Opinion

Windows 7: It’s not you, it’s us. Really.

Are journalists to blame for Vista's failure to catch on? Will Windows 7 suffer a similar fate? Cringely tosses more gasoline on the OS fire.

Nov 12, 2008 4 mins

Another look at Tasktop

As Tasktop releases a new version, I (finally) realize that it is leveraging the "open core" business model that I'm a proponent of.

Nov 12, 2008 2 mins

Is SOA part of the enterprise architecture or does it replace it?

Traditional EA is more about crafting a strategy than implementing a strategy; SOA is more about doing after planning

By Dave Linthicum

Nov 12, 2008 2 mins

Does bribing an employee to stop being obnoxious make sense?

Sometimes, technical skills matter more. The challenge is foreseeing and avoiding unintended consequences.

Nov 12, 2008 3 mins

Windows 7: Vista minus the nagging

UAC in Vista is good medicine but hard to swallow; Windows 7 promises to improve the taste

By J. Peter Bruzzese

Nov 12, 2008 7 mins

Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac: speed, power, and fun

Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac gets a 50 percent speed boost and more than 50 new features and enhancements to go up against VMware's Fusion 2.0 product.

Nov 12, 2008 2 mins

SpringSource joins the Groovy club

G2One acquisition adds SpringSource to the list of vendors endorsing Groovy, but relying on a support business model for Groovy may not be the best path forward.

Nov 12, 2008 3 mins

Alfresco’s open source barometer study is poorly named

It's important to understand the survey methodology before looking at the results

Nov 11, 2008 2 mins

Guy Kawasaki on cheap startups

Find out just how little money it takes to start a web 2.0 company using open source software

Nov 11, 2008 1 min

Acresso talks AdminStudio and application virtualization

Acresso's AdminStudio offers support for Microsoft App-V, Citrix XenApp, and VMware ThinApp. So why do they focus on the application virtualization market?

Nov 11, 2008 9 mins

A manager who asks to be nagged

When your manager asks you for constant reminders, how do you get him/her to take responsibility?

Nov 11, 2008 3 mins

Corporate goodfellas and the red tape

Feuds between departments all too often create inefficient work situations

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Nov 11, 2008 4 mins

Data Management

Windows 7: Perception becomes reality

Why the Microsoft true believers remain blinded to the reality of Windows 7.

By Randall Kennedy

Nov 11, 2008 5 mins

Brazil: IT’s next India?

Brazil's IT workforce offers the business savvy and technical skills to make offshoring there a worthwhile option for IT's outsourcing needs

By Ephraim Schwartz

Nov 11, 2008 5 mins

Refusing a $20,000 gift

A reader asks for the Gripe Line's help on the opposite of insurance fraud: insurance abuse

By Christina Wood

Nov 11, 2008 3 mins

Is Jerry Yang the most clueless CEO?

Yang declares acquisition by Microsoft is the company's best option

Nov 10, 2008 2 mins

Marketing maven takes CEO role at Sonatype

Mark De Visser, previously VP of marketing at Zend and Red Hat, set to lead open source tools company

Nov 10, 2008 2 mins

My conversation with ZapThink’s Ron Schmelzer

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By Dave Linthicum

Nov 10, 2008 1 min

Vizioncore hires away former Citrix employee

Vizioncore hires away respected Xen community member Roger Baskerville to lead its EMEA push

Nov 10, 2008 2 mins

Sun’s 7000 series: The future of storage?

In the immortal words of Kent Brockman, I, for one, welcome our new storage overlords

By Paul Venezia

Nov 10, 2008 4 mins

Who will be king of the Geeks?

Very soon the nation will have its first chief technology officer. Whom should Obama appoint? Cringely shares some ideas.

Nov 10, 2008 3 mins

When the boss unexpectedly departs

When the CEO leaves the company, you're one of the company's leaders, not just IT's leader, which means you have work to do.

Nov 10, 2008 4 mins

Intel selling off VMware stock. And Leostream partners with eG Innovations.

