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- The Big Question podcast: Will News Corp. really pull its content from Google?
- What exactly is Rupert Murdoch up to with his Google saber rattling? Jason Hiner and I handicap the week's big question and figure out whether News Corp. would really pull its content from Google completely. The Big Question is a joint production from ZDNet and TechRepublic. You can play this... more
- The Big Question podcast: Handicapping the Verizon vs. AT&T marketing war
- In this episode of The Big Question, Jason Hiner, Andrew Nusca and I handicap the entertaining marketing scrum between Verizon and AT&T. Who's right? The Big Question is a joint production from ZDNet and TechRepublic. You can play this 18-minute episode from the Flash-based player at the top of the... more
- BriefingsDirect analysts discuss business commerce clouds: Wave of the future or old wine in a new bottle?
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript, or download a copy. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Also sponsored by TIBCO Software. Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint's ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol.... more
- Tech M&A accelerates: Will the No. 2 and No. 3 players sell out or compete?
- In this installment of The Big Question podcast TechRepublic's Jason Hiner and I talk about the evolving tech landscape as mergers and acquisitions accelerate. There are plenty M&A possibilities ahead, but tech industry may wind up with giant vendors and startups and little in between. Meanwhile, a lot of companies... more
- Here's why text-based content access and management play crucial roles in real-time BI
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download a copy. Learn more. Sponsor: Kapow Technologies. Text-based content and information from across the Web are growing in importance to businesses. The need to analyze web-based text in real-time is rising to where structured... more
- Will business users get onboard with the Verizon Droid? [podcast]
- The Verizon Droid launches Nov. 6 amid a lot of hype and anticipation. It's also being aimed at business users. We discuss how it measures up. The Big Question is a joint production from ZDNet and TechRepublic. Larry Dignan is on vacation this week, so I have two guests: Bill... more
- Internet performance management makes data center consolidation possible
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download a copy. Learn more. Sponsor: Akamai Technologies. Data-center consolidation and modernization of IT systems helps enterprises reduce cost, cut labor, slash energy use, and become more agile. Infrastructure advancements, standardization, performance density, and network... more
- Separating core from context brings high returns in legacy application transformation
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. This podcast is the second in a series of three to examine Application Transformation: Getting to the Bottom Line. Through panel discussions we examine the rationale and likely... more
- Linthicum's latest book: How SOA and cloud intersect for enterprise productivity benefits
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Download a transcript. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Also sponsored by TIBCO Software. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Volume 45. This periodic discussion and dissection of IT infrastructure related news and events with industry analysts and guests, looks... more
- Application transformation case study targets enterprise bottom line with eye-popping ROI
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download a copy. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. This podcast is the first in the series of three to examine Application Transformation: Getting to the Bottom Line. Through a case study, we'll discuss the rationale and... more
- Windows 7 podcast: What will the upgrade cycle look like?
- With Windows 7 set for lift-off on Thursday, Jason Hiner, Mary Jo Foley and I handicap the Windows 7 upgrade cycle. We expect the consumer to lead the first wave of adoption with enterprises bringing up the rear in the back half. You can play this 17-minute episode from the... more
- Churchill Club podcast: An Evening with Michael Dell
- In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, Dell CEO Michael Dell riffs on netbooks, the spending environment and Windows 7. more
- Making the leap from virtualization to cloud computing: A roadmap and guide
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download a copy. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Get a free copy of Cloud for Dummies courtesy of Hewlett-Packard at www.hp.com/go/cloudpodcastoffer. This latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion focuses on enterprise IT architects making a leap from virtualization... more
- CEO interview: Workday's Aneel Bhusri on advancing SaaS and cloud models for improved ERP
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download a copy. Learn more. Sponsor: Workday. The latest BriefingsDirect podcast is an executive interview with a software-as-a-service (SaaS) upstart Workday, a human capital management (HCM), financial management, payroll, worker spend management, and workday benefits... more
- Podcast: Can Windows 7 erase Vista memories?
- Can Windows 7 erase the memories of Vista for Microsoft? On this week's podcast, we discuss Windows 7's prospects for businesses and consumers. You can play this 17-minute episode from the Flash-based player at the top of the page, or: Subscribe via RSS Download the MP3 file Later this month... more
- Architects to cloud advocates: Get real
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download a copy. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Free Offer: Get a complimentary copy of the new book Cloud Computing For Dummies courtesy of Hewlett-Packard at www.hp.com/go/cloudpodcastoffer. The popularity of the concepts around cloud computing have... more
- Successful data center transformation usually requires overdue rethinking of the network
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Special Offer: Gain insight into best practices for transforming your data center by downloading three new data center transformation whitepapers from HP at www.hp.com/go/dctpodcastwhitepapers. Most enterprise networks are... more
- Podcast: Can Apple make the tablet PC cool?
- Apple's rumored tablet is just the latest incarnation of the form factor. In fact, the tech industry has been pushing tablet PCs forever with little success. The big question we address in this podcast: Can Apple make tablets cool? We---Jason Hiner, Sam Diaz and I---were a bit mixed on the... more
- HP roadmap dramatically reduces energy consumption across data centers
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Gain more insights into data center transformation best practices by downloading free whitepapers at http://www.hp.com/go/dctpodcastwhitepapers. Producing meaningful, long-term energy savings in IT operations depends on a strategic planning... more
- Web data services extend data access and distribution beyond the RDB-BI straightjacket
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Sponsor: Kapow Technologies. As enterprises seek to gain better insights into their markets, processes, and business development opportunities, they face a daunting challenge -- how to identify, gather, cleanse, and manage all... more
- Cloud computing by industry: Novel ways to collaborate via extended business processes
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Free Offer: Get a complimentary copy of the new book Cloud Computing For Dummies courtesy of Hewlett-Packard at www.hp.com/go/cloudpodcastoffer. Welcome to a podcast discussion on how to make the most... more
- Kapow and StrikeIron team-up to offer web data services capabilities to SMBs
- Kapow Technologies has joined forced with StrikeIron to give small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) a leg up in accessing, using, and sharing Web-based data. Kapow's Web Data Services 7.0.0 will allow SMBs to wrap any Web site or Web application into RSS feeds or REST Web services. [Disclosure: Kapow is... more
- Staying on legacy systems ends up costing IT more
- Listen to podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett Packard. This latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion tackles the high -- and often under-appreciated -- cost for many enterprises of doing nothing about aging, monolithic applications. Not making a choice... more
- Podcast: Is $99 the new $199 for smartphones?
- Here's our first installment of a joint ZDNet-TechRepublic podcast called the Big Question. In it, we---Jason Hiner, Bill Detwiler and I---pick apart the following: RIM's prospects in a price war; Palm as an acquisition target; And how the smartphone-feature phone lines are blurring so every phone is "smart." You can... more
- Churchill Club audio: Larry Ellison, in Conversation with Ed Zander
- At a Churchhill Club event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talked to former Sun Microsystems President Ed Zander about Oracle’s recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Ellison covered a wide range of topics ranging from the economy to IBM and IT demand. Here's the full audio. more
- Web data services extend business intelligence depth and breadth across social, mobile, web domains
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Kapow Technologies. See popular event speaker Howard Dresner's latest book, Profiles in Performance: Business Intelligence Journeys and the Roadmap for Change, or visit his website. The latest BriefingsDirect podcast... more
- Caught between peak and valley -- How CIOs survive today, while positioning for tomorrow
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Download the slides. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Are CIOs are making the right decisions and adjustments in both strategy and execution as we face a new era in IT priorities? The combination of the... more
- Jericho Forum aims to guide enterprises through risk mitigation landscape for cloud adoption
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: The Open Group. My latest podcast discussion comes from The Open Group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference and associated 3rd Security Practitioners Conference in Toronto. We're talking about security in the cloud and decision-making... more
- Economic and climate imperatives combine to elevate Green IT as cost-productive priority
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Welcome to a podcast discussion on Green IT and the many ways to help reduce energy use, stem carbon dioxide creation, and reduce total IT costs -- all... more
- Open Group ramps up cloud and security activities as extension of boundaryless organization focus
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: The Open Group. Standards and open access are increasingly important to users of cloud-based services. Yet security and control also remain top-of-mind for enterprises. How to make the two... more
- Harnessing enterprise clouds: Many technical underpinnings already reside in today's data centers
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Sponsor: Hewlett Packard. Free Offer: Get a complimentary copy of the new book Cloud Computing For Dummies courtesy of Hewlett-Packard at www.hp.com/go/cloudpodcastoffer. Our latest BriefingsDirect podcast uncovers how to quickly harness the... more
- Proper cloud adoption requires a governance support spectrum of technology, services, best practices
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. View a free e-book on HP SaaS and learn more about cost-effective IT management as a service. It's hard to over-estimate the importance of performance monitoring and governance... more
- XDAS standard aims to empower IT audit trails from across complex events, perhaps clouds
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: The Open Group. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion, recorded at The Open Group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference and the associated 3rd Security Practitioners Conference in Toronto.... more
- HP panel examines proper security hurdles on road to successful enterprise cloud computing adoption
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Free Offer: Get a complimentary copy of the new book Cloud Computing For Dummies courtesy of Hewlett-Packard at www.hp.com/go/cloudpodcastoffer. The latest BriefingsDirect podcast focuses on exercising caution, overcoming... more
- Harnessing 'virtualization sprawl' requires managing an ecosystem of technologies, suppliers
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Free Offer: Get a complimentary copy of the new book Cloud Computing For Dummies courtesy of Hewlett-Packard at www.hp.com/go/cloudpodcastoffer. Better managing server virtualization expansion across enterprises has become... more
- Nimble business process management helps enterprises gain rapid productivity returns
- Listen to the podcast. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Learn more. Sponsor: BP Logix. Welcome to a sponsored podcast discussion on the importance of business process management (BPM), especially for use across a variety of existing systems, in complex IT landscapes,... more
- New era enterprise architects need sweeping skills to straddle the IT-business alignment chasm
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com.View a full transcript or download the transcript. Sponsor: The Open Group. Welcome to a special sponsored podcast discussion coming from The Open Group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Toronto. This podcast, part of a series from the event, centers... more
- Cloud computing uniquely enables product and food recall processes across supply chains
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett Packard. Free Offer: Get a complimentary copy of the new book Cloud Computing For Dummies courtesy of Hewlett-Packard at www.hp.com/go/cloudpodcastoffer. This week brought an excellent example of how... more
- IT and log search as SaaS gains operators fast, affordable and deep access to system behaviors
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Paglo. Automatically discover your IT data and make it accessible and useful. Get started for free. Complexity of data centers escalates. Managed service providers face daunting performance obligations. And... more
- ITIL 3 leads way in helping IT transform into mature business units
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. View a full transcript, or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett Packard. Free Offer: Get a complimentary copy of the new book Cloud Computing For Dummies courtesy of Hewlett-Packard at www.hp.com/go/cloudpodcastoffer. Running IT departments as mature business units has... more
- Compuware weighs in on portfolio management that rationalizes IT budgets in tough economy
- Listen to the podcast. Download or read a full transcript. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Learn more. Sponsor: Compuware. The current economic downturn highlights how drastically businesses and their IT operations need to change -- whether through growth, reductions, or transformation (or all three). As IT budgets react to... more
- BriefingsDirect analysts discuss Software AG-IDS Scheer acquisition and lackluster prospects for Google Chrome OS
- Listen to the podcast. Download or view a full transcript. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Also sponsored by TIBCO Software. Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint's ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight. Take the BriefingsDirect middleware/ESB survey now. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect... more
- Open Group forms Cloud Work Group to spur enterprise cloud adoption and security via open standards
- This guest blog comes courtesy of Dave Lounsbury, vice president of government programs and managing director of research and technology at The Open Group, where he leads activities related to government research, adaptive and real-time system software, and cloud computing. He can be reached here. Take the BriefingsDirect middleware/ESB survey... more
- Cloud Security Panel: Is cloud computing more or less secure than on-premises IT?
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Download or view the transcript. Sponsor: The Open Group. Welcome to a special sponsored podcast discussion coming from The Open Group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Toronto. This podcast, part of a series from the July 2009 event, centers... more
- Cloud computing proves a natural for offloading time-consuming test and development processes
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Download or view the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Electric Cloud. Our latest podcast discussion centers on using cloud computing technologies and models to improve the test and development stages of applications' creation and refinement. One area of cloud computing that... more
- Cloud pushes enterprise architects' role beyond IT into business process optimization czar
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Download or view the transcript. Sponsor: The Open Group. Welcome to a special sponsored podcast discussion coming from The Open Group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Toronto. This podcast, part of a series from the July 2009 event, centers... more
- Information management targets e-discovery, compliance, legal risks while delivering long-term BI and governance benefits
- Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Download or view the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett Packard. Losing control over information sprawl at enterprises can cause long-term inefficiencies. But it's the short-term legal headaches of not being prepared for E-discovery requests that have caught many firms off-guard.... more
- Churchill Club podcast: An Evening with Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer of the United States
- In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, Aneesh Chopra, CTO of the U.S., talks technology. He was appointed by President Barack Obama as the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer in April 2009, with the mandate to promote technological innovation to help the country meet its most urgent priorities... more
- Churchill Club: The Free Economy: How Companies Make Money From Giving Things Away
- The concept of loss leader products has been around since the 20th century, but today, free has become a business strategy that could be essential to a company's survival. In the latest episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, a top-flight panel moderated by Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Wired Magazine, and... more
- Enterprises seek better ways to discover, manage and master their information explosion headaches
- Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript. Download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Join a free HP Solutions Virtual Event on July 28 on four main IT themes. Learn more. Register. Businesses of all stripes need better means of... more
- Panda's SaaS-based PC security manages client risks, adds efficiency for SMBs and providers
- Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Panda Security. PC security has proven a thorny and expensive problem for users, small businesses, enterprises and managed services providers alike for many years. But PC security can be increasingly enhanced... more
- Churchill Club: Breakfast with California State Controller John Chiang, in conversation with Michael Moritz
- In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, California State Controller John Chiang talks with legendary venture capitalist Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital about the state's financial crisis and the implications for venture capital, business and technology in Silicon Valley. more
- Rethinking virtualization: Why enterprises need a sustainable virtualization strategy over hodge-podge approaches
- Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Read a full transcript of the discussion. Download a pdf of this transcript. Attend a virtual web event from HP on July 28- July 30, "Technology You Need for Today's Economy." Register for... more
- Rackspace takes open source approach with release of Cloud Servers API
- Positioning its cloud hosting services as an alternative to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Rackspace announced today the public availability of Cloud Servers API based on representational state transfer (REST). Taking an open-source approach, Rackspace’s 43,000 cloud-computing customers played a major role in the API specifications, explained Emil Sayegh general... more
- Consolidation, modernization, and virtualization: A triple-play for long-term enterprise IT cost reduction
- Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Read a full transcript of the discussion. As the global economic downturn accelerates the need to reduce total technology costs, IT consolidation, application modernization, and server virtualization play self-supporting roles alone -- and... more
- Churchill Club podcast: The Cybersecurity Challenge
- In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series a panel of experts examine the cybersecurity conundrum and whether the U.S. can herd enough private---and public sector---cats to secure the Internet. With the world increasingly going "cyber," how is cybersecurity keeping up? Exponentially more data is stored in the cloud... more
- IT Financial Management solutions provide visibility into total operations to reduce IT costs
- Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Read a full transcript of the discussion. The global economic downturn has accelerated the need to reduce total IT costs through better identification and elimination of wasteful operations and practices. At the same... more
- In 'Everything as a Service' era, quality of services and processes grows paramount, says HP's Purohit
- Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Read a full transcript of the discussion. As services pervade how and what IT delivers, quality assurance early and often becomes the gatekeeper of success -- or the points of failure. IT's job is evolving... more
- SaaS delivery of IT lifecycle and quality management functions evolves toward an IT service-delivery solutions approach
- Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Read a full transcript of the discussion. When people think of Software as a Service (SaaS) and web services delivery, they often envision business applications like salesforce automation, email, and human resources management. But Hewlett-Packard... more
- HP's Andy Isherwood on running IT like a business, with an eye to transforming IT's role
- Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Read a full transcript of the discussion. In many companies, IT departments remain in an isolated functional silo, often not reporting to the CEO, and often unfortunately disconnected from the main business imperatives. Now, the... more
- EDS's David Gee on the spectrum of cloud and outsourcing options unfolding before IT architects
- Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Sponsor: HP. Read a full transcript of the discussion. HP's purchase last year of EDS came just as talk of cloud computing options ramped up. So how does long-time outsourcing pioneer EDS fit into a new cloud... more
- Winning the quality war: HP customers offer case studies on managing application performance
- Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Sponsor: HP. Read a full transcript of the discussion. Quality early in application development sounds nice, but actually making it happen brings significant cost savings, repeatable quality assurance processes, higher user satisfaction, and shorter development cycles. The... more
- HP Software marketing head Anton Knolmar delves into creating new IT economies of performance
- Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Sponsor: HP. Read a full transcript of the discussion. IT departments are nowadays having to do more with less, gaining additional productivity while spending less money. It sounds simple, but making it happen is very complex. How... more
- Analysts define growing requirements for how governance supports corporate cloud computing
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Also sponsored by TIBCO Software. Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint's ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights... more
- Churchill Club podcast: Microsoft Ray Ozzie talks cloud computing
- In the latest episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie talks about the evolution of cloud computing. Steven Levy, senior writer at Wired Magazine, was the moderator. Here's the report from Sam Diaz on the Ozzie talk. more
- Mainframes provide fast-track access to private cloud benefits for enterprises, process ecosystems
- Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Learn more. Sponsor: CA. Read a full transcript of the interview. Enterprises are seeking cloud computing efficiency benefits, subsequent lower total costs, and a highly valued ability to better deliver flexible services that support agile business processes.... more
- My interview with Forrester's Frank Gillett on future of mission-critical cloud computing
- Watch the video. Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Learn more. Sponsor: Akamai Technologies. Read a full transcript of the discussion. The impact of cloud computing is most often analyzed through its expected disruption of IT vendors, or the media, or as an... more
- Churchill Club: 11th annual top 10 tech trends
- In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series a panel of experts debate the top technology trends. This members only event included the following speakers: Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures Joe Schoendorf, Partner, Accel Partners Ram Shriram, Managing Partner, Sherpalo Ventures, LLC ... more
- BriefingsDirect analysts take pulse of newest era in IT: Corporate flat line or next Renaissance?
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Also sponsored by TIBCO Software. Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint's ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition podcast, Vol. 41. Our latest discussion... more
- Rise of WebKit advances mobile Web's role, opens huge opportunity for enterprise device developers
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Learn more. Sponsor: Genuitec. Bringing enterprise applications effectively out to mobile devices has required some harsh trade-offs for developers. To gain access to devices, you lose functionality and portability, for example. But thanks to the sizable impact... more
- Role and perception of enterprise architects needs to align better with business goals, Open Group panel discovers
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Sponsor: The Open Group. The role of enterprise architecture (EA) has never been more important, and never have IT departments had to be as responsive to the businesses they support as now. So how are enterprise architects... more
- CIO Agenda 2010: What the customer wants
- In the latest episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of CIOs talk about what customers want and where innovations like Web 2.0, social networking and cloud computing fit. The speakers include: Matt Carey, EVP & CIO, Home Depot; former SVP & CTO, eBay; former SVP & CTO,... more
- BriefingsDirect analysts unpack PaaS and predict future impact on enterprises and developers
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes and Podcast.com. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Sponsor: TIBCO Software. People talk about “The Cloud” as if it is one unified platform, but it’s the exact opposite, argues Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research. Misconceptions of what “The Cloud”... more
- Women Tech Executive Roundtable: What’s Top of Mind in 2009
- In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, tech leaders talk about the current trends and the business environment for female technology executives. Ann Winblad, partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, moderated a panel with the following speakers: Janaki Akella, Principal, McKinsey & Company Barbara Carbone, Partner, KPMG LLP ... more
- Open Source and Cloud: A Curse or Blessing During Recession? BriefingsDirect Analysts Weigh In.
