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Y By Martin Heller May 23, 2007 3 mins Software Development Feedback on the Keynote Podcast Came across Loraine Lawson's post pertaining to my last podcast of my keynote presentation at InfoWorld's SOA Executive Forum. "Dave Linthicum is one of the best consultants to read when it comes to SOA. He spends a lot of time speakin By Dave Linthicum May 23, 2007 2 mins Software Development SMB Tech News Today; INTEROP Day 3 Tired. Fuzzy. Down $350 at the slots. But still walkin'! SMB Interop News Today: * VoIPShield Systems debuts voice security suite. Have to see how much of this is really voice-specific, but the suite claims to include components for things like By Oliver Rist May 23, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry The two technology markets While pundits strive to influence stock price, IT stays focused on strategic objectives — that's not easy In computing, the space between major technology advances could be measured in years, and observers saw the variety of solutions as m By Tom Yager May 23, 2007 5 mins Technology Industry Test Center Tracker: OSBC puts open source in the spotlight Open everywhere: Today's the second day of the Open Source Business Conference, and much conversation is circling around the business side of using open source tech. The impact of open source on proprietary software was a main topic (sparked by By Stephanie McLoughlin May 23, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Microsoft could fulfill security dreams with NAP Unless third-party security develops something better — and soon — NAP or Cisco NAC will rule endpoint security By Oliver Rist May 23, 2007 6 mins Data and Information Security Databases Technology Industry HP gives WWF $2 million in tech, cash for climate-change research HP today is announcing a partnership with the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) to allocate more than $2 million in cash and equipment to the non-profit for establishing three projects aimed at addressing the causes and consequences of global climate change. By Ted Samson May 23, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry Eben on GPLv3 and SaaS Someone just asked Eben Moglen about why GPLv3 didn't stick to its original intention to apply the GPL to distribution on the web, by which I mean distribution of software as a service over the Internet. I found Eben's original answer (&quo By Matt Asay May 23, 2007 2 mins Open Source Eben Moglen: “How not to be your competitors’ free lunch” (OSBC) Eben Moglen is brilliant. Period. I don't think there can be any question on that matter. He's in the middle of his exceptional OSBC keynote and it's a reminder to all who force themselves to limp through open source that there is much By Matt Asay May 22, 2007 3 mins Open Source Creating teamwork among the teams Dear Bob …We have several very well functioning teams in our IT group. They don't all call themselves "teams" ("Systems Crew", for example), but that's what they are.My problem is that they don't see themselves as By Bob Lewis May 22, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Nortel beats up on open source Ah, poor Nortel. It must be terrible to only have $11 billion in revenues. So terrible, in fact, that if anyone dared to use an open source PBX, it would be grounds for complaining about it. Voiciferously. Wouldn't you? Well, that's apparen By Matt Asay May 22, 2007 2 mins Open Source CIO hotseat (OSBC) I'm in the CIO Hotseat session at OSBC. I love this session. We came up with it two or three years ago and it's always one of my favorite sessions, because it helps attendees (including me) get into the minds of CIOs. This time we have Niel By Matt Asay May 22, 2007 2 mins Open Source Colliding Worlds, Perspectives on the Converging of Open Source and Proprietary Software (OSBC) Interesting session, with a good mix of analysts, enterprise IT, and Mike Olson (Oracle – only vendor on the panel). The panel was designed to tackle questions about how big, proprietary companies are responding to open source startups. Net net: open By Matt Asay May 22, 2007 3 mins Open Source Constructive disruption: an enterprise perspective on open source I'm not sure what happened. This is the second session I've been to today, and both have been standing room only. This one ("Construtive Disruption: An Enterprise Perspective on Open Source") has been excellent. Robin Vasan, Manag By Matt Asay May 22, 2007 4 mins Open Source Funding News: MuleSource raises $12.5 million Everyone's favorite open source company, MuleSource just announced a Series B of $12.5 million. Don't ask me how these things happen but at least I don't have to explain why I haven't been blogging. Link: MuleSource Closes $12.5 M By Dave Rosenberg May 22, 2007 1 min Open Source Interop: Alcatel-Lucent Super Card, I WANT One of These Got this by glomming onto one of Brian's interviews–hey, I'm slimy that way. Alcatel-Lucent has gone and come out with the Swiss Army knife of PC Card modems. It's called the OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian, and it's a s By Oliver Rist May 22, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Dispatch from Interop: NAC’s the word It's a breezy 85 degrees here in Las Vegas, but the Mandalay Bay convention center AC is keeping thousands upon thousands of Interop-ites cool and content as they bustle from floor to floor. (Note to self: next time, listen to the little voice t By Stephanie McLoughlin