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The RIF starts with 1,300, and is expected to hit as many as 150,000 employees. (!!!)The IBM project I am writing about is called LEAN and the first manifestation of By Matt Asay May 5, 2007 2 mins Open Source Stephe Walli on the core/competency discovery I listened to Stephe's fantastic talk at a COSS.fi last month, and am glad he just posted a thoughtful piece detailing his ideas. In a way, it's similar to Martin Fink's analysis of a few years ago as to what you can afford to open sou By Matt Asay May 5, 2007 1 min Open Source How one open source atheist become a believer Many don't know this, but my friend and colleague John Newton (co-founder of Documentum and of Alfresco) started his life as anti-open soure. He couldn't understand how the model could possibly work in a business context. On a recent editio By Matt Asay May 5, 2007 1 min Open Source Microsoft looking to buy Yahoo! (?) That's what The New York Post is reporting, with Nick Carr providing local color. Buying Yahoo would represent a hugely risky bet for Microsoft, as both companies have been struggling with the management of their internet businesses, losing sear By Matt Asay May 5, 2007 1 min Open Source Open Source Executive Moves: Robert Love bails out of Novell Another innovator heads out the door at Novell… An operose decision, I resigned as Chief Architect of our Linux Desktop endeavor, effective today. In the house that Ximian built, we dreamt and saw to fruition the world's finest Linux desktop, By Dave Rosenberg May 5, 2007 1 min Open Source Sun’s eco VP talks greening the data center and JavaOne Just in time for next week's JavaOne show, Sun Vice President of Eco-Responsibility Dave Douglas arrived in San Francisco yesterday afternoon. His first stop: the InfoWorld office to chat with me about his first year-plus in his green role; data By Ted Samson May 4, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry Open Source Think Tank Summary Report Olliance Group and DLA Piper released the Open Source Think Tank 2007 Executive Summary Report summarizing the 2… By Dave Rosenberg May 4, 2007 1 min Open Source Mrs. Cadwallader on open source Lonn (President of PageOne PR) reminded me that I haven't waxed literary in some time, so when I saw this gem yesterday in my reading of Middlemarch by George Eliot, I pounced:He is vulnerable to reason there–always a few grains of common-sense By Matt Asay May 4, 2007 2 mins Open Source Getting Started with Silverlight Shawn Wildermuth, who wrote the excellent book Pragmatic ADO.NET (Addison-Wesley, 2003, 357 pp, $44.99, ISBN 0-201-74568-2), has been working closely with the Silverlight team at Microsoft. Just in time for the release of Silverlight at MIX07, O' By Martin Heller May 4, 2007 2 mins Software Development Test Center Tracker: Exclusive review of Intransa 10Gb iSCSI system Fresh from the Test Center: Intransa's StorStac PCU100 is one of the first 10Gb iSCSI systems out there, and based on what Logan Harbaugh saw in his exclusive early review, it's a snazzy, scalable, well-perofrming storage system. Check it o By Stephanie McLoughlin May 4, 2007 1 min Technology Industry This ego has been reassigned A former fighter pilot a good VP? Hmmmm. Not so much. Back in the mid-1980s, after the breakup of AT&T, I began working as a software manager for what was at the time the number one manufacturer of T1 multiplexer equipment in the U.S. Private voi By InfoWorld Anonymous May 4, 2007 3 mins Data Management If it ain’t Barack, don’t fix it We've had some Obama Drama on the web this week. The Democratic contender's campaign has taken over Obama's MySpace page, which was created as a labor of love by Barack backer Joe Anthony in 2004 and grew to over 150,000 friends. After By Robert Cringely May 4, 2007 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Will server virtualization end the FC-iSCSI debate? There are pros and cons on both sides of the argument — and the winning answer depends on your enterprise's storage strategy By Mario Apicella May 4, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry Stop fighting better security These four excuses aren't good enough to exempt you from bolstering your defenses By Roger Grimes May 4, 2007 5 mins Security Insecurity Over More Security Questions With phishing scams and other forms of identity theft targeting our bank accounts, financial institutions are increasingly adding additional security checks. But one reader wonders if asking you more questions isn't just a recipe for more points By Ed Foster May 4, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Zimbra on Ubuntu Zimbra, one of my fave OSS products just announced support for one of my other fave products, Ubuntu. Good to see adoption of both on the rise. Link: Zimbra to offer Ubuntu Linux support… By Dave Rosenberg May 4, 2007 1 min Open Source Dell Support Nightmare: The Saga Continues My Dell support odyssey continues this week with an attempted resolution that only makes matters worse. To recap: My Inspiron XPS M1710 had multiple failures (battery, display, memory). Dell initially stuck me with a "Parts Only Service" re By Randall Kennedy May 4, 2007 2 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development SOA, on Demand? If you've been monitoring my career, as well as my postings, you already know that I'm bullish on SaaS, and SOA, and I see the two merging as complementary concepts. Indeed, we're now seeing SaaS companies move into the platform space, By Dave Linthicum May 4, 2007 3 mins Software Development Windows Live Data Sample Site http://www.randomthirdparty.com/ is the sample site that Yaron Goland used in his demonstration of Windows Live Data, which I discussed Tuesday. He says that it's "public and available for anyone to play with at will. No password o By Martin Heller May 3, 2007 1 min Software Development Open Source Executive Moves…Peter Childers named CEO of Zmanda Pete told me a few weeks ago that he was leaving Red Hat (where he had been VP of Online Services and a key driver for Red Hat's RHX service) to move back to the Bay Area, but he didn't say where he was going. He did coyly ask me one time w By Matt Asay May 3, 2007 2 mins Open Source My ‘thank you’ hierarchy <p>It always surprises me how effective recognition is, and there is tremendous variety in how you can give it. Here's the hierarchy of ways that I've come up with for saying "thank you" to the folks who make it all happen, By John West May 3, 2007 3 mins Careers All i’s on Google It's a horror movie cliche: You think you've finally killed the monster, but while you're busy comforting the distressed damsel and wiping the gunk from your fingers, the beast rears up from the dead and attacks. Of course, in this ins By Robert Cringely May 3, 2007 2 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Test Center Tracker: Proventia’s spyware stalker Fresh from the Test Center: Bells and whistles can get a bit irritating at times, so there's something to say for good, solid, simple functionality. 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The company recently announced their NEC Virtual PC Center which the company hopes will replace today's personal computers. And it looks lik By David Marshall May 3, 2007 1 min Software Development Managing the “No Open Source” clause Ever seen one of these?No Open Source Software. The Software provided, or to be provided, by Company in the manner licensed under this Agreement does not and shall not contain any software covered by a GNU license or other… By Matt Asay May 2, 2007 1 min Open Source Beware the Mob – What happened to Digg could happen to you In what can only be described as a lynching of an Internet site, Digg, the online site for and by the people, was taken over this week by a mob, albeit it appears to be a completely self-organizing mob, that kept posting stories that included the key By Ephraim Schwartz May 2, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Progress extends Sonic ESB 7.5 with BPEL server, SOA management Progress Software this week released Sonic ESB 7.5, an update to the innovative enterprise service bus that adds a BPEL process orchestration server and integrates with Progress Actional, the company's SOA monitoring and management solution. The By Doug Dineley May 2, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry InfoWorld LIVE! #13: Quest & New PCI Security Standards Unlucky 13 turned out fairly lucky for us. Scott didn't go streaking through the studio like last time, and Tim Burke and Mike Dillon from Quest showed up to talk about PCI security standards. That's the Payment Card Industry security stand By Oliver Rist May 2, 2007 1 min Technology Industry No free soda? Keeping your team happy outside of Oz <p>I've always wanted to work at one of <strong>those</strong> companies. You know, the ones we keep hearing about that offer their employees massages at their desks, pool tables, snacks, and free sodas. And the periodic storie By John West May 2, 2007 4 mins Careers Check it out: Deep into APC hardware management I just barely finished turning up two new datacenters in two different states within two weeks. Exhausting? Definitely. On the plus side, however, I wrote several new tools and plugins to manage all of the APC gear that went into both sites with Nagi By Paul Venezia May 2, 2007 3 mins Microsoft’s state-by-state fight to maintain its Office monopoly (WSJ) Some didn't buy the story that Microsoft was pounding on Florida to get ODF out of the Legislature's minds and consideration. Fair enough. It was a bit dicey that the lawmaker tried to slip in the open standards language on the sly (though, By Matt Asay May 2, 2007 3 mins Open Source Escape from Dell Hell Say the phrase "Dell Hell" and images of exploding laptops, defective motherboards, and crappy customer support spring immediately to mind. But the truth is that for the last couple of years it's Dell itself that' By Robert Cringely May 2, 2007 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development SMB Tech News Today; 5/2 * More SMB declarations from IBM. IBM's CEO, Sam Palmisano, said in a keynote speech that he expects Big Blue's SMB business to become its biggest industry focus in the next few years. 