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Sponsor: TIBCO Software. Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint's ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight. The productivity and perils of open source software has been a topic pretty much beaten to... more
- Churchill Club: Uber Entrepreneur: An Evening with Elon Musk
- In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, Elon Musk, CEO, Tesla Motors; CEO & CTO, SpaceX; Chairman, SolarCity, talks entrepreneurship. By the age of 12 Elon Musk had sold his first commercial software, a space game called Blaster. Sixteen years later he sold his first company, Zip2, to Compaq’s... more
- HCM SaaS provider Workday's advanced architecture brings cloud business agility benefits to enterprises now
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Learn more. Sponsor: Workday. Special offer: Download a new white paper on Workday's latest update to System 7. The paybacks from designing a strong IT architecture can now be enjoyed by more than the enterprises that build... more
- HP advises strategic view of virtualization to dramatically cut IT costs, gain efficiency and usher in cloud benefits
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Access more HP resources on virtualization. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Virtualization has become imperative to enterprises and service providers as they seek to better manage IT resources, cut total costs, reduce energy use, and improve data center agility. But... more
- BriefingsDirect Analysts list top 5 ways to cut enterprise IT costs during economic downturn
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Also sponsored by TIBCO Software. Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint's ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight. Doing more for less in IT? Sure, easier said than done. But who said... more
- Webinar: Modernization pulls new value from legacy and client-server enterprise applications
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Learn more. Sponsor: Nexaweb Technologies. Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect presentation, a podcast created from a recent Nexaweb Technologies Webinar on application modernization. Learn how enterprises are gaining economic and productivity advantages from modernizing legacy and older... more
- Churchill Club podcast: VC trends and strategies for 2009
- In this edition of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of experts talk changing company valuations, and threats such as corporate bankruptcies and limited partners reneging on their investment commitments. Here's the outlook for the year ahead. Panelists include: Jay Hoag, Co-founder, Technology Crossover Ventures Reid Hoffman, Chairman and CEO,... more
- BriefingsDirect analysts discuss solutions for bringing human interactions into business process workflows
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes and Podcast.com. Learn more. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Additional underwriting by TIBCO Software. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 37, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events with... more
- Churchill Club podcast: The innovation economy, R&D and a crisis
- In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of experts talk about innovation and the need for a technology breakthrough. Is there an innovation drought on the way or will the Valley cook up the next big thing? Speakers on March 4 included: Josephine M. Cheng, IBM... more
- Cloud computing aligns with enterprise architecture to make each more useful, say experts
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes and Podcast.com. Learn more. Sponsor: The Open Group. A panel of experts was assembled earlier this month at The Open Group's Enterprise Cloud Computing Conference in San Diego to examine how cloud computing aligns with enterprise architecture. The discussion... more
- Effective enterprise security begins and ends with architectural best practices approach
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes and Podcast.com. Learn more. Sponsor: The Open Group. The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, in February held its first Security Practitioners Conference in San Diego. A panel of experts was assembled at the conference to examine how... more
- Interview: Guillaume Nodet and Adrian Trenaman on Apache ServiceMix and role of OSGi in OSS clouds
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes and Podcast.com. Learn more. Sponsor: Progress Software. Apache Software Foundation open source projects, OSGi, service-oriented architecture (SOA) developments, and cloud computing trends are converging. The do more for less mandate of the day is accelerating interest in how these... more
- TOGAF 9 advances IT maturity while offering more paths to architecture-level IT improvement
- TOGAF Delivery and History, a BriefingsDirect podcastRead a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes and Podcast.com. Learn more. Sponsor: The Open Group. The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, in early February delivered TOGAF 9, an enterprise architecture framework. TOGAF 9 represents a departure for enterprise... more
- Strong IT architecture doubly important in tough economic times, says Open Group panel
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes and Podcast.com. Learn more. Sponsor: The Open Group. The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, last week delivered TOGAF 9, an enterprise architecture framework. As part of the festive opening ceremony for TOGAF 9's arrival, a panel of... more
- Interview: The Open Group's Allen Brown on advancing value of enterprise IT via architecture
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes and Podcast.com. Learn more. Sponsor: The Open Group. The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, last week delivered TOGAF 9 at the organization's 21st Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in San Diego. At the juncture of this new... more
- Visibility and control over API use is crucial as enterprises ramp to SaaS and cloud models
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes and Podcast.com. Learn more. Sponsor: Sonoa Systems. As established enterprise IT expectations meet up with cutting-edge cloud delivery models, there's a clear need for additional trust and maturity in order for enterprises to further adopt cloud-based services. Enterprise IT... more
- BriefingsDirect analysts discuss Service Oriented Communications, debate how dead SOA really is
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Additional underwriting by TIBCO Software. Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint's ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 36, a periodic discussion and... more
- Churchill Club podcast: The state of the browser
- The latest installment of the Churchill Club podcast series zeroes in on browsers. When the browser first came on the scene 17 years ago, it had a straightforward mission: display the content, mostly text, that was springing up on the newborn World Wide Web. Since then, browsers have been transformed... more
- Case study: IT repositories help Wachovia manage change amid complex bank consolidation
- Disclaimer: The views expressed in the following are not necessarily those of Wells Fargo & Co. or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates. Read a full transcript of the case study discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. When large businesses need to change fast, the IT systems... more
- Enterprises find easier ways to package and deliver applications and data to mobile devices
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Listen to related webinar. Sponsor: Kapow Technologies. Bringing more enterprise data to the mobile tier has been a thorny problem for many years now. A logjam remains between developers and their ability to productively deliver enterprise applications... more
- A technical look at how parallel processing brings vast new capabilities to large-scale BI and data analysis
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Greenplum. Internet-scale data collecting, swarms of sensors outputs, and content clouds from the mobile device fabric -- as well as enterprises piling up ever more kinds of analytics metadata to analyze -- have stretched traditional data-management... more
- BriefingsDirect analysts make 2009 predictions for enterprise IT, SOA, cloud and business intelligence
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 35, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded... more
- Churchill Club podcast: Around the world in 140 characters: Twitter, the Web, and survival
- Twitter was supposedly a toy and a fad – until it influenced a presidential election. Now everyone is wondering what it’s going to do to everything from personal communication to marketing, politics, and the Web as a whole. Conde Nast Portfolio Contributing Editor Kevin Maney interviews Twitter CEO Evan Williams... more
- Podcast: MIT CFO Symposium: Dealing with the unexpected
- Here's a panel from the MIT CFO Symposium on managing business volatility. This panel of CFOs examined how to manage through the unexpected. Megan Gates, Partner, Mintz Levin (moderator) Jane Henderson, CFO, Panacos Pharmaceuticals John Hupalo, Former CFO, First Marblehead Joe Keane, CFO, Reebok Kate Lavelle, CFO, Dunkin’ Brands more
- MapReduce-scale analytics change BI game as enterprises need to mine ever-expanding data sets
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Greenplum. Internet-scale data sets and Web-scale analytics have placed a different set of requirements on software infrastructure and data processing techniques. More types of companies and organizations are seeking new inferences and insights across a variety... more
- IT systems analytics become more crucial as cloud and SaaS adoption raises complexity bar
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. More related podcasts. Sponsor: LogLogic. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing are changing the nature of IT systems' performance requirements and heightening expectations for end users from online applications and services. Increasingly, an extended level of visibility, management,... more
- BriefingsDirect analysts handicap large IT vendors on how cloud trend impacts them
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint's ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Insights Edition, Vol. 34, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, services-oriented-architecture (SOA) and compute... more
- More than cost savings alone, cloud computing will transform business, say HP and Capgemini
- Read complete transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Read related white paper. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Many enterprises and service providers are now grappling with how cloud models and economics will impact them. The specter of a challenging business climate may well hasten the need to seek... more
- Remote support offers enterprises avenue to cut operational costs while improving IT systems reliability
- Read complete transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. The trend around use of remote support software for monitoring, remediation and IT maintenance automation is gaining steam in the global enterprise IT market. I certainly expect that as companies become even more cost conscious that... more
- EIC podcast: Yahoo trial balloons; Mumbai and Twitter; E-commerce
- In this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about the Yahoo rumor mill, the holiday shopping season on tech land and the Mumbai terror attacks and Twitter. First the Yahoo rumor mill. The latest is that former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller is trying to raise a few billion... more
- Interview: HP’s Tim Hall on heightening roles of governance in SOA, cloud and managing dynamic business boundaries
- Read complete transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. As enterprises scale up of their use of service oriented architecture (SOA), proper governance is providing an insurance effect. By deploying governance alongside and in sync with SOA development and deployment capabilities, enterprises are growing the... more
- Enterprises can leverage cloud models and manage transition risks using service governance, says HP
- Read complete transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Much has been said about cloud computing in 2008, and still many knowledgeable IT people scratch their heads over what it all really means. They want to know: How can enterprises best prepare to take... more
- EIC podcast: Jerry Yang; BlackBerry Storm; Gadgets
- On this week's EIC squared Dan and I talk Yahoo's new CEO, Verizon Wireless and the BlackBerry Storm, CES and pushing gadgets in a down economy. First, the big news of the week was Jerry Yang and his move to step down as CEO of Yahoo. A lot of speculation... more
- Changing business landscape makes identity and access management key to IT security
- Read complete transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. In an age of significant layoffs and corporate restructuring, the burgeoning problem of identity and access management for IT operations and data centers has escalated into a critical security issue. Managing who gets access to which... more
- BriefingsDirect analysts review new SOA governance book, propose scope for U.S. tech czar
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint's ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Insights Edition, Vol. 33, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, services-oriented-architecture (SOA) and... more
- Interview: rPath's Billy Marshall on how enterprises can virtualize applications as precursor to cloud use
- Read complete transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: rPath. Many enterprises are factoring how to bring more applications into a virtual development and deployment environment to save on operating costs and to take advantage of service oriented architectures (SOA) and cloud computing models. Finding... more
- EIC podcast: Best Buy's fall; Obama's CTO, Microhoo; Search wars
- On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about the tech economy, Obama's CTO, Yahoo and Microsoft's potential deal with Verizon Wireless. On the economy, Dan and I talk about the downward spiral that's going on with consumer spending. Best Buy is the latest company to say October... more
- IDC research shows enterprise SOA adoption deepens based on certain critical practices
- Read complete transcript of the discussion. Access the webinar. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Download the IDC report "A Study in Critical Success Factors for SOA." Fresh research from IDC on service oriented architecture (SOA) adoption patterns shows what users of SOA identify as essential success factors. Reaping rewards from SOA... more
- Solving IT energy conservation issues requires holistic approach to management and planning, say HP experts
- Read complete transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. The critical and global problem of energy management for IT operations and data centers has emerged as both a cost and capacity issue. The goal is to find innovative means to conserve electricity use so that... more
- ITIL requires better log management and analytics to gain IT operational efficiency, accountability
- Read complete transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: LogLogic. Implementing best practices from the the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) has become increasingly popular in IT departments. As managers improve IT operations with an eye to process efficiency, however, they need to gain operational... more
- BriefingsDirect Analysts take Microsoft's pulse: Will the software giant peak in next few years?
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Insights Edition, Vol. 32, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts and guests. In... more
- Identity governance evolves to must-do item on personnel management and IT security checklist
- Read complete transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: SailPoint Technologies. Security and risk aversion around personnel, applications, and IT systems access have never been more urgent. Properly managed identity information and access rules for users of enterprise applications and systems have evolved quickly from... more
- EIC podcast: Tech demand murky
- In this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I devote our time to the technology economy. The market is mired in a funk and companies just can't seem to figure out what demand looks like. Dan and I talk netbooks, Microsoft and Apple. As for Apple the big question is... more
- BriefingsDirect Insights Analysts identify IT winners and losers in global economic downturn
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Charter sponsor: Active Endpoints. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Insights Edition, Vol. 31, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts and guests.... more
- Churchill Club podcast: Irrational decisions and the rational people who make them
- Renowned organizational thinker Ori Brafman and his brother, psychologist Rom Brafman, say that anyone--under the right set of circumstances--is capable of irrational action. But irrational behavior is not random. In conversation with Guy Kawasaki--one of the Club's most popular moderators--the authors of, Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior... more
- Churchill Club podcast: From Cell Phones to Software & Services: One-on-One with Nokia's CEO
- Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes, sat down with Nokia President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo to discuss the mobile market. Kallasvuo has led the company for the past two years, but has held a variety of positions in his 28-year Nokia career, including heading its North American unit in the late... more
- EIC podcast: Tech economy turmoil; Cloud computing; Citizen journalism fails
- On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk about the economy's impact on the tech sector, cloud computing and citizen journalism following the fake Steve Jobs heart attack story. On the economy Dan and I covered a lot of waterfront. We talked about technology spending and how the... more
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts examine HP-Oracle Exadata, 'extreme' BI, virtualization and cloud computing
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsors: Active Endpoints, Hewlett-Packard. Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Insights Edition, Vol. 30, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this... more
- Improved insights and analysis from IT systems logs helps reduce complexity risks from virtualization
- Read complete transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: LogLogic. Virtualization has certainly taken off, but less attention gets directed to how to better manage virtualization, to gain better security using virtualization techniques, and also to find methods for compliance and regulation of virtualized environments... more
- Oracle and HP explain history, role and future for new Exadata Server and Database Machine
- Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Read complete transcript of the discussion. The sidewalks were still jammed around San Francisco's Moscone Center and the wonderment of an Oracle hardware announcement was still palpable across the IT infrastructure universe late last week. I sat down with two executives,... more
- Interview: From OpenWorld, HP's John Santaferraro on latest BI Modernization strategies
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Leading up to HP and Oracle's blockbuster announcement Sept. 24 of record-breaking data warehouse appliance performance, the business value of these infrastructure breakthroughs was the topic of a BriefingsDirect interview with John Santaferraro, director of... more
- From OpenWorld, Oracle and HP align forces to modernize legacy apps and spur IT transformation
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. The avenues to IT transformation are many, but the end result must include modernization of data, applications, systems, and operational best practices. It's no surprise then that the partnership of Oracle and Hewlett-Packard gained new... more
- Amid financial sector turmoil, combined HP-EDS solutions uniquely span public-private divide
- Find podcast on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Read a full transcript of the conversation. As we witness unprecedented turmoil throughout the world's financial trading centers, the question in IT circles is: How will this impact the providers of systems, software and services? Not all vendors will fare the same,... more
- EIC Podcast: Wall Street; Sarah Palin's email; Web 2.0
- On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk Wall Street, Sarah Palin's email being hacked and the state of Web 2.0. The technology sector took a back seat to Wall Street this week. That's where the drama was. We had meltdowns and bailouts and a lot of volatility... more
- Churchill Club podcast: A Second Strike of Light-Ning? Marc Andreessen speaks
- Marc Andreessen is famous for giving birth to the Web browser - in the 1990s. He'd like to be famous for some newer stuff, too - like Ning, which is getting attention as one of the more interesting ideas in social networking. (It helped 50 Cent to build his fan... more
- iTKO's SOA testing and validation role supports increasingly complex integration lifecycles
- Find podcast on iTunes/iPod. Learn more. Sponsor: iTKO. Read a full transcript of the discussion. The real value of IT comes not from the systems themselves, but from managed and agile business processes in real-world use. Yet growing integration complexity, and the need to support process-level orchestrations of the old... more
- Systems log analytics offers operators performance insights that set stage for IT transformation
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Sponsor: LogLogic. Despite growing complexity, IT organizations need to reduce operations costs, increase security and provide more insight, clarity, and transparency across multiple IT systems -- even virtualized systems. A number of new tools and approaches are available for... more
- EIC Podcast: Google Chrome; Apple; Dell and Salesforce.com
- On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk Google's Chrome browser, Apple's iPod event next week and my theory that Dell and Salesforce.com should merge. On Google's Chrome browser we riffed on the importance of the launch, how it's really a battle over cookie files and how Mozilla's... more
- Interview: HP's virtualization services honcho John Bennett on 'rethinking virtualization'
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Hewlett-Packard announced a series of wide-ranging virtualization products, services and initiatives on Sept. 2. The drive indicates a global and long-term surge by HP on managing solutions for virtualization, but in the context of business outcomes and... more
- HP experts portray IT transformation vision, explain new wave of virtualization products and services
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find podcast on iTunes/iPod. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Virtualization has been gaining attention and adherents faster than ever, but the context of virtualization to business outcomes has been sketchy. Hewlett-Packard on Sept. 2 announced a series of products and services designed to place virtualization into... more
- Perot: Making sure "everybody has access to the truth"
- He doesn’t “do a lot of Internet work.” He’s not on Facebook, LinkedIn or MySpace. He’s not an iPhone guy. He prefers to get “instant feedback from the people,’’ from face-to-face contact and phone calls. But Ross Perot, now 77, is back and using the Internet to try and influence... more
- EIC Podcast: Apple-Psystar; Cisco vs. Microsoft; DNC; Dell
- On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about that ongoing Apple-Psystar legal showdown, Cisco and Microsoft's collision course, the Democratic National Convention and Dell's plans for the cloud. On Wednesday Psystar--that little Mac clone maker in Florida--sued Apple for antitrust violations. The big question: Does Psystar have... more
- Pulse provides novel training and tools configuration resource to aid in developer education, preparedness
- Find it on iTunes/iPod. Sponsor: Genuitec. Read a full transcript of the discussion. Java training and education has never been easy. Not only is the language and its third-party and community offerings constantly moving targets, each developer has his or her own preferences, plug-ins inventory and habits. What's more,... more
- Podcast: CIO tells how he reduced impact of Olympics video streaming
- Being able to watch most of the 2008 Summer Olympics streaming over the Internet has been exciting for users, but not so much for businesses and IT departments. Hear Howard County, Maryland CIO Ira Levy explain how his organization used a two-pronged approach of education and technology to limit the... more
- EIC podcast: Kindle; iPhone; Dell; IDF
- On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk about Amazon's Kindle and its prospects, iPhone's distribution and Dell's new laptops. The never-ending guessing game that is Amazon Kindle sales picked up again. Citi analyst Mark Mahaney doubled his sales projection for the Kindle and noted that the Kindle... more
- Borland's own 'journey' to Agile forms foundation for new software delivery management solutions
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Find podcast on iTunes/iPod. Sponsor: Borland Software. Borland Software has been in the developer productivity field for decades, but when it came time to build out a new software delivery management suite for application lifecycle management, Agile Development methods became both the means... more
- Data services provide catalyst for SOA, set stage for cloud-based data models
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Listen on iTunes/iPod. Sponsor: WSO2. In the past, data was structured, secure and tightly controlled. The bad news is that the data was limited by the firewall of personnel, technologies, and process rigidity. Today, however, the demand is for just-in-time and inclusive data,... more
- EIC podcast: Olympics IT; LinuxWorld; Google
- On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about the Olympic-sized IT effort behind NBC and Microsoft's web site. We also talk about LinuxWorld and Google's opt-out moves this week. On the Olympics, it's showtime for Microsoft's Silverlight and the IT effort behind NBCOlympics.com. Will the Net hold... more
- Podcast: Churchill Club women in technology
- In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of executives talk about the critical factors in their success and how they overcame the obstacles of the fast-paced tech industry that is often considered to be dominated by men. Speakers include: Gina Bianchini, CEO, Ning Charlene Li, Vice... more
- SOA places broad demands on IT leadership beyond traditional enterprise architect role, says Open Group panel
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Listen on iTunes/iPod. Sponsor: The Open Group. Defining the emerging new role of enterprise architects (EAs) in the context of services-oriented architecture (SOA) is more than an esoteric exercise. It also helps define the major shifts now under way from SOA activities in... more
- EIC podcast: Dell's music plans; Microsoft's Mojave; Broadband wars
- On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I assess Dell's MP3 player trial balloon, Vista's Mojave experiment and the broadband wars and whether any of the big players can actually win. First up, Dell floated a trial balloon in the Wall Street Journal today and the general idea is... more
- EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook
- On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage) where CEO Steve... more
- EIC podcast: Apple-Psystar; Intel; High tech in Israel
- In this week's EIC squared podcast Dan remains on vacation. Luckily, News.com's always chatty Charles Cooper was around. Coop and I talk about the Apple-Psystar lawsuit, Intel's earnings and the technology landscape in Israel. This week's podcast is a spin-off of the usual banter Coop and I have all day.... more
- EIC podcast: Vista; Midori; Microhoo; iPhone
- On this week's EIC squared podcast, Ed Bott, one of our Microsoft gurus, fills in for the allegedly vacationing Dan Farber, who apparently IMs and emails as usual while reportedly away. I chat with Ed Bott about whether Microsoft's "we're not going to take it" routine with Vista will work.... more
- EIC podcast: Search wars; Viacom vs. YouTube (and its users)
- On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about all the search happenings this week--Google and Adobe, Microsoft and Powerset and the never-ending Microhoo saga--as well as the Viacom vs. Google lawsuit. It was a busy week on the search front. Adobe kicked off the week by announcing... more
- Podcast: Churchill Club on Web 2.0 in the enterprise
- In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of experts examines Web 2.0's use in the enterprise. Can companies go from Dilbert to dude? The event's speakers include: Steve Bendt, Senior Manager, Social Technology, Best Buy René Bonvanie, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Partner Programs, and Online... more
- ITIL's influence extends beyond IT operations to enhance SOA, portfolio management and change management
- Listen on iTunes/iPod. Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) advances have helped IT departments recast themselves as mature and process-oriented. But the role and influence of ITIL, especially version 3, is extending well beyond IT organization and operations improvements to impact... more
- Interview: HP SOA Center director Tim Hall on new business drivers and efficiency benefits from SOA
- Listen on iTunes/iPod. Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Service oriented architecture (SOA) is at a crossroads, moving from pilot to enterprise status for many companies. As the trends and economics landscapes shift, SOA's benefits and pay-offs are accelerating. Green and energy-conscious companies are seeing SOA... more
- Interview: HP information management maven Rod Walker describes how BI empowers business leaders to innovate
- Listen on iTunes/iPod. Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Business intelligence (BI) has been a top investment for corporations in the past several years, but the ability for BI to generate value and strategic direction guidance is merely in adolescence. In health care, customer retention, energy and... more