May 22, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Marc West’s OSBC keynote Marc is the CIO of H&R Block, a company whose use of open source I find fascinating. [His slides can be found here.] Marc indicated several times that much of what Block is doing would be impossible without open source/open standards. His closing By Matt Asay May 22, 2007 2 mins Open Source Matthew Szulik’s OSBC keynote Matthew Szulik is in the middle of his keynote. Here are a few of the more salient points:The cost of starting an open source company has gone "sub-zero." Open source has opened up the creation of software geographically. It's no longe By Matt Asay May 22, 2007 3 mins Open Source SMB Tech News Today; INTEROP Day 2 A little hung over but significantly richer due to some success at Voce Communication's Texas Hold 'em Tournament done with Barracuda Networks and NetIQ. Just keeping you up-to-date. SMB Interop News * Xirrus and DiVitas show interoperabili By Oliver Rist May 22, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Encouraging failure <p>As you develop you're going to run headlong into the path of something that most of us will go to great lengths to avoid: failure. Most usually and tragically we avoid failure by avoiding those things at which we aren’t sure we ca By John West May 22, 2007 3 mins Careers Test Center Tracker: What happens in Vegas gets reported on InfoWorld Gambling on Interop 2007: Joining the mass of networking enthusiasts at Interop in Las Vegas are Senior Contributing Editors Oliver Rist and Brian Chee, as well as Test Center Senior Editor Stephanie McLoughlin. They've already been pretty busy, By Ted Samson May 22, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Telelogic offers SOA products Telelogic this week announced Telelogic System Architect for SOA and Tau 3.1, which are intended to accelerate SOA adoption by enabling business and IT collaboration in enterprise architecture and service development. System Architect for SOA provide By Paul Krill May 22, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Keynote Presentation at the SOA Exec Forum…Full Contact SOA Download file… By Dave Linthicum May 22, 2007 1 min Software Development Read my lips Finally, a political candidate who understands what the people really want. Tania Derveaux, a candidate for the Belgian parliament, has promised to personally provide jobs to 40,000 lucky male constituents if they'll vote for her NEE party — an By Robert Cringely May 22, 2007 1 min Small and Medium Business Software Development VGA blues I specified, purchased, installed and configured every piece of equipment in the place. My undoing came in the form of a blue monitor. I started my career as MIS Manager in a very small shop. We manufactured, sold, and installed demountable, reconfig By InfoWorld Anonymous May 22, 2007 4 mins Data Management Major revision planned for Sarbanes-Oxley By taking a top-down approach to ferreting out fraud, Auditing Standard No. 5 will ease up on IT oversight On May 24, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) will vote on Auditing Standard No. 5. If approved, this new standard for audit By Ephraim Schwartz May 22, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry An HP Support Nightmare and Customer Recourse <P>Today's gripe is a tale about HP and the grueling support gantlet a reader and her son were forced to run to get a broken computer fixed. But I want to emphasize that it could just be easily about Dell, because we've certainly had By Ed Foster May 22, 2007 6 mins Technology Industry Funambol mobilizes the earth(link) Funambol today announced that it has secured a major partnership with EarthLink. First, Zimbra + Comcast, and now Funambol + EarthLink. This is awesome news, and yet one more datapoint in open source's inevitable march to ubiquity. It's als By Matt Asay May 22, 2007 2 mins Open Source EMC to Keep 90% Stake in VMware for 2 Years In February, EMC announced plans to sell off or IPO a 10 percent stake in its acquired virtualization giant – VMware. The IPO is expected to bring in a cool $100 million, which is nothing to sneeze at since the acquisition only cost the company $625 By David Marshall May 22, 2007 1 min Software Development Performance Tuning and Benchmarking VMware Workstation 6 What a perfect time to come out with this whitepaper! VMware just recently announced the release of the long awaited desktop virtualization platform, VMware Workstation 6. And now, the company has created a valuable whitepaper titled "Performanc By David Marshall May 22, 2007 2 mins Software Development Why Not Acquire Them? A Look at Thintropy and Indigo Stone New software products are coming out all the time, and many of these products are getting scooped up and acquired into other products. Case in point, there are two recent acquisitions that have taken place. First, we'll discuss XDS acquiring Thi By David Marshall May 22, 2007 1 min Software Development IBM bolsters SOA IBM at its IBM Impact 2007 conference in Orlando, Fla. on Monday unveiled a series of services and products focused on SOA. More than 4,500 IBM customers have modeled their businesses around SOA, IBM said. "SOA has been a growth engine for IBM a By Paul Krill May 21, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Interop: Two-Factor Coolness from Positive Networks Purty cool for the SMB set. Positive Networks is a managed VPN provider. On that front they're launching a new reseller program that's aimed directly