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Some interesting perspectives on the acquisition. The Podcast will be By Dave Linthicum Apr 9, 2007 1 min Software Development The New Dynamic Duo Last week I watched a really good episode of SSWUG TV. Stephen interviewed Paul Randal and Kim Tripp in the hallway of the hotel. First, let me say that I've never seen either of them look happier. They were laughing and giddy the whole time, wh By Sean McCown Apr 9, 2007 2 mins Databases Preview: Haley 6.0 extends business rules to business people Haley Systems today introduced version 6.0 of the Haley Business Rules Suite, a BRMS that boasts both a strong pedigree and some unique features. The company was founded in 1989 by Paul Haley, the ex-Inference chief scientist who helped develop ART, By Steven Nunez Apr 9, 2007 4 mins Technology Industry Test Center Tracker: Manage those databases Fresh from the Test Center: More enterprise data means more databases, which means you'd better be up to speed on how to use those databases to your best advantage. Altova's DatabaseSpy may be able to help – Sean McCown likes its easy setup By Stephanie McLoughlin Apr 9, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Who’s afraid of Microsoft? Paul Graham has an interesting piece on the day that Microsoft "died." Not that Microsoft has gone away. Last I checked, the company is still milking billions of dollars in profits each year. But Paul's point is different. Microsoft is By Matt Asay Apr 9, 2007 3 mins Open Source Detecting IE7 Protected Mode, Take 2 On Friday, I posted one method that an ActiveX control or IE toolbar can use to determine whether IE 7 is running in Protected Mode. 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It's in their By Robert Cringely Apr 9, 2007 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development What the enterprise can learn from consumer technologies Hone your competitive edge by appropriating what it takes to win over end-users in the consumer space By InfoWorld Staff Apr 9, 2007 17 mins Business Intelligence Small and Medium Business Technology Industry Closing a chapter of open source Open Enterprise draws to a successful end, but InfoWorld's in-depth open source coverage has just begun By Neil McAllister Apr 9, 2007 4 mins Databases Small and Medium Business Technology Industry It’s a Print-Free (Info)World Checking in from the front lines of a paperless publication By Steve Fox Apr 9, 2007 3 mins Software Development Technology Industry What the enterprise can learn from MySpace Target and tailor your collaboration platform to discrete domains to foster worthwhile, self-governing discussion By David Margulius Apr 9, 2007 2 mins Software Development What the enterprise can learn from the iPod Designing insulation into selected systems and facilities can enhance productivity By Jeff Angus Apr 9, 2007 2 mins Software Development What the enterprise can learn from Segway Be sure to ensure the requisite infrastructure for success is in place before rolling out trick tech By Jeff Angus Apr 9, 2007 2 mins Software Development What the enterprise can learn from multiplayer gaming Create connections that would otherwise not exist by encouraging gently competitive collaboration By Jeff Angus Apr 9, 2007 2 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development What the enterprise can learn from TiVo Ensure relevant data gets channeled to the right people by giving users greater control over the data flow By James Borck Apr 9, 2007 3 mins Software Development What the enterprise can learn from gaming consoles Turning the design concept phase on its head can reap rewards By Tom Yager Apr 9, 2007 3 mins Software Development What the enterprise can learn from YouTube Prime the pump and keep it simple when seeking a critical mass of collaboration content By David Margulius Apr 9, 2007 2 mins Software Development What the enterprise can learn from Flickr User-created taxonomies facilitate collaboration and allow for flexibility in accessing knowledge as it grows By David Margulius Apr 9, 2007 2 mins Software Development What the enterprise can learn from Netflix Dumping the more-with-less mentality and investing in convenience will reap productivity benefits By Jeff Angus Apr 9, 2007 3 mins Software Development A Bit of Help It's that time once again when we take a look at what's been happening with some of the gripes we've seen over the last few