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A snippet of the conclusions: OSS/FS has signific By Dave Rosenberg Apr 17, 2007 1 min Open Source More about C-level roles Dear Bob …You described the CFO position as one of providing information ("C-level," Advice Line, 3/14/2007). That actually sounds like a good description for a CIO, so I'll assume you meant that the CFO provides information about th By Bob Lewis Apr 16, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry What’s vision and how do I get some? <p>Lots of management and leadership writing starts from the premise that you know what you're doing. Case in point: visions. There is no end of "help" out there from folks who want to tell you what your vision should be and how By John West Apr 16, 2007 5 mins Careers Buzzlogic prediction: Melinda Doolittle–not Sanjaya–will win American Idol Statistical analysis of the blogosphere points to why Melinda Doolittle will win American Idol The prediction is not mine but comes from the founder of Buzzlogic a startup that monitors blogosphere conversations, mainly by topic and keyword, for bran By Ephraim Schwartz Apr 16, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Google goes click Once again furniture is flying out the windows at the C-level suites in Redmond. This can mean only one thing: Google has just snaked DoubleClick out from under the talons of Microsoft, just like it did to Yahoo last year with YouTube. Further proof, By Robert Cringely Apr 16, 2007 2 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Test Center Tracker: Spotlight on dynamic programming languages Language lessons: Dynamic languages – PHP, Python, Ruby, and so on – are finding their place in enterprise software development, often spurred on by the need to get projects done quickly. But what exactly makes a dynamic language dynamic? And how do By Stephanie McLoughlin Apr 16, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Windows PowerShell: An Introduction One of the hazards that Microsoft groups face when they launch their products is competition for attention from other Microsoft groups with bigger marketing budgets. Think about the poor Windows PowerShell team, who basically launched at abo By Martin Heller Apr 16, 2007 4 mins Software Development Quad Core Nostalgia As I watch Intel launch its latest quad-core CPU I can't help but wax nostalgic about my time as contract test engineer for the company's Desktop Architecture Labs (DAL). It was early 2000 and the first Pentium 4 was still in preproduction By Randall Kennedy Apr 16, 2007 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Explaining SOA I have to explain SOA 3 – 5 times a day, depending on what I'm doing that day. It's a common question, and is still a good question if you ask me. I think I've gotten pretty good at teaching people about SOA, not due By Dave Linthicum Apr 16, 2007 2 mins Software Development SMB Tech News Today; 4/16 * CA upgrades small biz security software. This refers to the company's Protection Suites, includes Windows-only AV, anti-spyware and desktop storage. Now has an SMB version priced at $325+ for 5-user packages. (Source: PC World) * AOL founder t By Oliver Rist Apr 16, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Preview: Reconnex 6.0 Endpoint Agent locks back doors on intellectual property leaks I'm sure you don't need to be reminded of the consequences when confidential or personal data gets loose from your organization. If pressure from government officials isn't enough incentive to install a data leak solution, your stockho By Mike Heck Apr 16, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry The Mule project: Not your average jackass IT Managers Journal has a http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/22422">good article on the Mule project, Ross Mason's brainchild and the fuel behind Ross and Dave's MuleSource. The article traces the history of Mule's beginn By Matt Asay Apr 16, 2007 2 mins Open Source The shortcomings of scripting Getting the most from dynamic languages means being mindful of their limitations By Andrew Binstock Apr 16, 2007 3 mins Development Tools Software Development Dynamic languages: More than just a quick fix Languages such as PHP, Ruby, and Python are proving their mettle as enterprise go-to tools for cutting development backlogs fast By Andrew Binstock Apr 16, 2007 10 mins Development Tools Software Development Favorite columnists still in the fold They’re just redefining “column” By Steve Fox Apr 16, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Metallect touts software risk management Metallect with a release of its IQ Server software risk management tool this week is providing users with new capabilities to gauge application dependencies. IQ Server version 2.7.1 features a new interface with visual application diagramming capabil By Paul Krill Apr 16, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Address books and Trust 2.0 I actually thought of this idea several years ago, but my work with open source has kept it on the back burner. Mark and I talked about it over dinner on Saturday, and it got me . I also talked about it with Tim O'Reilly once, and he enriched th By Matt Asay Apr 16, 2007 5 mins Open Source The looming Microsoft battle with Adobe (It’s not just a web thing) Longtime friends and business