Software Development

Standards vs. conventions

You have a right to expect logical consistency from e-mail and other Internet apps

Core constituency?

Apple keeps its customer base segmented, and its customers like it that way

Who’s in charge, anyway?

Software should work for us, not the other way around

Shunra unleashes an enterprise testing Storm

Storm STX-100 box profiles your app performance under variable network conditions

Is it time to retire big iron?

Sabre says mainframes can't beat clusters for value

Back to the mainframe

Linux helps some companies get more out of big iron

The social enterprise

From expanding social networks to building group memory, social software creates new possibilities for workflow

Opening up the mainframe

Mainframes hold a fortune in business rules, and companies are exploring new ways to spread the value around.

The virtues of sloppiness

Thanks to a half-hearted notebook wipe, reverting back to it and reclaiming 'deleted' files was a snap

How I tested