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Aside from a small hive in London, it's hard to find more than two Alfrescans in the same city. The same is largely true of MySQL and a number of new op By Matt Asay May 31, 2007 3 mins Open Source Test Center Tracker: Clearspace fosters collaboration Build customer relationships: Communication is essential to keeping customers satisfied. In a hands-on review of Clearspace X, Test Center contributor Mike Heck finds that Jive Software has brought many notable improvements to its external collaborat By Ted Samson May 31, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Max Spevack on Fedora 7, community building Fedora 7 is hitting the streets, and I was fortunate to catch up last week with Max Spevack, Fedora Project Leader, to discuss new features in this release, and Fedora's contribution to the Linux community and to Red Hat. Fedora tends to get los By Matt Asay May 31, 2007 4 mins Open Source Lean, mean coding machines Not more code, but more discipline is needed to improve the effectiveness of most app dev organizations By David Margulius May 31, 2007 3 mins Software Development CO2 spewer? See you in court! According to a new study, growing awareness of global warming's effects and the threats they pose could lead to a new rash of lawsuits against companies that don't take steps to reduce CO2 emissions. By Ted Samson May 31, 2007 5 mins Technology Industry ToutVirtual Touts VirtualIQ Pro for Virtualization Management Carlsbad, California based ToutVirtual today announced the release of its virtualization management product called VirtualIQ Pro. The company had originally announced a free version of its policy-based, automated management solution back in July of 2 By David Marshall May 30, 2007 3 mins Software Development More on the Novell private equity exit… An old friend from Novell sent me her own analysis of the viability of a Novell private equity exit (following on my own half-baked effort). I asked her permission to post, and she agreed. I think it's a solid starting point for anyone thinking By Matt Asay May 30, 2007 4 mins Open Source Adding risk into the commercial open source buying equation (Savio) Good post by Savio Rodrigues of IBM/Geronimo fame. (I finally had the pleasure of meeting Savio at OSBC last week. Great guy, though he doesn't play football nearly as well as his compatriots. 🙂 Savio walks through how risk enters into the buy By Matt Asay May 30, 2007 2 mins Open Source CollabNet offers distributed development for Eclipse CollabNet announced a distributed software development platform for Eclipse IDE-based developers on Wednesday. CollabNet Desktop, Eclipse Edition enables software engineers to collaborate globally using CollabNet Enterprise Edition as a backbone to t By Paul Krill May 30, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Open source religion I was pretty annoyed when I got to the bank today to deposit some money (you can see how well this open source thing is paying by the denomination of the bill :-), and found it had been ruined by Dave Rosenberg or some other religious weirdo. Now, be By Matt Asay May 30, 2007 3 mins Open Source Private equity should buy out Novell Ah, Novell. I IM'd this morning with one of your faithful – someone I respect a great deal – and he reminded me of all that Novell does well (fight SCO, put out a great Linux product, both server and desktop, etc.). But what Novell has been lack By Matt Asay May 30, 2007 2 mins Open Source Teach what you know <p>As a lightweight way to steer my life in the direction of making some small positive difference I'm a pretty big fan of the phrase "teach what you know." And if you are serious about developing yourself into a leader who makes By John West May 30, 2007 3 mins Careers The open source governmental adoption wave I just closed out my quarter (whew!), and needed to relax a bit. So I plowed through Jyh-An Lee's article in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law. [PDF] It presents a very interesting face on the rising trend of open source By Matt Asay May 30, 2007 4 mins Open Source Upcoming desktop discussion w/ InformationWeek and Jason Maynard Jason Maynard is moderating a discussion this week on the changing desktop landscape with Charlie Babcock and Paul McDougal of InformationWeek. The call will discuss Vista adoption, new offerings on the Linux front from Ubuntu and Red Hat, and though By Matt Asay May 30, 2007 1 min Open Source SaaS – Underhyped? So, the big news today (well, not the really big news, which is, of course, that the Spanish media is reporting that Arsenal may trade Henry for Eto'o plus 17 million pounds – I'll take it!) is Jason Maynard's provocative research note By Matt Asay May 30, 2007 2 mins Open Source Test Center Tracker: Windows Mobile 6 gives BlackBerry a run for the money A contender enters the ring: Will Windows Mobile 6 really give BlackBerry a fight in the wireless OS world? Senior Contributing Editor and Hawaii lab guru Brian Chee says it might, based on what he's seen over the past few weeks while experiment By Stephanie McLoughlin May 30, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry 3Ware’s 9650SE and the Sun Ultra 40 M2 For the past few months, I've been running a Sun Ultra 40 M2 coupled with a 3Ware 9650SE SATA RAID controller. It would seem that this is a marriage made in