partners, Adobe and Microsoft are set to fall out of love, as the WSJ reports today. The WSJ focuses on a likely clash between the two companies over digital media (Adobe Media Player, duking it out with Microsoft's By Matt Asay Apr 16, 2007 4 mins Open Source Comcast Silently Terminates Broadband Customers Cable giant Comcast continues its practice of cutting off service — often without warning — when high-speed Internet customers exceed an unstated download limit. But while Comcast tries to stay mum about these terminations, its customers are making By Ed Foster Apr 16, 2007 6 mins Technology Industry Apple says OS X 10.5 delay is iPhone’s fault Either it is unprecedented honesty or the biggest bald-faced fib I've ever seen come out of a high tech company. Apple claims that Leopard, OS X 10.5 will be delayed on account of the iPhone. In a statement on its Web site it says in part. " By Ephraim Schwartz Apr 15, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry NetApp StoreVault is now Certified for VMware Infrastructure 3 StoreVault, a NetApp division, announced that its StoreVault S500 has been certified to work with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). By combining StoreVault with VI3, SMBs are provided with infrastructure virtualization strategies that better manage thei By David Marshall Apr 15, 2007 2 mins Software Development Microsoft’s Virtualization GM Announces Virtualization Delays Mike Neil, Microsoft's General Manager of Virtualization Strategy, announced on Thursday that Microsoft will delay delivery of two of its virtualization solutions – the much anticipated Viridian and the Service Pack 1 release for Microsoft Virtu By David Marshall Apr 15, 2007 3 mins Software Development The 451 Group on ‘Going Open’ Nearly two months ago, Raven Zachary, a senior analyst with The 451 Group, sent me his research report "Going Open: Software Vendors in Transition." I've been waiting for the chance to read it in full, but it hasn't been easy find By Matt Asay Apr 14, 2007 4 mins Open Source A conversation with Mark Shuttleworth over fine food and fine football What a perfect day. I'm in London today, and went to the Arsenal vs. Bolton match with Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu. Mark isn't a big football fan, but he indulged my Arsenal fixation and even treated me like a rational human being, By Matt Asay Apr 14, 2007 5 mins Open Source More on Apple’s Insecurities A few days ago, I posited a few simple reasons that Apple's Mac OS X was inherently more secure than Windows. It appears that this touched off a firestorm, with a summarization of that post garnering over 3500 diggs, and trackbacks coming in fro By Paul Venezia Apr 14, 2007 5 mins Mike Olson on Oracle’s free market approach to Linux Matt and SOG are against the Oracle Linux, Mike Olson is for it. I lean with Matt and Stephen. Retelling the untold storyOracle didn't decide to choose Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We decided to choose the most popular distribution already in use b By Dave Rosenberg Apr 14, 2007 1 min Open Source What Makes An Open Source Project Successful? (InformationWeek) InformationWeek's Charlie Babcock has stumbled on a great truth–the only way to build a business is to have customers. This is something that Matt and I have stressed a number of times. Revenue solves all problems :> Says Rod Johnson of Spri By Dave Rosenberg Apr 14, 2007 1 min Open Source Enlist MAID, get paid Just as companies are turning to virtualization to wring more energy efficiency out of their servers, so too might they start employing MAID (massive array of idle disk) storage devices to control the power expenditures stemming from their ever-swell By Ted Samson Apr 13, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Open source SIs: The dilemma of “free” I'm reading through Dirk Riehle's paper, "The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives," finding plenty of interesting discussion points. As my plane is about to take off, I'll just post his think By Matt Asay Apr 13, 2007 2 mins Open Source ‘Open sourcing’ voice recognition (Tim O’Reilly) Tim O'Reilly, ever a few steps ahead of the rest of us, has some thoughtful musings on what's behind Google's new 411 service. Tim doesn't cast this as an open source move, but rather a Web 2.0 move designed to build up a treasure By Matt Asay Apr 13, 2007 2 mins Open Source Here is the Presentation and Audio from the Webinar…”Starting your First SOA Project…Steps to Success” The audio is here. The presentation is here. Enjoy. Dave… By Dave Linthicum Apr 13, 2007 1 min Software Development Happy Holidays From Wirefly Since I get to hear so many reader complaints about different vendors, you might figure I'd personally know which companies to avoid. Much of the time that's true, but a few months ago I went against Gripe Line wisdom by ordering cell phone By Ed Foster Apr 13, 2007 6 mins Technology Industry Taking care of employees…by pushing them I just finished reading this excellent article from last week's BusinessWeek on William J. Conaty, GE's head of Human Resources (HR). He offers insight that is appropriate for any company, of whatever size, open source or proprietary. On me By Matt Asay Apr 13, 2007 2 mins Open Source Java getting REST Noelios Consulting plans to announce on Monday the 1.0 