VMware's stock has been on a wild rollercoaster ride, shooting out of the gate to the moon, only to come back down below IPO. And now, it looks like Intel is selling off part of its ownership in the virtualization giant. Long time virtualization

Nov 10, 2008 1 min

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Test Center benchmarks: Windows 7 unmasked

Measured by runtime specs and performance benchmarks, Windows 7 M3 looks like Vista, and it runs like Vista. Welcome to Windows Vista R2!

By Randall Kennedy

Nov 10, 2008 14 mins

Thank you, Eric Lawrence

The free Fiddler HTTP debugging proxy saved Martin's hide, yet again.

By Martin Heller

Nov 8, 2008 2 mins

Microsoft mania

So many Microsoft many products and initiatives, so little time. Let's dive in

By Eric Knorr

Nov 7, 2008 2 mins

Change that matters

IBM's new "Smarter Planet" vision aims to tackle the world's toughest problems.

Nov 7, 2008 4 mins

What SOA technology can learn from Windows 7

It's time for SOA to learn to align to the needs of its intended users

By Dave Linthicum

Nov 7, 2008 3 mins

Is Yahoo dead?

Thanks to the DOJ, Google has backed out of its partnership with Yahoo — leaving the No. 2 search company dangling helplessly over the jaws of Microsoft. Can it survive?

Nov 7, 2008 3 mins

Vizioncore updates its P2V conversion tool

Vizioncore vConverter 4.0 helps with P2V and disaster recovery projects

Nov 7, 2008 3 mins

The fight for a great deal

In his quest to secure a good deal on a PC for his daughter, one man butted heads with Dell

By Christina Wood

Nov 6, 2008 5 mins

Thrifty startups featured at Web 2.0 Summit

Guy Kawasaki led a panel at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 summit featuring nine companies started on the cheap and running open source software

Nov 6, 2008 2 mins

Reflex Security rebrands and expands

Virtualization security vendor Reflex Security rebrands itself as it expands into management

Nov 6, 2008 2 mins

Sun shines dimly in Big Blue’s shadow

Does Sun Microsystems have what it takes to remake itself in IBM's image?

By Neil McAllister

Nov 6, 2008 7 mins

Is Salesforce.com the new Microsoft?

Little Zoho finds out the hard way that "open" becomes closed when you're in Salesforce's way

By Bill Snyder

Nov 6, 2008 4 mins

Microsoft’s BizSpark and open source

Will the BizSpark program impact the use of open source by startups?

Nov 5, 2008 3 mins

VIMA for a COS-free VMware ESX environment

The VMware ESX service console may be going away, but people still want to execute scripts and run agents on their hosts. VMware's VIMA allows you to do just that.

Nov 5, 2008 2 mins

Election night tech observations

Well, it certainly was a night to remember, and not just for the results.

By Paul Venezia

Nov 5, 2008 4 mins

Microsoft haters, Mac daddies, and Linux lovers

You think the presidential election got people hopping mad? Try talking operating systems. Cringely revisits why people love to hate Microsoft.

Nov 5, 2008 3 mins

Salesforce.com and the cloud

What can open source companies learn from Mark Benioff? Plenty.

Nov 5, 2008 2 mins

Obama and me…

MySQL in high places

Nov 5, 2008 1 min

Should Internet registrars be transparent? Let ICANN know!

In light of continuing criminal activity on the Internet, Garth Bruen of Knujon makes a plea for public disclosure of Internet Registrar ownership and location

By Martin Heller

Nov 5, 2008 3 mins

The incredible shrinking Internet

Broadband throttling, caps, and content filtering aren't about sweeping pirates off the Internet

By Tom Yager

Nov 5, 2008 6 mins

Congratulations

Now, all that's left to do is everything.

Nov 5, 2008 1 min

Enough snap judgments about Windows 7

What happened to careful evaluation of actual products? Instant analyses of the pre-beta version of Windows 7 aren't worth the time it takes to read them.

By J. Peter Bruzzese

Nov 4, 2008 3 mins