- Interview: Dan Rueckert of HP consulting digs into ITIL's role in accelerating SOA, IT service management
- Listen on iTunes/iPod. Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. More enterprise IT departments are working toward Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) principles and reference models for running their organizations. Yet ITIL can provide more benefits than initially meets the eye, including accelerating service oriented architecture (SOA) adoption,... more
- EIC podcast: Yahoo; Firefox 3, Gates' last week; Millennials
- On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk the executive revolving door at Yahoo, the Firefox 3 launch, Bill Gates' last week at Microsoft (sort of) and my Millennial fatigue. First up, it's not an EIC podcast without some Yahoo chatter. The latest: Everyone is leaving. I maintain... more
- Interview: HP Software's David Gee on next generation data center trends and opportunities
- Listen on iTunes/iPod. Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Enterprise CIOs face mounting challenges that are hard and getting even harder. HP says it has a lifeline for these IT departments and leaders over the next five years by helping them to dramatically cut the size of... more
- Interview: HP's BTO chief Ben Horowitz on how application lifecycles and data center operations can find common ground
- Listen on iTunes/iPod. Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. There may be no greater "silos" in all of IT than the gulf between application development and data center operations. For the sake of enhancing both, however, common ground is needed -- and HP is putting together a... more
- HP marries change management and problem isolation functions into an automated data center efficiency partnership
- Borrowing heavily from its Opsware, Mercury and Bristol acquisitions, HP on Tuesday at the Software Universe conference announced products and services designed to automate and coordinate two thorny aspects of large-scale IT operations: change lifecycle management, and problem isolation and resolution. While once mundane and esoteric aspects of running monolithic... more
- Interview: HP's Duncan Campbell on energy efficiency and automation in next generation data centers
- Listen on iTunes/iPod. Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Enterprises are now energized to save energy, and HP's Adaptive Infrastructure program leader, Duncan Campbell, believes the path to automation and efficiency -- plus the need for modernization and consolidation -- present a '"perfect storm" for next generation... more
- EIC podcast: Google-Yahoo; Apple WWDC
- In this week's EIC squared podcast we cook the week down to two items: Google and Yahoo and Apple's 3G iPhone launch. The biggest news of the week was Yahoo's big ad deal with Google, which is designed to thwart Microsoft and Carl Icahn. At least it brings in $800... more
- Live TIBCO panel examines role and impact of service performance management in enterprise SOA deployments
- Read a full transcript. Sponsor: TIBCO Software. Myriad unpredictable demands are being placed on enterprise application services as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) grows in use. How will the far-flung deployment infrastructure adapt and how will all the disparate components perform so that complex business services meet their expectations in the... more
- EIC podcast: Wireless duopolies; Yang's fight; Jobs keynote coming
- On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about the looming duopoly that's forming between AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless, Jerry Yang's prospects at Yahoo and next week's Steve Jobs' sermon. First up, Verizon Wireless acquired Alltel for $28 million or so and now has 80 million subscribers... more
- Apache CXF: What the future holds for Web services frameworks and dynamic languages
- Read a full transcript. Sponsor: IONA Technologies. More open source server components and frameworks continue to emerge from developer communities. One of the latest, Apache CXF, an open-source Web services framework, graduated from incubation recently to become a full Apache Foundation project. The progeny of the previous merger of the... more
- EIC podcast: D6; Comcast; Dell (and Dan's flight leaving)
- On this week's EIC squared podcast we're a bit rushed as Dan's plane is about to take off--without him. Nevertheless, we go through the D6 coverage of the week, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's body language and Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer golfing. I briefly talk about the week in security--Apple patches... more
- EIC podcast: Microhoo; OLPC and Twitter
- In this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk Microhoo, the latest from the One Laptop Per Child project and Twitter's business model--assuming it can stay up long enough. Another EIC podcast first--Dan and I--were actually in the same studio. Go figure. On the Microhoo saga, Dan riffed on... more
- Churchill Club podcast: Top tech trends
- In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, a panel of experts outline the top 10 tech trends. The panelists include: Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures Josh Kopelman, Managing Partner, First Round Capital Roger McNamee, Co-Founder, Elevation Partners Joe Schoendorf, Partner, Accel... more
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little text ads next... more
- EIC podcast: HP-EDS; Google; SaaS
- On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about HP's purchase of EDS, Google's Friend Connect and the latest happenings in SaaS. First up, HP's big purchase of EDS has brought along a lot of Carly 2.0 analogies, but the argument doesn't hold up too well (all stories).... more
- EIC podcast: SAP; JavaOne; AMD, Microhoo
- In this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk SAP Sapphire, JavaOne; AMD and Microsoft and whether it'll come back around to its Yahoo bid. As for Sapphire this week, the big question was what was happening with Business ByDesign, SAP's software as a service rollout. The verdict: SaaS... more
- EIC podcast: Microhoo; Google and Big Blue; Sun
- In this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk about this seemingly never-ending Microsoft-Yahoo saga, chat about the waiting game, ponder the options and note how it could define Steve Ballmer. Dan talks cloud computing and how Google and IBM are chummy. He also provides a little back... more
- HP's security management model brings comprehensive approach to corporate risk reduction
- Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. We live in an age where there is so much exposure to risk and information security pitfalls that when data gets out -- it gets out in a big way. Devastating security breaches are becoming routine in the media, and those are only the... more
- EIC podcast: Microhoo, Vista; Macs; Web 2.0 Expo
- In this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about the looming Microhoo proxy war deadline and recap the week's back and forth between Yahoo and Microsoft. Meanwhile, Microsoft detailed its March quarter and the big takeaways were that client revenue didn't live up to expectations, piracy was an... more
- Analyst Insights podcast examines WOA-SOA continuum with keen eye on cloud computing
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. There's been welling interest and discussion lately around so-called Web Oriented Architecture (WOA) and established Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), and how the two relate. And then there's the whole cloud computing trend, and well ... how does that relate, too? So I gathered... more
- EIC podcast: Gaga for Google; Tech earnings; Psystar; Microsoft's Albany
- In this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk Google, its quarter and how it threw Comscore under the bus a bit and delivered an impressive one-day stock gain. Meanwhile, Google's stellar financials may have Microsoft yearning for Yahoo even more. It was a busy week on the earnings... more
- Churchill Club podcast: Navigating media upheaval
- In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, experts weigh in on the upheaval in the media and what you can do to cash in. Speakers: Neil Chase, VP, Author Services, Federated Media Gordon Crovitz, Former Publisher, The Wall Street Journal and former President, Dow Jones Consumer Media Group... more
- Churchill Club: Benioff vs. Plattner (full version)
- In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com debates SAP Chairman Hasso Plattner on the future of enterprise software. We recapped the event, but there's the full audio. Speakers: Marc Benioff, Founder, Chairman, & CEO, salesforce.com Hasso Plattner, Co-founder, ex-CEO, & Chairman, SAP Moderator:... more
- Churchill Club podcast: Information overload
- In this installment of the Churchill Club podcasts, a panel mulls over information overload and what to do about it. Speakers: John Poisson, CEO, Tiny Pictures Ellen Siminoff, Chairman, Efficient Frontier Jonathan Spira, CEO and Chief Analyst, Basex Inc. Tony Wright, CEO, RescueTime Moderator: Matt Richtel, Correspondent, New York Times more
- XML-empowered documents extend SOA’s connection to people and processes
- Read a full transcript. Sponsor: JustSystems North America. Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) should dramatically improve the relationship between people, processes, and IT. Yet the potential for SOA remains clouded due to a gulf between worker knowledge and the new services automation benefits, which remain focused on structured data and existing... more
- 'Platform as a Service' enables cloud-based software development and deployment lifecycle approach
- Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Bungee Labs. On demand applications and cloud computing often mean different things to different people. For developers, software as a service (SaaS) is quickly evolving not only as a means to deliver applications -- but as the means to develop them, too. Taking the notion... more
- EIC podcast: SAP, Intel, Dell, XP and Google
- In this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk SAP, Intel's Mobile Internet Devices, Dell and Google's employee exodus. Dan and I mull over the SAP's succession plan. SAP named Leo Apotheker co-CEO with Henning Kagermann, who has a contract that runs out in 2009. Apotheker will be expected... more
- EIC podcast: Comcast-BitTorrent; Oracle; Facebook and OpenSocial, Adobe
- In this week's EIC squared podcast we cover the Comcast-BitTorrent partnership and what it means--and doesn't mean. Dan notes that there are a lot of loose ends to tie up before we declare these two P2P bosom buddies. Meanwhile, I look at Oracle's earnings and what its weaker than expected... more
- EIC podcast: Yahoo, Facebook, Intel and Apple patches
- In this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk Yahoo, Facebook, Intel's multiple cores and Apple's patch day. On the Yahoo front, the company made its case that its financial health is just swell. The subtext: It wants Microsoft to raise its bid. For Facebook, Dan talks about how... more
- EIC podcast: AOL and Bebo; Yahoo talks; Spitzer and IT; Semantic Web
- In this week's EIC squared Dan Farber, editor-in-chief of News.com, and I touch on AOL's plans for Bebo and whether it can the portal can monetize the social network. Meanwhile, Yahoo is holding informal talks with Microsoft. Why is this happening? Oh yeah the clock is ticking on Yahoo... more
- EIC Podcast: iPhone and business; Mix '08 wrap; Facebook's new hire
- This week we launch a newly constituted podcast called EIC squared, which to most folks will be the same as our Between the Lines podcast with a different acronym. In other words, Dan Farber and I, are reconvening our weekly podcasts with a new moniker to reflect that the two... more
- Churchill Club: Gauging trust and influence amid the data barrage
- In the latest installment of Churchill Club talks, a panel examined how the next generation of business leaders will have to become adept at using and understanding massive amounts of data from all over. At issue is gaining the trust of so-called "info-entials." The panel, moderated by Katie Hafner, of... more
- BTL podcast: Amazon's dark cloud, Microsoft shuffle and more...
- This week on the BTL podcast Larry and I discuss the dark cloud around Amazon's S3 on demand infrastructure. The service suffered an outage for a few hours that brought home the reality of on demand services, whether infrastructure or applications. In addition, salesforce.com suffered some service interruptions this week... more
- Microsoft and Google stalk the Internet operating system
- Microsoft is fighting on multiple fronts in its 100-year technology war. Acknowledged, Microsoft has notched just 35 years, but the company is good for another 65 if it can recruit a few more generations of Bill Gates generals to lead the charge. And make no mistake, dominating markets is what... more
- New Eclipse-based tools from Genuitec offer developers more choices in migrating to IBM WebSphere 6.1
- Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Genuitec. The arrival of the IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 presents Eclipse-oriented developers with some big decisions. The newest version of this popular runtime will depend largely on Rational Application Developer (RAD) for tooling. While this recent runtime environment release is designed to ease implementations... more
- BTL Podcast: The latest on Microhoo, Microsoft 'D' and more...
- This week on the Between the Lines podcast, Larry and I dive once again into the Microsoft-Yahoo story. No white knights have appeared to yet to save Yahoo from the clutches of Microsoft, and it's difficult to understand how the two companies will We also discuss Microsoft new model-based language,... more
- New ways emerge to head off datacenter problems while improving IT operations
- Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Integrien. Complexity in today's IT systems makes previous error prevention approaches for operators inefficient and costly. IT staffs are expensive to retain, and are increasingly hard to find. There is also insufficient information about what’s going on in the context of an entire systems setup.... more
- BTL podcast: Demo 08, Yahoo woes, Amazon's moves and more...
- This week on the Between the Lines podcast, I give a wrap up from my trip to the Demo 08 conference, where 77 products were introduced. We also discuss some of the recent earnings and restructuring news from Yahoo. Larry ponders if we would be able to recognize what Amazon... more
- Churchill Club interview: AT&T CEO and Chairman Randall Stephenson
- We belatedly bring you a podcast of the conversation between AT & T CEO and Chairman Randall Stephenson and Quentin Hardy of Forbes. The interview took palce at the Churchill Club annual dinner on November 28, 2007. In the interview, Stephenson said that a 3G iPhone would be available this... more
- BTL podcast: Stock shock, iPod saturation, open source tipping points and more...
- This week on the Between the Lines podcast, Larry and I try to make sense of the wildly gyrating stock market (good luck). Larry also tries to parse what's going on with Apple's stock, riffing on iPod saturation. We also discuss the change in leadership at eBay, Microsoft's grand virtualization... more
- BTL podcast: Macbook Air, BEA, MySQL, SAP and more....
- It's been a busy few days highlighted by Macworld and activity on the merger & acquisition front. This week on the Between the Lines podcast, Larry and I give our impressions on the latest Macworld revelations by Steve Jobs. It was clear that Jobs took great pride in the new... more
- IBM and Kapow on how enterprises exploit application mashups and lightweight data access
- Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Kapow Technologies. The choices among enterprise application development and deployment technologies has never been greater. But what's truly different about today's applications is that line of business people can have a greater impact than ever on how technology supports their productive work. By exploiting mashups,... more
- Podcast: Macworld, CES, Facebook, Intel and more...
- Welcome to the new Between the Lines podcast. Now that David Berlind has left ZDNet to join CMP, where he will be working on events, my colleague and one of the top tech bloggers Larry Dignan will co-host the show. As in the Dan & David Show, we'll talk about... more
- Podcast: A look back at 2007
- This is our last Dan & David Show for 2007, and we look back at some of the major stories and trends of the year. We discuss the impact of the iPhone, cloud-based applications, social networking, software-as-a-service, green IT, industry consolidation and Web 2.0. You can download the podcast directly... more
- A logistics and shipping carol: How online retailers Alibris and QVC ramp up for holiday peak delivery
- Read a full transcript. Sponsor: UPS. Santa used to get months to check his list and prepare for peak season, but for online and television retailers such as Alibris and QVC they need to take orders the make deliveries in a matter of days. The volume and complexity of online... more
- Podcast: Opera vs. Microsoft; Bebo's big move; AMD's future
- This week on the Dan and David Show, which is actually the David and Larry show since Dan is on vacation, we discuss Opera's complaint in the EU against Microsoft over the IE-Windows bundle and Web standards. David thinks that Opera is in trouble and that's why it's reaching... more
- Wind River's John Bruggeman on Google Android and the advent of mobile internet devices
- Read a full transcript. The Android open source mobile platform made a splash in October when Google announced it, along with the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). An Android software development kit (SDK) came on Nov. 12, and the first Android-based open source platform mobile phones are expected in mid-2008.... more
- Podcast: Beacon woes, Techonorati revamp, Kindle, ODF and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss Facebook's Beacon fiasco for starters. At this point it's clear that Beacon was flawed from the beginning, and the company and its CEO are having trouble handling the controversy after earning their way to the top of the social networking... more
- Podcast: ODF, giant global graphs, Cubic Telecom and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss the curious case of the OpenDocument Format and the role of the OpenDocument Foundation. David takes a deep dive into the controversy that rose out of the OpenDocument Foundation proposing an alternative to the OpenDocument Format. It turns out to... more
- Podcast: Amazon's Kindle, AMD's Spider, the Hackintosh and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss the debut of Amazon's Kindle ebook reader. The reviews so far peg Kindle as a work in progress (a version 1.0 device) that won't immediately light the fires of the book or newspaper industry, but it is a step up... more
- Podcast: Oracle and Sun VMs, Fusion revelations and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss the big news from Oracle OpenWorld--virtualization platforms from Oracle and Sun and the latest revelations about Oracle's Fusion applications. It turns out that first iteration of Fusion applications is not a whole new ERP suite built from the ground up,... more
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights analysts examine 'Microsoft-Oriented Architecture' and evaluate SOA's role in 'Green IT'
- Read a full transcript. The latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 27, provides a roundtable discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts and experts. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Jim Kobielus, principal analyst at Current Analysis; Neil... more
- Podcast: Facebook Ads, Google's Android, phishing and tie strength
- This week on the Dan & David Show we debate the import of Facebook Ads. David thinks that Facebook Ads will be a footnote in history, and I suggest that they are the start of a new experimental phase with more personalized, invasive and effective (for advertisers) ads based on... more
- Podcast: Google's OpenSocial, Facebook's dilemma, cash for iPhones and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we explore the scope and meaning of Google's OpenSocial APIs (check out our complete coverage), which dominated the news this week. We also debate about how Facebook will respond. Facebook team members showed up at Google's small launch event for OpenSocial, but... more
- Full audio of MySpace/Google/Flixster news conference; Also, how is identity handled?
- As promised in the video that I just posted that demonstrated how Flixster used Google's just announced OpenSocial APIs to build the functionality of its social movie reviews Web site directly into a MySpace profile (a part of the news that MySpace is now supporting OpenSocial), we've got the entire... more
- UPS debuts customs clearance and international returns solutions for small businesses
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: UPS. As the world becomes "flatter" and globalization drives new opportunities for international commerce, how do small- and medium-size businesses (SMBs) jump on the bandwagon? The Internet allows any business to gather orders and process them across borders very easily at... more
- SOA Insights analysts view IBM's information umbrella, explore SAP's Business Objects grab and define 'Guerrilla SOA'
- Read a full transcript. The latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 26, provides a roundtable discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts and experts. In this episode, our group examines the relationship and tension between enterprise-wide SOA and more discrete... more
- Podcast: Interop, Facebooksoft, Leopard and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we join in the chorus evaluating Microsoft's winning the Facebook sweepstakes over Google. We also discuss Google's introduction of IMAP into GMail, the launch of Apple's Leopard Mac OS X and reports of forced Windows updates and reboots. David gives his impressions... more
- Podcast: Web 2.0 Summit action, Twine, Ballmer will dunk Google, the gPhone and more
- This week on the Dan & David Show, Dan and I kick things off with a discussion of Google's worst kept secret: the gPhone. Dan briefs us on what it is and then I riff on why I love it and hate it at the same time. The way I... more
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights analysts on virtualization trends and role of IT operations efficiency for SOA
- Read a full transcript. The latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 24, provides a roundtable discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, our experts examine virtualization trends through the acquisition this summer of XenSource by Citrix. We... more
- Podcast: Oracle & BEA, Zune, tech policy and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss Oracle's proposed bid to acquire BEA. Unless a white knight (IBM or SAP, for instance) comes in to outbid Oracle, the marriage is likely a fait accompli, with BEA angling to up the bid price from $17 per share. We... more
- Podcast: Microsoft HealthVault, Zune, SAP and more....
- This week on the Dan & David Show Microsoft dominates the news. Today the company introduced HealthVault, and free client application and Microsoft Live service for building and maintaining health records. It's an emerging market that is going to be huge, with Google and others trying to gain favor as... more
- Analysts debate role of governance and 'total management' in the dawning era of SOA
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Tidal Software. I recently had the pleasure of participating in a live discussion (now a podcast) at the Harvard Club of Boston with Jason Bloomberg, managing partner at analyst firm ZapThink, on the current state and future outlook for governance and management... more
- Podcast: DEMOfall 07, Digital Life, iBrick and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we cover our visits to DEMOfall 07 and Digital Life. We offer our picks from the shows and discusses one of David's Tech Shakedowns and the iBrick. This podcast can be delivered directly to your desktop or MP3 player if you're subscribed... more
- Integration infrastructure approaches adjust to new world of SaaS and shared services
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Cape Clear Software. Change is afoot for the role and requirements of integration for modern software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers and enterprises adopting shared services models. Reuse is becoming an important issue, as are patterns of automation. The notion of reuse of integration --... more
- Integrien deepens analytics, betters interop and userability in Q4's Alive 6.0 release
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Integrien Corp. The movement of IT and systems management to the end-to-end business service value level has been a long time in coming. Yet the need has never been higher. Enterprises and on-demand application providers alike need to predict how systems will... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Storm Worm; OLPC; Gmail 2.0
- On today's podcast: Storm Worm botnet numbers via Microsoft. OLPC launches XO laptop in U.S. Google testing new Gmail overhaul. more
- Podcast: IDF, Dreamforce, Zimbra+Yahoo, SCO and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we run through the week's major news, including the happenings at salesforce.com's Dreamforce 07 event, the Intel Developer Forum and TechCrunch 40. In addition we discuss Yahoo's acquisition of Zimbra, and Yahoo's exploration into social networking with Mash, and SAP's much anticipated... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Microsoft Office under siege; Yahoo-Zimbra; AMD's Phenom
- On today's podcast: Microsoft Office is under fire by multiple parties, including IBM and Google. Yahoo buys Zimbra. Is the target Office or Exchange? AMD launches triple core chip. Is it just marketing? more
- Survey uncovers heightening reliance on search across business purchasing
- Listen to the podcast. Or read a full transcript. Or Watch the video here. Sponsor: ZoomInfo. It seems that businesses, whether they're small or global 2000 concerns, are buying more supplies using search at some point in the B2B procurement process. Some people begin and end a procurement journey with... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: EU hits Microsoft; SCO kaput; Daylight Savings Time
- On today's podcast: The EU hits Microsoft; Who's next? SCO goes kaput; files for bankruptcy. Daylight Savings Time looms for Microsoft (again). more
- Book review discussion: 'Total Architecture' elevates SOA to its business benefits potential
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: TIBCO Software. The impact that Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) has on an organization is deep and wide. The changes required to bring SOA to fruition and make it as productive as possible affect the way both IT leaders and business managers think... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: NTP is back; Office sales; Lenovo's green desktop
- On today's podcast: Thoughts on NTP's latest patent lawsuit. Why Office 2007 sales are doing well. And Lenovo's green desktop. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: $150 laptops; IT hiring; Sept. 11 and IT
- On today's podcast: My $150 laptop adventure. IT hiring solid for now. A word about Sept. 11, 2001 and IT lessons learned. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: AMD Barcelona; 1 million iPhones; Google Apps
- On today's podcast: It's Barcelona day for AMD. The Intel dogfight is far from over though. Apple sells 1 million iPhones. Google Apps for Enterprise gets a CapGemini boost. more
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Analysts on RIAs, Microsoft Silverlight and Enterprise 2.0 trends
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. The still-maturing technology around Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and rich media interfaces and video players was jolted last spring when Microsoft's Silverlight offering was unveiled. Already a Linux version is in the offing called Moonlight. The RIA news hit about the same time... more
- Podcast: iPod touch, Office 2.0, AMD + Intel and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss Apple's phoneless iPhone, the iPod touch, and fallout of the iPhone price cut two months after launch. Just after we recorded the show Steve Jobs addressed the concerns of customers who paid $599 instead of the now $399 price: Therefore,... more
- Steve Omohundro: Building self-aware AI systems
- Steve Omohundro is president of Self-Aware Systems, which has a goal of developing an AI systems that understand their own behavior and work to improve themselves. He will be speaking at the Singularity Summit 2007 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on September 8-9. In this podcast... more
- Podcast: Vista SP1, Acer + Gateway, Earthlink's woes and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show my Between the Lines colleague Larry Dignan fills in for the vacationing David Berlind. We discuss the news this week about Vista Service Pack 1 coming out in beta soon. There are enough fixes and changes to make you wonder if you... more
- SaaS now ready to succeed where ASPs failed -- especially for smaller businesses
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. There is an entire universe of suppliers and vendors that support the delivery of applications as on-demand services. Indeed, the Software as a Service (SaaS) model is attracting more than end users who acquire their IT via user-per-month service subscriptions. Also attracted to... more
- Barney Pell: Pathways to artificial intelligence
- Barney Pell has a passion for artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP). His latest foray into those related fields is Powerset, a search engine that he hopes will challenge Google. He will be speaking, along with other experts in the AI field, at the Singularity Summit 2007, held... more
- Steve Jurvetson: AI, nanotech and the future of the human species
- Steve Jurvetson is one of the featured speakers, among other luminaries, at the forthcoming Singularity Summit 2007 on advanced artificial intelligence (AI). As a managing director at the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, he invested early in the first Web wave, with Hotmail, Interwoven and Kana, and has now... more
- Can 'friendly' AI save humans from irrelevance or extinction?
