Opinion

Apple bows to pressure and upgrades iPhone

Perhaps a day without Apple iPhone news was too much to bear for Apple's marketing department. Therefore, Apple chose Monday, a week after Apple's original iPhone announcements at the WWDC07 (World Wide Developer Conference), to announce th

Evergrid’s plans for virtualization dominance

In today's enterprise supercomputing news summary The Register comments on Evergrid's plans for data center virtualization dominance, and Gigaspaces hooks up with Microsoft on a new financial analytics solution.

Hyperic blazes ahead with HyperFORGE

The team at Hyperic just announced their HyperFORGE site to provide developers with an easy way to create plug-ins to Hyperic HQ. They also started a plug-in of the month program to reward contributors. Good for the Hyperic team for getting HyperFORG

Managing Jobs in SQL Server

OK, from time to time this topic comes up so I thought I'd publish this info in the hopes that someone will find it useful. The problem is with getting non-admins the ability to admin jobs in SQL2K. It's widely known that only SAs can do th

DOD SoftwareTechNews Open Source – The future is open

The DoD SoftwareTech News June 2007 (subscription required) is devoted to use of Open Source Software in DoD. A few of the most interesting facts and figures: The US Army is the single largest install base for Red Hat Linux —-As Brigadier General N

Whom do you anti-trust, part deux

Last April, Microsoft urged “regulatory authorities” to investigate Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick, alleging that the deal harms competition. (Pot meet kettle, kettle this is pot.) Google responded by issuing a 49-p

Borland forges ALM links

Expanding its Open ALM partner ecosystem, Borland Software on Monday is announcing integrations between its application lifecycle management software and third-party products providing capabilities such as build automation. As part of this effort, th

Test Center Tracker: Get your storage in top business form

Data, data everywhere: If you're not making smart use of your storage resources, you could be in trouble. And we're not just talking about lost files or bad backups; nowadays, that also means compliance issues , quick-response data searches

Accessing the 64-bit Registry

I knew there had to be a way for a 32-bit application to access the 64-bit registry on a 64-bit system, and I finally found it. Don't ask me what I think of the way Live Search works on the MSDN site, however: the answer would curl your hair. Wh

Suit up your storage network with business sense

Transform your storage environment into a competitive advantage with these business-conscious storage management solutions

More Mac mania

In which we drink the Apple Kool Aid, then get serious about data security and storage networks

When to Buy, When to Build

Dave Linthicum outlines six steps to follow to make a build vs. buy decision. (Spoiler: Ultimately you will probably need to do both.) With service-oriented architecture (SOA), Ajax, the enterprise service bus (ESB) and other new technologies maturin

HP, IBM and Sun – Blade Servers Going Strong

Time and again within the virtualization space, people ask about Blade Servers and virtualization. They want to know, are the two technologies competitive? Or do they work well together? In many cases, they both try to solve similar problems, yet the

Why Do People Write Free Documentation? (ONLamp Survey)

Andy Oram posted his survey write-up on why people contribute documentation. Pretty interesting, but still a bit hard to quantify (says Andy himself.) I tend to think that people who write documentation for their own work tend to do it as habit, mayb

VMware Poking Under the Server Covers with ESX Lite

SearchServerVirtualization broke the news that VMware may be preparing a reduced footprint version of its ESX hypervisor and calling it ESX Lite. This slimmed down version would operate within a server's firmware rather than getting installed as

Deep insight into Dell sales process

Consumerist is running a great piece "22 Confessions Of A Former Dell Sales Manager" that proves you're not crazy for thinking Dell pricing is arbitrary and random. We used to play a game at GLC where I would make everyone try and orde

When Thinking Service Design…Think Integration, not Agreement

 Many of those now designing and building services are stuck on what design patterns to apply to services. Keep in mind services are not applications, nor are they APIs. They are a small granular part of an application, and indeed a functional

Ubuntu says “No Deal” to Microsoft

From Mark Shuttleworth's blog–No negotiations with Microsoft in progress We have declined to discuss any agreement with Microsoft under the threat of unspecified patent infringements. Allegations of "infringement of unspecified patents&quo

Parallels Announces Features of its Mac Server Virtualization Product

Parallels has been talking about a server-class and hardware virtualization platform since late 2005. And so all this time while I have been expecting and anticipating an x86 server-class product from the company, I had no idea it would finally come

InfoWorld’s Test Center Puts Mac Virtualization Under the Microscope

Paul Venezia said it best when he said that VMware has played second fiddle to no one since its inception and that those competing with the virtualization giant have found it to be tough going. But perhaps someone failed to mention that to team Paral

Dialing things down

It's a subject that comes up from time to time: In a recent set of exchanges far too lengthy to reproduce here in detail, a correspondent complained about such unethical practices as used car salesmen knowingly selling lemons at inflated prices,

Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization Surfaces

It's been almost a year since Microsoft completed the acquisition of Softricity, Inc. and received the application virtualization technology of SoftGrid. And since that time, there really hasn't been a lot of announcements coming out of Red

VirtualBox Making Waves as Open Source Virtualization Platform

The youngest virtualization player to enter the x86 virtualization market is Innotek. And the company has recently announced a new release of its product, VirtualBox version 1.4.0, for Windows and Linux. The new version, like its predecessors, is ava

Rules vs Rationales

Another reason why I blog

Conspicuous consumption (or Babies make you poor)

Two weeks into this baby adventure I can't believe how much money we have spent and will continue to spend on our precious little monkey. Admittedly, I have used the baby as an excuse to buy a new LCD Tv (like a child of mine wouldn't have

Vista’s Weak Link: The Driver Store

There's a weak link lurking under the covers of Windows Vista. It's the collection of ".inf" and related hardware "setup" files collectively referred to as the Windows Device Driver Store. Basically, the Driver Store hel

Evergrid, making Intel’s future manycores work in practice, and the rest of the week

In this week's enterprise HPC summary Evergrid introduces pain free checkpointing, making Intel's future manycores work in practice, grid vendors make the move to virtualization, new blades abound, and much more.