months. Keep in mind as we go that, except in rare cases, I don't try to function as an ombudsman by conta By Ed Foster Apr 9, 2007 5 mins Technology Industry SOA is Growing Fast In a new survey SOA is clearly growing rapidly. "Enterprises are bullish on the concept of service-oriented architecture (SOA), and adoption is expected to double over the next two years, according to Evans Data Corporation's recently relea By Dave Linthicum Apr 9, 2007 2 mins Software Development Gimme a chance I started my career in a non-IT technical department of a midsize manufacturing company, Acme. A troubled software development project drew me in, and within a few years, I was managing most aspects of my department's IT needs and was heavily in By InfoWorld Anonymous Apr 7, 2007 3 mins Data Management I just need my space right now Former Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi and two Russian cosmonauts blasted into orbit Saturday on a 15-day, 14-night space vacation that cost Simonyi just $25 million (at that price, however, he will have to endure a timeshare pitch for the Intern By Robert Cringely Apr 7, 2007 1 min Small and Medium Business Software Development Starting your First SOA Project…Steps to Success Free Webinar April 13, 2007. 1:00 – 2:00 EST. You can register here. The Webinar is free. Here is the description: So you're managing your first SOA project, now what? You need to figure out a few things including an approach, staffing, planning, budget, and By Dave Linthicum Apr 7, 2007 1 min Software Development Stealing His Dark Materials I just finished reading to my oldest daughter. We're in the middle of the third book in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series (The Amber Spyglass). The books have been fascinating enough, but tonight I turned to Pullman's Acknowle By Matt Asay Apr 7, 2007 1 min Open Source Open source and pricing models I was reading through some old Jeff Nolan posts and came across this one, and it opened a sore. Jeff comments on this CNET article about Oracle's response to Microsoft's per-CPU/socket pricing. Microsoft made the decision to charge per-CPU/ By Matt Asay Apr 6, 2007 3 mins Open Source Kicking ASUS and taking names, part deux A few weeks back I wrote about Cringester J.M. and his trials trying to get ASUS (rhymes with "caboose") to swap out his defective notebook batteries. It seems ASUS got a bad batch of batteries in 2005 but was less than Johnny-on-the-spot w By Robert Cringely Apr 6, 2007 1 min Small and Medium Business Software Development Hands-on review: PowerGadgets Creator is wicked cool PowerGadgets Creator is a PowerShell development tool that allows you to create Windows Sidebar Gadgets for Vista and desktop gauges for XP. What can I say? If you like gadgets, you will love this tool. I downloaded PowerGadgets and installed it on m By Sean McCown Apr 6, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry On now on to a more positive note (My bias) A friend chided me yesterday for taking a strident, shrill (and often unfair) tone against a range of companies. Given the respect I have for him, his comments gave me pause, and pushed me to reconsider some of the views I've expressed in this b By Matt Asay Apr 6, 2007 7 mins Open Source Test Center Tracker: Deduplication, identity theft, and virtualization, oh my! Column roundup: Lots of good stuff out there this week: Mario Apicella takes on data management and suggests that deduplication technology could help with the looming problem of having too little space for storing all that data; Oliver Rist is impres By Stephanie McLoughlin Apr 6, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Detecting IE7 Protected Mode I have been wondering if there's a way that a Web page can tell if it's running in IE7 Protected Mode on Windows Vista. It turns out that yes, there is, but it's not as simple as I'd like. My hope was that there By Martin Heller Apr 6, 2007 2 mins Software Development SMB Tech News Today; 4/6 * Need Vista deployment tome ships. For those who are rolling out Redmond's next big thing and struggling with the anemic amount of help material for it on Microsoft's site, fret no longer. Redmond just shipped the 1500-page Windows Vista R By Oliver Rist Apr 6, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Prepare for the upcoming data deluge Don't forget deduplication when planning your data management strategy By Mario Apicella Apr 6, 2007 4 mins When identity