Even Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs), at least according to vendor Managed Objects. With their unveiling of "myCMDB" at Gartner's IT Infrastructure, Operations &...
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There is a broad disparity between the views of software manufacturers and their customers with regard to who is ultimately in control of the software running on the customer machine. Businesses (and...
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That's the word on the street at the moment, at least. Just when I was looking for some major company to demonstrate the viability of skipping Vista (as I have been suggesting) despite the...
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I was going to avoid posting anything about this week's departure of Bill Gates from his full-time role at Microsoft; everyone else is making a big deal over it, and I suppose if sentiment is a...
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Interesting post from Ken Hardin over at IT Business Edge titled "A Crotchety Manager's View on Telecommuting" outlining some new and critical perspectives of telecommuting by staff....
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© webg33k I may be obsessing way too much on the management dilemma posed by the millenial generation for CIOs. It turns out that IT is, like, totally boring, and they don't want to work for you...
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Fortune has a short analysis piece up looking at Apple's need and odds of penetrating the enterprise market with the iPhone. They see the same basic problem with the premise that I do: Apple's...
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If you have half an eye on the markets today, you've probably noticed Yahoo stock going up like a roman candle again, on the strength of rumors that *shudder* the Microsoft deal to purchase the...
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It seemed to me when I saw this that I had already heard about it and mentioned it before, but I can't find any entry discussing it... so this must be old age, then. But it appeals to my......
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First, a question: do broad, generational stereotypes extend across different cultures? And if so, to what extent? I ask because of this article in Silicon.com about "boring" IT curriculum...
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Indian off-shoring services giant Wipro will expand their existing product design services to include actual manufacturing of prototypes, according to CIO Magazine. Wipro plans to work with...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on June 21, 2008
Just a quick link; Michael Krigsman of the IT Project Failures blog has a post up now with some analysis of Google's AppEngine failure that occured last week. Krigsman believes that the failure...
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In a move which surely has Steve Ballmer tossing chairs around the office this week, China has announced that it will be investigating the Redmond company for every other major political entity's...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 5922273 So says Jim Porell of IBM in this ITBusinessEdge interview. Mainframes are so off the radar of the average IT department these days, and thus of the...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on June 18, 2008
Google's AppEngine cloud computing service joined the hallowed ranks of other burgeoning cloud service providers yesterday with its first widespread outage. Between 9AM and roughly 2PM Pacific, a...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Lise Gagne I have to admit I had never heard this one before; usually when you hear debates about coding style and quality, they are centered around domestic versus...
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With the June 30 demise of Windows XP rapidly approaching, there is a lot of speculation among those of us who are paid to speculate on what will happen to those hold-outs who have been demanding...
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On cue, Senator Herb Kohl, chair of the Senate Commerce Committee's Anti-Trust sub-committee, has stepped up to the podium and announced that the group will be rushing to scrutinize the impending...
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Filed in archive SOA
by Scott Wilson on June 16, 2008
When I first discussed the concept of "JaBoWS," the acronym coined by Joe McKendrick standing for "Just a Bunch of Web Services," or in other words, not SOA, I expressed the...
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Did anyone coin that yet? Am I the first? I don't know who came up with the whole "Microhoo" thing but I am sure they got their fifteen minutes of fame and I hope to emulate their...
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© Sea of Legs Now; why can't someone do this to clear up my favorite modern-day undersea mystery? Still keeping my eyes and ears open for any additional information. I continue to be surprised...
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In a move which is good for business both coming and going, Microsoft has indicated that it intends to commit an additional $20 million dollars to its Project Shiksha in India, which trains school...
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