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VMware recently sent out a recall notice about two of their VMware ESX Server patches that had been made available for download. The patches in ques By David Marshall Apr 24, 2007 2 mins Software Development Sun’s renaissance continues (reports Q3 results) As announced today, Sun's resurgence continues apace. It's not much of a pace so far, with sales still slow. But a $67M profit compared to last year's Q3 loss of $217M, is a very big deal. I'm rooting for Sun. I like its aggressiv By Matt Asay Apr 24, 2007 1 min Open Source Apple faces unfair criticism for its green ways Judging by the beating it's taken lately, both from Greenpeace and some of its investors, you'd think Apple was more toxic than the one that knocked out Snow White. Meanwhile, the company counters that its wares are quite Granny Smith green By Ted Samson Apr 24, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Where all the open source parasites? Hugh MacLeod is at it again. He asks the question, if open source is so great, where are all the open source billionaires (as if that is the right way to gauge the success of the software)? Never mind that we could ask the same question of proprietar By Matt Asay Apr 24, 2007 4 mins Open Source AEA study says high tech employment and salaries coming back to 2000 level The 10th Annual edition of the American Electronics Association [AEA] publication Cybestates: A Complete State-by-State Overivew of the High-Technology Industry has quite a few surprises buried within its 150 pages and thousands of statistics. I spok By Ephraim Schwartz Apr 24, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Red Hat’s second big migration play: data First, it was Unix to Linux. Same high performance, much lower price, followed by greater CIO value (through innovation, lower pricing, etc. Now, with the announced acquisition of MetaMatrix, Red Hat is moving to the next big migration of data from l By Matt Asay Apr 24, 2007 2 mins Open Source Microsoft support: Shooting blanks Cringester M.K. was having problems with Windows XP and Automatic Update, so he visited Microsoft's troubleshooting page, which featured a list of 55 common problems. He writes: Now choose a problem, any problem, and see the solution…. Oldest By Robert Cringely Apr 24, 2007 1 min Small and Medium Business Software Development BPM and SOA As I stated in my last post, today I'm down in Fort Lauderdale Florida, Weston Florida actually, speaking at the Shared Insights BPM conference. The topic is "What BPM Needs SOA, and Why SOA Needs BPM." They are recording this presenta By Dave Linthicum Apr 24, 2007 1 min Software Development Intel opens up In a surprise move, Intel has announced that it has opened up its Front Side Bus (FSB). I'm not a hardware guy, but I understand that this means that you can plug non-Intel things into an Intel chip. This shows that Intel is willing to take AMD By Matt Asay Apr 24, 2007 1 min Open Source SMB Tech News Today; 4/24 * HP has new inkjet cartridges. Three new types: 'standard', 'value', and 'specialty'. Designed for people who print a little, print a lot and print specialty items. For all those who haven't moved to color lasers y By Oliver Rist Apr 24, 2007 1 min Technology Industry While you were sleeping… (The Sharepoint Trojan Horse) The Wall Street Journal has a great article (and scary, too) on the collaboration/content market, and Microsoft's exceptional strategy to control it. Content? Who cares about content? Microsoft. Very much so. Here's why. Microsoft's co By Matt Asay Apr 24, 2007 4 mins Open Source Why it’s worth taking risks Sometimes being an IT guy means going the extra mile — even if it's on your own time Almost 20 years ago, I signed on as director of inventory management and operational analysis at a large chain of bookstores (let's call it C&O Books) By InfoWorld Anonymous Apr 24, 2007 4 mins Data Management Spy Act Only Protects Vendors and Their DRM Here we go again. Congress has decided it needs to protect us from spyware, but – surprise, surprise – the bill they are most seriously considering actually offers no help in that regard. What's worse, the bill seems designed to make it harder f By Ed Foster Apr 24, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry Matt Asay – Presentation to COSS.fi I had a great time in Finland last week. Great people, the taxi drivers were actually nice (the contrast between taxi drivers in the US and Europe is striking – in the US, taxi drivers treat you as if you're putting them out by paying them money By Matt Asay Apr 23, 2007 1 min Open Source Palamida launches vulnerability reporting solution Palamida today announced that it has extended the reach of its extensive compliance library and launched a new service, the Vulnerability Reporting Solution (VRS). VRS works seamlessly with Palamida's code audit compliance solution, IP Amplifier By Dave Rosenberg Apr 23, 2007 1 min Open Source How you keep everyone on the same page… I love the concept of remote collaboration, but let's face it. When I'm part of a WebEx or a Microsoft LiveMeeting and connect to a meeting room, the folks a the corporate office always use the white board. Then they try desparat By Brian Chee Apr 23, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry IDC: Open source, SaaS top disruptors in Asia One of the things I have been struggling with is how/if SaaS is anything more than a service–meaning