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.Net, Web Services, and the End of the Vendor Era 12 December, 2005 11:35:23
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It's Raining Code! (Hallelujah?) 04 April, 2005 14:23:43
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IBM's New Hook 14 July, 2003 11:18:52
If CEOs buy on-demand the same way they bought ERP and CRM — over 19th hole cocktails with consultants — the consequences could make the bloated expectations and cost overruns of the ERP and CRM era look like best practices by comparison.IBM's pitch that on-demand e-business will reduce IT costs and make everything work better sounds good, especially to CEOs who don't understand that the technologies to make it happen just don't exist. - +
The SCO Slugfest 13 September, 2004 14:19:47
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Your Open Source Plan 11 April, 2003 10:30:15
Once a toy for geeks, open source is slowly but surely filtering into the enterprise and transforming the way software is designed, sold and supported. And any CIO without an open-source strategy in 2003 will be paying too much for IT in 2004.
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Cover Story: IT: Then -- Now -- Tomorrow 10 December, 1999 12:01:01
While the 1900s saw the dawn of the technology revolution, the coming century is set to witness its zenith. - +
Online Tools Boost Expert Workers Efficiency 02 August, 2000 12:01:01
Crestone International had a problem. The Atlanta-based e-commerce consultancy couldn't find enough local designers, programmers and other IT professionals to meet its rapidly escalating workload. Experiencing triple-digit growth each year since its 1995 founding, the company needed to find a way to get extra productivity out of its current employees--or face the disagreeable prospect of turning away work. "It wasn't a matter of cutting expenses; it was a question of long-term viability," says Cal Yonker, Crestone's president. - +
The Latest in Designer Beans 27 January, 2000 12:01:01
Losing customers daily, his boss threatening to fire him, Jason Monberg gambled his company's future on Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs)-a new Java technology. It was the act of a desperate man. - +
Sun's COO Jonathon Schwartz speaks openly with Computerworld 13 October, 2004 12:48:14
Sun Microsystems president and COO Jonathan Schwartz is in Sydney to meet with government and corporate clients. His outspoken, maverick views frequently put him at odds with his competitors as Computerworld's Rodney Gedda discovered in an interview yesterday. - +
Virtualization gaining momentum 06 August, 2006 11:24:31
What's all the fuss about virtual machines? From AMD to Intel, Microsoft to Novell to Red Hat, every major OS and hardware platform vendor today has a stake in the virtualization game. But the truth is that running multiple virtual systems on a single physical workstation or server is simply pass.
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In a question-and-answer session here at Internet World Expo on Wednesday, Linux inventor Linus Torvalds chided competitors Microsoft. and Sun Microsystems.
Torvalds said Sun's recent half-step towards making its Solaris operating system open-source will not be effective.
"I don't think the Sun common licensing [announcement] will work but I am glad to see it happen," Torvalds said.
Torvalds said if vendors intend to make their source code open, they need to do so without any of the restrictions or conditions such as Sun placed on its Solaris operating system..
"A window is not open just because you can see through it," Torvalds said, saying that code is not truly open unless developers and users can manipulate it "without someone else controlling them."
Asked about Microsoft's recent rumblings that the company might make some of its products open-source and what that would mean to the Linux market, Torvalds said he would like to see it happen but was not hopeful about such a prospect.
"Talk is cheap [referring to Microsoft's statements]. It is a fairly theoretical question at this point, because I don't think it is likely. But I hope it happens," Torvalds said.
Torvalds cautioned, however, that developers are not guaranteed success just because they adopt an open-source strategy against competitors who have not.
"People think just because it is open-source, the result is going to be automatically better. Not true. You have to lead it in the right directions to succeed. Open source is not the answer to world hunger," Torvalds said.
As one example Torvalds pointed to Netscape's Mozilla, an open-source Java-based browser that held some promise but failed to attract many developers.
Torvalds said that in discussions with business users and developers more and more of them are beginning to see the value of, and better understand the strategy of the Linux technology and business model.
"A lot of business people I talk to realize the Linux way of doing business is not that strange after all, saying they are trying to do the same thing I have been doing. Just 18 months ago open source was a dirty word," Torvalds said.
Ed Scannell is an InfoWorld editor at large.
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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'I have a lost laptop horror story for you' 30 June, 2008 10:08:14
The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow...The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow: Russ Jones tells a tale of woe that isn't particularly dramatic -- or rare -- and yet it's exactly the kind of story that worries me enough to ignore my better judgment and buy identity-theft protection from my insurance provider. - +
SQL attacks lobs onto pro tennis site 02 July, 2008 11:52:19
Wimbledon perfect time for crook's criminal racket.Visitors to the Association of Tennis Professionals Web site have potentially been infected with spyware after apparent lax security allowed a malicious script to be injected across its pages. - +
Hacking tools: A new version of BackTrack helps ethical hackers 30 June, 2008 10:57:21
BackTrack is the quickest way to get access to hundreds of (legal) hacking toolsVersion 3.0 of BackTrack has been released. BackTrack is a Linux-based distribution dedicated to penetration testing or hacking (depending on how you look at it). It contains more than 300 of the world's most popular open source or freely distributable hacking tools. - +
Japanese military loses data again 02 July, 2008 08:17:21
Japan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data on joint US-Japan military exerciseJapan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data pertaining to a joint US-Japan military exercise last year, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. - +
ACLU, EFF sue US gov't over mobile phone tracking 03 July, 2008 08:37:23
Two civil liberties groups sue the US Department of Justice over mobile phone trackingThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are asking a federal court to order the US Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency's tracking of mobile phone users.
Ballarat Grammar Improves Student Access to Computer Based Learning with HP ProCurve 04 July, 2008 16:49:00
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