- The fate of the human species depends on AI (Artificial Intelligence) entities far smarter than us and who aren't prone to wipe out or enslave us. That is one of the topics to be discussed by luminaries in the AI world at the Singularity Summit 2007 held at the Palace... more
- Podcast: Sun=Java, Facebook ads, Vista reboots and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss Sun's transformation on Wall Street. The stock price hasn't risen above $5 but the stock symbol changed from SUNW to JAVA. I can understand why salesforce.com took CRM as its ticker symbol, but it's not clear what behind Sun's move,... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Vista whining; iPhone features; High-def Flash
- On today's podcast: Vista whining goes overboard. iPhone's most wanted features. Flash goes high-def. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Skype and patches; Workday; Digital watermarking
- On today's podcast: Skype says patches had a role in its outage. Ryan Naraine has more. Dan Farber on how Workday tries to reinvent ERP. Team coverage from Dennis Howlett and Phil Wainewright. Digital watermarking could be worse than DRM. more
- Waiting for Zuckerberg
- Much has been written lately about open standards and APIs for social networks, allowing users to sprinkled and manage their social graphs (circle of friends and business associates) across disparate services--a kind of decentralized and more accessible, rather than siloed, social graph. Brad Fitzpatrick laid out the problem with the... more
- Apache Camel addresses need for discrete infrastructure for services mediation and routing
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: IONA Technologies. One size fits all has its limits. Most developers prefer to cherry-pick their infrastructure resources, keep them lightweight, and remain as agile as they can. Taking a clue from this philosophy, the Apache Software Foundation has dozens of open source... more
- Podcast: SCO's nosedive, XenSource's new home, Twitter and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss the latest twist in SCO's effort to claim ownership of the Unix copyrights. The court ruled that Novell, not SCO, owns the rights, which means the Linux community can breath a sigh of relief. We also analyze the acquisition this... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Citrix and XenSource; Yahoo Local; Patch fiesta
- On today's podcast: Citrix buys XenSource. What's it mean? Yahoo Local revamped. Patch Day recap. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Nokia batteries; Google and Sun vs. MS Office; VMware IPO
- On today's podcast: Nokia's battery woes. Google and Sun target Microsoft Office. VMware takes virtualization to Wall Street. more
- SOA Insights analysts discuss 'Future of SOA' at Open Group conference
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. I had the pleasure to moderate a panel of BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition regulars and guests at the recent the Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Austin, Texas. The topic was "The Future of SOA," and the panel really rose to the... more
- SOA Insights analysts explore SOA appliances, BPEL4People and GPL v3
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Appliances for IT infrastructure have evolved to include everything from email servers to network routers to XML accelerators. Some would argue that "appliances" can be hardware, software, or both. Purists have a more strict definition that they say will make the locked-down and... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Cisco outage; Microsoft file system; Open source Java
- On today's podcast: Cisco.com goes dark on patch day. How Microsoft puts your data at risk. Sun lowers barriers to open source Java. more
- Podcast: Apple's new stuff, dissing OpenSolaris, tech shakedowns and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we talk about Apple's new iMacs and software applications. They are not going to shake up the business world. I thought Steve Jobs would announce some applications, beyond a gallery for photos and video, for the Web. It was not to be.... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Firefox retention; iMacs for business; Telepresence
- On today's podcast: Firefox's plan to retain users. Is Apple targeting business with the iMac? And telepresence is big. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Fake Steve; New iMac; DEFCON flap revisited
- On today's podcast: Fake Steve Jobs is outed. Bummer. New iMac coming? Ryan Naraine and George Ou on the DEFCON vs. Dateline flap. more
- Podcast: AlwaysOn Summit, virtual worlds, green data centers and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show I am on the Stanford University campus at the AlwaysOn Summit and David is in his headquarters outside of Boston. I give David some of the highlights from the conference, including the state of virtual worlds, social networking, green data centers and... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Next Web; Green data centers; Office for Mac; Amazon Fresh
- On today's podcast: Riffs on the next big Web thing and green data centers. Office 2008 for the Mac is delayed. Amazon dabbles in grocery delivery. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Consumer driving Microsoft; Firefox update; Sun's quarter
- On today's podcast: Is the consumer really driving technology? Ray Ozzie thinks so. Firefox updates its browser to fix a flaw. Sun skeptics abound. more
- SOA Insights analysts on Web 3.0, Google's role in semantics, and the future of UDDI
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. [UPDATE: Some good discussion.] The notion of a world wide web that anticipates a user's needs, and adds a more human touch to mere surfing and searching, has long been a desire and goal. Yet how closer are we to a more "semantic"... more
- Podcast: Microsoft as a service; Vista fixes; Xerox green paper
- On today's podcast: Microsoft Works to become ad supported. New Vista packs provide updates that were supposed to be in SP1. Xerox rolls out 'green' paper; Will you buy it? more
- Podcast: SF power outage, Apple earnings, mashups and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss Apple's quarterly earnings (which were released just before we recorded the show--270,000 iPhones sold in the two-day launch before the end of the quarter) and the power outage in San Francisco that took out ZDNet, Craigslist, Technorati, Yelp and other... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Disaster recovery; Amazon; P2P meets Congress
- On today's podcast: San Francisco outage indicates holes in disaster recovery plans. Amazon delivers. Congress frets about P2P. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: HP beefs up software; Search privacy; Windows 7
- On today's podcast: HP beefs up its software business with Opsware; Privacy is the hot thing among search engine giants; Windows 7: Coming in 2010. more
- Dan & David Show: Tech earnings; Finding SP1; Mashup Camp
- On this week's Dan & David Show I fill in for Dan Farber, who is on vacation. Here's the rundown: The tech earnings barrage: Google earnings get panned (despite making a lot of dough); Yahoo says it will have a strategy in 100 days and AMD and Intel continue to... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: WiMax goes national; Securing hotspots; SAP
- On today's podcast: WiMax goes national. George Ou on securing hotspots. SAP's quarter shines. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: What's next for Yahoo; Chip wars; ERP and social media
- On today's podcast: Yahoo plans strategic plan in next 100 days. Can it be fixed? Intel's results hint at AMD trainwreck. Can you marry social media and ERP? more
- Podcast: News to know midday: FiOS; Microsoft code protection, Yahoo earnings
- On today's podcast: My FiOS installation: Key points. Gallery. Microsoft's code protection scheme available to third-party developers. Yahoo's Yang preps earnings. more
- Podcast: Oracle's customer-inspired 11g, Larry gets FIOS, Samsung's gadgetfest, VMware's IPO, and more
- This week on the Dan & David Show, my colleague Larry Dignan fills in for Dan Farber who is on vacation and the first order of business is a review of Oracle's 11g announcement. Larry was present for the festivities earlier this week in NYC and sees merit in Oracle's... more
- Parsing search marketing, the 'content pyramid' and RSS strategies with Sam Whitmore
- Read a transcript of the discussion. In my work covering enterprise application development and deployment strategies, I often find myself also witnessing a sea-change in how software providers market their values. Software has always been a challenge to market, and many of the most innovative thinking in online marketing has... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Oracle 11g day; Microsoft needs to change; Patch fiesta
- On today's podcast: It's Oracle 11g launch day. Microsoft's Steve Ballmer seems antsy about reinventing the company. A lot of patch fun coming your way. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Life without Google; Oracle's shopping list; securing Firefox
- On today's podcast: The Life without Google experiment continues with ChaCha. Gallery. What's on Oracle's shopping list. And how do you secure Firefox? more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Vista SP1; Google buys Postini; VMware and Intel
- On today's podcast: Vista SP1: The beta. The strategy. Google buys Postini. Intel Capital buys into VMware. more
- SOA and SaaS convergence points to new market demand for 'integration-as-a-service'
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Cape Clear Software. Take SOA and SaaS to their natural maturation and adding more interoperability and integration into the online services mix becomes inevitable. When standardized services come from a variety of sources, then a variety of means to connect them makes... more
- SOA Insights analysts probe Software AG's webMethods buy, wikis for SOA governance, and SOA hype curves
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. How good of a match-up was the recent Software AG acquisition of WebMethods? Was is strictly a geographical sales force synergy? Or will webMethods become the de facto R&D arm of Software AG while the parent firm's legacy cash flow sustains the movement... more
- Podcast: iPhones, batteries, benchmarks, Sicko and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we offer our iPhone post-launch analysis. Apple succeeds in earning superlatives for moving the mobile device industry forward and AT&T gets grief for its slow network and activation problems. This shall pass. In addition, we talk about the sorry state of benchmarking,... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: AMD benchmarks; iPhone accessories; Verizon FiOS
- On today's podcast: George Ou rips AMD over benchmarks. Jason O'Grady surveys iPhone accessories. Verizon FiOS here I come. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: iPhone; NetSuite IPO; Google
- On today's podcast: The iPhone report card. NetSuite's IPO. And Google's Michael Moore flap. more
- Podcast: iPhone vigil, Powerset, Facebookmania and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we continue our iPhone vigil as people line up around the country to get their precious device in a few hours. Many people have analyzed the iPhone value proposition, but at this point it's more of an emotional buy, and it is... more
- Podcast: Supernova, Enterprise 2.0, YFace and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the highlights from our week at conferences--Supernova 2007 and Enterprise 2.0. We also discuss the organization changes at Yahoo and my take on what's missing in Yahoo's product strategy. In addition, David rants about how companies deal with lost password.... more
- UPS uses wireless tracking via SMS to extend shipping locations to today's mobile set
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: UPS As wireless communications technology becomes embedded in the lifestyles of consumers -- led by the younger generations that have always known it -- small businesses are seeking ways to catch the mobile wave. Gaining an advantage with younger shoppers online and... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Dell crapware; iPhone camp; Microsoft's secret patches; Yahoo
- On today's podcast: Has Dell kicked the crapware habit? iPhone developer camp set for July 6-8. Skeletons in Microsoft's Patch Day closet. Yahoo buys Rivals.com: The local angle. more
- Behind Purdue's computing simulation on the 2001 World Trade Center attack
- Researchers at Purdue University have completed a computing simulation to detail what likely happened to the World Trade Center when an airline struck the North Tower in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack. Here's how Purdue describes the simulation results (see video): The simulation depicts how a plane tore... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Yahoo shakeup; Opera Mini; Cheap MacBooks
- On today's podcast: Jerry Yang takes over as Yahoo CEO. Is he the right guy for the job? Opera Mini beta debuts. Gallery and Matthew Miller. Jason O'Grady finds a MacBook on the cheap--real cheap. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: iPhone; IPTV and Microsoft; Crapware
- On today's podcast: Apple reveals new iPhone battery information. Microsoft launches new IPTV platform. Do you care if Microsoft is in your TV? George Ou tells you how to get rid of crapware. more
- WSO2 expands ESB market with Apache Synapse-based, open source SOA offering
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: WSO2 WSO2, Inc. has entered the open source SOA field with a slate of veterans from Web services specifications, application server design and lightweight framework development. The company's latest offering to the market came June 11 with the arrival of WSO2 ESB... more
- Podcast: Safari for Windows, eBay APIs, the Net OS and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the impact of Safari for Windows and opening up the iPhone to Web developers via the Safari engine. It's a good move for Apple despite the lack of support for creating native Mac OS X applications. Phil Windley agrees: "The... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Safari patches; eBay vs. Google; Linux security appliance
- On today's podcast: Apple patches Safari for Windows. The fallout from the eBay-Google spat. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes checks out the Yoggie Pico Pro Linux security device. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Leopard vs. Vista the sequel; Kartoo; Patch Tuesday
- On today's podcast: Mary Jo Foley clarifies her previous post on how Leopard looks like Vista. The Life without Google experiment continues with Kartoo. Microsoft rolls out more patches. Here's how to secure IE. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Zooming in on WWDC
- On today's podcast we zoom in on WWDC. It's interesting to see how perceptions change the day after Steve Jobs speaks. Notable highlights include: Safari on Windows: The review and gallery. And the security issues. Leopard: Does it look like Vista? And developers get the shaft. Why isn't the Leopard... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Google privacy; Adobe AIR; Surface demo
- On today's podcast: Google's privacy flap: Does privacy exist? Adobe's Apollo, err AIR, goes beta. Gallery. And Mary Jo Foley checks out the Microsoft Surface demo. Gallery. more
- SOA Insights analysts join The Open Group to help define new role of SOA architect
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Bringing services-oriented architectures (SOAs) to life is a lot like delivering a baby -- it requires a copious nurturing, understanding, labor, and ultimately ... pushing. So far, the job openings for SOA midwives outstrip the available pool of talent. And these are great... more
- Podcast: Semantic Web, iPhonomics, SalesGoog and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss Worldwide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee's notion of how the Semantic Web is better for data access than APIs. We also talk about the impending and potentially anti-climactic arrival of the iPhone and the calculus of battery life (iPhonomics); SAP's notion... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: ASUS Eee PC; Google patent; Kitchen Windows
- In today's podcast: George Ou details the ASUS Eee mini PC and how it relates to the OLPC project. New Google patent looks to improve interactive TV, says Russell Shaw. And Mary Jo Foley notes that Windows is coming to a kitchen near you. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Life without Google; SAP vs. Oracle; USB flash drive torture test
- On today's podcast: Why I'm trying to live without Google and day 1 of my experiment. Nucleus Research report isn't complimentary to SAP ROI in the SMB market. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes abuses a flash drive--and the flash drive comes out in tact. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Ask3D; Google and Salesforce; Smart watches
- On today's podcast: Ask.com revamps its search engine with Ask3D. News and Techmeme. Google and Salesforce.com finally hook up. News and Phil Wainewright. Matthew Miller checks out smart watches. Gallery. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Palm; iPhone; Xandros
- In today's podcast: Palm tries to capture some Apple magic. iPhone coming June 29. Is 10 million units in 2008 too optimistic? Xandros hooks up with Microsoft in a Novell-ish type deal. more
- Podcast: Gates and Jobs, Google Gears, YouTube/Viacom and more..
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we talk about the joint interview with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates that took place at the D: All Things Digital conference. It was mostly a reminiscence by the two industry legends (video/transcript), who paved the way for the personal computer revolution.... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Spammer arrested; Google's developer toys; Bill and Steve
- In today's podcast: One of the world's most prolific spammers is arrested. Google launches a bunch of neat toys for developers. And a quick recap of the Steve Jobs and Bill Gates show. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Surface Computing; Steve and Bill on stage; Google Web Toolkit
- On today's podcast: What are the prospects for Microsoft's Surface Computer? See photos, video, Mary Jo Foley's take and news story. Dan Farber will have ongoing coverage of the D conference. And the Google Web Toolkit 1.4 Release Candidate is released. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Novell, Microsoft pact; PlayTable coming; Tough iPod Shuffles
- Today's podcast includes: Deciphering Novell's disclosures about the Microsoft SUSE Linux pact. Mary Jo Foley asks: Will Microsoft's 'Milan,' aka PlayTable, pit multi-touch vs. the iPhone? PlayTable to surface soon. Jason O'Grady runs over his iPod Shuffle. As a reminder, you can get this podcast on iTunes. See all news... more
- SOA Insights analysts delve into SOA Consortium's advocacy objectives with OMG CEO Richard Soley
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. When the hype curve descends, advocacy takes over. And so it is with the SOA Consortium, formed earlier this year to establish SOA as a business productivity benefit and to glean proven adoption paths and proof-points from primarily end-users and enterprises. The advocacy... more
- The Dan & David Show: Almost live from Interop
- This week the Dan & David Show comes to you from the show floor at the Interop conference in Las Vegas. David and I are joined by George Ou as we discuss the latest trends in networking and what we found of interest at the show. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Google developers; Dell does Wal-Mart; Longhorn reloaded
- On today's podcast: Ed Burnette previews of Google's Developer Day. Dell does Wal-Mart and plans to sell PCs there June 10. And can a bunch of enthusiasts bring back Longhorn? more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Google's litmus test; Interop; Linux
- In today's podcast we have: Is Google failing the evil litmus test? Three reasons why it may be. David Berlind tracks the happenings at Interop 2007. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes tackles three more things the Linux community doesn't get about users. Also as a programming note, this podcast is now available on... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: Mainstreaming Linux; Office exploit fix; Wall-mounted data centers
- On today's podcast: Can Linux go mainstream? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes analyzes the five things the Linux community needs to know about users. In addition, Dell outlines the technical details of including Ubuntu on desktops. Ryan Naraine reports that Microsoft has released a file conversion tool that stops exploits rigged into .doc,... more
- Podcast: News to know midday: OLPC; Facebook; Offshore outsourcing
- On today's podcast: Is Intel trying to torpedo the OLPC? Facebook is the prince of social media, says Dan Farber. Steve O'Hear weighs in on Facebook's move to open up its pages. Will the private equity boom mean more offshore outsourcing? Also as a programming note, this podcast is now... more
- UPS visibility solutions help businesses drive customer service via managed supply chains
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: UPS Effective information-sharing across the distribution of goods -- visibility into transportation supply chains and distribution networks -- is a vital part of the information revolution and the knowledge economy. Global and local players in the total distribution channel are constantly looking... more
- Take a sneak peek at IBM Rational's Jazz collaborative ALM framework and community
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. IBM helped the Eclipse Foundation score a huge hit with the Eclipse development framework and community. Now the software engineering target is even higher, but the methods and approaches are similar. IBM will in June will unveil details about its Jazz framework and... more
- Podcast: News to know midday update: Microsoft's aQuantive buy; Search engine bugs; iPhone
- In today's podcast: Microsoft pays $6 billion for aQuantive. Who is aQuantive and did Microsoft panic and overpay? Ryan Naraine reports June is the month of search engine bugs. And the iPhone appears ready for liftoff. More on the FCC approval. more
- Podcast: Microsoft patents, Dell's Project Hybrid, DRM-free music and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss Microsoft's accusation that the open-source software industry has infringed 235 Microsoft patents and Dell's Project Hybrid, which appears to be a plan deliver virtualized, plug-and-play servers for datacenters. We also Amazon's new DRM-free music service, Google's Universal search and the... more
- Podcast: News to know midday update: Enterprise search; AMD's Barcelona bet; Salesforce.com
- On today's podcast: Enterprise search, why it's difficult and why Google is wooing the corporate market. AMD's Barcelona chip could thump Intel. And if it doesn't it's a big embarrassment. And Salesforce.com quarter and worries about subscriber growth. more
- Podcast: News to know midday: WinHEC; Dell gets sued; Microsoft patent redux
- In today's podcast: WinHEC picks up steam. Mary Jo Foley looks at Windows Home Server and what Microsoft isn't talking about. Dell gets sued for bad business practices. Is the suit bunk? And can Microsoft collect from the open source community for its yet-to-be-outlined patents? more
- Podcast: News to know midday: TJX's data breach costs; Ubuntu server; Yahoo CFO
- Today's podcast includes a look at:TJX's escalating data breach costs. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes' installation of Ubuntu 7.04 Server Edition (gallery). Yahoo's new CFO's investment banking chops. more
- Podcast: News to know midday update: Microsoft's patent claims; Jeremy Allison; AMD
- Today's three stories in three minutes include:GPLv3 is the real reason behind Microsoft's patent skirmish with open source software. Jeremy Allison notes the perils of the open document format wars between open source and Microsoft. You can even lose your homework in that debate. And AMD bets its comeback on... more
- News to know Podcast: Zero-day tool; Red Hat Exchange; CelebreMiis
- Today's podcast lineup includes:Microsoft's new tool to isolate Office 2003 zero-day exploits. And good hackers descend on Seattle. The Red Hat Exchange launches. What's it mean?And making Wii avatars look like celebrities--also known as CelebriMiis. more
- Podcast: JavaOne, Software 2007, Red Hat and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we have special guest, blogger and tech analyst James Governor of Redmonk. He joins us to discuss the fallout from the week's events--JavaOne, Software 2007 (featuring Steve Ballmer, Ed Zander, Marc Benioff and other industry execs) and Red Hat's annual Summit. We... more
- News to know midday podcast: Vista's memory; VMWare 6; Red Hat's Global Desktop
- On the midday lineup today we have:Ed Bott's Vista Home Basic memory experiment;Adrian Kingsley-Hughes' tinkering with VMWare Workstation 6. And why Red Hat's Global Desktop may be important to the enterprise. more
- Podcast: News to know midday update: Vista, patches and Google goes Wii
- Here are the top three stories in three minutes embedded in the News to know podcast:Vista's first 100 days: Mary Jo Foley reports on how many devices now play nice with Vista. Patch fiesta: Microsoft has a whopper Patch Tuesday. Will more patches from other vendors follow?Google updates: Google Analytics... more
- Podcast: News to know midday update: JavaOne, HP, TJX
- Today, we're launching a new daily podcast, an audio version of our News to Know link post in BTL. The goal of the podcast is to get you three top stories in three minutes. Here's the lineup of this podcast:JavaOne: Most notable event thus far is the JavaFX launch. HP's... more
- News to know: Zimbra's big deal; Dell and Novell; Vista's hidden tool
- Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Dell signs up for Microsoft-Novell partnership; SUSE Linux or bust. AP: Dell Signs on With Microsoft, Novell. Statement.Dan Farber: Comcast goes with Zimbra for new collaboration suite. David Berlind: Zimbra's Scott Dietzen Unplugged: Comcast deal puts Zimbra in the big leagues now. News story. Gallery at left.Dan... more
- Search marketing may be the most promising new media channel yet
- While I cover application development and deployment strategies as an IT industry analyst, I'm also a practitioner of Web 2.0 content creation and distribution efficiencies. For some two years now, I've been using new publishing tools, methods, and distribution channels to deliver my market insights, as well as knowledge about... more
- Open source projects increasingly empower SOA infrastructure definition and development
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: IONA Technologies. Unlike earlier open source initiatives, which often trailed commercial development of crucial software infrastructure, today's many community-based services oriented architecture (SOA) projects are early-on defining the means through which SOA can be realized. Development of commercial and open source versions... more
- Podcast: gShare, Silverlight, Justin TV and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss gShare, which purports to integrate Google 'Office' and Microsoft Office, and the Silverlight announcements from MIX07. David also talks about the promise of Mozilla's Thunderbird 2.0 email and I talk about my two days in Hollywood attending the OnHollywood conference,... more
- ALM 2.0 era ushers application development into a managed business process
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Borland Software.Many people have defined software development as more art than science -- sometimes even a dark art. That's why the business side of an enterprise is often perplexed by the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) process. They see what goes in as... more
- Podcast: MS Office, Google Apps, bloatware, multitenancy and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss Apple's blowout quarter and the latest option-related controversy--former Apple CFO's Fred Anderson's allegation that Steve Jobs wasn't blissfully ignorant about the consequences of back dating. Microsoft also had good quarterly earnings, with Vista and Office 2007 getting some traction. David... more
- Podcast: From Web 2.0 to Enterprise 2.0
- I posted a video clip of the panel on Web 2.0 in the enterprise (also known as Enterprise 2.0) I moderated the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week. Panelists included Ross Mayfield, CEO of SocialText; Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise; and Satish Dharmaraj, CEO of... more
- SOA Insights analysts delve into SOA/Web 2.0 mashups and the Oracle-Hyperion deal
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.How do SOA and Web 2.0 services come together? Are we entering an era where a variety of business services from a spectrum of sources contribute to and perhaps dominate new business process aggregation? If so, won't that require a level of governance to... more
- Podcast: Yahoo and Microsoft, Google versus the world and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, I offer my take on the Web 2.0 Expo that occurred this week, and we dig into juicy comments made by Yahoo's Executive Vice President Jeff Weiner and Google's CEO Eric Schmidt during interviews at the Expo. Weiner talks nostalgically about the... more
- Podcast: Google + DoubleClick, salesforce.com + koral, green machines and more...