can SaaS APIs/apps be redistributed/forked etc. and if so how would that work (see Matt's post on this topic. And to the extent that SaaS vendo By Dave Rosenberg Apr 23, 2007 2 mins Open Source Infragistics leverages Microsoft WPF Infragistics is shipping a toolset that extends Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) for graphical presentation. Called NetAdvantage for WPF 2007 Volume 1, the toolset provides editable DataGrid-style controls for developers. Levera By Paul Krill Apr 23, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Aptana touts Ruby, AJAX mix Aptana has added the Ruby Development Tools (RDT) project into the Aptana IDE and also has hired the lead developer of RDT, Chris Williams. The company announced the moves at the SDForum Second Annual Silicon Valley Ruby Conference in San Jose, Calif By Paul Krill Apr 23, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Test Center Tracker: DIY high performance computing Paging Bob Vila: High-performance computing (HPC) isn't just for massive conglomerates with billion-dollar budgets anymore. These days, clustered servers running basic processors and programs are making HPC a do-able DIY project — albeit one th By Stephanie McLoughlin Apr 23, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Fiddler2: HTTP Debugging Proxy Recently I had to capture some HTTP and HTTPS requests and responses for documentation I was writing. My first thought was to use the HTTP Inspector from ActiveState Komodo 4.0. Unfortunately, HTTP Inspector does not unencrypt HTTPS (encrypt By Martin Heller Apr 23, 2007 2 mins Software Development SMB Tech News Today; 4/23 * PC games coming back. With all the attention going to the console wars, PC-based games seem to have been taking a hit. Turns out that's changing. Might it have something to do with consoles costing as much as PCs? (Source: NY Times) * RIM read By Oliver Rist Apr 23, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Excuse me, but you’ve just stepped in some DoubleGoo Privacy watchdogs have thoroughly sniffed the Google-DoubleClick deal and they're barking up a storm about the potential for the abuse of your and my personal info. (A point also raised in this space last week.) A trio of organizations lead by By Robert Cringely Apr 23, 2007 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Beware mob media For all its good intents, citizen journalism is a form of fascism waiting to happen During the past couple of years, there has been a great deal of talk about citizen journalism. It started with the idea that bloggers and others could provide worthwh By Ephraim Schwartz Apr 23, 2007 5 mins Technology Industry Magazine content in a tidy bundle Introducing InfoWorld Express and extending the CTO 25 deadline By Steve Fox Apr 23, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Homegrown high-performance computing Bringing HPC in-house promises rich rewards — here's how four organizations overcame the diverse challenges of DIY clustering By Leon Erlanger Apr 23, 2007 17 mins Data Warehousing Small and Medium Business Technology Industry Some Sage Advice We've heard some pretty dire warnings about problems readers have experienced with Act! contact management software since Sage took it over (see "Sage Has a Tough ACT to Follow"). Unfortunately, one reader's recent comments indica By Ed Foster Apr 23, 2007 5 mins Technology Industry Open source and the French presidency I wonder if open standards and "tool categories" will be an issue in the next US election? Vive la France. Except for Sarkozy, the candidates also agreed that consumers should have the right to buy a computer without any preloaded software, By Dave Rosenberg Apr 23, 2007 2 mins Open Source The difference between policies and guidelines Dear Bob …One of the "levers" you mentioned in "How to make change happen" (Keep the Joint Running, 4/9/2007) is fixing the policy manual, a project which I am intent on seeing happen in my organization.I think the concept of es By Bob Lewis Apr 22, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry SOA Governance Only Solving Part of the Problem As I've stated here a few times before, while I do believe in the notion of SOA governance the available tools and technology will only get you a small part of the way down the true SOA governance path. A good summary of this issue is a post by By Dave Linthicum Apr 22, 2007 3 mins Software Development JBoss gets a Red Hat makeover It was just a matter of time before JBoss was fully assimilated into Red Hat. Now, with the transition from JBoss' pure services/support model to Red Hat's Fedora/RHEL model, the acquisition is truly complete. The move would mean that JBoss By Matt Asay Apr 22, 2007 2 mins Open Source Virtualization at Altiris ManageFusion Event If you haven't been to Altiris ManageFusion before, you just might be missing out. The company once again put on a first class event. It brought together Altiris executives, product managers, developers, services professionals and support staff, By David Marshall Apr 21, 2007 1 min Software Development FastScale Offers its Virtualization Provisioning Answer FastScale Technology, Inc. has come out of stealth mode with guns-a-blazing as it introduces its software virtualization and provisioning solution for datacenters – FastScale Composer Suite. The company comes out with claims that by automating the pr By David Marshall Apr 21, 2007 3 mins Software Development