version of the Noelios Restlet Engine, providing the reference implementation of the Restlet API 1.0, the company said. The Restlet open source project was launched in 2005 as the first REST (Rep By Paul Krill Apr 13, 2007 1 min Technology Industry High Noon in the (Open Source) Garden of Good and Evil I'm finishing up my presentation for the upcoming COSS.fi event next week (4/19/07), and was exploring an idea – how do you compete when the code is open? – when two things happened in quick succession. One, I was reading the Bible and came acro By Matt Asay Apr 13, 2007 8 mins Open Source Lost: 5 million+ White House e-mails? It appears an untold number of e-mails to and from White House personnel have crashed and landed on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. Whether that's by accident or design, we don't know yet. But it's looking like Friday the 13t By Robert Cringely Apr 13, 2007 2 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Green briefs: HP, Via pair on green PC for China Some tasty green nuggets have accumulated on my desktop over the past week, so I thought it would be nice to share. Green chips on the table:HP has invested a bit of cash in "green chips" from Taiwan-based Via. HP released today in China a By Ted Samson Apr 13, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Q1 Tech Wages Breaking Records The Yoh Index of Technology wages is a quarterly index apparently used by a number of big 'ole Fortune 500 companies to determine salary levels. Overall, the Yoh-Yoh-ers are saying that hourly tech wages rose an average of 5.5 percent in Q1. Pre By Oliver Rist Apr 13, 2007 1 min Technology Industry SMB Tech News Today; 4/13 * IBM teaming to get into hosted apps. IBM is teaming up with mid-sized Indian hospitals on hosted applications. Supposedly a growing market opportunity in off-shore software. (Source: InfoWorld) * Apache scrapping with Sun. The Apache folks are gett By Oliver Rist Apr 13, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Getting Cross-References Every once in a while, I have the experience of needing to do something that I knew how to do very well 5 or 10 or 20 years ago, but have forgotten. Take getting cross-references in C++ programs. It used to be that the Microsoft C++  By Martin Heller Apr 13, 2007 3 mins Software Development Will Acquisitions Kill SOA Innovation? Came across this article on TechTarget.com that questions the recent acquisitions within the SOA world as something that could potentially hurt the advancement of SOA technology in general…or kill or slow down SOA innovation? I wo By Dave Linthicum Apr 13, 2007 3 mins Software Development The joys of complexity I love my wife and I love IT. Both are challenging as hell. For the past ten years I've lived, breathed, ate, drunk, and slept IT. I do love this job. I have traveled the country for one of the top computer manufactures as a professional service By InfoWorld Anonymous Apr 13, 2007 3 mins Data Management A single protocol in your SAN? New FCoE standard proposes to extend native FC transport to Ethernet By Mario Apicella Apr 13, 2007 3 mins Software Development Technology Industry Five steps for reducing unnecessary use of Administrator accounts Not everyone needs elevated access privileges — remove them and boost your security By Roger Grimes Apr 13, 2007 5 mins Careers Endpoint Protection Security Google Apps Email-I am forced to give you the finger We made a bold attempt to switch over to the Google Apps today and man what a world of pain we ran into with some of the stupidest "features" I have ever seen from a business application. The main issue is that you can't send POP mail By Dave Rosenberg Apr 13, 2007 1 min Open Source Should you trust your phone? Your mobile device knows all about you, and it's got loose lips No piece of technology instills in you a greater expectation of privacy and safety than your primary mobile device. For many of us, the phones, PDAs, and smartphones in our pockets, By Tom Yager Apr 12, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry Speaking of silly surveys… It seems Microsoft really really really wants Cringester M.K.'s opinion. From 6 pm last Monday through 8 am on Tuesday, Microsoft and its survey vendor Ipsos sent him one request per hour to participate in an online survey. Each one began " By Robert Cringely Apr 12, 2007 1 min Small and Medium Business Software Development Test Center Tracker: Cures for the data-loss blues Keep private data private: In this age of Sarb-Ox and other regulations, companies are working hard to protect sensitive data from outsiders. But what about the insider threats? Fortunately, there's protection available, and contributing editor By Ted Samson Apr 12, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Sumitomo Electric buys into Novell (Xen, SUSE) This is what I love to hear: Sumitomo Electric is moving to Novell's SUSE Enterprise Linux. Apparently, a key driver for Sumitomo's investment is Novell's vision of virtualization, as Dan Kusnetzky recently captured:Novell thinks that By Matt Asay Apr 12, 2007 2 mins Open Source Technology is for creative types <p>Despite all the press from the art community that would indicate they have the lock on the world's creative output, technology professionals are creative people. 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