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Is Open Source Oracle Good?
[2010-03-09] Jeremy Allison of the Samba fame wrote an interesting blog post about Sun's approach to open source participatory development, followed by Bradley Kuhn's bad opinion of Oracle's attitude towards open source.
How Legal Issues, Business Strategies, And Costs Shape Open Source
[2010-02-23] How open source licensing's decisions are taken depend on legal issues, business strategies and costs structure.
Significant Growth Expected In US IT Market
[2010-02-09] Regardless of what the Dow may be doing at the moment, the recession isn't going to last forever, and in fact, a new report indicates that the IT industry is poised to recover. Business Monitor International believes spending in this field will soon start to grow at a rate of 5.5 percent (or more) per year.
Florian Mueller Shares His Opinion On The Oracle/Sun Merger
[2010-01-26] Now that the European Commission has approved the Oracle/Sun merger, while waiting Larry Ellison's webcast about Oracle + Sun strategy update, I asked again Florian Mueller to share his opinion on Commission's clearance of the deal.
Why Is IT Maintenance Lacking Over IT Projects?
[2010-01-12] In the quest for IT value, a commonly cited figure is that projects (new functionality) consume a mere 25% or so of IT spending, while "maintenance" consumes the balance.
Applying Lean Value Stream Mapping To Your IT Life Cycle
[2009-12-22] As I argue elsewhere (most recently on TDAN.com) there are four IT value streams:
OpenLogic Lowers Cost To Continue Healthy Competition With Red Hat
[2009-12-08] Last week OpenLogic announced commercial support for CentOS, a Linux distribution derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The CentOS distribution is ostensibly RHEL source code with Red Hat's branding and artwork removed.
Understanding And Addressing Current IT Service Management Discussions
[2009-11-17] Twitter is increasingly useful lately, for pointers to current IT Service Management (ITSM) discussion & many other topics. A couple lines of inquiry have me feeling contrarian, or at least desiring more clarity:
OpenLogic May See Better Days Soon
[2009-11-03] I read two articles last week that lead me to believe OpenLogic's best days are ahead. First, OpenLogic reported a 41% year to year increase in 3Q09 revenue with a 100% renewal rate. These are strong results and the renewal rate suggests that clients value OpenLogic's offerings.
Tech Leaders Ask The FCC To Uphold An Open Internet
[2009-10-20] It appears the leaders of some of the world's largest tech companies are not taking any chances that the FCC could be persuaded to ditch Net Neutrality at the last minute-they just sent the following letter to FCC.
Webmaster Tools Improve With New Verification Process
[2009-10-05] Sean Harding is talking about the changes in the website verification process of Webmaster Tools on the Google Webmaster blog. Earlier, webmasters were required to add a specific meta tag or file of their website to become its verified owner. But, Google has recently made a few improvements in the ownership verification process to make it easier and more reliable.
Adding IT Service Value With The New Dell Purchase
[2009-09-22] Services get a bad name in the financial world, which is mystifying to me. On Friday of last week, I was speaking with a VC about a great small IT services firm doing a round of financing - the company is self-funded, is cash flow break-even, and will most likely end the year profitable, doing about $7M in sales.
Keeping Your WordPress Blog Secure From Hackers
[2009-09-08] If you use self-hosted WordPress for your blog and you're not using the latest version, 2.8.4, you're running a severe risk of your site security being compromised and even hacked. So do these three things right now:
Learning Malware Lessons From Web Hosting In Ireland
[2009-08-25] I've been paying a lot more attention to the problem of malware. It seems that this issue may be set to be the largest threat to online business, and given the sheer volume of new attacks I thought it would be interesting to take a look at what Google's Safe Browsing system was reporting for Irish Hosting companies.
Cloud Computing Worst Practices And How To Avoid Them
[2009-08-11] It is no surprise that many IT organizations are struggling to implement enterprise solutions in the cloud. After all, we have seen IT struggle for decades with many "new" initiatives like SOA, ERP implementations, Enterprise Architecture, etc. The following list captures what I call cloud computing worst practices. Many of these items on the list are the same mistakes that IT has been making for decades while others are specific to cloud computing.
Intuit Blurs The Lines Between Open Source And Proprietary Vendors
[2009-07-30] The lines between open source and proprietary vendors' software strategies continue to blur. Intuit announced the launch of a community site for developers interested in creating connected on line applications for small businesses, providing them with a number of open source tools.
Google's Next Microsoft Killer Chrome OS
[2009-07-14] Yep - it's true. Google are venturing into the world of computer operating systems and have clearly put Microsoft on notice. In case you missed the news, last week Google confirmed that they will be launching an operating system (known as Google Chrome OS) that will provide PC and laptop users with an alternative to Microsoft's various Windows operating systems.
OpenOffice.org To Focus On Stability And Feature Upgrades
[2009-06-30] Sun's Thorsten Ziehm of the OpenOffice.org engineering team wrote a post titled: "Does OpenOffice.org 3.x have a general quality issue?" Unless my mind is playing tricks on me, and I'm 98.2% sure it isn't, Thorsten's post was edited between when I first read it in the morning and when I decided to blog this afternoon.
Taking Full Advantage Of Database Development Tools
[2009-06-15] The cloud has opened up enhanced opportunities to store and access data. However, for enterprises to take full advantage of this new power, database development tools need to be accessible to self-service by the typical business user without limiting any of the database's flexibility or scalability.
Understanding How A Hacker Thinks
[2009-06-03] Wonder how a hacker thinks? Take a look at a three year old discovering their world and you have a very good idea on how a hacker thinks, no boundaries, no layers, and the whole world is wide open for discovery.
Before Adopting New Technology Fix Your Current IT Issues
[2009-05-19] Here are several excerpts from a very informative blog post by Phil Wainewright, How to Fail with Cloud, SaaS and Enterprise 2.0 :Gartner analyst Michael Maoz blogged yesterday Why your Twitter and Social CRM efforts will fail. It's an insightful post and one that, by coincidence, shares a theme with something I posted yesterday, Hybrid cloud or half-hearted kludge?
Is Facebook Business 2.0 Killing IT Business 1.0?
[2009-05-05] Most social networking sites with a zillion users don't come close to making money. Eventually, even dinosaurs such as myself succumb to the inevitable old school question - "how long can it continue?" The answer, it appears, is not much longer.
How do you feel about the Pirate Bay verdict?
[2009-04-21] Reaction to the news Friday that the Pirate Bay Four had been convicted came from every corner of the web over the weekend:
Focus On Architecture To Succeed In The Cloud
[2009-04-07] A small number of bloggers keep reminding the industry of the lessons learned from SOA. We keep reminding people that to succeed in the cloud there must be a focus on architecture. Well it doesn't sound like many people are listening.
The BBC Controls A BotNet For Viewer Benefit
[2009-03-24] This is what happens when television people get their hands on 22,000 compromised computers and think it would be fun to play around with a Botnet.
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