Opinion

John Scott has the latest on the US Navy's use of open source. John tracks the US government's open source policies pretty closely, and is generally the first place to see this kind of information surface. As he notes,The “User Guidan

By Matt Asay

Jun 7, 2007 2 mins

Open Source

Microsoft talks power savings for the datacenter

Redmond talks up 20% power-use reduction in Windows 2008 server, hush-hush green datacenter plans

By Ted Samson

Jun 6, 2007 2 mins

Technology Industry

The real reason corporate America wants more H-1Bs

Let's take away the two strongest arguments from proponents and opponents of the H-1B visa program and see the reasons why a company might still prefer to hire employees under the H-1B visa program as opposed to U.S. citizens. First the argument

By Ephraim Schwartz

Jun 6, 2007 3 mins

Technology Industry

Fighting your inner manager

<p>Leading a team is hard, mostly because managing seems to be part of our nature. To know and control everything that goes on around you always seems to be the best way to minimize your risk of failure or of being seen to make a public mistake

By John West

Jun 6, 2007 2 mins

Careers

Sneak peek: PrimalScript 2007’s new features

This is for you, PrimalScript fans: My contacts at Sapien allowed me to leak a few teasers about the next version of PrimalScript that will hit the streets around August 1. The new 2007 release of this scripting environment shows that Sapien put a

By Sean McCown

Jun 6, 2007 3 mins

Technology Industry

Heading to the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit

On Sunday I'm off to the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit, held in Nashville TN. I'm doing a pre-conference workshop on Sunday night, and a talk on Wednesday morning. Long week in Nashville, and I h

By Dave Linthicum

Jun 6, 2007 1 min

Software Development

BMW and Audi drive SUSE Linux

You could spend a lot of money on proprietary virtualization technology and run it on UNIX. Or you could get the same (or better) performance out of Xen on Linux, like Audi and BMW are doing. As Softpedia writes:BMW and Audi car makers rely on Novell

By Matt Asay

Jun 6, 2007 2 mins

Open Source

I'm excited to announce that InfoWorld will be launching a Green IT newsletter this week, written by yours truly. It's scheduled to conveniently show up in subscribers' e-mailboxes Thursday — and it's free.

By Ted Samson

Jun 6, 2007 1 min

Technology Industry

Open source setting the terms with Microsoft (Marten Mickos)

This is perhaps the first I've ever heard someone credibly say that Microsoft must now live by open source's rules, or suffer. As Marten Mickos (CEO, MySQL) told The Register, If you won't work with MySQL, PHP and Ruby then you are los

By Matt Asay

Jun 6, 2007 2 mins

Open Source

Going ape over evolution

There is no truth to the rumor this blog is turning into a earth sciences forum, though you wouldn't know it by looking at the response to my item last week (“Unnatural selection”) about the Creation Museum. That entry inspired more

By Robert Cringely

Jun 6, 2007 2 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

Mainsoft boosts .Net development for Linux

Mainsoft announced the release Wednesday of Mainsoft for Java EE, version 2.0, which features a suite of products enabling developers to produce .Net Web and server applications that run on Linux and other Java-enabled platforms. Formerly called Visu

By Paul Krill

Jun 6, 2007 2 mins

Technology Industry

Google Gears: Standing the Smart Client on its Head

You may have noticed by now that I'm not the go to guy for breaking news; I'm more the guy who takes it apart and figures out what what it means for developers. Even if I wasn't crazy busy last week when Google Gears was annou

By Martin Heller

Jun 6, 2007 2 mins

Software Development

Test Center Tracker: Web conferencing with Microsoft and exploring Google Gears

Nights at the RoundTable: Web video conferencing just got a little smarter with Microsoft's A/V heavy RoundTable conferencing device – so says Oliver Rist in this week's Enterprise Windows column. The Office Live Meeting 2007 requirement is

By Stephanie McLoughlin

Jun 6, 2007 2 mins

Technology Industry

Corporate amorality revisited

A correspondent was rankled by some of my comments in "Choosing between the bird in your hand and the two in the bush," (Advice Line, 4/25/2007). His comments:"All companies aren't amoral and all hiring managers aren't heartl

By Bob Lewis

Jun 6, 2007 5 mins

Technology Industry

Apple WWDC: Nothing to see here?

With developers unable to grab iPhones and Leopard still under wraps, what of note will come out of WWDC? Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is coming up next week, and Steve Jobs will keynote with the enthusiasm one expects from a bi

By Tom Yager

Jun 6, 2007 4 mins

Technology Industry

2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: John Alber

Technology partner, Bryan Cave

By Galen Gruman

Jun 6, 2007 4 mins

Application Integration Business Intelligence Technology Industry

Microsoft packs A/V Web conferencing features into RoundTable

Tabletop device delivers phone features and a 360-degree Webcam, tied together with Office Live Meeting 2007

By Oliver Rist

Jun 6, 2007 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Jeremiah Grossman

CTO, WhiteHat Security

By Galen Gruman

Jun 6, 2007 3 mins

Security Software Development

2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Paul Judge

CTO, Secure Computing

By Matt Hines

Jun 6, 2007 2 mins

Malware Phishing Social Engineering

2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Jamie Bernardin

Founder and CTO, DataSynapse

By Matt Hines

Jun 6, 2007 2 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Robert Gourley

CTO, U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency

By Galen Gruman

Jun 6, 2007 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Oracle inching out SAP in the mid-market (WSJ)

Ostensibly, SAP is the loser as Oracle moves past it in mid-market enterprise software [Sub'n required]. But the real loser in this is Microsoft, which has owned the consumer through SME market for many years. Microsoft has won this market throu

