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The answer may be no. But hey, this is a blog, so why let reality get in the way of a post?I don't have a history degree, so please correct me if I'm wrong. But, I can only imagine that pundits foretold of an unpleasant death for railroad c By Savio Rodrigues Mar 26, 2008 2 mins Open Source Social networking hits the bar scene big screen Consider: just about everybody now carries a cell phone in their pocket, belt clip or pocketbook. Add to it the fact that monitors, big screens and small, are popping up everywhere. Mix with that the phenomenon of social networking where people would By Ephraim Schwartz Mar 26, 2008 3 mins Technology Industry Feds devise program to help datacenter operators cut energy waste, costs As part of its larger effort to reduce the strain the datacenters put on the U.S. energy grid and the environment, the EPA has launched an initiative to develop an Energy Star rating for datacenter infrastructures. By Ted Samson Mar 26, 2008 4 mins Technology Industry Developer fungibility: discussion Two weeks ago, I posted an entry based on a visit by Richard Rabins, in which he said: Software developers are not fungible commodities to be bought and sold. You can't grow or train great developers: they just happen. The emphasis on great is m By Martin Heller Mar 26, 2008 4 mins Software Development Selling a more open environment to management Dear Bob …I actually agree with your position [on opening up PCs, see for example "The feasibility of unlocked desktops," Keep the Joint Running, 3/24/2008] and I try to advocate policies that only "punish the guilty", but this By Bob Lewis Mar 26, 2008 3 mins Technology Industry Test Center Tracker: Bridging technology and finance Technorati Tags: AMD. Intel,Processors,Virtualization,VMware,Parallels,SEC,IPO,India developments Today's Test Center Tracker starts from the heart of computing to end up with a mention of IPOs and SEC reports connecting those two extremes in a By Mario Apicella Mar 26, 2008 2 mins Technology Industry Smoking guns and broken voting machines My last post about Sequoia Voting Systems and its painfully stupid e-voting machines inspired both cheers and jeers from the Cringe faithful. Cringester E. N. believes we should all just grow up and accept that mistakes happen (though he seems to als By Robert Cringely Mar 26, 2008 4 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Getting into the Groove, Part 1: Outsource or in-house? In many companies, users are clamoring for a collaborative solution that goes beyond e-mail or instant messaging. You may have missed it, but the Enterprise and Ultimate versions of Office 2007 come with a perfectly sound collaboration solution: Groo By J. Peter Bruzzese Mar 26, 2008 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development AMD’s ready to scale you up When it comes to scaling x86 servers, it's smarter to think inside the box Architectural traits reaching back to Pentium remain present in the Intel-powered servers of today. The limitations of those servers aren't likely to be noticed as l By Tom Yager Mar 26, 2008 5 mins Technology Industry Preview: Parallels Server beta looks promising The market for hypervisor-based server virtualization is about to get more crowded. Parallels, the one-time nascent maker of desktop virtual machine (VM) solutions for the Mac, is preparing to jump into the server virtualization arena with offerings By Randall Kennedy Mar 26, 2008 3 mins Technology Industry VMware’s big time spending and expansion in India VMware announced that it plans to invest $100 million in India by 2010. Part of that money is going to be used to expand the company's presence in India with a new, state of the art 82,000 square foot development center in Bangalore. The new Ban By David Marshall Mar 26, 2008 2 mins Software Development Sun’s moves in the SMB space Late last week I had an interesting conversation with Christine Buery of Sun Microsystems. Christine is heading up the new Sun initiatives in the SMB market, and we talked about a number of things that should interest IT folks in certain parts of SMB By Curt Franklin Mar 25, 2008 3 mins Technology Industry Is the slow economy hurting high-tech sales? As the economy continues to dive, are we witnessing the first ripples in a revolt against consumerism and the spending attitude that typically says, "Damn the interest and full speed ahead with the credit card spending"? Signs of change Two By Ephraim Schwartz Mar 25, 2008 2 mins Technology Industry Survey: Pure play OSS vendors to lag behind Platform vendors in 2012 Today at OSBC, the results of the North Bridge Venture Partners' annual "Future of Open Source" survey were released. Try as I may, I could not find out who the respondents were (i.e. developers, CIOs, the Asay family, FSJ, etc) or wha By Savio Rodrigues Mar 25, 2008 2 mins Open Source Oracle vs SQL Server OK, while I'm really bad about approving comments (mostly because the platform makes it so painful), I do want to answer a few of them here real quick. First and foremost because this is bothering me. I've been in DBs for 15yrs now. It' By Sean McCown Mar 25, 2008 9 mins Databases Is Microsoft artificially delaying XP SP3? It's a valid question. Last week, virtually anyone who was anyone within the SP3 Beta community thought that the release of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP was imminent. InfoWorld even commissioned a lead-out news item on the subject (penned by yo By Randall Kennedy Mar 25, 2008 2 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Test Center Tracker: Greener docs and a six-month itch In the Tracker today, we look at a Xerox tool to help green your document processing, and another look at the latest Ubuntu beta, this time from the enterprise desktop perspective. Calculate your doc's greenness: Saying that you want your operat By Curt Franklin Mar 25, 2008 2 mins Technology Industry A NAC for policy enforcement: Lockdown Networks, RIP About three years ago, I was one of a core group of network engineers sitting at the Interop Hotstage facility working through the details of policy-based networking and the Interop Lab that we were designing to demonstrate it. There were a number of By Stephen Hultquist Mar 25, 2008 3 mins Technology Industry SOA is growing Download file… By Dave Linthicum Mar 25, 2008 1 min Software Development IBM invests in EnterpriseDB EnterpriseDB just raised $10M in Series C financing. IBM joined the list of investors including Fidelity Ventures, Valhalla Partners and Charles River Ventures. To date, EnterpriseDB has raised $37.5M (compared to the $39M that MySQL had raised in to By Savio Rodrigues Mar 25, 2008 2 mins Open Source Train Signal knows training. I had a chance to meet up with the owner of Train Signal, Scott Skinger, this week. Train Signal provides training courses for server-side applications like Exchange, Windows management, etc. Though they don't do databases from what I've se By Sean McCown Mar 25, 2008 7 mins Technology Industry How to keep your servers moist I've done a lot of contracting but this one tops them all. I worked for a company as a contractor to design and oversee the building and migration of a new server room. This was a major move up for them and they wanted the works with waterless f By InfoWorld Anonymous Mar 25, 2008 2 mins Data Management The six month *nix itch: How should I scratch it? It's been a little over six months since I tested the Linux waters with Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon." Back then I found Ubuntu to be a very attractive OS with some unfortunate architectural issues (poor ACPI support leading to frequent p By Randall Kennedy Mar 25, 2008 4 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Take the smarts out of smartphones Last week's IBM-Sprint Nextel announcement left me dazed and confused. According to the announcement, the Lotus Expeditor software platform will be adopted by Sprint Nextel, which in turn will provide mobile application developers with a beta ve By Ephraim Schwartz Mar 25, 2008 5 mins Technology Industry iPhone to Meeting Maker GoBetween The folks at PocketMac have created a niche made up of software shims to connect mobile devices like the iPhone to enterprise organizer systems. In this case I shanghaied a buddy of mine at the University of Hawaii Information and Technology Services By Brian Chee Mar 25, 2008 5 mins Technology Industry Liquidated damages <P>What do you do when you're denied warranty service because the vendor claims your system was damaged by a mythical spill of some liquid? I often hear from people who know they didn't spill the milky substance they are being told ha By Ed Foster Mar 25, 2008 6 mins Technology Industry Xerox develops Sustainability Calculator for doc tech </a>Add Xerox to the <b><a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/sustainableit/archives/2008/01/green_tech_bigf.html">list of vendors</a></b> adding <b><a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/sustainable By Ted Samson Mar 25, 2008 3 mins Technology Industry Running an effective meeting Dear Bob …I need some meeting tools, to keep order, steer content on point and so on.I find that often, meetings up here take on a life of their own and the moderator cannot take them back without banging on the table.Also, my boss is very articula By Bob Lewis Mar 25, 2008 3 mins Technology Industry Tasktop & Protecode; Startups made possible by the Eclipse ecosystem Tasktop and Protecode are two interesting startups I ran into at EclipseCON 2008. They are very different businesses, aimed at very different audiences. However, both are made possible by Eclipse ecosystem….It would be very interesting to estimate By Savio Rodrigues Mar 24, 2008 3 mins Open Source Test Center Tracker: Sticky sweet Sun storage, plus a hardy Ubuntu beta Abuzz over Honeycomb: Test Center Analyst and storage guru Mario Apicella has savored a sweet taste of Sun's new StorageTek 5800, aka "Honeycomb," a impressive solution for meeting your company's fixed-content archiving needs. Sun By Ted Samson Mar 24, 2008 1 min Technology Industry U.S. Immigration [USCIS] changes selection process for H-1B visas An interesting development in the H-1B lottery this year that you may not know about. As you may know the number of applications for an H-1B visa far exceeds the cap by the first submission day, April 1. The cap is currently 65,000 H-1B visas plus 20 By Ephraim Schwartz Mar 24, 2008 2 mins Technology Industry Is SOA green? You would think the "environmental movement" was just invented with all of the talk about "global warming" and "carbon footprints." What's in style now is to be "green" or putting conservation into practic By Dave Linthicum Mar 24, 2008 2 mins Software