theft becomes standard operating procedure Data breaches, lost information spark similar response from vendors: Ho-hum, it's only theft By Roger Grimes Apr 6, 2007 6 mins Access Control Identity Management Solutions Security The saga continues Perhaps I was too unkind in my remarks about HP in a recent posting about Vista and HP's lack of preparedness for it. It isn't like I know how to write printer drivers, after all. And anyway, HP does have a Vista-compatible driver for my mu By Bob Lewis Apr 6, 2007 2 mins Technology Industry Subscription vs. Licensing…just a matter of packaging? I've been having an ongoing dialog with a number of very large SIs and very large enterprises about how open source "support subscriptions" are still confusing to a great many purchasing departments. Technically speaking, most open sou By Dave Rosenberg Apr 6, 2007 2 mins Open Source Switch to Google Apps (Verdict: Somewhat painful) My infinite quest for operational efficiency continues to be elusive. Despite my love for Zimbra, our dev team really wanted to switch to Gmail and Google Apps for Enterprise. I do the Google Apps, but I am finding that if you have lots of mail alrea By Dave Rosenberg Apr 6, 2007 2 mins Open Source Supes’ ruling on car emissions could impact IT If the promise of lower energy bills isn't incentive enough for you to explore ways to consolidate your datacenter and cut energy consumption, perhaps the threat of federal regulations on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will be. As you've li By Ted Samson Apr 5, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Microsoft issues de facto ‘no comment’ on search progress My Reality Check column for next Tuesday will be on search engines, and I look into the claim made by Microsoft in March of 2006 that it would have a search engine better than Google's. I contacted Microsoft to request an interview with an execu By Ephraim Schwartz Apr 5, 2007 1 min Technology Industry Load balancer tech: A primer Judging from what I saw while testing Juniper's DX3680 load balancer, it's clear that these devices have come a long way from their humble beginnings. In its simplest form, a load balancer is a device that sends TCP/IP requests to more than By Logan Harbaugh Apr 5, 2007 3 mins Technology Industry Even I’m tired of the anti-Vista news I don't use Vista because I prefer the Mac. I prefer Windows to the Linux desktop, though, so if Steve Jobs were to die tomorrow and take OS X with him, I'd be back on Windows. I'm just not smart enough to use a Linux desktop. I'v By Matt Asay Apr 5, 2007 4 mins Open Source Mike Olson on Oracle’s ‘Unbreakable Linux’ It's no secret that I'm not a fan of Oracle's attempt to co-opt Red Hat Enterprise Linux. But I have to admire Mike's recent post on the topic. Mike makes no apologies and lays out very good, business-driven reasons for Oracle By Matt Asay Apr 5, 2007 4 mins Open Source Software AG’s acquisition of webMethods My phone and e-mail has been on fire this morning as news broke pertaining to Software AG purchasing webMethods. The comments and articles are hitting the Web now, including Jason from ZapThink. "This is huge news in the SOA space," said Ja By Dave Linthicum Apr 5, 2007 3 mins Software Development Sun CEO: “Proprietary”…did more damage to sun than any market downturn Jonathan Schwartz said something very interesting on his blog today. (I wish he blogged more, and with fewer happy Sun employee faces in his blogs, but this one was good.) He was talking about Sun's licensing of its Neptune ASIC to Marvell, and By Matt Asay Apr 5, 2007 3 mins Open Source Open source mechanics: Comp’ing renewals, hiring inside sales I'm in the middle of finalizing Alfresco's (for the Americas) sales compensation plan. It has been one of the most difficult things I've ever done. You'd think it was just a matter of setting commission percentages and accelerator By Matt Asay Apr 5, 2007 6 mins Open Source REVIEW: Business Desktops from Dell and HP Just had a chance to set up a few Dell Optiplex 745 small form factor biz PCs for a sometime client. That reminded me that I've had an HP Compaq dx2200 MicroTower sitting in the downstairs lab for quite a while. So here's a short compariso By Oliver Rist Apr 5, 2007 6 mins Technology Industry Test Center Tracker: Juniper gives Web apps a boost Heavy-duty load balancer: Senior Contributing Editor Logan G. 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