- This week during the Dan & David Show, we were interrupted by the news that Google acquired DoubleClick. We discuss the impact of Google once again appearing to ace out Microsoft in cornering the market for online advertising. In addition, we talk about salesforce.com's acquisition of Koral, the discontinuance of... more
- BriefingsDirect SOA analysts explore converged governance and the new SOA Consortium
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.The role and importance of governance is growing. As enterprises embrace governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platforms, as well SOA governance approaches, are these capabilities headed for a mash-up, if not technically than at least operationally? Do they lead to an uber governance that... more
- Podcast: Windows flaws, DRM, Yahoo, Facebook and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, Larry Dignan fills in for David, who is taking a few days off to chase the little white, dimpled ball around the countryside with a stick and his son. Larry and I riff on the messy, infectious Windows animated cursor flaw, EMI... more
- Churchill Club: 9th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends
- The Churchill Club held its "9th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends Debate" at the San Jose Fairmont last week. Four of the the top venture investors gave their predictions gave their predictions on the top tech trends emerging over the next few years. The event was moderated by Tony Perkins,... more
- Podcast: Intel's Nehalem, MS Communicator 7, multi-headed apps and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we talk about Intel's next generation 45-nanometer Nehalem chip, which includes an integrated memory controller a la AMD's processor architecture, and Microsoft's Communicator 7 suite, which David thinks is a good reason to buy into the Windows platform. We also discuss how... more
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights analysts explore SOA's role through failure, governance, policy and politics
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.Follow service oriented architecture (SOA) to its logical conclusions and you recognize that modern corporations will soon be operated on the equivalent of aviation's "fly by wire." The traditional governance and management means of running a business -- the levers, pulleys, cables, and brute... more
- Podcast: Benchmark follies, Ballmer's Google talk, Web 2.0 and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, David talks about the poor state of benchmarking and what he called Intel's "felony" in benchmarking comparisons to AMD processor systems. We also discuss remarks about Google made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and the tiresome debate over what Web 2.0 means.... more
- Semantic search brings new depth, targeted reach to B2B buyers and sellers
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: ZoomInfo.What is the state of B2B search marketing? What are the business and technology drivers that make online search an emerging tool for business discovery and procurement?I put these and other questions to Forrester Research Senior Analyst Shar VanBoskirk and to Bryan... more
- Podcast: HP pretexters get wrist-slaps, the mortally wounded copyright, Red Hat seeks threesome with Microsoft, and Tellme more
- This week on the Dan & David Show, ZDNet executive editor Larry Dignan fills in for Dan Farber and we cover the four biggest news stories of the week so far. While the world looks for ways to bridge the digital divide, Microsoft's attempts to close the gap between computer... more
- Convergence case in point: SOA approach eases hotel's development of in-room communications/Web portal
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: BlueNote Networks, Inc.When I first heard of the Seaport Hotel's in-room "Seaportal" application, built using SOA principles to attain a true IP convergence features, I was jazzed and blogged on it. The Boston hotel recently took part in a webinar deep dive... more
- Podcast: Microsoft and Google copyright spat, Virtual PC and Emotiv's brain gaming
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the recent disparaging remarks aimed at Google's book search project made by Microsoft's associate general counsel, Microsoft's Virtual PC 2007 and Emotiv's human-computer mind melding technology. This podcast can be delivered directly to your desktop or MP3 player if you're... more
- SOA analysts debate best-of-breed vs. suite approaches, merits of master data management, and ponder a dearth of SOA architects
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition Vol. 10, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts.In this episode, our experts examine best-of-breed versus SOA suites, master data management, and debate the... more
- Intel vs. AMD, Adobe's Apollo mission and more on the Dan and David Show
- This week on the Dan & David Show, David and I are both in the same place (San Francisco) at the same time for a change. We hook up in the ZDNet broadcast studio in our nice suits, the professional look, for a video version of the show, thanks to... more
- Reflections on the first decade of blogging
- I ran into my old friend Dave Winer at the San Francisco airport on Wednesday last week. He was on his way to Boston for the Public Media Conference. We traded pictures and chatted over early morning (6:30 AM) coffee about developers, synthesizers, speech givers, chroniclers--how people play different roles... more
- Podcast: Google Apps Premier, Vista security, salesforce.com mystery customer and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the well documented introduction of Google Apps Premier Edition, the $50 per user per year set of apps that includes phone support, additional storage, and a new set of administration and business integration capabilities. We also dive into Vista and... more
- IT Service Management enters new productivity era with pending arrival of ITIL v3
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) -- how IT is delivered inside an enterprise as a service -- and a related area, the quickly evolving Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), form complementary trends that are helping to mature IT as a customer-focused, quality-of-service... more
- SOA analysts examine TIBCO's SOA tools, ESBs as platform, webMethods Fabric 7, HP's foray into BI
- Read a full transcript of the podcast.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition Vol. 9, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts.In this episode, our experts examine TIBCO's latest SOA tools news, the role of ESBs as... more
- Podcast: Windows Mobile 6, virtualization, SOA for the masses and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, David checks out Microsoft's Windows Mobile version 6 platform. We also discuss how competition in the virtualization space in heating up (always good for buyers), what Microsoft means by Vista "Ready" and Vista "Capable," and how SOA methods (mashups, assemblers, widgets, etc.)... more
- Symantec CIO David Thompson talks ERP, security
- Enterprise resource planning implementations are never easy. In fact, it's the equivalent of corporate open heart surgery. And often there's a financial hit if things don't go well. Symantec recently discussed a few hiccups in its ERP deployment that hurt the company's quarter. The company was combining two instances... more
- Podcast: RSA, the Jobs letter, Intel's vPro and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the goings on at the RSA 2007 Conference, Apple CEO Steve Jobs' "Thoughts on Music" open letter to the world and to the record industry, Intel's vPro brand (which minimally includes a Core 2 Duo microprocessor, the Q965 chipset and... more
- Novel music search project creates method for intrinsic, not semantic, classifications
- Read the full transcript.Musical tastes are not easy to classify with just a few tags. What gets one person's foot tapping and their heart thumping is not going to win over their cousin necessarily. Moods also swing or swoon to a fickle beat, and the music you may want to... more
- Podcast: Vista unleashed, Michael Dell, Demo 07 and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the launch of Vista, Michael Dell's return to Dell in the CEO job and the Demo 07 conference. David also talks about the parade of new Vista-ready PCs and notebooks. This podcast can be delivered directly to your desktop or... more
- Businesses gain powerful new tools with emergence of semantic search
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Zoom Information, Inc.Internet search has been around for years, while seeking out new business partners is as old as business itself. Can finding the right relationships through the burgeoning "Business Web" effectively exploit and leverage the increasingly powerful technologies such as semantic... more
- SOA Insights analysts examine iPhone for enterprises, Wall Street's take on SOA for profit
- Read a full transcript of the podcast.This week's BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 8, tackles two meaty issues: Whether SOA as a trend will make more money for IT vendors and systems integrators, and which ones.Our panel of IT analysts also debate the role of the forthcoming Apple iPhone --... more
- The Vista anti-climax, Sun + Intel, XenSource vs. VMware and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, ZDNet Executive Editor Larry Dignan joins us to discuss Microsoft's earning, its attempts to make gains in the search arena and the impact of unleashing Vista on the world January 30. We also analyze the Sun-Intel-AMD triangle and how XenSource is stacking... more
- Sun and Intel scratch each other's backs
- As expected, Sun and Intel announced an mutually beneficial alliance to promote each other's products. For Sun, Intel embraces Solaris with engineering, support, OEM distribution and marketing, and for Intel, Sun will add Xeon (Woodcrest, Clovertown, etc)-based systems to its x86 product line, currently AMD only. Podcast: Listen to the... more
- Gauntlet targets management of the process behind quality application development
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Borland Software, Inc.Application development is maturing to embrace a more holistic approach to application lifecycle processes, one that emphasizes policy-based approaches -- managing process and people -- and not just the technology. Such a coordinated approach also fosters feedback efficiencies, where testing... more
- Panel of IT analysts look to the movie business to explain SOA's relevance and ROI
- Read a full transcript of the podcast.The latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition podcast begins with the panel of analysts -- Steve Garone, Joe McKendrick, Tony Baer, and Jim Kobielus -- examining the metrics of business success for services oriented architecture (SOA). But the discussion takes on a soul-searching kind of... more
- Mashup Camp 3, Apex Code, Solaris 10, Google Office and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, David gives a recap of Mashup Camp 3 and we discuss how software APIs and platforms are evolving, with the Internet as a kind of operating system. it's still in an embryonic phase, but the stage is set for a big shift... more
- Search attains powerful new roles in age of Enterprise 2.0 and emerging Semantic Web
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: FAST Search & TransferThe role of search is expanding fast. As Web-type search moves from the Internet to inside the Enterprise for semantic analysis, it begins to identify facts inside documents, combines the information with structured databases, and provides true knowledge discovery.As... more
- The week that was: CES and Macworld
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we talk about the big events of the week--CES and Macworld. David offers highlights from his week in Las Vegas, where he produced about 28 video vignettes on the products and technologies that caught his eye. We also talk about Apple's iPhone... more
- Maturation of application development requires better insight into what works in practice
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: 6th Sense Analytics.Some 9.5 million developers around the world are toiling away, and their bosses -- either individually or collectively -- have rather small insight and limited information about what they do and how they do it. We see requirements go in... more
- Parsing the future of DRM and Internet-based media delivery and monetization
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Akamai TechnologiesNow that media companies are exploring Web distribution models and using new technologies, a great deal is being discussed about who controls what when it comes to content. Digital rights management (DRM) has its advocates and detractors, but some type of... more
- Coming up: Gearing up for CES and Macworld
- For our first Dan & David Show after the holiday break, we preview the two major events coming up next week--the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and Macworld in San Francisco. David and a team of dozens of CNET editors will be covering the CES venues, looking for the... more
- SOA wikis, SOA for SaaS, and the future of business applications
- Read a full transcript of the podcast.Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect presentation, a podcast created from a recent webinar with Interarbor Solutions Principal Analyst Dana Gardner and Cape Clear Software CEO Annrai O'Toole. This sponsored webinar presents a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) market perspective by Dana, followed by comments by... more
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights analysts review 2006, make predictions for 2007
- Read a full transcript of the podcast.Our cast of independent IT analysts assembled for the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 6, take on the Year in Review task with gusto. Join Steve Garone, Joe McKendrick, Jon Collins and Tony Baer for our discussion, hosted and moderated by myself, Dana... more
- The year in review and a look forward
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we look at the year in review and make a few forecasts into the future. What was the biggest story of the year? It wasn't Google buying YouTube and other companies or Microsoft getting Vista in play or battery recalls or Intel... more
- IT Consolidation: The ultimate less is more -- or how to get a grip of your assets
- Read a transcript of the podcast.Broadly dispersed datacenters are a huge and growing expense to enterprises -- yet the demands for more applications delivered fast and reliably is mounting. Can enterprises have it both ways: Fewer datacenters and better performance? Can they cut operating costs in doing so, and protect... more
- Akamai CTO discusses the business-oriented platform approach to Internet media delivery
- Read a transcript of the podcast.The demands on the Internet have never been higher, with massive files of high-definition video, enterprise applications, online distribution of most software products, and the increasing uploading of "user-generated content" filling up the pipes.Yet the challenge to Internet delivery is not just in the packets'... more
- Yahoo shakeup, SAP's ecosystem, Open XML, iPhone and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the recent shakeup at Yahoo, the latest in the HPgate scandal, the substance of SAP's analyst summit, standardization of Microsoft's Open XML format, and whether Apple's rumored iPhone can succeed. David starts off the show talking about his ZDNet new... more
- Palm CEO Ed Colligan unplugged
- At a Churchill Club event last month, Palm CEO Ed Colligan was interviewed by New York Times correspondent John Markoff. In the podcast, Colligan discusses Palm's products strategy and trends in the mobile space. He also addresses Apple's rumored iPhone. He said that the PC makers aren't going to find... more
- SOA Insights Edition podcast delves into Microsoft's schizophrenic approach to SOA
- Read a transcript of the podcast.Is Microsoft a services oriented architecture (SOA) company or not? Increasingly the software giant is walking the SOA walk if not talking the SOA talk. So we took this apparently schizophrenic approach to SOA to a panel of independent IT analysts for some probing and... more
- IONA broadens open source approach to SOA with Celtix Enterprise initiative
- Read a transcript of the podcast.Open source and SOA are increasingly joined at the hip. These twins are developing in tandem, not sequentially, which is giving CIOs and architects a variety of choices for picking and choosing the projects and products that make up their SOAs.IONA Technologies on Monday introduced... more
- Vista and Office 2007, defining open source, ZDNet's new look and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, Mary Jo Foley joins us to talk about the official release of Vista and Office 2007 for business users. We have lots of coverage here. We also discuss David's new blog, Testbed, which will cover products for business users, and preview the... more
- Microsoft's hold on Linux, iPod vs. Zune, Jason Calacanis and more..
- This week on the Dan & David Show, David goes deep on the assertion by Steve Ballmer that Linux infringes on patents from Microsoft's IP treasure chest. The Novell-Microsoft deal is just a first step in Microsoft's quest to assert its alleged and as yet unspecified IP rights related to... more
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition vol. 4: Oracle's growing support of Linux and SOA
- Read a transcript of the podcast.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, a weekly discussion and dissection of service oriented architecture (SOA)-related news and events with a panel of independent IT industry analysts and guests. Yours truly, Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, is your host and moderator.BriefingsDirect... more
- Web 2.0 Summit, Google speed, offline synch, quad-core and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, I give my rundown on the Web 2.0 Summit, including presentations by Jeff Bezos, Ray Ozzie, Marissa Mayer and others. David gives his take on Wi-Fi in airports and Microsoft's Zune, and we discuss the impact of quad-cores on datacenters, Zimbra's offline... more
- Podcast: Majority of Startup Campers give "unconference" format a thumbs up
- In addition to finding out why attendees were attending Startup Camp and whether or not they were getting anything out of it, ZDNet podcaster James Hilliard also checked in on their satisfaction with the unconference format. Like Mashup Camp, Startup Camp is an unconference that's largely based on the idea... more
- Podcast: Startup Campers say why they came and what happened
- ZDNet podcaster James Hilliard showed up at Startup Camp last week with a recorder and a microphone and made the rounds amongst attendees to find out why they attended and what, if anything, they got out of the unconference. Whereas one attendee was looking to be right in the heart... more
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, vol. 3: Gardner, Garone, Ward-Dutton and Pendleton on SOA, open source, and making the business case for SOA
- Read a transcript of the podcast.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, a weekly discussion and dissection of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and related news and events with a panel of independent IT industry analysts and guests. Yours truly, Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, is your host... more
- Microsoft-Novell, Vista launch, Google JotSpot and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, I am joined by our Microsoft blogger Mary Jo Foley. David is busy hosting Startup Camp at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. Mary Jo and I discuss the implications of the Microsoft-Novell, Linux-Windows agreement and the imminent release to manufacturing... more
- Remote PC fix-it businesses fight malware as they help users ramp up for Vista
- Read a transcript of the podcast.The ramp-up and roll-out of Microsoft Windows Vista is around the corner. As small office, home office (SOHO) users and businesses face this new look, feel, and function set for their PCs they are also -- in record numbers -- relying on remote access service... more
- Oracle OpenWorld, Ellison's distro, AMD/Dell, IBM/Amazon and more..
- This week on the Dan & David Show, the discussion centers around Oracle's OpenWorld conference, attended by more than 40,000 adherent. The big bombshell was Oracle's support offering for Red Hat Linux. Other than than announcement, Oracle's event was relatively tame, with an update on the Fusion Project and keynotes... more
- Not just a nip and tuck, application modernization extends the lifecycle of legacy code assets
- Read a transcript of the podcast.When enterprises reach back in time, to the outer reaches of their code assets, they don't necessarily have to see things as they once were. Due to application modernization techniques and methods, scattered legacy applications can be rationalized for lifecycle-level support by newer, more efficient... more
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 2: Gardner, Garone and Collins on Virtualization and the End of ERP
- Read a transcript of the podcast.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, a weekly discussion and dissection of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and related news and events with a panel of independent IT industry analysts and guests. Yours truly, Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, is your host... more
- Topaz Partners rates podcast on new media a 'gem'
- Thanks to Topaz Partners for reviewing a BusinessWire-sponsored panel that I had the pleasure of moderating last week in Newton Corner, Mass. I'll let the review speak for itself.Have a listen to the podcast via the above player UI. The quality is not super great, so I'm producing a transcript,... more
- IE 7, Sun's Blackbox, Moto Q, Apex and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we check out Internet Explorer 7, which was officially released into the world at 5 PM PST on Wednesday. It's a major improvement to IE 6, but it doesn't leapfrog Mozilla. I was launch event for Sun's Project Blackbox, a portable data... more
- A sterling look at quality application development with Jewelry Television
- Read a transcript of the podcast.Borland Software recently released its Lifecycle Quality Management (LQM) initiative, which applies quality assurance to the entire applications design process, with special emphasis in the requirements phase.Of course, quality is not just about the code, it's about quality of process, methodology, and of getting the... more
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 1: Gardner, Garone and Macehiter on IBM, BEA, and Borland
- Read a transcript of the podcast.Welcome to the inaugural BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, a weekly discussion and dissection of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and related news and events with a panel of independent IT industry analysts and guests.Yours truly, Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, is your host and... more
- Office 2.0, irrepressible Ballmer, salesforce.com's Apex and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we are joined by Enterprise Irregular and blogger Dennis Howlett, who joined me making the rounds at the Office 2.0 conference this week. We discuss the many issues surfaced at Office 2.0 and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's interview at the Gartner Symposium... more
- Podcast: Is Carr right? Does IT not matter? Gartner attendees respond
- For those of you who haven't heard of Nicholas Carr, he's the guy who, back in 2003 (gosh, has it been that long?) published an essay in Harvard Business Review with the title IT Doesn't Matter. There are only a handful of people under a handful of brands that could... more
- Podcast: Gartner attendees contemplate outsourcing, desktop Linux, Web apps and more
- Ever since I started covering Gartner Symposium/ITxpo (years back), I've been going to the keynotes and the sessions, returning to the press room, and hammering out write-ups of what I heard. No doubt, I'll be doing that today if Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer drops any bombshells during his keynote "Mastermind"... more
- Small is Beautiful: Building a Successful Company with Less Capital
- At a Churchill Club event on September 14, a gang of venture capitalists participated in a panel, "Small is Beautiful: Building a Successful Company with Less Capital." It's part of the new culture of startups, which are taking far less capital investment than the first round of Web startups. The... more
- Podcast: Gartner attendee #1625 seeks paperless office, security, and Vista
- Just prior to things getting kicked off here at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, I thought I'd rope in some attendees to find out what was on their minds this year and what they were hoping to come away from the conference with. The first person I found who was willing to talk... more
- ActiveGrid recipe: Soak in XML. Integrate. Scale.