Development Protect you server against unwanted deletes I'm going to take a short break from the Oracle/SQL Server controversy to talk about file recovery. This doesn't necessarily apply to DBs, but then again, it can under the right circumstances. I was writing a process to ship trace files to By Sean McCown Mar 24, 2008 2 mins Databases InfoWorld’s Open Source party This week we celebrate InfoWorld's premier annual event: the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC). The theme — putting open source to work — highlights how quickly the open source software industry has matured. Those of you lucky enough to a By Eric Knorr Mar 24, 2008 3 mins Technology Industry Sequoia and e-voting: The best government money can buy I don't know if you've noticed lately, but our elected officials are being determined by people who can't do simple math or write a comprehensible sentence in English. And no, I don't mean people who voted for Rudy Guiliani. I By Robert Cringely Mar 24, 2008 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Open source roundtable and OSBC The editors at InfoWorld have put together a virtual roundtable series of articles on open source this week to coincide with this week's OSBC conference. I wrote some comments responding to questions as did other folks including Matt Asay from A By Zack Urlocker Mar 24, 2008 1 min Open Source Eye-Fi reinvents SD I just got my new Eye-Fi SD card and I'm just excited to get going with it. I'll have to admit that it never even crossed my mind to have a card that wirelessly uploads your pics from your camera to your computer, but I'm glad there ar By Sean McCown Mar 24, 2008 1 min Technology Industry Transitive ships latest cross-platform virtualization solution for Solaris Only a few days ago, Transitive Corporation announced the release of QuickTransit for the Solaris operating system on SPARC to Solaris on x86/64 systems. If you aren't familiar with Transitive or their products, you might be surprised. The Trans By David Marshall Mar 23, 2008 3 mins Software Development Cross-domain madness One of the sites for which I consult recently licensed a Flash component from a third party. Of course, the vendor wanted to restrict the component licensing to avoid having the component re-used by others. So far, so good. But this site, being large By Martin Heller Mar 23, 2008 3 mins Software Development BMC to purchase BladeLogic for $800 million On Monday, BMC Software said that it had agreed to purchase BladeLogic, a provider of next generation data center automation software, for $28 per share which translates to approximately an $800 million cash acquisition. And according to BMC, once th By David Marshall Mar 23, 2008 4 mins Software Development Aligning business and IT through instrumentation As globalization of business continues to evolve and the drive to conducting business digitally in the "cloud," it is imperative that IT organizations get a handle on being able to track in real time every discrete user experience AND corre By Tony Bishop Mar 22, 2008 2 mins Technology Industry Domain squatting for fun and profit I just got off the phone with MarkMonitor, a company that according to the fellow I spoke with is hired by multi-national corporations to register and squat on domain names in the interest of brand security. I was calling them to inquire about a spec By Paul Venezia Mar 21, 2008 5 mins EclipseCon I ended up with a nasty flu for two days this week so I missed out on EclipseCon held earlier this week. Interesting to see that Microsoft was at EclipseCon and Sam Ramji did one of the keynotes. While Microsoft doesn't appear to be practicing o By Zack Urlocker Mar 21, 2008 1 min Open Source Geek Week: Google Wireless, Vista SP1, and other thought crimes Click a link, go to jail. From Declan McCullagh at CNet comes a story sure to chill the heart of any geek who's ever spent time trolling the Net's dark underbelly. Temple graduate student Roderick Vosburgh is looking at three to four years By Robert Cringely Mar 21, 2008 4 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development The federal government needs to understand SOA The federal government is the Fortune 1 when it comes to leveraging and consuming technology. However, the use of that technology in the most productive ways continues to be a challenge. Lately, the federal government has been serious about getting t By Dave Linthicum Mar 21, 2008 1 min Software Development Datacenter in a box: delivering next-generation datacenters today One of the biggest barriers to innovation today, is dealing with current datacenter complexity. This forces the largest IT investment dollars to be focused on keeping the lights on and containing infrastructure sprawl. The inability to focus a majori By Tony Bishop Mar 21, 2008 6 mins Technology Industry Autorenewal lurks in Spyware Doctor <P>As <A href="http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2008/1/21/1231/47624">we recently saw</A>, automatic subscription renewals seem to have become de rigueur for antivirus software vendors. But one reader recently discovere By Ed Foster Mar 21, 2008 3 mins Technology Industry Open community and closed-source vendors InfoWorld blogger Sean McCown at Database Underground wrote about a key difference between SQL Server & Oracle: "The answer is simple… information. 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