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Why Zend Sees No Competition In Facebook's PHP
[2010-02-08] Facebook recently open sourced HipHop for PHP. According to Facebook engineers, the technology has been used to reduce Facebook Web server CPU usage by an average of 50 percent. Reading about HipHop for PHP I was reminded about a post from Redmonk's Stephen O'Grady titled "When Your Customer is Your Competitor: The Return of Roll Your Own". Stephen argues that the traditional definition of a "software company" is far too narrow.
Carlo Piana Investigates The Oracle/Sun Merger Clearance
[2010-01-28] Larry Ellison will eventually unveil Oracle + Sun strategy, while waiting I took the chance to ping my friend Carlo Piana and ask also his opinion on the European Commission's clearance of the Oracle/Sun merger.
Private Clouds Should Only Be Used Temporarily
[2010-01-15] Here are several excerpts from an insightful article by Alistair Croll, principal analyst at Bitcurrent, Private Clouds Are A Fix, Not The Future:
Top Technology For 2010
[2009-12-28] As we approach the end of the year, I thought it might be fun to share Ten for 10 in 2010 - a list of people, blogs, apps, platforms and more that I think you might enjoy checking out in 2010.
Proprietary Software Vendors To Monetize Easier Through The Cloud
[2009-12-10] I've argued that Cloud vendors are in a better position to monetize open source products than open source software vendors themselves. I'm not alone in this thinking. In William Vambenepe's post, "Cloud + proprietary software = love", there may be yet another reason for open source vendors to drink the Cloud Kool-Aid with caution.
Recouping Time On IT Projects By Removing Non-Essential Features
[2009-11-18] Here are several excerpts from an article by Phil Simon, Three Questions to Ask When Considering Cutting Features from an IT Project: I am often involved with projects that are running behind schedule and over budget. Such is life of an IT consultant, I suppose.
Survey Claims Small To Medium Businesses Allowing Unsafe Network Practices
[2009-11-09] Frost & Sullivan, a research company specializing in growth strategies, has released a startling survey concerning the IT practices of small/medium business enterprises. The survey evaluated the network risks that these businesses unknowingly, or sometimes knowingly have going on in operation.
How Hackers Are Trying To Penetrate Cloud Computing
[2009-10-28] Now that my two cloud servers have been up and running long enough for scanners, hackers and other folks to find them. What is interesting is seeing what kind of hacker activity the two cloud servers are seeing, and how they are standing up to being exposed on the internet.
New Developments In American Open Source
[2009-10-14] Open Source for America (OSFA) was announced as a coalition to encourage US Federal Government support of, and participation in, open source projects and technologies. If that sounds like a broad reaching goal, it is. After nearly three months in the public, I was interested to learn what progress OSFA has made towards this goal.
Developing Stronger Information Architecture For Enterprise 2.0
[2009-09-29] This is the third in a series of interviews with Samuel Driessen, Information Architect at Océ, about their Enterprise 2.0 implementation and adoption experiences. Océ is a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services. Earlier, I wrote out their micro-messaging and wiki experiences (see Implementing Enterprise Micro-messaging with Yammer at Océ and Implementing Wikis in the Age of Enterprise 2.0 at Océ).
Adobe Web Analytics with Omniture
[2009-09-16] Adobe is now moving into another area of the Internet space with its purchase of web analytics company Omniture. Adobe's suite of products is well known but has been losing its traction over the recent past. In the Internet world, Adobe is probably best known for it's anti-search product Flash that has been a favorite of web designers and the bane of the SEO's existence for quite some time.
How To Build And Call Superclasses
[2009-08-27] Inheritance is the core concept of Object oriented programing and Java programming Language. Since every subclass has exclusive rights to use the every resource of its superclass. Constructor of superclass holds important position in this regard.
OpenOffice Considers The Addition Of Ribbon UI
[2009-08-06] Project Renaissance is an OpenOffice.org project aiming to deliver a new user interface (UI) for OOo. The team recently completed the prototyping phase and is asking for users to provide feedback on the 8 UI options. The UI options strongly resemble the Microsoft Office 2007's Ribbon UI.
Every Good IT Department Needs A Good Recovery Plan
[2009-07-20] After reading about Lisa Barone's laptop being stolen, I got into a bit of a discussion about how I use cloud computing for part of my backup and disaster recovery plan. Since a few people started asking details I think this post might be useful. First a bit of history, anyone who worked in IT in 2001 probably heard the phrase disaster recovery plan.
Mobile Software Development Made Easier Through Android
[2009-07-07] Android continues to build momentum by making life easier for developers and possibly converting a rival mobile OS Symbian backer Nokia to contemplate switching to Android phones.
Directory Board Established To Srengthen Neutral Software Rating
[2009-06-18] The EOS directory, the list of enterprise open source applications launched two years ago by Optaros, has recently been handed over to Bruno von Rotz, initial sponsor of the initiative and well known open source specialist.
Software Needs To Be Conducive To Learning
[2009-06-04] When you are looking at Knowledge Management, education, training, these all fit into knowledge management systems. It does not matter what system you are using, what matters is the environment you are creating to support internal and external goals for learning. If the systems, if the content, and if the presentation is not conducive to learning, it does not matter how well you create content.
Web Accessed Databases Are Coming Allowing New Powerful Collaboration
[2009-05-13] As all studious web watchers know, the next wave of internet innovation has been brewing for some time, as massive amounts of data has been pumped onto the web and made available for people to share-and-compare, play with and link to. Yes, prepare yourselves people, The Web Of Data is on the way.
Keep In Touch With Microsoft Vine
[2009-04-28] Microsoft has announced the private beta launch of Microsoft Vine, a web tool designed to keep family and friends in contact with each other.
Could Google Be Hindering Android?
[2009-04-09] Google Android Engineer echos what I have been feeling for quite a while as he declares that Google itself is a major bottleneck when it comes to Android being an Open-Source project.
What Happens When The Internet Infrastructure Gets Hacked
[2009-03-26] The discovery of a stealth router botnet changes the landscape for hacking devices connected to the internet. Many security people have been talking about what is going to happen when the infrastructure gets hacked; the interesting part is now we get to find out.
Pirate Bay Final Trial Day: Will Torrent Trackers Win?
[2009-03-04] This was it; everyone made their closing arguments on the relative merits of the evidence in the Pirate Bay Trial. The question on everyone's mind now is what the actual verdict will be, with no idea when that will come through the system.
First Intel Remote Assist Launched By PCWorld And TechGuys
[2009-02-12] PC World has today announced the launch of new Intel® Remote Assist Technology, available exclusively on its latest range of Advent PCs, including the massive spec Advent QC6003 and Advent QC8003. Called TechGuys Remote Assist, the new service is only available at PC World stores across the UK and online at www.pcworld.co.uk
Microsoft Cuts 5,000 Jobs
[2009-01-23] This is much less than the 9 to 16 thousand that has been thrown about on the internet since December. But news has hit the street, yes indeed Microsoft is going to lay off 5000 employees. This gives a lot of credibility to Mini-Microsoft this morning who basically posted a warning back in December that something was going to happen.
Israel and Hamas Take to The Virtual Streets
[2009-01-05] If you are not paying attention to what is happening in Israel with the escalating war between Israel and Hamas, then you really need to. This is how cyber war is fought, and how information security is more important than bombs or guns.
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