Opinion

An architecture for engineering AI context

The challenge is not how much context an AI system can hold at once, but how intelligently it can decide what context matters for any given action.

By Sean Robinson

Mar 24, 202610 mins

DatabasesGraph DatabasesNoSQL Databases

Increased IT Spending Will Drive SOA Adoption in Asia

Clearly SOA is picking up steam outside of the USA. In some cases more so than the USA, and that's a matter of interest as the uptake in technology for non-US firms has always lagged that of the US in the past. Asia is no exception. In this arti

By Dave Linthicum

Mar 29, 2007 2 mins

Software Development

Site traffic in the fast lane

Improving page ranks is a black art that holds a giant payoff

By David Margulius

Mar 29, 2007 3 mins

Databases Software Development

Oracle’s SAP attack, old media fights back

Ink-stained wretch repents, seeks online sanctuary

By Robert X. Cringely®

Mar 29, 2007 2 mins

Software Development Technology Industry

Oracle Linux customers: Finally they’re talking (UPDATED)

Oracle today announced a range of customers that have signed up for Oracle Linux. It's an impressive list. How much money changed hands is not known, and won't be. In fact, it's completely unclear from the language used in the press re

By Matt Asay

Mar 29, 2007 4 mins

Open Source

OpenVZ Software Available for Latest Linux Kernel

The Linux kernel is becoming quite the popular place to be if you have anything to do with virtualization. We've talked about KVM and Xen fighting to get into the kernel, we just discussed VMware's VMI yesterday, and now, the OpenVZ project

By David Marshall

Mar 28, 2007 2 mins

Software Development

Why trouble employees with passwords?

Manager of network security. Yep, that is what is says on my door. Of course, like many IT experts, I wear many hats, but network security????? You tell me. I was hired to evaluate vulnerabilities, assess and implement solutions. Wow, where to start.

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Mar 28, 2007 3 mins

Data Management

Put Your Corporate Desktop on a USB Drive “To-Go”

Kidaro announced their latest desktop virtualization solution today calling it the Kidaro Corporate "To-Go" for a USB flash drive. The solution comes at a time as organizations are growing their remote workforce. This remote workforce is ma

By David Marshall

Mar 28, 2007 3 mins

Software Development

Shai Agassi says “auf Wiedersehen” to SAP

I'm not the biggest fan of Shai Agassi, President of SAP's Products and Technology Group. I therefore think his announced departure from SAP is a net positive for the company. Shai is the one who made the terribly gauche comments about open

By Matt Asay

Mar 28, 2007 2 mins

Open Source

Linus Torvalds likes Draft 3 of GPLv3 much better (CNET)

Let's face it: Linus' opinion of GPLv3 matters a heck of a lot more than yours or mine, and Stephen Shankland was able to get his read on this latest draft. Said Linus:"I'm actually pretty pleased. Not because I think it's pe

By Matt Asay

Mar 28, 2007 1 min

Open Source

An idiot by any other name

Many years ago I moved from a shop that was VM/VSE based where I was a systems programmer to a much larger shop running MVS and multiple mainframes, where I was a CICS Systems Programmer – part of a 16 member Systems Programming staff. I already had

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Mar 28, 2007 5 mins

Data Management

Novell speaks up on the latest GPLv3 draft

On Bruce Lowry's blog (Bruce is the PR demi-god for Novell, and a great person) today he has Novell's position on the latest draft of the GPL. From his post:We will continue to distribute Linux. Nothing in this new draft of GPL3 inhibits No

By Matt Asay

Mar 28, 2007 3 mins

Open Source

BEA touts Web 2.0 products

BEA Systems this week detailed three products that the company said are geared to Web 2.0 and social computing in the enterprise. These include the Pages, Ensemble and Pathways products from the BEA AquaLogic line. They are intended to provide for us

By Paul Krill

Mar 28, 2007 1 min

Technology Industry

Next draft of GPLv3 is now live

You can read the latest draft of the GPL (v3) here. I continue to be bullish on the draft, and hopeful that we can sort through the DRM/NRM (Novell Rights Management :-)/etc. so that we can get to a final version soon. Some of the best (though still

By Matt Asay

Mar 28, 2007 1 min

Open Source

Three Pitches

Last week, I got three developer-oriented PR pitches for coverage. None of them got me fired up right away, so let me put it to you: do you want to hear more about any of this stuff? First, there was Backbase. They have been pricing their AJAX framew

By Martin Heller

Mar 28, 2007 2 mins

Software Development

SMB Tech News Today; 3/28

* Tech companies want TV spectrum for WiFi. Tech giants, including the Googlers, the Intelzoids and the Microsoftees, are asking the FCC to let them utilize unused portions of the TV spectrum to offer wireless networking, wireless services (includin