SWsoft Recognized by Microsoft as a Gold Certified Partner Server virtualization and automation software provider, SWsoft, announced that it had achieved Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program. The company attained Microsoft competencies in ISV/Software Solutions and Networking Infras By David Marshall Apr 21, 2007 2 mins Software Development SteelEye Aims to Protect VMware Infrastructure 3 SteelEye Technology recently announced their latest product designed to increase the availability and data protection of virtual machines in a VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) environment. The product is called SteelEye Protection Suite for VMware Infra By David Marshall Apr 21, 2007 2 mins Software Development BgInfo v4.10 from Microsoft I totally agree with the article written by Bryce Cogswell Published: March 16, 2007 in the Microsoft TechNet. When you have a bunch of machines all configured similarly for either testing, or just a rack of similar machines doing different By Brian Chee Apr 21, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry SaaS: Offers the most customer value? As my plane touched down yesterday, a thought hit me (given the nearly 18 hours on a plane, the fact that the thought struck me at that point may be telling… :-): perhaps the greatest customer value isn't in a license at all, or in software at By Matt Asay Apr 21, 2007 3 mins Open Source Novell: ‘Of course Linux is safe! (Sort of!!)’ – UPDATED UPDATED – See Justin's comment below. I suspected that Justin had been misquoted on the first part (taking credit for the deal), and it turns out it was true. Please also see his other comments. Justin is a good person and earnestly is trying to By Matt Asay Apr 20, 2007 3 mins Open Source Being “Jewish” and open source I was flying back from Helsinki yesterday and was in line at Heathrow Customs behind an earnest young man. The Customs officer asked him,"What nationality are you?", referring to something the teenager had written on his Customs declaration By Matt Asay Apr 20, 2007 5 mins Open Source Who owns a product: Customers or vendors? I find this post by Jeff Nolan fascinating, and right. Right, but I don't know what to do with it. Microsoft designed Outlook/Exchange for email. It was never intended to be a file system. However, that is how many people use it, and they'r By Matt Asay Apr 20, 2007 3 mins Open Source Microsoft goes cheap Microsoft has always done an an exceptional job of bringing the cost and complexity of software down to the level of the average person (or IT department, if you will). I may have my problems with some of the company's business practices, but th By Matt Asay Apr 20, 2007 2 mins Open Source Open source protester crashes Bill Gates speech at Chinese university A protester calling for free computer software and open source programming crashed a speech Friday by Bill Gates at Beijing University. Gates had just finished a speech at Beijing University and was handing out prizes to students when a man walked on By Dave Rosenberg Apr 20, 2007 1 min Open Source Blackberry outage won’t affect RIM monopoly I admit that I have a Crackberry addiction. In fact I have to make sure that I don't look at it for hours on end lest I lose complete control. So when the network went down I was OK for a few hours, then my thumbs started to shake uncontrollably By Dave Rosenberg Apr 20, 2007 1 min Open Source This is your life on Google Regular contributor M.K. has uncovered a disturbing bit of business regarding Google Calendar. Type "user" and "password" into the Calendar's search window, click the Search Public Events button, and voila — you'll gai By Robert Cringely Apr 20, 2007 1 min Small and Medium Business Software Development Microsoft & Unisys do Free Hosted Exchange 2007 Trial Maybe you're thinking about Exchange 2007 for your SMB. But perhaps you're not sure how all those new features are going to work in real life. Unisys and Microsoft have your back. Sign up for the trial and you get a temp account on a Unisy By Oliver Rist Apr 20, 2007 1 min Technology Industry SMB Tech News Today; 4/20 * RIM explains the outage. Just in case your road warriorness came to a screeching halt last Tuesday-Wednesday, the RIM guys are offering an explanation. Read and regain the warm and fuzziness. (Source: InfoWorld) * Open Source going mobile, too. The By Oliver Rist Apr 20, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Strategic planning frameworks Dear Bob Would you briefly describe what the BCG and TOWS matrices are. Then briefly tell me which might be more useful to:- (a) A new company which has just been set up to supply domestic cleaning services. (b) A company which employs 500 people an By Bob Lewis Apr 20, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Test Center Tracker: Storage nuts and bolts, and video from TED Storage roundup: It's a Very Special Storage Friday in the columnists' corner. Mario Apicella ponders 10 Gig switch technology that could lead to a real 100 Gigabit Ethernet fabric (not to mention more iSCSI and FCoE talk on the Storage Net By Stephanie McLoughlin Apr 20, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Detecting Vista Integrity, for Real On April 6th and 9th I presented some sample C++ code I found on a Microsoft site for detecting whether IE is in protected mode and detecting the integrity of a Windows Vista process. 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