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Have any tips or words of wisdom?- HagglingDear Haggling …My single most important piece By Bob Lewis May 16, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry Intel FUD versus AMD fact Time to market is a poor measure of innovation At the AMD CTO Summit held last week in Monterey, Calif., AMD put a few members of the press under nondisclosure and gave us an unusually detailed look at unpublished products and plans. Much of it is to By Tom Yager May 16, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry Trimming the Longhorn, threatening the Penguin Microsoft cuts virtualization features from Longhorn and claims open source violates 235 patents By Oliver Rist May 16, 2007 4 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry IBM offers hosted Web development tool IBM is announcing a free Web application development tool on Wednesday, featuring a simple user interface to accommodate persons without technical skills in small businesses and other organizations. With IBM Development Engagement Service, or DevEnga By Paul Krill May 16, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Microsoft’s Virtual Machine Manager and QLogic’s SANblade HBAs According to a recent press release, QLogic Corp. is now working with Microsoft to integrate N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) technology with Microsoft's virtualization management solution, System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). The resul By David Marshall May 15, 2007 2 mins Software Development Sifau Software Brings Swarm Encrypted SAN Storage Appliances to VMware Siafu Software is trying to make storage in virtualized environments easy and cost effective. The company just announced that its Siafu Swarm Series of IP SAN Appliances for affordable, easy-to-manage encrypted iSCSI storage are now available for VMw By David Marshall May 15, 2007 2 mins Software Development Some of the best thoughts on Microsoft’s patent poll tax Here are some of the best (new) commentaries on Microsoft's goofy publicity stunt:Linus smacks around the possibility that Linux violates Microsoft's patents, claiming it's more likely that Microsoft violates Linux developers' pat By Matt Asay May 15, 2007 2 mins Open Source PlateSpin Advances PowerConvert Solution Canada's long time virtualization solution provider, PlateSpin, has enhanced its PowerConvert solution with a minor dot release advancing the software product to a 6.6 release version. 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Remember, they wouldn't be motivated unless your products By Matt Asay May 15, 2007 1 min Open Source SOA Exec Forum Podcast Download file… By Dave Linthicum May 15, 2007 1 min Software Development At least Microsoft is consistent I'm not sure how I forgot this classic ditty from Bill Gates, but it does show a certain consistency in Microsoft's thinking…stretching over the last 31 years:As the majority of hobbyists [open source developers] must be aware, most of yo By Matt Asay May 15, 2007 2 mins Open Source Building smart teams Dear Bob …I am enjoying your "Six Stupid" articles ("The Six Stupid methodology," Keep the Joint Running, 4/23/2007 and "Six Stupid process controls," Keep the Joint Running, 4/30/2007). I intend to share with my staff By Bob Lewis May 15, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Serena Mariner 6.2 focuses on ALM integration Serena Software unveiled a product this week intended to integrate project and portfolio management into a single application lifecycle management (ALM) offering. Serena Mariner 6.2, for project and portfolio management, integrates with Serena's By Paul Krill May 15, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Using the term “open source” Stephe calls out my mistake in calling a company open source. I'm not sure why he chose this time to do it, as I routinely mislabel companies "open source" for two reasons: I don't have a good, short, alternative descriptor for th By Matt Asay May 15, 2007 2 mins Open Source Microsoft appoints a “chief of licensing” (Dave Dargo) I found this too funny…from Dave Dargo's blog:Customer: I want to use my super-powerful computer to help me be more efficient. Microsoft: Great, first you need to speak with our chief of licensing. Customer: Who? Microsoft: He'll help mak By Matt Asay May 15, 2007 2 mins Open Source The Spring Framework raises $10M It's nice to be able to write about something besides Microsoft. Interface21, the company behind the exceptional Spring Framework, just nabbed $21M from Benchmark Capital. Peter Fenton, formerly at Accel (and investor in JBoss), did the deal. Th By Matt Asay May 15, 2007 2 mins Open Source Google’s Brin feeling pretty lucky Bad news, ladies, there's one less eligible billionaire to go around. Last weekend, leading G-man Sergey Brin and his longtime galpal Anne Wojcicki got hitched in a small private ceremony. According to the Washington Post's Reliable Sources By Robert Cringely May 15, 2007 2 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development ODF vs. OpenXML Convincing customers they have the better technology is the weapon of choice when it comes to winning business battles in high tech First let's make one thing clear. At the highest level, ODF (Open Document Format) vs. OpenXML is a battle betwee By Ephraim Schwartz May 15, 2007 6 mins Technology Industry Motherboard Replacements and Windows OEM EULAs <P>If you decide to replace the motherboard in your computer, should you have to pay Microsoft again for the OS that came with the system? Well, in Redmond they think so, and that probably doesn't come as much of a surprise. What I do find By Ed Foster May 15, 2007 6 mins Technology Industry Sentillion Offers Virtual Desktop Printing Solution Sentillion vBusiness has announced a secure local printing driver solution as a free add-on module for its vThere desktop