By Oliver Rist

Mar 28, 2007 1 min

Technology Industry

Content in lockdown

An unbreakable link between media and its delivery end point is near

By Tom Yager

Mar 28, 2007 4 mins

Technology Industry

Microsoft gets into VoIP … and confuses us

After much investigation, we get to the bottom of Microsoft's Response Point

By Oliver Rist

Mar 28, 2007 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

The open source download heist

Javier Soltero (CEO, Hyperic) has a great post taking the download bean counters to task for…counting downloads. Actually, his qualm is not with those who tout their download counts so much as those who a) inflate their download counts (so that the

By Matt Asay

Mar 28, 2007 3 mins

Open Source

Killing radio…and none too softly (RIAA strikes again)

Eivind Throndsen of Trolltech sent me an email the other day that left me frustrated and discouraged. He passed along a message he received from Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora. I've blogged about Pandora before – it's a fantastic music

By Matt Asay

Mar 28, 2007 3 mins

Open Source

Linux Kernel Gains a new VMware Option

It seems as though the next stable release of the Linux kernel will reportedly have a new virtualization feature developed by VMware called VMI or "virtual machine interface". The 2.6.21 kernel update will allow paravirtualized operating sy

By David Marshall

Mar 28, 2007 1 min

Software Development

Vizioncore Announces Public Beta of esxReplicator 2.0

Vizioncore officially announced the public Beta release of their esxReplicator v2.0 software, the real-time replication solution for the VMware VI3 Server environment. esxReplicator 2.0 offers a completely new approach to virtual machine replication,

By David Marshall

Mar 28, 2007 1 min

Software Development

What does SOA have to Learn from Traditional Enterprise Architecture? Tools

At the Enterprise Architecture Conference (EAC) this week in New Orleans, as I stated in my last posting. So, what are the trends here? Not a whole lot other than the fact that the traditional EA tools are continuing to move towards SOA, and they do

By Dave Linthicum

Mar 28, 2007 3 mins

Software Development

Baking community into companies

Jordi Mas has written a thoughtful post on the value of community in companies, and particularly open source ones. Community, as Jordi points out, is not exclusive to open source – Microsoft, for example, has a vibrant and active developer community.

By Matt Asay

Mar 27, 2007 3 mins

Open Source

Aberdeen Report – How Does Your Company Rate?

According to the recently announced AberdeenGroup report, "Virtualization is back in vogue. The technology that originated within mainframes has now gained a strong foothold in the open systems world as more customers adopt server and storage vi

By David Marshall

Mar 27, 2007 2 mins

Software Development

Where did everybody go?

I was offered a job at ABC Corporation doing PC support as a temporary employee. I decided to take the job — relocating 1,500 miles to do so. When I arrived on site, I found out that my hiring manager had been demoted to a PC support technician. I m

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Mar 27, 2007 4 mins

Data Management

REVIEW: HP Color LaserJet 1600 Great for SBs

I hate it when I'm the last to know. Must be pathological. But when HP shipped us the Color LaserJet 3800dn and then agreed to leave it with us for a long-termer (review on that soon), I had some fun strutting around and talking about the 20ppm

By Oliver Rist

Mar 27, 2007 2 mins

Technology Industry

OASIS approves Web services standards

OASIS announced on Tuesday approval of WS-SecureConversation version 1.3 and WS-Trust version 1.3 as OASIS Standards. This status is the organization's highest level of ratification. The two standards define policies and extensions to WS-Securit

By Paul Krill

Mar 27, 2007 1 min

Technology Industry

Linux Foundation announces BoD

The Linux Foundation, the combined OSDL/FSG group just announced it's BoD. Not too different than before. The Linux Foundation board of directors includes: James Bottomley, Linux subsystem maintainer and vice president and chief technology offic

By Dave Rosenberg

Mar 27, 2007 4 mins

Open Source

Tiny computers

<p>Just when I am starting to wonder how much smaller are computers going to get, I find outrageously small machines like <a href="http://www.jadeintegration.com/jackpc.php">Jack PC</a> (made by <a href="http://www

By Josh Kuo

Mar 27, 2007 1 min

Technology Industry

Department of Homeland Security ups its investment in open source security

A year ago the Department of Homeland Security contracted with Coverity, a maker of a source code analysis tool, to harden open source software. (Stanford University and Symantec are also involved.) Basically, developers at open source projects (not

By Matt Asay

Mar 27, 2007 2 mins

Open Source

The beginnings of a national ID for flyers?

