Opinion

Cell phone ban for teens is ridiculous

I never heard of anything so ridiculous as just barring teenage drivers from using any "electronic device" while driving. The rationale, according to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who signed such a bill into law on Friday, is th

SCO Group files for bankruptcy protection (ding dong, the witch is nearly dead)

Cnet Reports that SCO filed for Chapter Eleven "The Board of Directors of the SCO Group have unanimously determined that Chapter 11 reorganization is in the best long-term interest of SCO and its subsidiaries, as well as its customers, sharehold

Another request for the “right” MBA program

Dear Bob …I am B.Tech & 10 yrs experience in Plant management of FMCG companies and working as General Manager . I want to get a MBA for better business development careers in goof organistaions . Which MBA will be better for me . Marketing

Going to PASS

This is going to be a quick post. I just wanted to say to all of you who are going to PASS in Denver next week, don't forget to go over the coference survival guide. Instead of reprinting it, I'll just link to it. Sean's Conference Sur

Geek Week in Review

Unlock and load. Just days after iPhoneSimFree launched its $99 software to set iPhones free from the shackles of AT&T, a group of determined hackers did much the same thing – and made their solution totally free. However, the 22-step proce

Software patents not GPL3 to kill open source?

Apparently while I was attending the BEAWorld and VMworld conferences in San Francisco this week, the pretty blue globe we call home kept on spinning, particularly where GPL v3 is concerned. On Wednesday an interview with Mr. Richard Stallman — Pres

Open Season Meat Cast: Episode Two: Crushing proprietary vendors

"Open source prima donnas to crush IBM, BEA and MS in 2008" say Dave, Matt and Ashlee in our latest podcast on The Register. As proof that we listen to our, er, listeners, we've broken this show up into two sections. The first consists

Clovertown’s power profile is great, but what about the FB-DIMMs?

<p>In today's HPC news summary we look at the total picture on Clovertown's power profile, Sun agrees to OEM Windows Server, Appro announces a new entry level HPC server, and more.</p>

Test Center Tracker: Barcelona seems nice, this time of year…

Weather in Barcelona: Turns out the climate in Barcelona is pretty much the same as that in Hammer's Rev F, according to AMD. Ted Samson has taken a close look at Barcelona from an energy perspective, and the results are exciting if you want top

Trust key to Internet security

Five rings of trust could be the key to a more secure, more useful Internet

Corralling VMware virtual machines

V-Commander promises to bring order to the swarm of VMs crowding your datacenter

My downloads is bigger than yours!

Koders assists with code search

Koders released this week Koders Pro Edition, for individuals and teams to search private code bases. Koders Pro Edition lets developers find, reuse and share source code on their computers and in networked version control systems. Development teams

OSS & IT Analyst Firms

The Motley Fool has a pretty interesting article on IT analyst firms such as Gartner &amp; Forrester. I've worked with these firms for nearly a decade and do believe that they provide a valuable service to their customers and the IT market i

Reader Voices: Disclaimer Defense

<P>Is there any legal justification for stupid e-mail confidentiality notices? <A href="http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2007/7/19/84040/3002">My recent story</A> on that subject did result in a number of lawyer types c

It’s all about working together

Could Lack of SOA Drive Shareholder Lawsuits?

The failure of many major corporations a few years ago, which drove a bunch of new compliance laws and shareholder lawsuits, could also be leading to the reality that shareholders are looking at enterprise architecture efficiencies, along with accoun

Gartner Open Source Conference

I mentioned the Gartner conference among a few of the upcoming open source events this fall. I've been to the past versions of this conference in Phoenix and in Orlando and it's a very good event for managers and newcomers to Open Source. I

In the chip race, efficiency beats speed

Following is essentially the content of today's Green Tech Newsletter. I generally don't post the newsletter verbatim in my blog, but it seemed important enough in the context of my piece about Barcelona. The newsletter, by the way, is free

AMD lays down a green chip in Barcelona

Company bets on extreme efficiency with Barcelona — that's textbook green advancement I've always wanted to visit Spain. Catedrales. Museos. Tapas. Siestas. What's not to like? But while I may not be running with the bulls anytime soo

Meetup madness: Slumming it in startup land

Odyssey of face-to-face meet-ups rivals golf as a good waste of time

VMworld 2007 Day 2 – Cisco and Exhibit Halls

The second day of VMworld 2007 ended with the same result as the first day… I was exhausted! I may have been tired from a long day, but a successful day it was. One of the best things about these forums is being able to meet new people. And with we

Sun Does Windows

From the InfoWorld story about Sun OEMing Windows Server with the Sun Fire server line for customers that want to use Windows. "The Sun Fire servers already support Windows Server, along with Red Hat Linux, Novell's Suse Enterprise Linux, V

Microsoft Virtual Virtualization Announcements Virtually Important.