at SMB tech providers. But to make it sexy, they introed a new two-factor authentication f By Oliver Rist May 21, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Interop NOC Splunk Day Brian and Cathy are partaking of Padre's real estate generosity as well as me–hey he's rich and it's a big house. That's cool on the one hand because Brian makes fancy coffee every morning. That's uncool on the other hand b By Oliver Rist May 21, 2007 1 min Technology Industry ‘Green to Gold’ author, IT execs to dole out tips at Interop There's a remarkable graph in the first chapter of Andrew Winston's book "Green to Gold." It's the kind graph that would likely capture the attention of the most skeptical of CEOs who has discounted the growing interest in mo By Ted Samson May 21, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Google, Salesforce may make software history Reports say Google is about to strike a deal with Salesforce.com. If true, the deal could have far more significance than simply sharing and exchanging mashups. As big as Google is, it can't change the high-tech industry single-handedly. But a d By Ephraim Schwartz May 21, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry MyEclipse IDE updated with Java spec Genuitec announced on Monday the general release of its MyEclipse 5.5 Enterprise Workbench IDE, which is based on the Eclipse platform. MyEclipse features a variety of value-added capabilities on top of the base Eclipse platform. "We add no less By Paul Krill May 21, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry John Mark on OSI and the definition of open source John Mark Walker has offered up an excellent analysis of "open source" (the descriptor, that is). I've been struggling with this for some time (as has Gartner, more recently), and appreciate John Mark's angle on the problem.Over t By Matt Asay May 21, 2007 3 mins Open Source The Open Group’s Allen Brown and the Changing Nature of Enterprise Architecture I had a chance to meet Allen Brown, CEO of the Open Group, over the weekend, specifically on the golf course Sunday morning in a golf event sponsored by the Enterprise Architecture Summit held this week Palm Springs California. Allen and I managed no By Dave Linthicum May 21, 2007 3 mins Software Development Positive traits to unlearn Dear Bob …Are there any traditionally negative traits that a staffer should cultivate in order to make it in a typical corporate/IT climate with its usual collection of finger-pointers, knowledge-hoarders, gung-ho get-a-lifers, users who are sure y By Bob Lewis May 21, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Salesforce.com Announces Salesforce SOA With many things leading up to this, today Salesforce.com announced that they are indeed now an on-demand SOA solution, considering the capabilities of their Apex platform, new and existing. This includes adding new capabilities such as an add-on to By Dave Linthicum May 21, 2007 4 mins Software Development SMB Tech News Today; INTEROP Day 1 Just coming off of TWO WEEKS of blissful vacation and I'm thrust headlong into the chaotic bloodsport that is Spring Interop (no longer with the "Networld+" appendage…only for the last three years…shows you how aware I am). Today t By Oliver Rist May 21, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Yet another Programmer’s Blog Jason Jones, formerly of Why Smalltalk, and now of SlickEdit, wrote the other day to tell me about a new programmer's blog, "Hello, World." My first reaction was ennui, on the assumption that it would be company fluff, but the By Martin Heller May 21, 2007 1 min Software Development Test Center Tracker: Data integration wonders from Interop Integrate, and be free: Brian Chee is going cuckoo for Apatar's open-source data integration tool – and so are other Interop Team Members, he says. The drag-and-drop data transformation process is so clear-cut and straightforward that Chee says By Stephanie McLoughlin May 21, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Week at the knees Big happenings in high tech last week. In case you missed them, here are some of the key events. When pirates kill: Congress is considering new copyright legislation that imposes a life sentence on anyone who “recklessly causes or attempts to c By Robert Cringely May 21, 2007 2 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Impressions of InterACT: Business Rules as a Science I just returned from the Fair Isaac user conference, InterACT, in San Francisco, where I attended sessions on the new lineup of products for BRMS. There they introduced a new product roadmap and vision for Enterprise Decision Management (EDM), which By Steven Nunez May 21, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry How risky is open source? Often overstated, intellectual property threats apply to both proprietary and open source code By Neil McAllister May 21, 2007 10 mins Open Source Small and Medium Business Technology Industry Open source takes center stage OSBC arrives, Month of Enterprise Startups continues, and open source IP threats are put to rest By Steve Fox May 21, 2007 3 mins Open Source Small and Medium Business Technology Industry CiRBA Launches Version 4.2 of its Data Center Intelligence Solution CiRBA Inc. released version 4.2 of its Data Center Intelligence (DCI) solution. This release provides improved usability, performance enhancements, data acquisition enhancements and expanded system audit coverage. 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