By Matt Asay

Jun 6, 2007 2 mins

Open Source

Schwarzenegger calls on Feds for more H-1Bs

In a letter to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called on Congress to issue more H-1B visas. For more details on the current immigration bill in Congress

By Ephraim Schwartz

Jun 6, 2007 4 mins

Technology Industry

Green HP rp5700 desktop strikes EPEAT gold

HP raises the eco-bar with energy-efficient desktop system designed for long life and easy recycling

By Ted Samson

Jun 5, 2007 5 mins

Technology Industry

Google Apps and Salesforce integration only a matter of time

It is no longer a matter of if but when, as far as I am concerned. That's how I feel about Google Apps being integrated into Salesforce.com after interviewing Kraig Swensrud, senior director of marketing at Salesforce. [ Video: Salesforce and Go

By Ephraim Schwartz

Jun 5, 2007 2 mins

Technology Industry

Spring framework for .Net advances

Interface21 announced at the TechEd 2007 conference in Orlando, Fla. Tuesday a milestone release of the Spring.Net 1.1 application framework for building enterprise .Net applications. The software is rooted in the popular Spring Framework for Java. A

By Paul Krill

Jun 5, 2007 2 mins

Technology Industry

Ameritrade: Buy, sell, spam?

Is TD Ameritrade leaking its customers' email addresses to pump and dump spammers? That's the charge leveled by Bennett Haselton, best known as the guy who's been sticking it to the Web content monitoring industry for nearly a decade v

By Robert Cringely

Jun 5, 2007 2 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

A smooth transition from one employer to another

Dear Bob … I've been working in the same job, same boss for the last 12 years. I'm well liked both personally and professionally by boss, his boss's; co-workers, non-IT stuff and a few external customers that I support. We've go

By Bob Lewis

Jun 5, 2007 4 mins

Technology Industry

Test Center Tracker: The elusive SOA standard stack

The "A" is for architecture: Real World SOA blogger Dave Linthicum comments on the emerging debate over whether or it's desireable, or even possible, to standardize the SOA stack. He's clearly on the "it ain't gonna happ

By Ted Samson

Jun 5, 2007 2 mins

Technology Industry

Do you really need a receipt with that?

Paper waste clearly abounds in the business world, and the costs really can add up. I'd love to see a little receipt restraint in the retail world.

By Ted Samson

Jun 5, 2007 3 mins

Technology Industry

Those Seeking a “Standard SOA Stack” Don’t Understand SOA

In this article by Rich Seeley there is clearly some debate about the emergence of the illusive "Standard SOA stack." "While some vendors, most notably IBM, say they would like to see everyone agree on a single Web services stack — th

By Dave Linthicum

Jun 5, 2007 2 mins

Software Development

Bill me later

For many of our customers, our service was free because our billing system was a mess. Even a re-org couldn't fix it. A few years ago, my team was running a large distributed mail system serving the employees and customers of a national telco. T

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Jun 5, 2007 3 mins

Data Management

2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: James Chong

Founder and CTO, VidSys

By Ephraim Schwartz

Jun 5, 2007 3 mins

Security

2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Phil Nail

Founder and CTO, AISO

By Ted Samson

Jun 5, 2007 2 mins

Security Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Carl Snyder

Director of global IT infrastructure and operations, Tellabs

By Ted Samson

Jun 5, 2007 2 mins

Careers Security Technology Industry

Immigration reform’s high-tech impact

Merit-based immigration, alterations to H-1B provisions, and caps head the hot-button issues as Senate Bill 1348 takes shape

By Ephraim Schwartz

Jun 5, 2007 8 mins

Careers

2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Stefan Zutt

Head of IT and facilities management, European Railway Agency

By Leon Erlanger

Jun 5, 2007 2 mins

Development Tools Software Development

2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Padmasree Warrior

Executive vice president and CTO, Motorola

By Eric Knorr

Jun 5, 2007 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Which of your congresspersons is owned by the RIAA?

Well, mine, for one. Orrin Hatch (Republican senator from Utah) took $6,000 from the RIAA, that group that goes around suing children because its backers want the freedom to treat digital goods like physical goods. Except that they're not. And s

By Matt Asay

Jun 5, 2007 1 min

Open Source

Hyperic raises its Series B

Ah, more money pouring into open source companies each day. Today, Hyperic announced that it has closed on its Series B funding:Hyperic Inc., the leader in multi-platform, open source systems management, today announced that it has secured $6.1 milli

By Matt Asay

Jun 5, 2007 2 mins

Open Source

How Google can avoid becoming evil (Jeff Nolan)

Not that Google would ever contemplate doing anything evil, of course. But Jeff suggests that it's collection of data and secrecy about how it will use (and what it is gathering) it is a problem for you, me, and everyone else:But here’s th

By Matt Asay

Jun 5, 2007 2 mins

Open Source

Micronet ships portable eSATA box

Micronet ships portable eSATA box eSATA may not be the first protocol that comes to mind for direct attached drives, but this clever extension of the SATA (serial ATA) technology offers affordable and fast connectivity that leaves in the dust competi

By Mario Apicella

Jun 5, 2007 2 mins

Technology Industry

Readers Debate Open Source Vs Windows

<P>How viable an alternative to Microsoft is Linux and other open source software for corporate IT environments? I'm not qualified to answer that question, but as the issues mount due to Microsoft's copy protection, licensing, and sof

By Ed Foster

Jun 5, 2007 6 mins

Technology Industry