Opinion

SOA governance hailed in partnership

LogicLibrary and Mindreef plan next week to announce a partnership intended to produce an end-to-end SOA governance and testing solution. The companies have integrated the LogicLibrary Logidex SDA (Software Development Asset) governance hub with the

Is money a good measure of OSS success?

This comment from Stacey (Hyperic) got me thinking…is money a good measure of OSS success? Before I go on, let me clear something up. My 1.8% comment was not meant to minimize the importance of OSS to the software market or to customers. I disagree

A developer’s-eye view of Leopard, part IV

64-bit Darwin, Dashcode, Time Machine, and Ruby on Rails call on developers to trade out established skills for new ones

A secure Internet requires a secure network protocol

Implementing — and requiring — stronger authentication and cryptography standards is the next step toward a new Internet

Classic Storage Insider, part I

Two SAN-oriented Storage Insider columns for your summer reading list

Sold Down the Digital River

<P>If there's one kind of product that ought to be easy to sell online, it's software. And maybe it would be if companies like online software distributor Digital River didn't make it so hard to just buy what you want. At least

.NET Micro Framework

Today I had a briefing from Colin Miller of&nbsp;Microsoft about the .NET Micro Framework, a very small footprint version of the .NET Framework targeted for the embedded development space. The official description goes like this: The Microsoft .N

Quicken’s secret backdoor?

Here's one thing I bet the millions of Quicken users probably don't know: Intuit has a secret back door that allows it to access your password-protected financial files — or so says Elcomsoft, a security software vendor based in Moscow. El

Scott Adams grooms Dogbert as green consultant

Scott Adams'"Dilbert" can be a pretty good gauge for when a biz-tech trend achieves mainstream recognition and appreciation.

Leopard and Vista: Last gasp of the big OS?

Twenty yeas from now a new generation of computer users will look back on the operating systems of today with the same bemused smile we look back at the cars of the late 1950s and early 60s. They had huge fins, were the size of a small yacht and burn

From the Test Center: Document management reviews – NextPage and Xythos

At the core of every organization, you'll find documents. Just as these documents take myriad forms – from memos, e-mail, and word processing files to paper forms – there's a variety of systems at the enterprise level tasked wit

SSRS and Dundas

In case you missed it, MS just acquired the Dundas products for use in future versions of SSRS. Those would be the maps, guage, charts, etc that made Dundas famous. And while Dundas is still currently selling those products, there's no telling w

SOA Consolidation Heats Up

According to this article in Enterprise Networks and Servers, outlining research from the Butler Group, SOA consolidation will continue. Thus, those implementing SOAs need to keep a careful eye on the consolidation as they progress their SOAs into in

Telepresence breaks down communication barriers

Evolving technology enables immersive, real-time virtual meetings, face-to-face, without the high costs of travel

Building a bridge to the future

Facebook's Woodstock of mashups reminds us that tomorrow's infrastructure may well be born of today's youth

Pragmatic Interface21

During the opening day SpringOne keynote yesterday Interface21 explained how they plan on using the funding they recently secured. Later in the day, I spent a few minutes with Neelan Choksi, COO at Interface21….

Hands on: Data Robotics Drobo

Data Robotics Drobo Our addiction to movie clips, photos, songs and whatever else grabs our fantasy is the primary reason for a data deluge that doesn't affect only corporations but is creeping also in our homes and home offices. In my own backy

Novell Readies SUSE Service Pack and VM Drivers

Novell announced the first service pack (SP1) for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. It featured significant enhancements in virtualization, high-performance computing, security, interoperability and system management. Service Pack 1 enhancements include: Enh

Open Source, SOA, and the Next-generation Data Center (Panel from OSBC ’07)

Cote posted the video of our OSBC session about open source and SOA. I believe I was asked "what does SOA mean to you?" and my response was something about "SOA being a unicorn, magical but rarely seen in real life." On the panel:

EVault Offers VMware Users Hot Backups and Faster Restores

EVault announces the availability of the EVault VMware Plug-in for customers of the EVault Protect Software as a Service (SaaS) and EVault InfoStage licensed software, and service providers offering data protection services powered by EVault technolo

VMware Workstation Named the Best Software Development Product

VMware continues its journey of being recognized in the industry as a leader and a user favorite as it pulls in yet another award. It was announced that VMware Workstation won the 2007 Visual Studio Magazine Readers' Choice Award in the Developm

Court rules content of RAM memory is discoverable

In what some are calling a "rogue" decision, the Los Angeles District Court ruled on May 29, 2007, in Columbia Pictures Industries v. Bunnell, that data stored in a computer's Random Access Memory –that's correct you read it righ

Note-taking & follow-up

Architecture & People

Open Source CEO Series: Mickos, Rosenberg, Powell, Soltero, and more

I'm running an Open Source CEO Series on my new blog, trying to get into the minds of the brave (and still few) open source business leaders who are turning downloads into dollars. So far, I've had Marten Mickos, our very own Dave Rosenberg

Dell: Freedom to choose Ubuntu…but only if you don’t have a job

Hopefully, this is just one person's experience, but a would-be Ubuntu buyer was denied by Dell when he informed Dell that he wanted to buy his Ubuntu-on-Dell machine for (gasp!) a business. Perish the thought….I called the Home office departm

And now a word from the pumpees

Re "Pump & Dump goes 'legit'," I did get a response, finally, from Steven Bigley at Aero-Financial, GZGT's stateside representatives. Rather than append it to my last long blog entry I present it here, unedited and unspel

Test Center Tracker: Benchmarks and a new blog

Doing the benchmark shuffle: Tom Yager found a kindred spirit in Microsoft's Greg Leake – he and his team are tasked with benchmarking Java application servers against .Net. After a tough grilling on his processes, Leake gets the Yager Seal of A

If leadership is a journey, how will you know when you’re there?