heaven. As I've remarked before, the Ultra 40 M2 is simply the most powerful workst By Paul Venezia May 30, 2007 5 mins Managing Iterative Software Development Projects I took Managing Iterative Software Development Projects, by Kurt Bittner and Ian Spence (Addison-Wesley, 2007, 672pp, $49.99, ISBN-10: 0-321-26889-X) home to read over the Memorial Day weekend, and curled up with it on the couch Sat By Martin Heller May 30, 2007 3 mins Software Development Is Advice Line xenophobic? Comment (regarding "Manager as buffer?" Advice Line, 5/29/2007):"buffer" is a euphemism for "linebacker."And linebacker is an analogy for: hang on, I'll look it up in Google. Ah, 'Linebackers are members of the By Bob Lewis May 30, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry OSGi technology upgraded for Java community The OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative) Alliance announced on Wednesday that it has released OSGi Service Platform Release 4 Core Specification 4.1, responding to requirements received from the Java community. OSGi technology, providing a service By Paul Krill May 30, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Compuware offers apps delivery management Compuware next week plans to unify its "application delivery management" products, for application lifecycle management, under the Compuware Optimal nameplate. Featured in the Optimal suite are an integrated set of offerings for application By Paul Krill May 30, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Wasted Away Again in Googlenetics-ville Warren Buffet: Massively successful investor, friend of Bill Gates, often seen at bridge tournaments. Jimmy Buffet: Massively successful pop star, Mayor of Margaritaville, often seen at fishing tournaments with salt shaker in hand. Are the lauded cap By Robert Cringely May 30, 2007 2 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Getting much, much more per x86 rack Quad core is not the magic key to a quantum jump in virtual server density, but that key exists Despite the bait dangled by Intel and AMD — twice as much server in the same space every two years — that rule of thumb won't work for capacity pla By Tom Yager May 30, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry OCS 2007 doesn’t spell doom for VoIP PBX, gateway, and handset makers needn't fear Office Communication Server 2007 but should adapt to it By Oliver Rist May 30, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry ClearCube’s Blade Solution Delivers on VDI ClearCube Technology has expanded the capabilities of its blade solution as they enter into a closer partnership with VMware and gain certification to OEM VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). The company is the first to certify its PC By David Marshall May 30, 2007 2 mins Software Development As Virtualization Expands, what about Security? As virtualization and server consolidation continues to expand within IT organizations, what, if anything, are they doing about security? Is security still a concern? The British Computer Society recently wrote that security is no longer the prime co By David Marshall May 30, 2007 1 min Software Development Windows Mobile 6: Not going to kill the blackberry, yet… So I've been on a journey that started with a Blackberry 7100t from T-Mobile, had a false start on their new Dash (actually the HTC S620) that originally came with Windows Mobile 5, and just a little while ago T-Mobile offered up a soft By Brian Chee May 30, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry Manager as buffer? Dear Bob …In a recent discussion, I once again heard someone refer to the manager's role as being a buffer between their direct reports and upper management.In my experience this type of manager is creating problems for themselves and the orga By Bob Lewis May 29, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Microsoft is right: Developers don’t need PDC ’07 Microsoft axed its Fall Professional Developers Conference (PDC), and it's got the blogosphere all a-twitter with speculation about the reasons. If they accepted the reasons that Microsoft gave–developers already have access to what they' By Tom Yager May 29, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry The Geek in Review A brief summary of last week's hijinks in High Tech. Goocha libre: Google and SalesForce have announced that they are joining up to battle Microsoft, but the deal is going to look less like a merger and more like tag team wrestling. Look for Mar By Robert Cringely May 29, 2007 2 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Would you give a baby to this man? Our very own Dave Rosenberg is shortly to become a father. You can see how he feels about it: Dave is closing in on the end of life as he knows it, and beginning a much better life. Good luck, and don't worry about the blogging…. By Matt Asay May 29, 2007 1 min Open Source OSBC 2007 in pictures Unfortunately I can't post all of the pictures from this past OSBC (I have hundreds), but here's a few that I think sum it up nicely: No one told Dirk Hohndel that OSBC is "pass/fail." He seems to be trying to cheat on someone els By Matt Asay May 29, 2007 3 mins Open Source SCO was Microsoft’s patent warm-up act PJ at Groklaw has uncovered this little gem from an exhibit filed in SCO v. Novell. Fascinating stuff. It's always interesting when you can finally read