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The analysts are looking at this trend as well, and I think that 2007 is going to be the year of the major SOA project By Dave Linthicum Dec 1, 2006 1 min Software Development Virtual concerns The promise — and threat — of virtualization looms on the horizon; will you be ready for its security challenges? By Roger Grimes Dec 1, 2006 5 mins Careers Security Technology Industry Wanted: megatrend technology innovators Needs of developing economies demand not only vision, but a rethinking of long-held assumptions By David Margulius Dec 1, 2006 3 mins Software Development Technology Industry Microsoft and Novell go kablooey, Second Life gets gooey Sometimes even $440 million can't buy you happiness By Robert X. Cringely® Dec 1, 2006 2 mins Malware Security Technology Industry Novell Launches Interoperable Management Solutions Novell announced the first offerings of its desktop-to-data center management initiative, including the availability of a comprehensive set of solutions which orchestrate the management of virtual machines, high-performance computing and other IT res By David Marshall Dec 1, 2006 4 mins Software Development Virtual Bridges Announces Upgrade to Win4BSD Virtual Bridges, a provider of enterprise and SMB solutions using virtualization for business, announced today an upgrade to their Win4BSD Pro Desktop product. Win4BSD Pro Desktop runs as a FreeBSD/PC-BSD application and allows users to run Windows A By David Marshall Dec 1, 2006 2 mins Software Development SWsoft Virtualization Customer a Top 10 IT Project in InfoWorld 100 SWsoft customer arvato mobile GmbH has been named to the "Top 10" in the 2006 edition of the InfoWorld 100. Arvato mobile, a division of arvato Bertelsmann AG, was recognized for its use of Virtuozzo virtualization software in its datacente By David Marshall Nov 30, 2006 2 mins Software Development Gartner: Server Sales Slowed by Virtualization According to the latest estimates of server sales from the IT analyst firm Gartner, as companies continue to embrace virtualization technologies, they are buying fewer physical servers causing a slow down in the growth of the server market. The repor By David Marshall Nov 30, 2006 2 mins Software Development Data security means going beyond e-discovery New legislation means companies must take a more proactive role monitoring their data By Mario Apicella Nov 30, 2006 4 mins Data and Information Security Small and Medium Business Technology Industry Vista’s got goodies for on-the-go users Redmond's thoughtfully added tools for gauging notebook health, syncing systems, and more By Oliver Rist Nov 30, 2006 4 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry Microsoft Launches Windows Live Barcode Beta | 2D Barcode Creators So how cool is this….the Japanese have long been in love with gadgets and now finally we have a mainstream company that seems to be putting some effort into playing catchup. So you've seen those new 2D barco By Brian Chee Nov 29, 2006 2 mins Technology Industry Not just a DR Plan Anymore Every now and then you come across something that changes the way you do everything. I just got the latest release of Camtasia Studio and man is it great. It's got some cool new features that I'll let the website go into details on, but wha By Sean McCown Nov 29, 2006 3 mins Databases A demeaning boss I HAVE A QUESTION I HAVE A BOSS WHO IS SO FRUS-TRADED ALL THE TIME AND WHEN I AM AROUND HER SHE MAKES ME THINK. I AM DOING MY JOB INCORRECTLY I AM NOT AS FAST AS SO AND SO, I DO'NT BELONG IN THIS DEPARTMENT. I TELL HER BOSS ABOUT HER BEHAVIOR AN By Bob Lewis Nov 29, 2006 3 mins Technology Industry Microvell’s big chill Microsoft/Novell paves the way for the return of Advanced Server for Unix By Tom Yager Nov 29, 2006 3 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry We need a universal canvas that doesn’t suck We're still only in the early stages of building a common Internet collaboration platform By Jon Udell Nov 29, 2006 3 mins Cloud Computing SaaS Small and Medium Business Test Center Tracker: ADU, take two? Microvell to exhume ADU?: Many a pundit has weighed in on the potential impact of the Microsoft-Novell pairing. Tossing in another two-plus cents is Tom Yager, who foresees the Microvell pact resulting in the return of Advanced Server for Unix (ASU), By Ted Samson Nov 29, 2006 2 mins Technology Industry Starting an eStore Dear Bob …I want to open an e-store but I don't know the first thing about building websites and maintaining them. I would like to find a company that does this kind of work. How do I find a good one and approximately what kind of expenses am By Bob Lewis Nov 29, 2006 3 mins Technology Industry Egenera, XenSource and vBlade Software Egenera launched its vBlade software, a new way to manage both physical servers and virtual machines by providing a single environment for configuring, allocating, repurposing and managing both types of resources. Their first vBlade implementation ut By David Marshall Nov 28, 2006 2 mins Software Development Intalio donates business process technology Intalio has donated its BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) process modeler to the Eclipse Foundation. The technology is available under an Eclipse Public License as part of the Eclipse SOA Tools Platform project. The modeler will be used to bu By Paul Krill Nov 28, 2006 2 mins Technology Industry Why Doesn’t Microsoft Care about DBAs? I got a chance to talk extensively with some of the MS dev team at PASS. Specifically, the new VSTS for DBAs team, or part of it anyway (Gert Drapers and Cameron Skinner). In our discussions about MS's current vision for the product, it became v By Sean McCown Nov 28, 2006 5 mins Databases CA Advances Unicenter to Manage Virtual Environments CA announced the availability of its heterogeneous, platform-agnostic solution that provides centralized management for virtualized and clustered server environments – Unicenter Advanced Systems Management (Unicenter ASM) 11.1. Unicenter ASM is a key By David Marshall Nov 28, 2006 2 mins Software Development Review: cyScape BrowserHawk 10 Developers rely on all sorts of home-grown "sniffer" scripts to detect users' browser settings. 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In my case, it's new upper management starting down a path that IMO leads to outsourcin By Bob Lewis Nov 28, 2006 2 mins Technology Industry Winning IT contracts the military way Giving the armed forces what it wants doesn't always win friends and advance your company By InfoWorld Anonymous Nov 28, 2006 3 mins Databases Small and Medium Business Technology Industry Health care and IT The future is rosy for both patient care and computer science By Ephraim Schwartz Nov 28, 2006 3 mins Databases Small and Medium Business Technology Industry Test Center Tracker: Four new AJAX toolkit reviews Fresh from the Test Center: Following up on his summer evaluation of six free AJAX toolkits, Peter Wayner examined four AJAX toolkits from the proprietary side of the tracks: Backbase, Bindows, JackBe, and Tibco General Interface. While "AJAX&qu By Stephanie McLoughlin Nov 28, 2006 2 mins Technology Industry A New Day for Corporate DRM "A New Day for Business" is the way Microsoft is billing this Thursday's rollout of the business versions of Vista and Office. But I wonder if corporate customers won't eventually look back on the end of November 2006 as the point By Ed Foster Nov 28, 2006 5 mins Technology Industry Report from the SOA Kongress and BEA’s SOA Survey Report from the SOA Kongress and BEA's SOA Survey Download file… By Dave Linthicum Nov 28, 2006 1 min Software Development Can’t wait for IPTV? Neither can vendors Ruckus Wireless, yet another impatient Wi-Fi vendor unable to wait for the IEEE 802.11n standard to be ratified, not expected before 2008, announced today a pre-802.11n product. 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