- For companies looking to speed up integration between new and legacy systems (or, just new and new systems), I've seen a lot of products out that there that use Web services standards (namely XML) to (1) give everything that needs to be integrated a common XML interface and (2) provide... more
- HP indictments, Microsoft's kill switch, Intel/Nvidia, Attention Gang and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, we listen to the California Attorney General grandstanding as he brings down the indictments of Patty Dunn and others. Dunn, who is seriously ill with cancer, allows her lawyer to claim that she is the victim of a "well financed and highly... more
- Podcast: Google talks about its newly launched CodeSearch
- Launched today, Google is making the rounds talking about it's newest search product: Google CodeSearch. To find out more about it, I interviewed Google product manager Tom Stocky. Using the embedded player at the top of this blog, the interview can be streamed to your desktop, manually downloaded, or, if... more
- IT matters most, but there are other techs to watch - and fear
- Last week, at MIT's Emerging Technologies Conference, I decided to corner Jason Pontin who is not only the editor-in-chief and publisher of MIT's Technology Review Magazine, but he's also the executive producer (for all intents and purposes) of the conference that's held annually in Cambridge, MA. Given the way the... more
- del.icio.us founder (and MIT top innovator) Joshua Schachter Unplugged
- Most people don't know who Joshua Schachter is. But as of recently, when the popular social bookmarking service he invented (known as del.icio.us) gained its 1,000,000th registered user, there are clearly plenty of Internet users who are familiar with his handiwork. In December 2005, del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo and... more
- HPGate meets Congress, DemoFall roundup, IDF highlights and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the latest from the HP follies, including the testimony today before a Congressional subcommittee in which most of the witnesses, which included HP's now former general counsel, Ann Baskins, exercised their Fifth Amendment.DemoFall 2006 was host to 70 product introductions... more
- Microsoft remains odd man out on calendar interoperability
- Read a transcript of the podcast. The iCalendar interoperability standard has brought productivity and publish-and-subscribe ease to only a portion of those wishing to share their calendars broadly. Now a new emerging standard, CalDAV, can make cross-client calendar interoperability an even greater benefit. Apple, (maybe IBM), and others are on board.... more
- HP press conference: Inventory of gory details, Hurd "clean," Dunn steps down
- I just got done listening to and recording HP's press conference regarding the news that has come to light in recent weeks -- more specifically, the fact that HP engaged in multiple questionable practices in an effort to uncover the source of leaks from its board room meetings. News.com's coverage... more
- HPGate, AMD's Global Vision, Torrenza, online banking and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the latest from PatriciaGate/HPGate, including the latest revelations of who knew what, when. HP is having a press conference tomorrow at 1pm PST to discuss the ongoing saga, and our news team and camera crew will be there. On today's... more
- Inconvenience of two-factor security pushes banks to "single factor plus" for online banking
- For the nation's banking industry, the clock is ticking. By Dec 31, banks and financial institutions had better move to something more than just user ID and password-level security (known as single-factor authentication) to grant customers online access to their bank accounts or else. Or else what? Well, or... more
- Move over iTunes. Here comes the Secure Video Processor Alliance
- Meet Jas Saini. He's chairman of the Secure Video Processor Alliance -- an alliance whose members are not about to take Apple's incursion into the home entertainment and content multiplexing market lying down.The battle to be your content multiplexer is on. It's a battle that most people don't even know... more
- PatriciaGate, iTV, Zunes, open specifications and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the latest from PatriciaGate, HP's foolhardy effort search to identify leaking board members. The latest news is that a House Commerce and Energy Committee congressional subcommittee asked Patricia Dunn and general counsel Ann Baskins to appear at a hearing on... more
- Keys to successful startups
- At a Churchill Club event on August 17, a group of experienced entrepreneurs discussed the current climate for startups. Unlike the pre-bubble days, startups are far leaner and meaner, requiring less capital to get on the radar. The panel provides insights into what makes a successful startup, from garnering funding... more
- Cisco bridges the gulf between intelligent network services and SOA
- Peruse the full transcript of the discussion.SOA, virtualization, network convergence, intelligent network services, unified commjunications, and higher levels of standardization are swirling about -- not just as buzzwords but as individual disrupters to IT.But what about collectively? Which of these trends fit together for larger pay-offs? We put such questions... more
- HP's witchhunt, SAP vs. Oracle, Amazon's Unbox and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, David returns from vacationing with family, and we dig into the story of the week--HP's witchhunt in search of leaking board members. It's not just a question as to the legality of HP's private investigation agency tricking phone companies into giving up... more
- Caught on tape: Amazon's tech support not exactly ready to help users of its Unbox service
- Relying on Microsoft's digital rights management technology (DRM), which was recently hacked, may not be the only challenge Amazon ends up facing now that it has launched its Unbox video download service. Another one could be technical support since the service involves the installation of Amazon-specific software on customer's systems... more
- Google Apps, Lawgarithms, YouTube futures and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, David is still vacationing with family in Maine, and due back for next's post-Labor Day (U.S.) show. I am joined by Denise Howell, who is the author of ZDNet's Lawgarithms blog, which she describes as "issue-spotting the live Web." Denise is... more
- Office 2.0, elastic compute clouds, Sony batteries and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, David is vacationing with family in Maine, so I fly solo, but with a special guest in studio. Ismael Ghalimi is the co-founder and CEO of Intalio, an open source business process management company and the author of the IT Redux blog.... more
- Moto Q review, Apple's 'Pod' fixation, whither desktop Linux and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, I'm late to the studio, so David and executive producer Marianne Wilman get the show off to a start. As usual David rants about DRM, especially Apple's, and explains via Eric Raymond and Tim Bray why Linux desktop isn't ready for prime... more
- IT shared services improve IT's ability to deliver services while cutting costs
- As part of the play-nice-together movement between IT departments and lines-of-business in larger enterprises, the IT shared services trend is gaining steam. IT shared services goes beyond centralization to recast IT from a cost-center to a powerful support system for business imperatives and general productivity. The shift is much more... more
- Nine great podcasts from MIT's CIO Symposium
- What do Monster Technology's Paul Neilson (CIO), Dunkin' Brands' Rick Broughton, (Director, IT Strategy), MIT's Jerry Grochow (VP of IS), COX New England's Brad Shipp (Vice President for Information Technology), Accenture's Bob Suh (Chief Technology Strategist), Hyperion's Howard Dresner (Chief Strategy Officer), Red Hat's Brian Stevens (CTO), HP's Russ Daniels... more
- Terrorism and technology, AOL's privacy scandal, WGA busted, WWDC highlights and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, we discuss the intersection of technology and terrorism in light of today's failed plot to blow up airplanes in the UK and US, AOL's privacy violation in publishing the search histories of more than 650,000 of its users and Apple's Leopard operating... more
- Unplugged: VMware's Diane Greene
- In this special edition of the Dan and David Show we interview to VMware President Diane Greene. VMware just announced a future product designed to enable Mac OS X users to run multiple PC operating systems simultaneously without rebooting. David has been hot on the virtualization topic lately, and peppers... more
- The future of movies
- At a Churchill Club event on July 27, a group of movie industry executives discussed the emerging digital age of cinema. Issues surfaced included the changing relationships between studios, filmmakers, and the audience, as well as major trends and new business models driving the future of cinema. The panelists included:... more
- XenSource CTO takes on Oracle's criticisms, discusses virtues of paravirtualization
- It was just a couple of days ago that virtualization technology provider XenSource was the target of not one but two rounds of public criticism -- one levied at it by Red Hat, the other by Oracle. Since I haven't spent any quality time with the folks at XenSource, I... more
- AMD/ATI, YouTube, GPL v.3, Dabble and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, we discuss the AMD/ATI tie up (aligned to fight what AMD CEO Hector Ruiz called the monopoly, aka Intel), HP's logical purchase of Mercury, the latest on YouTube and the release of Dabble, a new media search community. David also shares more... more
- Caught on tape: Another support call nightmare (this time, Bank of America)
- In this third caught-on-tape installment (#1 T-Mobile, #2 Ticketmaster) in of a series of IT Matters podcasts I'm calling The Support Files, I've got Bank of America on tape giving me blantantly false information about the customer service phone numbers on the back of its ATM cards. Not only... more
- Another support call and e-commerce nightmare: This time, it's Ticketmaster
- Compared to the debacle of a support call that I had with T-Mobile, at least the one thing positive I can say about today's support call with Ticketmaster to overcome a ticket purchasing problem with its Web site (which I've recorded for your listening pleasure) is how pleasant everybody was... more
- Publicly selected and funded investigative reporting: Can it work?
- Meet Jay Rosen. If you've frequented the inner circles of journalism, joined a public conversation about the media, or paid any attention to the so-called "a-listers" of the blogosphere, then chances are you've encountered the New York University-based professor of journalism, or at least his media/journalism watchdog blog at PressThink.org. ... more
- Dabble dips into social networking for x-site video indexing and search
- Here's something that pretty much everyone has had happen to them (or, at least you can relate to it): You do some search on the Internet and find you're way to an audio or video file. But, when you get there, the name of the file has pretty much nothing... more
- In marriage of 'CPUs and GPUs,' ATI snapped-up by AMD. Is NVidia next?
- In another one of the worst kept secrets in the technology industry, AMD has shelled out $5.4B for Canada-based video and graphics solution provider ATI Technologies. According to the aforelinked Reuters news story:Talk of a tie-up between the two companies first emerged in May. Over the weekend, the rumors intensified... more
- Does GridApp have the silver bullet of database provisioning and management?
- Systems management has always been something of a black art for businesses. They start off with good intentions. You know the ones I'm talking about where, much the same way SouthWest Airlines flies only one kind of jet, businesses attempt to standardize all of their technology to make it more... more
- T-Mobile troubles, Mashup Camp, Intel vs. AMD and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, David shares the story of his run-in with an annoyed, incompetent T-Mobile rep, complete with an offending audio clip. He also shares his post-game thoughts on Mashup Camp. We also discuss the Microsoft/Nortel alliance around unified communications and the Microsoft's newly minted... more
- ISVs Lombardi and Genuitec explain how Eclipse benefits their businesses
- Read the full text transcript of the podcast. A true test of a software development environment's worth is in how well it benefits ISVs in reducing complexity, cutting costs, and in helping them remain competitive in fast-moving markets. ISV adoption is the ultimate litmus test for an IDE's success in... more
- Unplugged: AMD's Queen of most things commercial Margaret Lewis
- Not ready to give up the pure-64 bit approach to high-volume servers just yet, Intel this week rolled-out the Montecito members of its Itanium family of processors. Amongst other features, one of Montecito's key attributes is its dual core nature. Then, later this month, on July 27th, Intel is expected... more
- T-Mobile: 'No hotspot? Sorry, no refund either'
- Last Friday, the morning after Mashup Camp ended, I made it to my flight's gate at the San Francisco airport with about 30 minutes to spare. Knowing that T-Mobile operates an airport-wide hotspot, I figured that 30 minutes was just enough time to log into the hotspot, do a couple... more
- The open source effect
- At the Churchill Club forum held on June 21, several open source company executives discussed the "Open Source Effect." The "effect" is the growing popularity of open source software in a broad range of categories and environments, as well as the cultural shift to less proprietary solutions. At the same... more
- Revisit 20 years of IT communications innovation with Lois Paul and friends
- Read the full text transcript of the podcast.Not many things last for 20 years in the software business, but high-technology PR firm Lois Paul & Partners (LP&P) is this summer celebrating its 20th anniversary. I thought LP&P's anniversary would provide a great springboard for a trip down memory lane, as... more
- Time, space put Eventful at the intersection of, .. well, of everything
- This week, at Mashup Camp at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, I had the opportunity to sit down with Eventful.com's API Developer Chris Radcliff. The interview is available for download, streamed playback (using ZDNet's built-in MP3 player above), or if you're subscribed to ZDNet's IT Matters series... more
- Mashup Camp, Sun's big iron, Dell's image makeover and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show we are in the same location, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA for Mashup Camp, which David co-founded and is hosting. On the show David talks about the camp and the state of the mashup universe. We also chat... more
- Mashup Poster Boy: John Herren
- His is self-deprecating (see the way he has tagged his photo on Flickr). He's soft-spoken. And, at any given time, with his long locks hanging over his face, he looks more like he's about to drop into a pool at the local skateboard park than he would be carving... more
- StrikeIron serves as proxy in pay-per-use mashup APIs
- Here at Mashup University being held at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, I had a chance to catch up with Dave Nielsen (pictured left) who is the Developers Program director at the Mountain View-based StrikeIron. I have been meaning to catch up with him ever since the... more
- Microsoft and ODF, eBay and Google Checkout, Mashup Camp and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show we talk about Microsoft's "support" for an open source project that will translate Microsoft's Open XML format into OpenDocument Format (ODF). We also discuss the eBay's banning of GPay (Google Checkout), adding it to the list of other unacceptable pay services, and... more
- C3 Expo walkthru #2: Vein recognition, ruggedized notebooks, Bluetooth headgear, and more
- Here in NYC on the second day of C3 Expo, I blocked out the evening for a visit over to Pepcom's Digital Experience event at the Metropolitan Pavilion. Technically speaking, Digital Experience is not a C3 event. But Pepcom, it's organizer, has been running this event almost every year that... more
- Inadequate Internet protocols and slow R&D spending point to potential Web catastrophe, says Akamai chief scientist
- Read the full text transcript of the podcast. There's a looming threat to Internet commerce and general Web usage the world over. The underlying protocols that the modern Internet is built upon are inadequate to the task of providing secure and reliable packet traffic. Phishing and pharming are only the... more
- C3, WinFS return to womb, Microsoft unified communication, Xeon 5100 and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, David calls in from Katz's Deli in New York City while he attended the C3 Expo (not much news). We discuss the fate of the much anticipated WinFS file system, Microsoft's unified communications suite (coming sometime next year), CompUSA and NetSuite,... more
- An audio tour of C3's show floor
- It's always hard to figure out how to dive into a trade show. Do you go the appointment route and schedule nothing but back to back appointments who send you invitations ahead of time? Do you start at the first booth in the first row and work your way, booth-to-booth... more
- Why have large software providers embraced Eclipse?
- Read the full text transcript of the podcast. Eclipse is being used by two-thirds of Java shops today, and has taken the market for IDEs by storm over the last two years. Part of that adoption growth has been due to large ISVs dropping their own IDEs in favor of... more
- How to make the business case for SOA
- Read a full text transcript of the podcast. Selling SOA economics inside of enterprises is as important as executing on SOA deployments. Both business leaders and IT leaders are learning how to begin the short- and long-term cost-benefit analysis for SOA. It's complicated, and varies from company to company.To learn more, I... more
- BloggerCon: Dave talks about exiting the blogosphere
- During the concluding wrap up for BloggerCon IV, unconference host Dave Winer ironically talked about his plan to cease blogging, not for the first time. Before he launched into his exit strategy he talked about reasons for blogging. "The only reason to blog is because you have something to say.... more
- BloggerCon: Video blogging
- Ryanne Hodson led the afternoon BloggerCon IV discussion on video blogging (vlogging). She teed up the discussion as follows:Videoblogging as a medium is exploding and the community is growing exponentially. How we can continue to leverage the power of video on blogs for social change, art making, communication and education?... more
- BloggerCon: Core values and Mike Arrington rails against the trolls
- Mike Arrington of TechCrunch led the penultimate BloggerCon IV session on the topic of core values for bloggers (and podcasters + vloggers). The Doc Searls Docnography notes from the session are here, and the downloadable podcast is here.Mike started off the session with the statement that the blogosphere doesn't have... more
- BloggerCon: Politics and blogging
- The post-lunch session at BloggerCon IV was led by Lance Knobel, focusing on poltics and blogging. In the nature of an unconference like BloggerCon, the approach to the topic will be protean, not fixed. But I think the starting point for the politics discussion will be to examine whether and... more
- BloggerCon: Building bridges
- Elisa Camahort, representing Blogher, led the BloggerCon IV discussion on gender issues. Here is Elisa's description for the session.Numbers don't lie. Whether talking about Fortune 500 CEO chairs, media commentators or conference speaking rosters, women have been raising a stink for years about lack of representation. People are getting more... more
- BloggerCon: Bloggers and money
- John Palfrey from the Berkman Center at the Harvard Law School led a discussion about how to making money through blogging. Here is his lead in to the topic:If you are a blogger, how do you go about making some money from your work? One obvious answer is the classic... more
- BloggerCon: Developers and users
- In opening remarks to a sparse early morning crowd at BloggerCon IV, Dave Winer discussed software development and users. "Developing software is very hard work, not everyone can do it," Dave said.The session notes Docnography is here, and you can also download the podcast of the session. A few semi-random... more
- BloggerCon: Post game show, day 1
- The wrap up discussion--dubbed the Post Game Show--of the first day of BloggerCon IV was led by the Docnographer and Cluetrainer himself Doc Searls. Docnographic notes, by substitute scribe Dave Winer, of the session are here, and we have a downloadable podcast of the session. Doc Searls: "Blogging is a... more
- BloggerCon: The emotional life of bloggers
- The last session of the first day of BloggerCon IV was led by Lisa Williams (pictured below) on the topic of the emotional life of weblogs. Most bloggers are desert islands, isolated rather than connected to others. Commentless blogs. Several participants told stories about how they got off the desert... more
- BloggerCon: Standards matters
- Niall Kennedy led a BloggerCon discussion on standards for users, which he described as follows on his site: In the online world we rely on a few standards to make life easy for users. The W3C activity around HTML provides a common base for implementors and authors. We still have... more
- BloggerCon: The user complaint session
- Chris Pirillo led the first afternoon discussion at BloggerCon on the "power of users." Doc Searls notes on the discussion are here, and you can listen to the podcast from this page or download it. Chris' premise is as follows:As a blogger, you have tremendous opportunities to tell developers what... more
- BloggerCon: Citizen media--users know more
- The second discussion session at BloggerCon was led by Jay Rosen, associate professor of journalism at NYU. Rosen listed several questions and topics to kick off the discussion. The Docnographer Doc Searls provides live notes from the discussion. Here is a link to the podcast version. Cases-on-record that could be... more
- BloggerCon: Tools for new media mavens
- Phil Torrone, senior editor at Make, led the first discussion at BloggerCon IV this morning, focused mostly on tools for blogging and podcasting. Here is the Docnography (Doc Searls is live note taking as the discussion flows) of the Tools discussion. Quote of the session: "No one knows what a... more
- BloggerCon IV lifts off
- BloggerCon IV is underway, with a live webcast. I'm at the 'unconference,' which is being held at our CNET office in San Francisco. About a hundred blogger types have shown up so far for two days of discussion. Dave Winer, one of the original bloggers, is the force behind the... more
- Identity mashup, microformats, Novell, EMC, Net neutrality and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, we discussed the state of user-centric identity management. I was at the Burton Group Catalyst conference and David attending the Identity Mashup at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School. Yahoo's adoption of microformats also got our attention. We also get... more
- Are your marketing dollars wasted on attention instead of intention?
- Back when I was in business school, I can distinctly remember a professor saying that there's no proof that advertising works. I was crushed. I felt completely vulnerable. In an attempt to find a more interersting (to me) outlet for my creativity, I had just switched my major from architecture... more
- Navio's approach to C.R.A.P. (DRM) doesn't stink as much as others
- Face it, digital rights management technology (aka: C.R.A.P. — also see CRAP, The Movie and CRAP, The Sequel) is nasty stuff. It's mainstream usage is only a couple of years old. But the list of DRM-caused trainwrecks in consumer-land (a list that you can easily help to maintain) contains... more
- 'Eclipse Effect' on development portends larger shifts in SOA, Web 2.0 projects
- Read a full text transcript of the podcast. As part of my series of sponsored BriefingsDirect podcasts, I recently interviewed Wall Street's Brent Williams, a senior analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets, on how the Eclipse Foundation has had a profound effect on Java software development. The question is: Is Eclipse a one-hit wonder or... more
- The Gates transition, HP's new blades, the Motorola Q and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, we discuss the Bill Gates transitioning out of full-time role at his company. The news came while we were recording the show, so David and I offer our first take. As I posit in my recent post, the transition has been... more
- Microsoft's LeBlond: No need for an MS Web Office
- With all the news and speculation about Google building a collaborative Web Office of sorts, with a browser-based spreadsheet, word processor, email and calendar for starters, I wanted to get Microsoft's point of view on Web versus rich client Office suites. Can Web apps match the capababilities of desktop... more
- Google Spreadsheets, Dell's 9th, OneCare, Intel vs. AMD and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, we lead off with a discussion of Google Spreadsheets. Is it an Excel killer, a better mousetrap, a Mickey Mouse spreadsheet with integrated GTalk? Is it just another low-end Web-based spreadsheet for soccer moms and dads from a company with a... more
- Reality Check: Wikis? Sorry. Never heard of them.
- Now that I have my Thinkpad T42 back (the display went dead on me....as it has done on so many Thinkpads I've had before), I've been digging through the backlog of content that was stuck on my hard drive and that didn't get posted yet and I found a gem... more
- 'D' wrap up, Al Gore, Sun layoffs, Java, OneCare and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, we cover my visit to the D conference, hobnobbing (not really) with the likes of Al Gore, Bill Gates, Terry Semel and Bob Iger. D will be remembered as the conference where Bill Gates came up with a new concept--reality acquisition... more
- Evaluating podcasting business value with CHEN PR and Media Survey
- The latest BriefingsDirect podcast takes the pulse of how podcasting is being perceived as a business communications tool, with guests Barb Heffner, a partner and founder of CHEN PR, and Sam Whitmore, editor of Media Survey. The discussion comes on the heels of CHEN PR's news that it is creating... more
- Vista Beta 2, Yahoo/eBay, AppExchange and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, we cover the roll out of Vista Beta 2 (will it really ship in January?), the Yahoo/eBay tie up, and the ongoing barrage of prognostications about the outcome of a Microsoft and Google battle. David says the key metric for a Web... more
- Marc Canter: The digital lifestyle aggregator
- Marc Canter, the founder and CEO of Broadband Mechanics, is known in the industry as a techno rabble rouser, with an operatic voice. In 1984, he co-founded MacroMind, which became Macromedia in 1991, and has continued to pioneer multimedia authoring and standards. Now at Broadband Mechanics he is merging his... more
- Eventful.com progress report
- Yesterday, I met with Brian Dear to catch up on progress with his event database platform and Web site. Since I wrote about his company EVDB when it launched in March 2005, the eventful.com Web site has accumulated more than a million events, with about 150,000 currently active (forward events),... more
- James Gosling on the state of Java
- What would JavaOne be without an interview with James Gosling. I met up with Gosling, the father of Java and a Sun vice president and Fellow, at the Moscone Center to record this podcast. Gosling gave his take on why he doesn't think Java needs to be open sourced, but... more
- Symantec CEO John Thompson makes the rounds
- Symantec CEO John Thompson has had a busy week, with interviews at the Future in Review conference and Gartner Symposium. Last week was Symantec's annual Vision conference in San Francisco. I caught up with Thompson at the Future in Review conference in San Diego on Monday, and recorded a podcast... more
- Schwartz vs. Gartner, Dell goes AMD, Symantec, the NSA and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, we cover some of the highlights from our sojourns to several events this week--Future in Review, JavaOne, Gartner Symposium. New Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz went toe to toe with Gartner analysts. David thinks the Gartner boys were too aggressive and not in... more
- Moto's Zander: Global Mobile... the net will follow us (instead of vice-versa)
- Here at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco, Motorola CEO Ed Zander took center stage to, among other things, talk about his company's new smartphone (a term he refrains from using himself to describe the device): the Motorola Q. Zander admitted to the largely enterprise audience that Motorola is struggling with how... more
- GNU/Linux distros get OK to distribute Java
- Here in San Francisco, as I returned to my hotel from dinner with Redmonk's James Governor last evening, I bumped into Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phiipps who himself was just fresh off a flight from DebConf 6 (Debian Conference) in Oaxtepec, Mexico where, because of that event's coincidental... more
- OMG CEO Richard Soley on standards, complexity and productivity
- Dr. Richard Soley, chairman and CEO of the Object Management Group (OMG), joined me last week for a BriefingsDirect podcast on OMG's latest activities and the status of the ongoing counter-force to complexity -- standards.Indeed, OMG through its auspicious history has developed a methodology for federating standards, which themselves often... more
- Ballmer at the Churchill Club--the podcast
- I covered Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's visit to the Churchill Club last week, where he was interviewd by Roger McNamee. Here is the complete podcast of the event. See also video from the event and my podcast interview with Roger McNamee. more
- Analyze this: Roger McNamee on Microsoft's strategy
- After his interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at a Churchill Club event (video here), I hooked up with Elevation Partners co-founder and Flying Other Brothers guitarist Roger McNamee for a post-interview analysis and look into his investment portfolio. In this podcast, Roger offers his incisive take on Microsoft's... more
- Google press day, Ballmer's formula, BitTorrent, E3 and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, we cover the latest coming out of the Googleplex and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's plan to thrive within the advertising business model, now dominated by Google and Yahoo. He cited Microsoft's legendary "tenacity, persistence, patience and willingness to stay after it" and... more
- Is there value beyond LinkedIn's 3 degrees of separation
- To most people, networks like LinkedIn.com, Orkut, and Plaxo are simply contact managers on steroids. In addition to being Internet-based repositories of your contact database that are accessible anytime, anywhere, and from just about any device (as long as its Web-enabled), their hub and spoke designs where just about everybody... more
- Dave Winer raps on Share your OPML, blogging and more...