virtualization software. The technology allows a remote user to print securely from within a vThere virtual desktop image to any By David Marshall May 15, 2007 2 mins Software Development Virtualization Surveys and Reports – We Find Out Everything Within the IT community, virtualization is a hot topic. And as such, everyone is coming out with a report or survey based on their own independent fact finding missions. IDC recently reported on how server virtualization is growing in the European ma By David Marshall May 15, 2007 1 min Software Development Open source companies should boycott Microsoft’s ISV corruption event This past Friday a IT banking friend and I spoke at length about the upcoming Microsoft event prior to OSBC which is designed to encourage OSS companies to partner and win with Microsoft. The guys at Olliance have been trying to help Microsoft not be By Dave Rosenberg May 15, 2007 2 mins Open Source Report: Vendors’ green messages are loud, but not clear Vendors are pouring more green into their sales pitches, but their messages aren't reaching the right ears clearly. That's one of the findings in a Forrester report released today titled "Tapping Buyers' Growing Interest In Green By Ted Samson May 14, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Rejecting the right to yesterday’s business model I was talking with a friend today and he suggested that proprietary vendors have a "right" to their business models, just as open source vendors have to theirs. When I questioned him on whether anyone has a "right" to a certain wa By Matt Asay May 14, 2007 3 mins Open Source SQL Refactor is still the Bomb! Quite a few months ago, Red-gate came out with SQLRefactor, a tool that let's you setup templates to organize your SQL code, rename objects, etc. I contacted them about getting a license so I could take a look at it, and they promptly replied. I By Sean McCown May 14, 2007 4 mins Databases Anonymous Posting Returns, I Hope <P>This weekend we began a new phase in the battle against link spam on my GripeLog website. And, fingers crossed, so far I am optimistic that we are slowly getting to the point where we can once again have the kind of open discussions we all w By Ed Foster May 14, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Microsoft: We canna take na more, cap’n Bad news for fans of dead trekkers: The rocket that was to transport the ashes of Federation Starship Commander Montgomery Scott (aka actor James Doohan) into orbit has blown off course and is now stranded somewhere in New Mexico's San Andres Mo By Robert Cringely May 14, 2007 1 min Small and Medium Business Software Development Test Center Tracker: SOA bottlenecks, be gone! SOA Conference hits the Big Apple: Tomorrow marks the start of the SOA Executive Forum in New York, and if you're anywhere in the area and are considering an SOA implementation at your own organization, then the Roosevelt Hotel is the place to b By Stephanie McLoughlin May 14, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry XML Notepad 2007 In case you missed it, Microsoft resurrected the old XML Notepad last year. The new version, XML Notepad 2007, is a .NET 2.0 application for which source code is available on CodePlex. I find it the application quite useful. You can find th By Martin Heller May 14, 2007 2 mins Software Development Put up or shut up, Microsoft (Larry Augustin) Microsoft's recent maneuvering over open source has Larry Augustin's ire, too. I wonder if Microsoft cares about all the ill will its hollow sabre rattling does. Larry advises a range of open source companies and he has been encouraging the By Matt Asay May 14, 2007 2 mins Open Source Six Stupid and the nature of adulthood Dear Bob …I think that Six Stupid ("Six Stupid process controls," Keep the Joint Running, 4/30/2007) makes overly broad assumptions as to who an adult is. But then, the definition of an adult varies with the profession that is trying to d By Bob Lewis May 14, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry The ghost who sabotaged the mainframe Everyone missed Ernie — until he came back, and started messing with the mainframe. I don't know where you stand on ghosts. Some people think if you believe in ghosts you've failed a primal intelligence test. I used to be one of those peop By InfoWorld Anonymous May 14, 2007 6 mins Data Management Selling the dream SOA isn't the first all-purpose cure all for IT woes. To get past the cynicism, focus on deliverables and bypass the technical details By Galen Gruman May 14, 2007 2 mins Software Development Addressing the data problem SOA applications may span the enterprise, so they need consistent, application-independent data definitions. That's one big cleanup job By Galen Gruman May 14, 2007 2 mins Software Development Putting services to the test Dependencies among services increase the complexity of testing, especially when you can't possibly predict all the future applications that may consume a service By Galen Gruman May 14, 2007 2 mins Software Development Scoping out services The conversation between business and IT gets serious when you begin defining arrays of services. Keeping a business-function perspective will help ensure success By Galen Gruman May 14, 2007 2 mins Software Development Breaking SOA bottlenecks Those who experiment with SOA on a small scale generally have a smooth ride. But start to scale, and obstacles quickly emerge. 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To change the individualist developer culture, create the right incentives By Galen Gruman May 14, 2007 3 mins Software Development SOA is DOA, unless you break the bottlenecks Plus: Longhorn love affair and an IT ghost story By Steve Fox May 14, 2007 3 mins Databases Small and Medium Business Technology Industry Timing the technology choice Don't pull the trigger too early. 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