Open source, IT jobs and BI

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Aug 22, 20052 mins

Open source: Leaders of the Apache project start WSO2 to inject more Web services support into the open source Web server, while the Debian Common Core Alliance wants to bring its open source products into compliance with the Linux Standard Base. Sun makes its DRM software available under the CDDL.

From the feature well: This morning’s top story looks at a new crop of IT managers, and how some of the most prominent IT leaders got where they are today. Hint: they didn’t all begin writing code, or even having anything to do with IT. Take Mike Blake. He started out as an MBA accountant. Now CFO of IT at Kaiser Permanente, Blake, like others interviewed for the article, “bridges the gap between technology and finance,” and ultimately this new breed serves as “diplomats between the geeks and the suits.”

The news beat: At the Intel Developer Forum this week, Intel will detail its new chip architecture with a focus on cool — temperatures, that is. Not to be forgotten, rival AMD this morning took the wraps off two new low-power-consumption 64-bit Turion mobile chips. On the software side, Microsoft releases the second preview of its Acrylic graphic design tool.

Hot product review: The InfoWorld Test Center dives into Tableau Professional Edition 1.0, and finds its ease of acquisition, deployment and maintenance to be “intoxicating.”