- Dave Winer's latest application, Share your OPML, creates an aggregated pool of RSS subscription lists, in OPML (Outline Processing Markup Language) format. As a pool of user data, it's similar in concept to Steve Gillmor's GestureBank clickstream commons and Root's data vault. Share your OPML can surface feed lists from... more
- Is it time to consolidate your Java apps? Onto a mainframe?
- For the better part of three decades now, IBM's mainframes -- often referred to as big iron -- have been coming under assault from smaller iron: minicomputers and servers that may not by themselves have the sheer horsepower to keep up with a mainframe but can often get the... more
- CRN sleuth Barb Darrow on IT vendor sports
- I began working with Barb Darrow back in 1988 at bi-monthly engineering trade pub Design News, and always respected her tenacity, verve, and newshound instincts. Barb went on to InfoWorld in 1993 but had left by the time I got there to run news for the website in 1995. Now... more
- Akamai adds podcasting platform to media delivery services
- Banking on a significant new business opportunity, Akamai Technologies has rolled out a podcasting platform and business model support infrastructure for podcasting. Tim Napoleon, media and entertainment product line director at Akamai, discusses the solution, and rationale for delivering it to market now, in a sponsored BriefingsDirect podcast, moderated by... more
- Running .NET apps at the speed of accelerated Java
- When most people talk about the integration of .NET and Java, the first thought that comes to mind is the XML-based services oriented architecture that Microsoft and IBM first had in mind when they formed the Web services Interoperability Organization (the WS-I). The idea, which is old hat for... more
- Google-Yahoo-Microsoft. Net and DRM neutrality, Samsung Q1 and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, we discuss Google in the enterprise and Google as an infrastructure provider to the planet; the potential shape of a Yahoo/Microsoft connection; and Microsoft's odds of remaking itself into a major media company. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's statement:"Ad-supported software services are an... more
- CA Unicenter puts Splunk to work
- Enterprise IT systems management is about to face an onslaught of complexity. As heterogeneity jacks up due to open source stacks and extended B2B ecologies, and as virtualization blurs the lines between platform, hardware, and applications, and also as SOA adoption grows -- so grows the complexity of managing availability... more
- The CIO Agenda 2006
- On April 26, the Churchill Club held a panel discussion, "The CIO Agenda: Building the New IT" (podcast here). The panelists include four CIOs--Lars Rabbe of Yahoo (listen to my separate podcast interview with Raabe), Geir Ramleth of Bechtel Group, John Johnson of Intel and Randall Spratt of McKesson Corp.... more
- Yahoo CIO rides the tiger
- Lars Rabbe has been riding a tiger. As CIO for Yahoo the last three years, Rabbe had to deal with the rapid growth and scaling of the Web portal's IT and infrastructure services. Today, Yahoo has about 10,000 employees and over 500 million monthly visitors that touch systems under Raabe's... more
- Will Intel's new vPro business PC help to reverse the company's misfortunes?
- This week, Intel headed into slightly uncharted waters when it announced a new brand for its business desktops call called vPro. The company also took such a terrible tumble on Wall Street that it has announced a major restructuring. Will vPro help with the revival?Whereas Intel's business destkop messaging use... more
- McNealy and Schwartz, Intel's vPro, DReaM and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, we debate whether the Jonathan Schwartz era at Sun will be any different than the McNealy era. Since the former CEO and new CEO claim that they can finish each others sentences, it's hard to imagine any major shifts. In an interview... more
- Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian unplugged
- Sling Media is garnering the kind of consumer attention that TiVo has received over the years. Instead of time-shifting, Sling Media focuses on place-shifting with its Slingbox, which brings the TV experience (cable TV, TiVo, satellite, etc.) to a PC, laptop or Windows mobile device over the Internet. Prior to... more
- Video goes Internet--the future of what you watch
- On April 24, the Churchill Club held a panel discussion, "Video Goes Internet--The Future of What You Watch." The panelists included Rob Bennett, general manager, MSN Entertainment and Video Services at Microsoft; Jennifer Feikin, director of Google Video at Google; Blake Krikorian, founder & CEO of Sling Media; John Papanek,... more
- Will or could RSS get forked?
- Last year, Microsoft came out with an extension to RSS called Simple Sharing Extensions or SSE. Microsoft wisely published the extension under the Attribution-Share Alike Creative Commons license -- the same license under which RSS is freely usable. Back in November 2005, Dave Winer, who is widely regarded as the... more
- Learning from the masters: Creating a $1 billion company
- On April 13, the Churchill Club held a panel discussion, "Learning from the Masters: How America’s Highest Growth Companies Executed to Achieve Success." The panel discussed what it takes to create and build a $1 billion company. The panelists included Tom Stemberg, venture partner, Highland Capital Partners and founder and... more
- Insights into Troubleshooting MySQL With Brian Aker
- With some six million installations, MySQL is a fabulously popular database. All sorts of users, developers, system adminstrators, and database administrators (DBAs) are deploying and managing MySQL. The question is how to make that administration as simple and straightforward as possible for these myriad types of users, many of whom... more
- Promise and Peril of Enterprise 2.0 with Silicon Valley Angel Investor Jeff Clavier
- Follow the money, my mother always told me. Venture capitalists and angels don't have that luxury, however -- they need to lead with the money. So that's why it's strong and beneficial medicine for enterprise IT strategists to gain insights into where the VCs see the next big opportunities. My... more
- Apple vs. bloggers, AMD vs. Intel, DRM vs. consumers Yahoo vs. China, Microsoft vs. EU and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, we go on a legal tear, discussing Yahoo's alleged data sharing with the Chinese government that led to the incarceration of a writer, AMD's anti-trust suit against Intel, Microsoft and European Union continuing to battle and Apple's quest gain access to the logs... more
- Google Calendar, the Eolas Patch for IE, DReaMing on, JBoss and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, Dan joins me by phone from an undisclosed location in the foothills of the Pacific Northwest and we talk about Red Hat's acquisition of JBoss and Microsoft's rollout of an automatic patch to Internet Explorer -- what I'm calling the "Eolas patch"... more
- Sun: Chasing after (and may catch) the open source DReaM
- In March 2006, in a podcast interview with ZDNet, Sun president and COO Jonathan Schwartz dropped a hint that his company had something in the works that was very much like the Liberty Alliance (in the way that it undermined the usage of proprietary identity management systems like Microsoft's Passport),... more
- Hauppauge CEO on Cable TV DRM: Common Sense will prevail
- Unbeknownst to most consumers, the world of cable TV is currently going through a technological and legal revolution that, if things continue on their present course, could render obsolete just about any device that can take a feed from a cable box. For example, your TV set. Proponents of these... more
- BEA: JBoss on Red Hat won't dominate like Office did on Windows
- Although some are quick to credit the long term success and dominance of Microsoft Office (over the competition it devastated) to the unnatural advantage Microsoft may have afforded to it by way of undocumented Windows interfaces back in the 90's, it's impossible to rule out the one stop shop... more
- Boot Camp, virtualization, Net neutrality, SAP and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, we discuss all the fuss about running Windows on a Mac (David calls Boot Camp and the notion that it's a big win for Apple a joke), LinuxWorld (all about virtualization), Net neutrality (telcos checkmate the 'open' Internet), my wanderings at Software 2006 and SAP's stance... more
- Splunk Base converges openness, Wikis, and searchable systems log data into a new reliability resource
- The folks at Splunk have done a value mashup with the roll-out this week of Splunk Base, a new resource for datacenter, network, and systems administrators. Taking a cue from open source projects, Splunk Base is an open Creative Commons-licensed repository of Wikis that with volume adoption should give systems... more
- Apple's 30th, cell phone dangers, open source dress codes and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, we begin with Apple's 30th anniversary, Steve Jobs, Apple Corps vs. Apple Computer, Apple vs. France, the growing iPod/iTunes monopoly and the insidious nature of Apple's DRM. Also on tap, the potential cancer-causing dangers of cell phone usage (see the SAR or specific absorption... more
- Microsoft delays, reorgs, Net neutrality and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, we discuss the delay of Windows Vista and Office 2007 and whether the reorganization at the top of the Redmond heap--shuffling the deck chairs--will impact Microsoft's face off with the emerging Web giants and ankle biters. We also discuss comments made by AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre about... more
- Project Inkwell and the Future in Review
- In a podcast recorded this afternoon, Mark Anderson, founder and publisher of the Strategic News Service (SNS) and the Future in Review conference talks with me about the Inkwell Project, the forthcoming FIRe conference, Google and China and the debate about Net Neutrality. The SNS Inkwell Project is chartered with increasing the "size... more
- IT Matters Audio Interview: SourceLabs founder Byron Sebastian
- Two years ago in 2004, with no clear idea of what he was going to do next, Byron Sebastian left Java server specialist BEA Systems. Then, after consulting with friends and trusted associates, he formed SourceLabs. At first blush, SourceLabs looks a bit like SpikeSource (headed by Kim Polese). To... more
- Google vs. DOJ, Net Neutrality, PC Forum and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, we discuss Google's face off over search records with the DOJ. Google is claiming a partial victory--U.S. District Judge James Ware might give the DOJ access to only a portion of Google's index, and not users' search terms. Google's legal eagles suggest that the DOJ leave the search giant... more
- Writely, Live Clipboard, IDF, Origami, bad Wi-Fi, attention, intention and more...
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, we start up with a rant about the lack of reliable Wi-Fi at industry events (bring your own EVDO). Then we get into the news of the week, starting with the implications of the Google/Writely combo, Ray Ozzie's Live Clipboard product announcements, and... more
- Inside Intel's Developer Forum
- Insight64's Nathan Brookwood gives me the lowdown and what transpired at the Intel Developer Forum this week. In our podcast, he explains the new Core Microarchitecture, which will underpin Intel's multicore, energy efficient chip families, and how Intel's processor roadmap stacks up against what AMD's. We also discuss the fate of... more
- Itanium, Apple CRAP, the future of enterprise software and more...
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, we discuss Apple's latest product announcements, the HP/Intel/Oracle lovefest for the stalled Itanium chip (HP spending $1 billion per year over the next five years on its Itanium-laced Integrity line), Intel and AMD butting heads, Sun's Scott McNealy pitching HP CEO Mark Hurd on... more
- Take a deeper dive on the AJAX-SOA match-up
- Fellow ZDNet blogger Dion Hinchcliffe -- who also edits Web 2.0 Journal, is authoring a Web 2.0 book for Addison-Wesley, and in his spare time is co-founder and CTO of enterprise architecture consultancy Sphere of Influence, Inc. -- joins me this week for a BriefingsDirect podcast on AJAX and SOA.... more
- MashupCamp wrapup, Blackberry fate, Google Page Creator and more...
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, David gives his overview on MashupCamp, which he conceived and hosted this week at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. We discuss the floating definition of "mashup," business models and some of the top mashups from the two-day event. ... more
- The age of profit-driven Internet thieves
- On February 14, security guru Eugene Kaspersky, founder of Kasperksy Lab Founder, was interviewed by New York Times reporter John Markoff at a Churchill Club event. We have a podcast of the interview, during which Kaspersky discussed the age of profit-driven Internet thieves. "We live in the world of Internet... more
- Global Online Freedom Act, commercial open source, the end of passwords and more on this week's podcast
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, we discuss the proposed legislation--the Global Online Freedom Act of 2006--controlling how U.S. Internet companies deal with foreign governments that practice censorship, such as China. It's great to have this public dialog, but legislative grand standing is a slippery slope and creating more federal... more
- SpikeSource and SugarCRM light the LAMP
- During the Open Source Business Conference I sat down for a podcast interview with Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL; Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource; and John Roberts, CEO of SugarCRM. The three open source moguls are flush with recent VC cash infusions and have partnered on Spike Stack for Sugar Professional. SpikeSource... more
- Marten Mickos: MySQL's undaunted leader
- Prior to Stephen Shankland's scoop about Oracle's attempt to add MySQL to its portfolio, I chatted with the open source database company's CEO Marten Mickos about Oracle's open source envy, his reaction to Oracle's purchase of InnoDB, and how he plans to keep MySQL ahead of the game. Mickos had tried to acquire InnoDB, which provides... more
- Demo 2006 highlights, Mashup Camp, patent abuse and more
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, I give David, still suffering from a bad back but nonetheless full of pain killers, wit and insights, my rundown on what was hot at Demo 2006. Among my favorites, Klugle, Riya, Panoratio, Vivid Sky, several photo sharing apps, Iotum, Nexidia,... more
- Hosted CRM, SaaS tectonic plate shifting
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, I go solo as David is out with a bad but recovering back. In this shortened edition I give my take on the busy week in hosted CRM land. Salesforce.com customers were subjected to what the company called a "minor" outage, but it wasn't... more
- ActiveGrid pushes lightweight LAMP development
- Peter Yared, CEO of ActiveGrid, has said that Java is a dinosaur. In our podcast interview, Yared, who spent five years at Sun working with Java, explains why he believes that the alternative--lightweight development based on open source LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/Python/PHP)--is preferable to Java for many kinds of applications. He... more
- One year later, is Solaris 10 on track?
- This week marks the one year anniversary since Solaris 10 was first released. For Sun, Solaris 10 has been a bit of a milestone. Solaris 10 represents the first time that the company's x86 and SPARC-based versions are actually fruit from the the same source code tree. In the year... more
- Former PeopleSoft EVP Ram Gupta casts his lot with application routing
- After more than 20 years in high tech, culminating in a four-year stint as executive vice president at PeopleSoft just prior to the Oracle acquisition, Ram Gupta considered himself retired from the industry and happy to sit on a few tech company boards. But, after taking a year off, he has jumped back in... more
- Google in China, Badware, Pixney, Sun and more...(The Dan and David Show)
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show we cover a variety of timely topics. Google refuses the U.S. government's subpeona for search logs but agrees to censor material deemed objectionable to Chinese authorities--the company that will do no evil faces some tough, politically-charged choices. We also discuss the... more
- Google vs. the DOJ, GPL 3, Mashup Camp and CRAP...(The Dan and David Show)
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show we look into Google's refusal to provide search logs to the government and at the forthcoming (in 2007) version of the GPL version 3. We also discuss the latest moves from Oracle to make its next-generation architecture and applications suite, Fusion, a reality.... more
- Top tech future trends debate
- On January 12, the Churchill Club held its annual "Top Ten Tech Trends Debate." We have a podcast of the event, which was moderated by Tony Perkins, editor in chief of AlwaysOn. The panelists included: John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson... more
- Calendar interoperability: A good idea in need of a reality nudge
- Current feverish anticipation about a Google calendar (beta) begs the question: How broad will Google calendar interoperability support go? It would not have to go far to become a bell whether and functional leader in the field.Based on a new BriefingsDirect podcast with Scott Mace, author and thought leader behind... more
- Macworld, Oracle/Sun, censorship and more
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show we look into the Apple mystique and the announcements, especially the first wave Intel Duo Core Macs, from Macworld. We also assess the new Oracle/Sun partnership, with Oracle extending its Java license for another ten years and Sun bundling Oracle's database with... more
- Podcast interview of PC industry icon Dan Bricklin
- A lot of people don't realize that Dan Bricklin should be a household name in the PC business. Back in 1978, he and Bob Frankston came up with the idea of an electronic spreadsheet. Until then, spreadsheets were done on paper. The numbers in the boxes were computed with adding... more
- CES, Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD, DRM wars, Yahoo Go and more (The Dan and David Show)
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show we cover some of the happenings at CES, including the latest moves by Microsoft, Intel, Apple Yahoo, Google, Sony and others to corner their piece of of the digital convergence market. David also gives his lowdown on the Blue-ray versus HD-DVD battle, and... more
- Messaging and collaboration trends get a work-over
- My most recent BriefingsDirect podcast taps into the growing pool of independent IT industry analysts with a lively discussion on messaging and collaboration trends with Maurene Caplan Grey, principal at Grey Consulting. Seems to me that we are in a polarizing time, with a large set of enterprises moving even... more
- Syndication, Wikipedia, Java DB and more...
- This latest episode of the Dan & David Show comes to you from The Syndicate conference in San Francisco, where David and I camped out in the demo area for the podcast. We give our rundown on the event, which focused on trends in RSS/syndication, content delivery, blogging, podcasting/tagging, marketing and advertising. We also... more
- Next-gen RSS reading platform (Attensa) demos power of Attention.xml
- Now that I've had a chance to see Attensa's solution in action (here at the Syndicate Conference in San Francisco), I can understand why John Palfrey's RSS Investors venture capital outfit selected the company as one of its initial investments (valued at $9 million). Like Newsgator, Attensa offers RSS subscription... more
- Ross Mayfield: Flap over Wikipedia won't slow down enterprise Wikis
- Here at the Syndicate Conference in San Francisco, I caught up with Ross Mayfield, CEO of Socialtext -- a supplier of enterprise-targeted Wiki-based collabaration solutions -- for a podcast interview. Wikis are a prominent technology in the world of RSS and social networking -- the technologies that inspired the very... more
- Marc Benioff: The force is with salesforce.com
- On Friday, I interviewed salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff in his spacious San Francisco office. The salesforce.com founder was in a good mood--the stock has more than doubled since the beginning of the year and growth in subscribers, revenues and profits continues to trend upwards. Many competitors big and small... more
- Podcasting and blogging take IT industry analysts to a new level of service
- Some kind words from Wind River's CMO John Bruggeman highlight a growing trend around IT industry analysts reaching new audiences and better serving their traditional audiences through RSS-enabled blogging and podcasting. As I've said before, real-time analysis via free syndication is gaining quite a bit of attention. An example, obviously... more
- Esther Dyson on the rise of the user class
- As 2005 comes to a close, my colleague at CNET Esther Dyson is busy planning PC Forum, her annual March executive conference. The theme for PC Forum 2006 is "Erosion of Power: Users in charge." During our podcast interview, I asked Esther about theme--which users are in charge, and of what, and who's power... more
- Application acceleration gains new stature as packet networks dominate most media
- My most recent sponsored BriefingsDirect B2B informational podcast tackles issues of application acceleration and performance management through a discussion with Akamai Chief Scientist and co-founder Tom Leighton. Akamai is a market leading application performance services provider based in my hometown of Cambridge, Mass. From my 30-minute discussion with Prof. Leighton,... more
- Sun's T1 chip, RIM's dire straights, the United States of India and more...(The Dan & David Show)
- Note: We had a problem with the audio bit rate that has been corrected. In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, we check out Sun's UltraSparc T1, the processor that the company claims blows away the competition on several fronts. David gives his take on BEA's JRockit Java performance... more
- Will a faster BEA JRockit expand J2EE's realtime appeal?
- <digression>For the record J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) is no longer the acronym that Sun and Java licensees are using to describe the server-side implementation of Java -- otherwise known as a Java-based application server (Java isn't your only choice for an app server; there's .NET too). Going forward,... more
- Sun: 'These systems are like a rack on a chip'
- Three weeks ago, Sun took the wraps off its three year project code-named Niagara and gave the newest member of the company's UltraSparc family of processors an official name: the T1. Although the T1 is rated at 1.2 Ghz, in some configurations, it has as many as eight separate cores... more
- XML file formats, AJAX, Sun's freeware, watermarks and more...(The Dan & David Show)
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, David gives Microsoft kudos for issuing a special covenant not to sue developers , including open source developers, who develop software that supports its XML-based Office file formats and speculates on how the Commonwealth of Massachusetts might respond to this move, in... more
- 20th Anniversary Celebration featuring Intel CEO Paul Otellini
- At last night's Churchill Club 20th anniversary event, Otellini was the featured guest and sat down for an interview with NPR's Moira Gunn. The softball interview touched on his 31 years at Intel, the company reorg around markets, WiMax as a step toward a global Internet and the social duties... more
- Root kits, saving the Net, GoogleMart, The Stones, John Doerr and more (The Dan & David Show)
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, David provides an update on the latest convolutions in the Sony root-kit DRM debacle and comments on Doc Searls' post, "Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes." We also discuss Robert X. Cringely's scenario of GoogleMart,... more
- Manpower CIO Rick Davidson: Balancing global and local
- As part of our ongoing CIO Sessions series to find out what's on the minds of CIOs, I interviewed Rick Davidson, senior vice president and CIO at Manpower, the $16 billion global staffing service. The podcast interview can be delivered directly to your desktop or MP3 player if you're subscribed to... more
- Dana Corp. CIO Bruce Carver: "Having too much IT and not the right IT"
- As part of our ongoing CIO Sessions series to find out what's on the minds of CIOs, I interviewed Bruce Carver, CIO of Dana Corp., a $9 billion auto parts manufacturer. The podcast interview can be delivered directly to your desktop or MP3 player if you're subscribed to our podcasts (See ZDNet’s podcasts: How... more
- Bill and Ray memos, WikiCalc, root kits and more (The Dan & David Show)
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show David is fighting a cold but gets through the show, and even gets cranked up talking about Sony's root-kit DRM debacle and the latest twists and turns of the Open Document Format debate happening in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We also discuss the... more
- Walt Mossberg: Cell phones rule
- I caught up with Walt Mossberg for a podcast prior to the Churchill Club event "Making a List: What's Hot and What's Not in Personal Technology," which Walt hosted with fellow Wall Street Journal columnist Kara Swisher.Walt explains why the "device formerly known as the cell phone" is the hottest consumer... more
- SAP's Shai Agassi on Oracle's 'folly' and the shift to services
- Shai Agassi, president of the Product and Technology Group and a member of the Executive Board at SAP AG, fielded questions from New York Times tech reporter John Markoff and the audience during an early morning Churchill Club event on Wednesday. We have a podcast of the interview, as well... more
- SAP's Shai Agassi: Unplugged
- Following an interview with New York Times tech reporter John Markoff at a Churchill Club event, I sat down with Shai Agassi, SAP president of the Product and Technology Group and a member of the Executive Board for a podcast. In this interview, I ask him about SAP's roll out of... more
- The real deal behind Microsoft Live, politics and ODF and more (The Dan & David Show)
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show Microsoft's Windows and Office Live is at the top of the show. Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie demonstrated (actually the demos were full of glitches) that Micosoft taking its learning from MSN, bCentral and competitors to turn the ship around services. It's not about technology--Google, Yahoo and... more
- Can Sun redefine the economics of computing?
