Test Center Tracker: Leopard scores big

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Nov 26, 20072 mins

A perfect 10: Apple has achieved perfection with the release of Mac OS X, at least in the eyes of InfoWorld Chief Technologist Tom Yager. He's given the OS a bottom-line score a 10, a feat no other company has achieved (at least as far back as I can remember). "Leopard will change the way you work with computers, and entirely for the better," Yager writes. Why? Best read his review and find out. Don't venture to

A perfect 10: Apple has achieved perfection with the release of Mac OS X, at least in the eyes of InfoWorld Chief Technologist Tom Yager. He’s given the OS a bottom-line score a 10, a feat no other company has achieved (at least as far back as I can remember). “Leopard will change the way you work with computers, and entirely for the better,” Yager writes. Why? Best read his review and find out.

Don’t venture toward Vista: While Tom Yager is singing the praises of Mac OX X, Enterprise Desktop blogger Randall Kennedy has some less-than-favorable assessment of Windows Vista: “For the vast majority of enterprise IT shops, Vista is not — and likely never will be — the right choice for their immediate desktop computing needs.” Ouch. What’s his beef with Vista? Find out right here.

Scrub your Web services: Testing a SOAP-based Web service may seem simple enough — but simple, it ain’t. Tools abound to ease the task, fortunately — and Test Center Contributing Editor Rick Grehan has taken a close look at five such solutions: AdventNet’s QEngine, Crosscheck Networks SOAPSonar, iTKO’s LISA, Mindreef’s SOAPscope Server, and Parasoft’s SOAtest.Readers. He shares some great insight, differentiating the five products and pointing out their respective strengths and shortcomings. Looking to scrub you Web services clean? Then check out his review.