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Bo By Ted Samson Oct 16, 2006 2 mins Technology Industry Preview: Oracle SOA Suite 10.1 Developer Preview The SOA (services-oriented architecture) conundrum: how to glean simplification through services without sacrificing enterprise management and security. I had a glimpse at the forthcoming Oracle SOA Suite bundle and found it does a good job propping By James Borck Oct 16, 2006 2 mins Technology Industry Gaming for business How will game technologies play out in the corporate world? By Steve Fox Oct 16, 2006 2 mins Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry 20 ways to get promoted in the tech industry If you agree that there's no such thing as an IT project, you may already be on your way up the ladder By Dan Tynan Oct 16, 2006 18 mins Technology Industry Opera’s open source conundrum Browser maker embraces open standards but keeps code closed By Neil McAllister Oct 16, 2006 3 mins Open Source Software Development Will SOA Cause Developer Unemployment? 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With this latest release, Virtual Iron By David Marshall Oct 15, 2006 2 mins Software Development Egenera Joins VMware Community Source Program Egenera Inc., announced it has joined the VMware Community Source program. Joining the program will allow Egenera to port VMware ESX Server to the Egenera BladeFrame system, complementing Egenera's virtualized computing architecture with the ser By David Marshall Oct 14, 2006 2 mins Software Development Veeam Releases FastSCP for VMware ESX Server Veeam Software, a provider of systems management solutions for virtual machines, has announced the release of Veeam FastSCP (Fast and Secure Copy) for VMware ESX Server. It is a fast, secure and easy-to-use tool to transfer files between ESX Server a By David Marshall Oct 14, 2006 2 mins Software Development SANRAD Announces VMware Support One of the side effects with using server virtualization to deliver on IT server consolidation projects is the need for larger amounts of storage. 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The next release of Fireworks will leverage the current rich hybrid vector-bitmap tool while expanding capabilities for rapid prototy By Paul Krill Oct 13, 2006 1 min Technology Industry Don’t Do DR on Friday the 13th Anyone beats this and I'll have Doug send you a T-Shirt. Friday the 13th was in May last year, and I didn't even have this blog then. But I made notes that day and stored them in my anecdote file because I knew they'd be fodder for so By Oliver Rist Oct 13, 2006 6 mins Technology Industry Preview: Microsoft Vista RC 2 I'll be posting my Week in Vista/Office 2007 article on SMB IT next week (Microsoft has to answer a few questions, first); meantime, I figured I'd give Vista Release Candidate 2 a try since it became available right in the middle of my revi By Oliver Rist Oct 13, 2006 2 mins Technology Industry Emerging Enterprise: Linux in SMB and Vista Security So my last mini-rev was SUSE 10 which brings us to a discussion of what you really use Linux for in SMB. 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