Putting PCs to sleep, revisited

I wanted to address to some comments posted in response to my article about savings you can reap by <a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/sustainableit/archives/2007/06/when_pcs_dont_s.html">employing desktop power management</a>

Big in China

I was in China for a couple of weeks (mostly on vacation) but I was also able to spend a few days on business in Beijing meeting with our partner there, Great Open Source, some local press and customers. This was my first trip to China and other than

New bloggers joining Open Sources: Zack, Savio and Dave D

We're happy to announce that we have some new members of the Open Sources team of masked banditos. Zack Urlocker of MySQL Savio Rodrigues from IBM Dave Dargo, man of mystery and intrigue Zack started the ball rolling with a post on his recent tr

Red Hat Linux vs. the World

Several people have asked when I think Red Hat is going to do a IP protection deal with Microsoft and the answer is that I don't think they will. Certainly not while Microsoft continues to be light on facts and heavy on hyperbole. There is one s

OSI to become a member-based organization?

Yesterday I wrote about the perils of diluting the OSI with corporate influence, and Michael Tiemann nicely captures an interesting way to expand the OSI's influence without ruining its integrity:The board of the Open Source Initiative has large

U.S. Customs Include Requiring Use of IE

<p>There is a lot of concern these days over whether those responsible for securing our borders are up to the job. So it's a bit unsettling to learn that they seem to think it's a good idea to force overseas businesses to use that mos

BEA sets July release for Web 2.0 products

BEA Systems plans in July to ship three products that leverage Web 2.0 concepts. The products are referred to as BEA's "enterprise social computing" products, said Ajay Gandhi, BEA director of emerging products in the company's Bu

OSBC goes live (presentations, videos up)

The keynotes from the Open Source Business Conference are <a href="/archives/videoTemplate.jsp?Id=1100">now online</a> over at InfoWorld. You can also download select presentations from the conference &l

Test Center Tracker: Leopard preview, part deux

Fresh from the Test Center: Apple's Leopard upgrades are extensive enough to warrant a second look. Part I of Tom Yager's preview looked at Xray and Core Animation; Part II heads over to the developer side with an examination of Xcode 3.0 a

Help, I know I saved that file!

My oldest daughter emailed me with a Windows Vista/Excel 2007 problem: I am so frustrated, and maybe you can shed some light on this mystery.&nbsp;&nbsp;For the second time this week, a file that I had saved has disappeared.&nbsp; Today I

SOA ROI = Dynamic Analysis

In speaking at the Gartner Show this week on SOA ROI, as well as attending some of the other sessions on the same topic, a few things became clear to me: First, reuse is a "wash" in the world of SOA. While a valuable as a byproduct of SOA,

The Geek in Review

Is the week over already? Time sure flies when you're swatting bugs in Safari. Here are a few of the week's notable stories. Whom do you anti-trust? Google has accused Microsoft of violating its anti-trust settlement by deliberately sabotag

The security solution revolution, continued

Default authentication is cheap; the cost of not improving Internet security is high

Taking RAID out of the box

Startup Pivot3 takes on clustered storage with RAIGE

What is Quest Doing?

For a long time now I've been hearing that Quest was going to release a LiteSpeed for Oracle. Actually, to tell the whole truth, I've been hearing it since the Imceda days for those of you who can remember back that far. After the Oracle re

Tivo for conferences

Opera to replace Flash, iPhone has its first app

Opera Software officials confirmed today that it is developing native video functionality for its mobile browser that will replace the ubiquitous Adobe Flash plug-in. "What we are doing is adding video capability directly into the Web browser so

The depths that Linspire has sunk to

Ah, leave it to Matthew Aslett, gentle Brit that he is, to let Linspire hang itself on its own contradictory remarks. It used to hate Microsoft. Now it loves Microsoft. For all the same reasons. Turned inside out. I wasn't nearly so nice on my C

Linspire the latest to sign pact with the devil, err, I mean Microsoft

Congratulations to Linspire for relegating their Linux desktop to the dustbin of technology. Just the fact that they have agreed to use Windows Live search as the default is pathetic. Nothing like making a mediocre product absolute crap by adding in

GreenPrint bets that customers will save on printer waste

Program aimed at Fortune 500 lets companies use software free in exchange for half the cost-savings they reap

Test Center Tracker: Wrong number for iPhone?

iPhone hang-ups for developers: InfoWorlders Ephraim Schwartz and Tom Yager are noting today that developers appear less than enthused by Apple's pronouncement that they won't be able to create native apps for the device, because it runs a

Feeding the hand that bites you

I write blog entries, you write email. Sometimes happy, sometimes not, almost always interesting. Here's a sampling. Re "Surfin' Safari," reader B. D. writes: I consider myself pragmatic and neutral on Windows/Apple/Linux/Other is