'Course IBM defines SMB as "1000 employees an By Oliver Rist May 2, 2007 1 min Technology Industry ROI, ROI, ROI,…and SOA I was at Booz Allen yesterday in Tyson's Corner Virginia to do a ROI and SOA presentation for their consultants, there in person and on closed circuit video. Good group of people, and they are now serving the government's SOA needs, perhaps By Dave Linthicum May 2, 2007 2 mins Software Development Test Center Tracker: Datacenter tune-up tools Datacenter check-ups: After tweaking two datacenters in two weeks, Paul Venezia has some valuable advice for anyone who's looking to monitor their own datacenter gear. He has written a couple of new plug-ins for Nagios and Cacti monitoring progr By Stephanie McLoughlin May 2, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Old lesson, new example Maybe they had no choice.Then again, maybe they did. Circuit City posted a first-quarter loss. It blamed poor sales in high-ticket items such as large-screen televisions.Wall Street analysts, who rarely see a layoff they don't like, blamed the r By Bob Lewis May 2, 2007 1 min Technology Industry OpenLogic takes open source inventory OpenLogic announced this week OpenLogic Discovery, a free tool to help enterprises take inventory of open source software installed on their computers. Software is found on Windows, Linux and Solaris platforms to help customers manage their use of op By Paul Krill May 2, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Micro Focus touts application portfolio manager Micro Focus launched on Tuesday its Enterprise View product, for application portfolio management. The product combines technologies from Micro Focus and Hal Knowledge Systems, which was acquired by Micro Focus last year. Customers can build a detail By Paul Krill May 2, 2007 1 min Technology Industry So long, silicon Intel's new CPUs mark the twilight of silicon Every year brings a new spring IDF (Intel Developer Forum), but the 2007 IDF, which kicked off on April 17 in Beijing, was special. It's traditionally a low-key affair at which Intel's deve By Tom Yager May 2, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry Kill IM — or at least control it Allowing open instant messaging at work could mean wasted time and security holes By Oliver Rist May 2, 2007 3 mins Cloud Computing SaaS Small and Medium Business Forrester: Open source is everywhere, and increasingly used for mission-critical applications Forrester just issued an insightful report on the increasing adoption of open source in the enterprise. The verdict? Open source is everywhere, and taking an ever-increasing piece of the enterprise pie:Forrester has observed a pattern: Once companies By Matt Asay May 2, 2007 5 mins Open Source Benchmark Battles: Taking it to the Network – VMware and XenSource Back in March, you might remember the discussion we had about the benchmark whitepapers going around comparing results from VMware and Xen and then XenSource and VMware. It was interesting, and eye opening to say the least. Well, just when you though By David Marshall May 2, 2007 2 mins Software Development VMware Revs Products to Fix Security Vulnerabilities VMware just released minor dot revisions to their virtualization platforms in order to address a set of security issues. A common set of security problems was addressed across each of the platforms (VMware Player, Workstation, ACE and Server). Virtua By David Marshall May 2, 2007 5 mins Software Development Ballmer: “The iPhone stinks. Microsoft rules. What’s new?” Despite the fact that I think Ballmer is holding Microsoft back from the 21st Century, I do like his snarky comments. In an interview with USA Today, Ballmer makes some of his most explosive comments to date. When read alongside Bill Gates' comm By Matt Asay May 1, 2007 6 mins Open Source Data Wants to be Free At Microsoft's MIX07 conference, Yaron Goland gave a talk entitled Opening up Windows Live Data. The description was: Data wants to be free! So come to this technical deep dive to learn how you can POST/GET/PUT/DELETE your way By Martin Heller May 1, 2007 3 mins Software Development Ubuntu on Dell desktops – Who loses? In response to "overwhelming" customer demand, Dell will be selling some consumer models of its PCs with Ubuntu pre-installed. This is fantastic for Ubuntu, of course, but it's not necessarily bad for Novell and Red Hat. Why? First off By Matt Asay May 1, 2007 3 mins Open Source Silverlight 101 At Microsoft's MIX07 conference, the keynote was mostly about Silverlight. What is Silverlight, and why should we care about it? Officially, Silverlight "is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next By Martin Heller May 1, 2007 2 mins Software Development Online publications shifting to being marketing-driven? A not so subtle shift is taking place in online publications that is worth noting and worth watching. Here's a link to a podcast that discusses this very issue, "Journalism and Marketing." 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