VMware's very own conference, VMworld, is being held this week in San Francisco. And the company has some big news, including an announcement that its VMware ESX Server 3i virtualization software will be embedded in servers from Dell, HP, IBM, N

12 Governors call on Congress to increase H-1B cap

In an unprecedented move, one dozen governors sent an open letter to Congressional leaders requesting that the Senate and House raise the cap on H-1B visas and permanent resident visas [Green Cards]. The letter was sent to Harry Reid, majority leader

BEA embraces and disses open source at the same time

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

IBM announces system-on-a-chip breakthrough for multi-band cell phones

The holy grail for all chipset and device manufacturers is to reduce the chip count.By doing so the BOM [Bill of Materials] is also reduced as is the heat and power generated, critical in small mobile devices such as cellular handsets. This is often

Sun acquires commercial Lustre vendor, and much more

<p>In today's enterprise HPC roundup we have news that Sun has announced today that it will acquire Lustre file system vendor CFS. Also, Wall Street's gear appeals to online gaming companies, new hardware, and lightweight virtual mach

JBoss touts AJAX in RichFaces developer platform

JBoss.org is releasing Thursday JBoss RichFaces 3.1, an upgrade to the company's JavaServer Faces (JSF) component library boasting AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) capabilities. JSF provides capabilities for building user interfaces for Ja

My full “What Microsoft Doesn’t Know About SOA” rant on ITBusinessEdge

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-

Agile’s weakness – not 3 steps ahead

The Multi-Tier Storage Solution

For many DBAs performance is a huge problem. I know I've currently got systems that have their bottlenecks. One of the bottlenecks in a lot of SQL Server systems is in tempdb. There were a lot of things in SQL2K that relied on tempdb and Yukon i

MySQL beefs up up online DB monitoring

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

Installing Silverlight 1.0: Follow-up

In response to what I discussed yesterday, a Microsoft employee has pointed out that my Visual Studio 2005 project and template directories were not set to the defaults. If they had been set to the defaults, the Silverlight JavaScript application tem

Vista Mysteries

Last week, Cringester J. J. decided to upgrade his Vista notebook from Home Premium (original recipe) to Ultimate (extra crispy). Being a savvy digital citizen, he decided to use Vista's Disk Cleanup tool to clean up any messy files before he di

Test Center Tracker: Taking the north bridge to Redmond

Project Server 2007: Installing it is a project in itself. The Brian Chee – Oliver Rist duo tackles quite a big job with the review of Microsoft Project Server 2007. If you ever thought that the folks in Redmond sometimes over-analyze and over-progr

Amazon Web Services seeks start-ups

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching Wednesday the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge, a contest in which start-up ventures leveraging Amazon's in-the-cloud services compete based on originality and promise. Contestants also will be evalua

Why is Indemnity a Customer Concern?

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

Mathematical proof that teams are more productive

Dear Bob …I liked this weeks' Keep the Joint Running ("The causes of greatness," 9/10/2007).You have an assertion – that good employees who work together as a team outperform great employees who don't. For a very long time I&#03

Performance Tuning

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

Battle of the chip giants: Comparing AMD’s Quad-Core Opteron with Intel’s Xeon 7300 MP

Here's why you should care about the difference between Intel and AMD bus architectures I should be writing about Quad-Core Opteron, which was formally launched on Monday, but I feel the need to take a brief detour into a point-by-point contrast

Eight great Microsoft reviews and analyses

With a new Enterprise Windows on the horizon, we pause to look back at some in-depth looks at Microsoft wares

VMworld 2007 Day 1 a Virtual Success

If you attended VMworld 2006 in Los Angeles and thought you were surrounded by a large flock of virtualization users, you probably wouldn't have imagined the number of people that descended on the Moscone Center in San Francisco this year. In my

Vizioncore Now Optimizing Virtual Machines

Vizioncore just announced one of its latest offerings, vOptimizer 4.0, an enterprise-class version of its virtual machine optimization utility. In case you aren't familiar with previous versions of this product from Vizioncore, it isn't rea

Hitachi Wants to Deliver Universal Storage Platform to the Midmarket

Hitachi Data Systems unveiled its Universal Storage Platform V series. Positioned toward smaller enterprises, the Universal Storage Platform VM delivers the benefits of enterprise-class virtualization, thin provisioning and tiered storage across a he

IBM and BEA Working to Change Virtualization

IBM has introduced its new virtualization ready System X Server to help the company address growing needs and concerns in the virtualization arena. One interesting aspect, it debuts a new embedded hypervisor capability right out of the box. BEA Syste

Using OO.o to Beat MSFT in Other Markets

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

The Best Kept Secret

For a year or more now I've been seeing promises of Microsoft's new wireless keyboard dubbed, the ultimate keyboard. You can find a couple sites with pics and a nice demo on MS's site, but I have yet to actually see the keyboard. There

Apple’s Price Cuts

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

Installing Silverlight 1.0 Templates on Visual Studio

On August 9th I discussed Microsoft's recommendations for setting up a Silverlight development environment. As I noted on August 25th, this process hasn't been without its troubles for me. With the release of a shipping, supported Silverlig