Opinion

What does programming have to do with football?

The ESPN/TopCoder Winning Formula Challenge asks for algorithms to predict NCAA football scores from historical data.

VMware hires ex-IBM exec for China post

VMware appoints a former IBM exec as its new President for the Greater China Region — adding another suit into its relaxed corporate culture.

Where have all the circuits gone?

I had an interesting experience last week during an office relocation that hammered home some of the fundamental requirements of such a task — namely, always know where your circuits are. As far as relocations go, this wasn't that big of a deal

Open source awareness in Egypt?

Although the awareness of open source appears low, the lack of Internet-based apps poses an opportunity to bolster open source penetration

TrendPoint offers four-prong attack to greening your datacenter

Devising an energy budget and measuring datacenter efficiency among key strategies

Stupid email tricks: Hold the Democrats, add the salami

You'd think that by now major political parties, national newspapers, and food franchises would have a handle on email. Of course, you'd be wrong. Cringely details how the Democratic Party, the Wall Street Journal, and Pizza Hut are pulling

WOA, or whatever … Here’s some ‘detailed’ initial thinking

What does WOA mean to those standing up SOAs today?

A victim of poisonous politics

Hired, then fired along with the manager who brought him in.

JetBlue dials in to Microsoft’s speech-recognition technology

Redmond shakes up the voice-recognition space by offering more reliable software for less

The Nehalem CPU’s secret weapon

Intel's Nehalem CPU sports an on-chip power management microcontroller capable of turning off CPU cores to save power. This could really change the x86 server game. The question is, will IT be able to use this to cut costs, or will Intel lock th

Avnet helping Sun and IBM is in the clouds with resiliency centers

Avnet Technology Solutions recently announced new services to help Sun Microsystems' partners to capitalize on the growing virtualization market. And IBM continues its push to expand business continuity and resiliency services with a $300 millio

Intel launches $400K contest to tackle global needs

Chipmaker seeks entries that are sustainable, innovative — and Intel-based

Microsoft updates the Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide

Haven't installed Microsoft's Hyper-V in your environment yet? This guide should be on your To-Do list!

Interview with Scott McNealy – Part 2

Sun Microsystems founder and Chairman talks about open source and the unification of Unix

SOA out, WOA in?

As buzzwords go, people simply seem to like WOA a lot more than SOA

IT centralization gone wrong

When IT centralized support, support became terrible. What went wrong?

Your weak policies allow me to do my side job

Stealing company information for personal gain is a fraudulent activity, but the number of employees who understand that is remarkably small

Filling in the gaps in Windows Vista/Server 2008

My top eight Vista/Server 2008 utilities I simply cannot live without (at least until Windows 7 fixes everything).

Prepaid software: More than a token solution to licensing woes

Software licensing's third way offers flexibility and savings — not to mention a stronger bond between seller and buyer

No More SOA Startups?

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User feedback on Visual Studio 2008 SP1

A reader switched to Visual Studio 2008 SP1 for its improved support for absolute CSS positioning

Interview with Scott McNealy – Part 1

Sun Microsystems founder and chairman talks about his current role and what keeps him and Andy Bechtolsheim engaged at Sun

How’s LiteSpeed doing?

Quest just released LiteSpeed 5.0

Identity theft: fact, fiction, and the funny papers

Phishing scams are no laughing matter. But when a tax-payer funded group tackles the topic in a comic book about identity theft, unintentional humor prevails. Cringely has the dirt.

Olympic spirit

Jamaica's Usain Bolt wins 3 gold medals in track & field and then does something even more impressive

Is Surgient’s success causing them to exit the hosting business?

Virtual Lab Application solution provider, Surgient, seems to be having a successful year. But does that mean the company is exiting its virtualization software hosted business in favor of on-site installations?

SOA Governance Monday: Design Time, and the missing pieces

The SOA design time guys have a lot of work to do.

Outsource this!

During the past couple of months, InfoWorld has been delving deep into the daily plight of IT: brutal workloads, dangerously low resources, and a widening knowledge gap between management and on-the-ground IT people immersed in increasingly complex t

HP takes the top spot on VMware VMmark scores for 16- and 32-cores

VMware's VMmark virtual machine performance benchmark tool can be used as a marketing tool for hardware vendors. HP recently submitted the highest VMmark scores for both 16- and 32-core hardware platforms.

A stalled outsourcing decision

Pragmatic criteria and techniques businesses can use to reduce the risk of a bad decision.

Identity theft should be a crime

The act of stealing someone's identity is illegal. Allowing crackers to steal the identity in the first place isn't, but it should be. The most recent case is a doozy: Best Western gave up every piece of data on every customer of theirs sin

Freebase Parallax a promising search tool

Many-to-many set search technology in an impressive, open source JavaScript application

Weekend SOA Thinking

Looking into the SOA future…okay the next few months.

Woz at Intel Developer Forum

How an engineer's engineer managed to stay at the bottom of Apple's org chart for thirty years

Geek Week: China cheats on ages, spy controversy rages

What do Chinese gymnasts and FBI agents have in common? They believe laws (and/or regulations) are made to be broken. Cringely has the dirt.

Security from Check Point Software and Altor Networks

Check Point Software recently moved from securing just the physical environment to securing the virtual with the introduction of its new VPN-1 product. And Altor Networks is also looking to secure the virtual world — and the company also recently re

E-mail deliverability: things that go bump in the night

The explosive growth of spam has forced legitimate e-mail senders to pass through ever-more-challenging hoops to keep from being classified as spam.

9 design principles of a service-oriented datacenter

A service-oriented datacenter (SOIT DC) is a top‐down, demand driven datacenter design that maximizes efficiency and minimizes traditional IT waste of power, cooling, space, and capacity under utilization while providing enhanced levels of service

Grad school for future CTOs

Was JavaScript a mistake?

Standardizing on a single language puts too many eggs in the browser's basket.

Dell edges out SAP and Oracle for ‘Bozo of the Month’

The company that invented nothing tries to hijack cloud computing with a cheesy legal play. SAP, meanwhile, tries to pull a fast one on its customers. Don’t let them get away with it.

Sun xVM VirtualBox finds new OEMs

Sun is taking their desktop virtualization solution to market with help from the OEM community, which includes the likes of Avanquest Software, Q-layer, and Zenith InfoTech

VMware creates a new book on business continuity and disaster recovery

VMware gets into the book-writing business and offers its first book to the community, covering business continuity and disaster recovery

Network Solutions under attack

It appears that Network Solutions is the target of a large-scale, prolonged DDoS attack, and the company has been blocking large ranges of public IP addresses from accessing any of their resources in order to fight the attack

Xara Xtreme 4

Martin belatedly discusses Xara Xtreme Version 4, "the world's fastest graphics software"

Paying the community to test your software

Is this a step towards companies opening up their source code in return for higher quality software?

Virtual Dynamic Datacenter – Business Aligned Approach

A recent article titled "How to create a business-boosting virtualization plan" serves as an excellent strategy model for creating a business driven dynamic virtual datacenter. The synopsis A business-driven virtual datacenter strategy woul

More on Network Solutions and their world-wide woes

Several weeks ago, I posted about apparent problems with customer access to Network Solutions resources. I asked for comments and emails from folks having problems with their Network Solutions accounts. I got dozens and dozens, from all across the gl

Does centralized control of the enterprise eliminate politics

Comments on centralization and decentralization.

Do we need some more SOA startups?

I clearly see some voids that need filling.