things that were intended to be private. In this case, it looks like SCO was a definite prec By Matt Asay May 29, 2007 2 mins Open Source Microsoft’s fiduciary duty Dave has another great post on Microsoft's supposed "fiduciary duty" to wave the patent FUD flag. Imagine if, at Microsoft's next shareholder meeting, they said, "Rather than providing new innovation in the market for our con By Matt Asay May 29, 2007 2 mins Open Source 5 Things HP Needs to do to make an Impact in the SOA Market As we saw last week HP has tossed its hat into the SOA market, and is ready to do battle with the likes of Tibco, IBM, and Oracle. "HP has decided that the time is right for SOA, so is stepping onto a battlefield currently being dominated by IBM By Dave Linthicum May 29, 2007 3 mins Software Development How many techs does it take to turn on a computer? Sometimes, being plugged in is just not enough… I did some time as part of a call center help desk team at a well-to-do corporate HQ office. The help desk was manned with 10 techies and supported just under 2,000 non-IT people in the building. Floo By InfoWorld Anonymous May 29, 2007 3 mins Data Management Dumbing down and smartening up via the Web Social networking and information design will have a profound effect on generations to come As an old friend once told me, whenever there's a transition in a culture, something is lost. When Gutenberg invented the printing press and written info By Ephraim Schwartz May 29, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry SMB Tech News Today; 5/29 Sometimes I really hate golf. I mean, just hate it. Ruins a perfectly good three-day weekend. * The Penguin People fire back at Microsoft. In response to Microsoft hinting that it will be looking at patent litigation against Linux users soon (and Nov By Oliver Rist May 29, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Is outsourcing getting too expensive? Rising pay in India is changing the dynamics of offshore hiring By Steve Fox May 29, 2007 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry Securent takes access control to a new level Going beyond conventional access control, Securent lets administrators determine what users can and can't do after they're logged in By Matt Hines May 29, 2007 3 mins Data and Information Security Databases Security Intuit Disables Feature With Dot Release <P>For years I've been <A href="/articles/op/xml/00/03/20/000320opfoster.html">chronicling</A> Intuit's crippleware tactics of turning program features into paid services, particularly in By Ed Foster May 29, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry US Air Force opens up to open source You know, if you're a proprietary software company this sort of news must be really depressing. It just keeps coming. Every day. A new software acquisition and development program is focusing on boosting efficiency and decreasing lifecycle costs By Matt Asay May 29, 2007 2 mins Open Source Open source: a symbiotic relationship between the cathedral and the bazaar (Nick Carr) I just finished reading Nick Carr's "The Ignorance of Crowds." [PDF] A great read, and important for those who want help seeing open source's potential…as well as its limitations. First, the potential. Nick traces the seemingly By Matt Asay May 29, 2007 3 mins Open Source When you’re supposed to take unquestioning orders Dear Bob …My manager uses meetings to give orders. She doesn't tolerate discussions. Whenever I try to make a suggestion, she cuts the meeting short, saying, "Haven't I just told you what to do? GET OUT OF MY OFFICE."It happens By Bob Lewis May 29, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Memo to readers: we need a minute to recover It's that time of year where things start to get crazy and we need a minute to regroup. Give it a few days and you'll see some new stuff. For Matt, OSBC was a killer event both in terms of it's success and the overwhelming amount of wo By Dave Rosenberg May 28, 2007 1 min Open Source Memorial Day Here in Andover, Massachusetts, we have a Memorial Day parade featuring a bagpipe band, marching bands, veterans, Revolutionary and Civil War re-enactors, and scout troops. At the end of the parade, there's a service i By Martin Heller May 28, 2007 1 min Software Development The Ten Commandments of blog and wiki etiquette New modes of communication require new codes for behavior — here's how to avoid devolving into an online unruly ape By Pete Babb May 28, 2007 4 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Capacity and Chargeback Virtual Appliance for VMware ESX Before virtualization came around, IT departments typically had a process in place to account for department chargebacks when it came time for billing departments for computer resource consumption. Now, many of those systems just don't make a wh By David Marshall May 27, 2007 2 mins Software Development Venyo improves the reputation of Web 2.0 How can you trust what you read in social media? Get users to rate the source, and make that rating stick By Matt Hines May 27, 2007 3 mins Software Development Holiday Hours There will be no new Podcast this week due to the holiday. I will have a new Podcast the following week, on June 4th. Good time to listen to the archived Podcasts as you bake in the Memorial Day sun, or run off that BBQ. Vendors and PR agencies. 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