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Let's see if anyone can make sense of these quotes from BEA (as reported by Paul Krill.) It never ceases to amaze how big companies manage to talk out both sides of their mouth and other orifices all at the same time. BEA likes open source BEA S
Apologies to Lorraine for accidentally publishing the questions from my interview before she did--I didn't realize that I had rambled so much that she put it into 2 pieces! Check out her blog today about Biz Talk Server which makes a good point-
Remember when IBM's claim to fame was a special server port through which the company could "jack in" to troubled systems and work its magic from a thousand miles away? Well, that idea hasn't gone away. If anything, open source, w
Shaun Connolly at JBoss has a post about "What's in a Subscription". Shaun states: "Put simply, a Subscription is comprised of: 1. Software bits 2. Patches and updates to the bits 3. Support in the use of the bits 4. Legal assuran
Whenever we have seminars or events on performance tuning of MySQL we always get a good crowd. We've got two performance tuning seminars in the afternoons next week in DC and Boston on Tuesday and Wednesday. There are also morning sessions targe
I just read the JS post about the continuing rise of OpenOffice.org. Why do vendors like Sun, IBM (officially now), Google, etc. support OO.o? Well, providing customer choice and openness are two of the key reasons quoted. These are definitely great
I've never seen as much feedback on my blog as the earlier post on the iPod Touch from earlier today. So I thought I'd add some fuel to the fire... Part of Apple's announcements last week include a $200 price cut on the iPhone. While m
Microsoft just announced the release of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (note to Microsoft, it's nearly 2008) which apparently is the cornerstone of their SOA strategy (please insert Nelson Muntz Ha-ha! related to MS and SOA.) The availability of BizTalk
While this is admittedly a bit off topic from Linux ultra-portables, Apple's recently released iPod Touch is an interesting device. Its by no means a general purpose portable, but it does appear to be a pretty good "special purpose" de
After reading through some of your comments in response to last week's post on Microsoft's apparently unholy alliance with Novell, I felt a bit as though I'd been dropped into an episode of "The Odd Couple." You know the plot