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At least that's how one senior IBM executive explained the looming failure of OS/2 Warp 3. The year was 1995, and I was a young technical marketing consultant under contract to the Software Solutio By Randall Kennedy Oct 25, 2007 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development New book: “Print is Dead” This sounds like it belongs on the shelf next to "The Hummer Guide to Global Warming" and "2007 Fashion Portfolio for Telecommuters." The site created to promote this book defends the idea of using dead trees to celebrate the end By Tom Yager Oct 25, 2007 1 min Technology Industry New services unveiled at CTIA wireless conference While there were no blockbuster announcements made at this year's CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment conference in San Francisco there were some products that stood out from the rest for their originality. ABBYY USA, an OCR [Optical Character By Ephraim Schwartz Oct 24, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry RIP, DC power? 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The company said that the Virtual Machine Additions for Linux are designed to improve the usability and interoperability of ru By David Marshall Oct 24, 2007 1 min Software Development CIS Releases New Security Guidelines for VMware ESX Server Back in September, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) released a whitepaper titled "Virtual Machine Security Guidelines – Version 1.0". In it, they addressed security concerns that apply to virtual machine technologies. 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By Mario Apicella Oct 24, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Back-and-forth on “When your boss tells you to terminate an employee” From the Comments about "When your boss tells you to terminate an employee," (Advice Line, 10/14/2007):For some semblance of balance, may I lend some support to the minority side here (which appears to be the rather less than endearing Mr. By Bob Lewis Oct 24, 2007 7 mins Technology Industry It’s JADR (Just Another Damm Registry) As the amount of SOA technology out there continues to multiply, so do the number of ways that the technology vendors persists artifacts for the design, development, abstraction, or governance tools. Typically, this means a registry, and the word fro By Dave Linthicum Oct 24, 2007 2 mins Software Development Sun’s ZFS is close to perfect, but widely misunderstood You've read about ZFS, the advanced storage management facility baked into Sun Microsystems' Solaris Unix operating system. 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