: Where to get live resultsKudos to the first person who responded, obviously an intelligent and well informed voter. To the...
- Tags: Well Let, Election Day, John McCain
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
- Enough already with the Luddite schools
- Enough already with the Luddite schoolsI think middle school is better for tech than primary.I would rather see hand written reports up to and including 4th grade. Technology is great but so far cognitive scientists have not created a device that rivals the human brain. If you don't develop all...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Recruitment & Selection, public school
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Software and business method patents take a hit
- Software and business method patents take a hitIf you want to see technology take off...completely do away with patents and copyrights. Once you free new technology to be improved by all and not just its owner, technology will finally reach its potential.Good news for technology consultantsThe biggest winners from...
- Tags: Patent Reform, software, patent
- Discussion threads 2008-11-01
- ITIL® Service Lifecycle: Service Design
- View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, you will be immersed in the overall concepts, processes, policies, and methods associated with the Service Design phase of the Service Lifecycle. You will cover management and control of the activities and techniques within the Service Design stage, not the...
- Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, E-mail, Business Operations, Online Communications
- Training 2008-11-01
- ITIL® Service Lifecycle: Continual Service Improvement
- View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, you will be immersed in the overall concepts, processes, policies, and methods associated with the Continual Service Improvement CSI phase of the Service Lifecycle. The course covers the management and control of the activities and techniques within the CSI stage,...
- Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., Course, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, E-mail, Business Operations, Online Communications
- Training 2008-11-01
- ITIL® Service Lifecycle: Service Strategy
- View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, you will be immersed in the overall concepts, processes, policies, and methods associated with the Service Strategy phase of the Service Lifecycle. You'll focus on managing and controlling the activities and techniques within the Service Strategy stage, not the detail...
- Tags: Strategy, Global Knowledge Network Inc., ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, E-mail, Business Operations, Online Communications
- Training 2008-11-01
- A better way to do legacy software
- One of our middle school teachers runs a great technology education program. He covers everything from basic tools to electronics to biomedical engineering to CAD. The kids enjoy the class and they get a very broad survey of the real scope of technology. A major component of...
- Tags: Lab, Microsoft Windows 98, CAD, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Doing business in repressive regimes: Big Internet companies agree to some rules
- After years of criticism for their willingness to collaborate with the Chinese government in exchange for a piece of the nation's huge supply of Internet users, the Big Three Internet companies have come up with a voluntary set of principles for doing business in repressive conditions. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Internet Company, Internet, Government, Richard Koman, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Google Android vulnerable to drive-by browser exploit
- Google Android vulnerable to drive-by browser exploit"somewhat limited"?[i]A successful attacker will have access to any information the browser may use, such as cookies used for accessing sites, .....However, they can not control other, unrelated aspects of the phone, such as dialing the phone directly[/i]At least if my phone was dialing,...
- Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Ryan, Google Inc., browser exploit, Google Android, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-27
- John Galt is dead or Linus shrugs
- John Galt is dead or Linus shrugsLinux isn't a good example.It's expense reduction vs Unix for servers, funded by lower staffing costs.A better example is a product like OpenOffice.org, proprietary software given to a project as a desperation play because the former owner4 couldn't make a profit. And hopes...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Dana, Whole Community, John Galt, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Linus
- Discussion threads 2008-10-27
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture*Standing Ovation*I finally understand your "Centralization of processing and de-centralization of control" shpeel. I think we are in alignment with the latter, but not the former. I believe in an Autonomic Distributed Architecture - where every *NIX machine client and server share the same...
- Tags: Operating systems, Unix, hardware, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-10-24
- Tech's economy careens into the great unknown
- Tech's economy careens into the great unknownSo much of IT, SOA, social networking,...just to mention two, can't really prove a ROI. Those responsible for spending the IT budget are being pressured to show something but they can't. These are the IT sectors that are going to get hit first.Computers were...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Investment, social networking, information technology, software-as-a-service, Companies
- Discussion threads 2008-10-24
- Apple TV: No Juice
- One last note about Apple's fourth quarter numbers: Apple TV is providing no juice. No big surprise there. But if you look at where Apple is getting the $3.8 billion difference between its officially reported $7.9 billion of sales, under generally accepted accounting...
- Tags: Revenue, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple TV, Sales Strategy, GAAP, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Financial Accounting, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Steve Jobs to Wall Street: Apple is positioned to ride economic storm
- Steve Jobs to Wall Street: Apple is positioned to ride economic stormTru Dat!!!Pagan jimRE: Steve Jobs to Wall Street: Apple is positioned to ride economic stormAgree wholeheartedly. Fear stirred up by our lawmakers and treasury secretary is causing a recession. The recession will last until the fear goes away plus...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Financial accounting, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2008-10-22
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