OK, so you're on your way into leadership. You think you've got your head around the whole "leadership is a journey" thing, but how will you know if you're making any progress? Are you doing it right? Here's the benchma

Sun and OPRA, Voltaire’s real-time trading play, and IMSL

<p>In this enterprise supercomputing update Voltaire announces two significant partnerships aimed at lowering latency in real-time trading systems, Sun womps the OPRA benchmark, and IMSL comes to Intel's Fortran for Windows.</p>

InfiView Demos

I'm deep into the process of reviewing InfiView, a framework for building interactive and dynamic Web 2.0 maps and diagrams that is implemented on top of Bindows. I'll hold my comments for the review, but I thought you might be interested i

Lessons from smoke jumpers

In response to this week's Keep the Joint Running ("Iacocca's alliterative leadership list,") Ned Horvath sent me the following, excellent analysis. I thought it well worth sharing, and he was kind enough to give me permission to

Pump & Dump goes ‘legit’

When you receive an email touting the latest 'can't miss' penny stock, you know to hit the Delete key. Only a major league rube falls for that crap. But when Cringester D. F. received a slick prepaid mailer touting Guangzhou Global Tel

Benchmarking J2EE against .Net

Microsoft fights the good fight for a fair, relevant IT benchmark A friend and I share a running joke. Whenever one of us comes up with a million-dollar idea, we declare that we must get business cards. That's dated; everyone knows that today, v

Take the guesswork out of capacity planning

Plug in variables, and Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2007 delivers handy scenarios for your network

NetworkWorld charts open source systems management

NetworkWorld compared the OSS system management products from Zenoss, Hyperic and Groundwork. NWW results: 1. Zenoss-4.0 Pros: Excellent discovery of network resources; intuitive user interface. Cons: Needs a visual design environment for customizing

New RSS Feed is Ready

OK, I've been promising this for a long time now, but I finally got the RSS ready for IT Bookworm. So you guys go on and subscribe and I'll update it with book and video reviews as well as press releases for new books and videos. I may even

A fine balance

By now you've heard that I'll be joining the Open Sources team. It's a shame that Matt Asay is moving on to bigger and better things (you can follow him at CNet). I'm sure we'll continue to disagree about an item or two relat

Choosing an MBA specialty

Dear Bob …I am working as a Management Representative in an IT hardware rental company. My job responsibility is to monitor employee performance, improve systems of operation like marketing, service, etc., and conduct IS internal audits.Please sugg

Brazilian tribe hopes Google Earth can halt deforestation

Surui's hope capturing satellite images of devastation from illegal logging and mining will spur action

Sun to revamp partner and channel strategy

With two profitable quarters in a row following five quarters of loses, the big question is can Sun sustain its growth, and if so, what will it be built on? If the meeting I attended at Sun's offices in San Francisco are any indication, a lot of

Iowa tailors taxes to entice Google

Hawkeye State offers tax breaks in hopes of reaping long-term benefits from 2,000-acre server farm

Google basks in $4.5 million solar-energy incentives

Google flips the On switch for its 9,212 panel installation, demonstrates vehicle-to-grid technology

Freedoms We Take for Granted

While there are a lot of good things happening with respect to opportunities for open source software and IT in general in China, there are many reminders that it's still evolving. In many ways, China is "the wild, wild east" where the

IBM lends gravitas to Enterprise 2.0 trend

Leveraging Web 2.0 in the enterprise will mean transforming IT to fit a new paradigm of end-user needs While far from being the first major enterprise software vendor to offer Web 2.0 capabilities, IBM today jumped into the game with both Big Blue fe

Yahoo’s your daddy?

Score it Geeks 1, Hollywood 0. After six years at the helm, 'Tinsel Town' Terry Semel has left Yahoo to be replaced by the former Chief Yahoo, Jerry Yang. (No tears for Terry, though — he leaves at least $450 million richer.) So the grand

No price on integrity

I had dinner with a close friend from Novell (and his family) last night. He's been there for over 10 years, and continues to believe in the company. I respect that. Whatever his thoughts on the patent deal and product direction (I didn't a

For the parents out there

I'm enjoying my new blog over on CNET, but I admit I'm missing Dave. Especially now that he has turned into Jane Austen, penning blog entries by the thousands. I was clearly holding him back. 🙂 I just noticed for the first time today that

We’re at Mile 2 in the SOA Marathon

In this recent ADT article, Kurt Mackie highlights some recent research into SOA, showing that we're still very early in the SOA game. "A report from Research 2.0 describes the current use of service-oriented architecture (SOA) as experimen

Notes from the Gartner Show, and is reuse a key value for SOA?

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