Every road warrior has dreamt about a frequent traveler line for the security checkpoint. If you're willing to go through a process just like what you'd go through for a security clearance, Clear is now offering a solution. CAUTION! If you&

By Brian Chee

Mar 27, 2007 2 mins

Technology Industry

Won’t get fooled again

Dear Bob …I've written you several times, most recently about bullying in the workplace. At the time your advise was to get out, which I didn't take by directly quitting. Instead I worked through the re-organization, getting a new boss, a

By Bob Lewis

Mar 27, 2007 2 mins

Technology Industry

SMB Tech News Today; 3/27

* SMBs still have security worries. Latest report from security vendor Finjan, is that the US is still the malware capitol of the planet. And that's usually because of zombie botnets infecting thousands of compromised PCs without their owners&#0

By Oliver Rist

Mar 27, 2007 2 mins

Technology Industry

PeakStream offers tool for multicore apps

PeakStream is announcing on Tuesday availability of a beta release of PeakStream Workstation for Microsoft Windows Edition, which enables application developers to leverage multi-core processors. The product gives Windows developers the same PeakStre

By Paul Krill

Mar 27, 2007 1 min

Technology Industry

Shortcuts to career suicide

No yelling in the middle of a meeting — even when you're getting the shaft

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Mar 27, 2007 3 mins

Careers Software Development

Unified under law

Unified communications offers worthwhile benefits, but beware its potential legal pitfalls

By Ephraim Schwartz

Mar 27, 2007 3 mins

Careers Security Technology Industry

Out of Print

Yesterday's announcement that InfoWorld is discontinuing its print edition is one that leaves me with decidedly mixed feelings. On the one hand, as someone who has been writing and/or editing for InfoWorld for over twenty years, it's pretty

By Ed Foster

Mar 27, 2007 4 mins

Technology Industry

Virtualization Disrupting the Server Market and VMware Climbs the Scalability Wall

Analyst firm IDC recently announced a new paper that talks about how virtualization and multicore innovations are disrupting the worldwide server market. And then, I'm curious about your VI3 infrastructure, have you surpassed the 1000 management

By David Marshall

Mar 27, 2007 1 min

Software Development

MySQL webinar for CIOs

I received an invitation in my email today for an upcoming ">CIO-only MySQL webinar. I thought it was interesting because of the audience for MySQL (not to mention the fact that MySQL is clearly cutting into my OSBC territory :-).Open source

By Matt Asay

Mar 26, 2007 2 mins

Open Source

Embracing the Changing Nature of Enterprise Architecture

Off to New Orleans this week to speak at the Enterprise Architecture Conference. Here is the description of my keynote: "Enterprise Architecture is morphing into some new and exciting directions. With the advent of new concepts such as Web 2.0 a

By Dave Linthicum

Mar 26, 2007 2 mins

Software Development

AJAX and SOA…Where are the Links?

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By Dave Linthicum

Mar 26, 2007 1 min

Software Development

MySQL use up 25%; 40% of developers using it

Oh, MySQL. That little database that just isn't quite as good as the Big Important Proprietary Incumbents…. Except that, apparently, enterprises aren't getting this message. In fact, 40% of them strongly disagree with the feeling above, a

By Matt Asay

Mar 26, 2007 1 min

Open Source

Xerox Pumps Out 7 New Printers and Plan for SMB

Most folks treat printers as commodity items these days. Requirements usually run "laser or inkjet", "networked or USB", "color or B&W", "paper tray size". Maybe they look for an evelope feeder, too. BUt w

By Oliver Rist

Mar 26, 2007 2 mins

Technology Industry

Having your Zimbra cake and eating it, too – Zimbra adds offline functionality

Just when you thought Zimbra couldn't get any sexier, it adds the sexiest feature of all: Offline. That's right: As Satish is set to demo at eTech on Tuesday, Zimbra Desktop (as they're calling it) is a "rich offline-capable clien

By Matt Asay

Mar 26, 2007 2 mins

Open Source

Is there a there there, in the Oracle suit?

Both Josh Greenbaum and Nick Carr have reviewed Oracle's 42-page filing against SAP/TomorrowNow, and both reach the same conclusion: There's no there there. From Nick:I sat down this morning with a cup of coffee or four and read through the

By Matt Asay

Mar 26, 2007 2 mins

Open Source

Novell steering Microsoft defectors back to Microsoft?

Oh, my. On the one hand, Mary Jo is reporting that, just as Novell's Bruce Lowry had said, Novell's pact with Microsoft seems to be earning it back market share against Red Hat. On the other hand, and of much greater concern, the pact doesn

By Matt Asay

Mar 26, 2007 2 mins

Open Source

Dumped into the deep end

Dear Bob … I just recently started a new job as a project manager in a rapidly growing development team. It has doubled in size in less then a year, including new executive leadership. Previously all programmers did their own business analysis and

By Bob Lewis

Mar 26, 2007 4 mins

Technology Industry

A Sad Realization

Dave Methvin, Rob Cheng and I founded PC Pitstop in 1999. From the beginning, it was a classic Windows DNA site: we wove together an ActiveX control, quite a bit of client-side JavaScript, ASP server code also written in JavaScript, and a SQ

By Martin Heller

Mar 26, 2007 4 mins

Software Development

SMB Tech News Today; 3/26

* Music albums no longer the hot ticket. Seems the digital download phenom is having a tangible effect on the music industry after all. This story follows a new band signed by Universal–but not for an album, just for a couple of songs to test out th

By Oliver Rist

Mar 26, 2007 2 mins

Technology Industry