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- The services game: Will you trust a tech company to solve your business problems?
- The services game: Will you trust a tech company to solve your business problems?Trust IBM!?Having witnessed first hand PWC's work on implementing SAP, and IBM's capabilities as an IT outsourcing expert, the trust is gone.Not a new concept, and not isolated to IBMThe concept of providing business services that fall...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- SaaS market will 'collapse' in two years
- SaaS market will 'collapse' in two yearsHe doesn't get itSo to summarize Debes (who comes off a little like Vinny from da mob or a coke dealer - his words, not mine):(1) SaaS and Cloud computing as a delivery vehicle has been tried before and therefore will fail (like all...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality
- Guest editorial by Emma McGrattan In the current economic climate, businesses of every size are looking to reduce their spending wherever possible. Open source software, which has no upfront licensing fees, is one way of achieving significant savings. However, in order to protect their...
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Ingres gives Fortify security study a good fisking
- Open source projects in Fortify's Open Review report fewer defects per thousand lines of code than proprietary products in the same review. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- News to know: Netflix; Google Health; Storm Worm; Fixing Vista
- Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: The Storm Worm would love to infect you Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7: The information lockdown continues Microsoft releases Virtual PC 2007 SP1 Microsoft: Half of Exchange inboxes to be Microsoft-hosted in five years...
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Ingres brings OpenROAD tool for rapid DB apps development to GPL
- Ingres Corp. is hoping for strong community involvement with its Open ROAD rapid application development RAD tool by taking it to GPL v2 release. The Redwood City, Calif., open source database management company has made the new release available on its Web site and said it...
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- RPG, PHP, and history
- RPG, PHP, and historyIf it works for you, use it - but it doesnt work for me.If it works for you, and especially if it has an elegant simplicity, then go for it.However,[i]So what’s the model? simple: business applications are user interfaces to business data.[/i]I think that in many cases...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Did Sun just make mySQL closed source?
- Did Sun just make mySQL closed source?Free users are getting stable codewhat kind of coment is that ?Supposed to imply that the open source edition is the best one, while the enterprise edition is bloated with un industrialized new features ? In what kind of world are you leaving were...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- Did Sun just make mySQL closed source?
- Sun's happy talk at its mySQL shindig this week masked a grimmer reality. In the future cool new features of mySQL like online backup will, when written by Sun, first go only to paying customers. This does not, as some have said, make mySQL Enterprise closed...
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- MuleSource CEO: Mule 2.0 will kick enterprise butt
- MuleSource has launched a major upgrade of its open source Enterprise Service Bus software that offers a new Eclipse integrated development environment, easier configuration and stronger Spring integration. Mule 2.0 Community Edition was made available on April 1. The company's commercial enterprise edition -- based on version...
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Web publishing, CMS, BI most hot for open source disruption, but ESB and security are not?
- Acquia, KnowledgeTree and JasperSoft touted new open source web publishing, social software, content management and business intelligence products at the Open Source Business Conference this week. Acquia, of Andover, Mass., said it is on track this fall t ship a new social web publishing platform...
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- What does IBM mean for an open source start-up?
- What does IBM mean for an open source start-up?Minor correction: Ingres PostgresDana,Despite the common origins at Cal and similar names, Ingres and Postgres are different code bases. There's a good description of this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL. I appreciate your active coverage of the rebirth of openness in the...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-25
- Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Linux server, client will be big in the cloud and mobile sectors
- Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth sees Linux playing a big role in the cloud and in mobile computing – especially his own server and client software. In a brief interview with ZDNet after his OSBC panel, Shuttleworth said the Ubuntu Linux server will be...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- What does IBM mean for an open source start-up?
- News that IBM is among the new investors in EnterpriseDB has already been remarked upon by our own Matt Asay. I know it gives employees a warm feeling to know that the VC money is flowing and Big Blue believes in them. But what...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- The CIO's innovation dilemma
- The often uncomfortable relationship between IT and business is nothing new but has taken on fresh piquancy. The visibility achieved by the impact coming from the use of socialprise I have seen among major brands fuels that debate. There is a history here and I sense that...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- My night with Verizon
- My night with VerizonAre you sure......that you spelled PING correctly?Ha!RE: My night with VerizonYou have my sympathies. I had a similar experience with AT&T last week and couldn't believe that their support techs consistently resort to the magical pull the battery or reboot suggestions time and again. I...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- IBM announces the Z10: Is the mainframe still relevant?
- IBM announces the Z10: Is the mainframe still relevant?z10 - Change of Ideology in EnterprisesI think the z10 is going to be the future winner, especially in the virtualization arena. The problem will be getting large corporations to "buy" in to the purchase. In the old days of...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- Vertica brings higher speeds to ad hoc queries
- Michael Stonebraker has a history of database breakthroughs. He was a founder of Ingres, Illustra, Cohera and StreamBase Systems. He also served as CTO of Informix and helped develop Postgres. His most recent creation is Vertica, which just launched version 2.o of its database. The claims...
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- About the Windows Server 2008 stack
- There's an old saying about the devil making work for idle hands - so there I was last week, feeling a little bored and idly clicking through a story both about and by some guy named Whitehorn who's going to blog an extensive development project based on the...
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
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