- At a Churchill Club event on October 26, 2005, Jonathan Schwartz, president and COO at Sun was interviewed by Quentin Hardy, Silicon Valley bureau chief as Forbes. You can download the audio of the one-hour interview here. Schwartz reprises his usual, and perceptive, themes touting Sun's vision and prejudices, such... more
- A Google, Microsoft, Sun, Red Hat mash up (The Dan & David Show)
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show we mash up Google, Sun, Microsoft, Red Hat among others. Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie thinks Google is rallying point for his company and is going to company around services (stay tuned next week); Google pops a new database application out of its innovation hotbed, where... more
- A novel definition of a SOA platform
- For all the talk of SOA benefits over the past three years, there remains an awful lot of fuzziness around the actual definition of a SOA platform. Seems that no matter who you ask to describe a SOA platform, you get a different answer. So I put the question to... more
- Ballmer on the hot seat and a Masschusetts vs. Microsoft update (The Dan & David Show)
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, David has an update on the Microsoft vs. the Commonwealth of Massachusetts debate over whether Office file formats are open enough to be included in the state's Enterprise Technical Reference Model (check out David's investigative report). The highlight of the show... more
- Massachusetts vs. Microsoft (The Dan & David Show)
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, we discuss how Microsoft lost its battle, at least for now, with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts over whether Office file formats are open enough to be included in the state's Enterprise Technical Reference Model, which favors the OpenDocument Format (ODF).... more
- Google-Sun mash up, Web 2.0 and more (The Dan & David Show)
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, we discuss the Google-Sun mash and I tell tales from my excursion at the Web 2.0 conference, where Google was a persistent elephant in the room, Microsoft execs sketched out its 2.0 strategy, so-called Web 2.0 products were highlighted and former... more
- The $100 PC, Palm/Microsoft bonding, AJAX disruptors and more (The Dan & David Show)
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, David gives his take on MIT's Emerging Technologies Conference--$100 PCs for the masses, eliminating the PC bus, wireless mobility without compromise. We also discuss the Palm/Microsoft Treo and the rise of AJAX-based applications. David rants about how DRM, in particular Apple's,... more
- SimplyHired is on the job
- SimplyHired indexes more than 4.5 million jobs from thousands of sources and provides filtered searches, ratings and other services for job hunters. In this podcast I talked with company CEO Gautam Godhwani about the job search site, which officially was launched last week. Godhwani describes his site a Web 2.0 because... more
- Next generation tech leaders
- As part of the Churchill Club's 20th anniversary event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, Sun co-founder and now venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Bill Joy moderated a panel entitled "Next Generation Leaders." The panelists (see image below) included Evan Williams, Founder of ODEO;... more
- Evan Williams: From Blogger to Odeo
- I caught up with Evan Williams at the Churchill Club's 20th anniversary event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Evan was one of the founders of Blogger, which was sold to Google, and is now involved in the podcasting startup, Odeo. We discussed his views on podcasting (democratization of media),... more
- Motorola's Ed Zander on leadership
- As part of the Churchill Club's 20th anniversary event, entitled "Leadership Defined," at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, Motorola CEO Ed Zander was interviewed [podcast here] by Elizabeth Corcoran, senior editor at Forbes Magazine. Zander talked about how he came into the struggling 75-year-old company about two... more
- Blake Ross on Firefox vs. IE and other topics
- Blake Ross is one of the co-creators of Firefox and is on a mission to make software for mere mortals. That's one of Steve Jobs' favorite phrases. Like Jobs, Blake is starting out young. The 20-year-old is on leave from Stanford, still working on Firefox, and has also started a... more
- Motorola's Ed Zander unplugged
- After nearly two years at the helm at 75-year-old Motorola, Ed Zander is feeling pretty good. The company has grown its share of the handset/mobile device market, garnered attention for its slick Razr phone and Rokr iTunes phone, and its enterprise business is thriving. Michael Singer of news.com and I interviewed... more
- Ellison, Microsoft reorg, GoogleNet, Demo, Vista and more (The Dan & David Show)
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, we assess Oracle's, and CEO Larry Ellison's, transition from swashbuckling buccaneers and serial acquirers to software industry statesman, pledging allegiance to open standards, lifetime support and choice for customers. Of course, Ellison couldn't resist taking a few shots at SAP this week,... more
- The Dan & David Show: PDC, Oracle/Siebel, salesforce.com, Sun's new galaxy and more
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, we dissect the latest tech news, starting with the announcements from Microsoft's Professional Developer's Conference in Los Angeles. David talks about his experience with the Windows Vista beta and details the benefits he sees for IT administrators. I explain my problem with the... more
- The Dan & David Show: Microsoft Dynamics, CRM dramatics, an OpenDoc rant and introducing 'Vistulations'
- In this latest episode of the Dan & David Show, we go over the news of the week, including Google's hiring of Vint Cerf and the Apple/Motorola iTunes phone. We drill down on my visit to the Microsoft campus to hear from Bill and Steve all about the new focus on the... more
- The Dan & David Show: Intel vs. AMD, Google vs. Microsoft and other matters
- In this second episode of the Dan & David Show, we discuss the news from Intel's Developer Forum, including the new dual core, power chips due next year that it wants to crush AMD with and the VIIV sticker (think Centrino) that Intel wants to stick on entertainment PCs that use specific Intel... more
- Listen to Dan and David spar on tech
- In the first of what we hope to be many episodes of The Dan and David Show (feel free to suggest a new name), Dan and I kill 11 1/2 minutes arguing about everything that's on the tech front burner as the sultry summer (in this part of the world)... more
- Building a successful startup
- On August 4, Guy Kawasaki, Managing Director and Chairman, Garage Technology Ventures, moderated a Churchill Club panel, "Building a Successful Startup: The CEO View." The panelists included: William Chen, Founder and CEO, Accelergy Dirk Gates, Founder and CEO, Xirrus, Inc. Prescott Lee, CEO, FilmLoop; Founder, eCircles Martin Roscheisen, CEO, NanoSolar... more
- BEA retrenching with new app server and 'blended' business model
- By the time marriage of the word "Java" to the phrase "application server" became in-vogue -- giving rise to the acronym J2EE (now being deprecated in favor of Java EE or Java Enterprise Edition) -- BEA was practically a household name in enterprise IT, having seized the early lead in... more
- If AMD is David and Intel is Goliath, What is VIA? Cinderella?
- How many times have you heard this story? A battle of epic proportions is underway between two titans while no one is paying attention to a third, smaller contender that comes out of nowhere to kick both their butts. I'm not saying that's what VIA is going to do in... more
- Creating competitive advantage through IT
- A Churchill Club panel discussion on July 27 dealt with the complex issue of getting competitive advantage from IT investments. Nick Carr stirred up controversy with his article and book positing that in most cases IT doesn't offer competitive advantage, basically because everybody has access to the same technology. Most... more
- Chris Anderson dissects the Long Tail
- At a Churchill Club event on July 21, Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine presented "The Long Tail: Finding New Markets in the Niches." Last year Anderson began writing about the Long Tail phenomenon, explaining how niche products with low demand and sales volume can collectively obtain higher market share and... more
- Introducing ZDNet's 'PhotoCasts'. Tell us what you think.
- Last week, I published what amounts to the missing manual when it comes to connecting a notebook computer to the Internet through a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone. Perhaps proving that a picture is actually worth 100 words, that missing manual included almost 4000 words of text and almost 40 distinctly separate... more
- Stem Cell Research: The Hope, the Reality & the Future
- At a Churchill Club event on July 13, entitled "Stem Cell Research: The Hope, the Reality & the Future," Silicon Valley VCs, a biopharmaceutical executive and a pioneering stem cell scientist discussed the controversial topic. With the passage of Proposition 71 in November, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has... more
- Dell claims an A+ on blade strategy report card
- By all accounts, even those of Dell's, when blades became all the rage in terms of a form factor for servers, Dell misfired and ceded the market to the other two tier one vendors HP and IBM, who had a bit of a field day while Dell regrouped. Regroup it... more
- Outsourcing: Sorting Out The Hype, Reality, Risks And Benefits
- On June 28th, the Churchill Club held a panel discussion, "Outsourcing: Sorting Out The Hype, Reality, Risks And Benefits." Mark Boslet, a writer for Dow Jones, was the moderator. The panelists included: Randy Altschuler, Co-CEO, OfficeTiger Robert Bailey, President and CEO, PMC-Sierra Vivek Paul, Vice Chairman, Wipro Limited; President, Wipro... more
- Wipro's Vivek Paul: Forget outsourcing, think global collaboration
- Prior to the Churchill Club event, "Outsourcing: Sorting Out The Hype, Reality, Risks And Benefits," I interviewed Vivek Paul, vice chairman of Wipro Limited and President of Wipro Technologies. The 15-minute interview is available as an MP3 that can be downloaded or,if you’re already subscribed to ZDNet’s IT Matters... more
- Sun fills portfolio gap, acquires composite app outfit SeeBeyond
- Scott McNealy & Co. got up at 5:15 in the morning (actually, they had to have gotten up earlier than that) to announce that Sun will acquire SeeBeyond. SeeBeyond provides solutions that claim to take the pain out of building what is known as composite applications. Theoretically, composite applications consist... more
- BEA heads further down open source, Eclipse paths
- Like every other major software vendor that wants a piece of the Java action, or has a piece of the Java action to protect, BEA is another company that’s looking to manage its presence in an increasingly open source world while hoping to preserve the once lush pastures of the... more
- Preview of Sun's JavaOne announcements for Monday
- Sun is conducting daily previews of the announcements it will be making on each day of the JavaOne 2005 conference being held in San Francisco. The audio version of the conference call is available as an MP3 that can be downloaded or, if you’re already subscribed to ZDNet’s IT... more
- Rich Client Platform is Eclipse's JavaOne headline act
- Later today, the Eclipse Foundation -- the organization responsible for the oversight of the Eclipse integrated development environment (an IDE for deploying Java applications) is expected to make a series of announcements according to the organization's vice president of marketing Ian Skerrett. The audio version of the interview is available... more
- SOA tool bundle is Sybase's first major Eclipse foray
- Looking to catch a ride on the Eclipse train -- a train that appears to be taking off and going right past its rival NetBeans -- Sybase is, at JavaOne, introducing an integrated bundle of tools called WorkSpace that will plug into the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE). According to... more
- Oracle to set SOA techs free at JavaOne
- For several years now, Oracle, with its own Java-based J2EE application server and integrated development environment (JDeveloper), has been trying to play in the same league as Java application server heavyweights IBM and BEA. But despite having traditionally positioned itself as the low cost provider of world class tools, the... more
- Redmond RSS: Death knell to Atom? Birth of an 'open' era for Microsoft?
- If you ask me, there could be a bit more to Microsoft's announcement that it will be supporting RSS in the next version of Windows (code-named Longhorn) than meets the eye. For starters, to hear all about it, you should give a listen to my 12 minute interview with Microsoft's... more
- Mobile management: the devil is in iAnyWhere's details
- If there's a market for the last mile of software -- software that moves actionable data (be it customer information or device management/reconfiguration instructions) closer to the front lines of business where the actual transactions and customer interactions are taking place (whether we're talking about a mobile workforce, a distributed... more
- Microsoft: There's more to presence than whether someone is online or not
- If there's one application that just about every computer user in the world (and now, many handset users) makes use of, it's instant messenging. By Microsoft's estimates, there are over a quarter of a billion people in the world engaging in some form of instant messaging today and the fact... more
- HP ships oddly positioned AMD64 notebook in the name of "choice"
- If there ever was a case study for the uphill battle that AMD must face to get its chips into the marketplace (64-bit or not), today's announcement of the $999 Turion 64-based nx6125 notebook computer by HP is probably it. The Turion is AMD's most power-aware and conservative mobile... more
- BEA reinvents itself as the 'Switzerland' of SOA
- For many years, the phrase "Java application server" was synonymous with BEA’s Weblogic Java 2 Enteprise Edition-based offering. The company established a significant first-mover advantage in the J2EE space and BEA was one of the darlings of Wall Street. But the competition stiffened and now, although research methodology is always... more
- Apple dumps IBM for Intel. Why and what's next?
- While Apple and Intel CEOs Steve Jobs and Paul Otellini took the stage at Apple's WorldWide Developer Conference to make their partnership official and to discuss just exactly what the future holds, the blogosphere and the analysts are all abuzz with the analyses of what went wrong between Apple... more
- Masters of cybercrime
- The consensus among the panelists at a Churchill Club discussion entitled "Masters of Cybercrime: The Ultimate Battle of Good and Evil," was that the good guys aren't winning. The panelists included Joe Boerio, CTO, Franklin Templeton Investments; Brad Boston, Senior VP and CIO, Cisco; Scott Charney, Vice President, Trustworthy Computing,... more
- Marcus Sachs on securing the homeland
- Prior to the Churchill Club event, "Masters of Cybercrime: The Ultimate Battle of Good and Evil," I spoke with Marcus Sachs, one of the nation's top cyberwarriors. He is currently a computer scientist at SRI International and under contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as deputy director... more
- The 9th Annual Semiconductor Forecast
- On May 23, 2005, the Churchill Club held its 9th Annual Semiconductor Forecast, looking at the impact of evolving consumer electronics markets, wireless and wired communications semiconductor markets, new chip architectures and other technology innovations. The panel of prognosticators included Mark Edelstone, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley; Daniel Niles, CEO, Neuberger... more
- Larry Smarr: Pumping the Net up for gigabyte images
- Larry Smarr believes that the emerging Internet information grid is going to be far more pervasive than the electric power grid is today. He is the Harry E. Gruber Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD, and director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and in 1985 founded the National Center for... more
- The Next Wave of Technology: Iterative or Incendiary?
- On May 17th, the Churchill Club held a panel discussion, "The Next Wave of Technology: Iterative or Incendiary?" Paul Saffo, director and Roy Amara Fellow at the Institute for the Future (click here for my audio interview with Paul prior to the event), was the moderator. The panelists included:... more
- Microsoft CTO Craig Mundie looks into the future
- Craig Mundie, Microsoft CTO for advanced strateties and policy as well as one of the right hands of Bill Gates, was in Palo Alto to participate in the Churchill Club panel discussion, "The Next Wave of Technology: Iterative or Incendiary?." I caught up with him before event for an... more
- Futurist Paul Saffo: The new personal media order
- Prior to the Churchill Club event, "The Next Wave of Technology: Iterative or Incendiary? ," I spoke with panel moderator Paul Saffo, who is director and Roy Amara Fellow at the Institute for the Future. In the audio interview (which is available as an MP3 that can be downloaded... more
- How to get a head start on building mobile .Net or Java apps
- San Francisco - Gartner Symposium/ITxpo — Between the existing ranks of mobile workers who now need the ability to access/update records in real time, and the new ranks of workers who can now leave the office by virtue of the latest mobile enablers, one of the biggest challenges to enterprises looking... more
- IBM: Poised to eat Solaris' lunch?
- Apparently not satisfied with the 12,000 Linux customers it claims to have under its belt, IBM is ramping up yet another major Linux initiative and this time, it has put Sun's Solaris squarely into its crosshairs. Big Blue has formalized a formulaic Solaris-to-Linux migration assessment program and, starting today, it... more
- Nokia's security solutions could lift demand for its smartphones
- San Francisco - Gartner Symposium/ITxpo — When most people hear the name Nokia, the first things that come to mind are cell phones. Indeed, Nokia is one of the world's largest manufacturers of cell phones. The company makes devices that range from the very low end to the middle range... more
- Patchlink centralizes security patching for all apps and OSes
- San Francisco - Gartner Symposium/ITxpo — Depending on who you believe, manually feathering critical security patches into the enterprise -- for example those issued by Microsoft on "Super Tuesday" -- can cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars to deploy. Not only can that drudgery add up in terms of... more
- Is Integrien's Alive the superMOM of MOMs?
- San Francisco - Gartner Symposium/ITxpo — Come to think of it, why isn't there a manager of managers solution called superMOM? It seems like such a natural name for a product that horizontally cuts across all of an IT infrastructure's management technologies (SNMP, Windows event logs, security appliance APIs, etc.)... more
- If we can build self-healing servers, then why not self-healing desktops?
- San Francisco - Gartner Symposium/ITxpo -- Put another way, SupportSoft vice president of marketing Bruce Mowrey asks this question: "If computers are so smart, then why can't they fix themselves?" And therein lies the nirvana that Mowrey claims Supportsoft can get its customers closer to than any other solution on the... more
- Appistry: Why buy Xeons when Wal-Mart Pentium 4's will do?
- San Francisco - Gartner Symposium/ITxpo -- When most people think about distributed processing technologies that simultaneously make the applications they host run faster while also making them more tolerant of system failures, the terms "cluster" and "grid" come to mind. Configurations based on Oracle’s clustering technology, for example, promise not... more
- Wily's Intrascope watches every step J2EE apps take
- San Francisco - Gartner Symposium/ITxpo -- In the old days, if you were an IT shop or an application developer, you had almost total control over the environment in which your application lived. You had some code and it may have accessed a database or some other sort of structured... more
- Zone Labs CEO: Microsoft's OneCare will not stomp us out
- It has happened so many times before and now the question is whether it will happen again. In the past, when Microsoft has decided to provide the same utility around which a cottage industry has formed, the cottage industry subsequently vanished. Such was the case with memory managers. Such was... more
- JBoss' Marc Fleury 'welcomes' IBM and Gluecode to the open source J2EE party
- When news of IBM's acquisition of Gluecode first hit the wires this week, I debated (with myself) the blogworthiness of the story. None of my spider senses tingled when I first processed the idea that IBM -- seller of the J2EE-based application server known as Websphere -- was now in... more
- The remedy for spyware--not anytime soon, part II
- Updated 5/16: Yesterday I blogged the early morning session of the CNET Download.com-hosted spyware event (MP3 files of all the panel discussions are here--registration required), concluding that the two sides--adware/spyware purveyors and their antitheses--are not far along in formulating a truce that would reduce at least the non-rogue/organized crime induced failures to disclosure and other abuses... more
- Juniper's Kriens: 'Don't sell your soul to Cisco'
- Although he didn't say it in those words, Juniper chairman and CEO Scott Kriens made it clear that when enterprises take a drink of the one-stop shop Kool-Aid that Cisco CEO John Chambers tried to sell Interop attendees yesterday, they could be selling themselves short of the best of breed... more
- Behind the scenes of Intel's Vegas-wide WiMax network
- In what Intel and Interop officials are calling the first live demonstration of a metro-wide WiMax wireless network, Intel Mobility Group executive vice president and general manager Sean Maloney (see photo, left) took to the stage for an early evening keynote here in Las Vegas to prove that WiMax... more
- BorderWare to move point solutions to common architecture
- Like many companies in the digital networking or security business here at Interop in Las Vegas, Borderware is one of those vendors that started off with one carrier-class solution (a straight firewall appliance that competed with outfits like Checkpoint) and then, as distinctly separate efforts that leveraged the in-house... more
- Chambers Interop keynote: 'Anytime, anywhere, any mode you want'
- Here in the bowels of the Mandalay Bay’s convention center, where Interop is taking place (not only has Networld+Interop trimmed its name, it has moved from the Las Vegas Convention Center to the Mandalay Bay and announced a new New York City-based December edition), Cisco CEO John Chambers, as... more
- Is Bluetooth past its prime?
- For over five years, two of the supposedly killer wireless technologies -- Bluetooth and Wi-Fi -- have been marching to the beats of their own drummers. Whereas before, the two wireless technologies had almost nothing in common with each other and were designed to address distinctly different needs, now the... more
- Can an open source project get acquired? One just did
- Here's a wrinkle that many devotees of open source either don't know about or don't talk about: Open source projects can get acquired by commercial software companies. To demonstrate that point, one of the more popular open source projects on sourceforge.net was acquired last week. To what extent the acquisition... more
- Tech investor Roger McNamee unplugged
- Roger McNamee and I have known each other since the mid-1980s when he was the lone tech investor at T. Rowe Price and I was an editor at Macworld magazine. He went on to be one of most highly regarded tech investors and a Silicon Valley rock star (check out... more
- Buy, sell or hold: The outlook for technology stocks
- Last week I went to the Churchill Club panel discussion, "Buy, Sell or Hold: The Outlook for Technology Stocks," at Ricky's Hyatt in Palo Alto. The A-list tech investor panelists were Matt L’Heureux of Goldman Sachs, Roger McNamee of Integral Capital Partners and Michael Murphy of Murphy Investment Management. Moderator... more
- With Firefox gaining steam and a new IE on the way, can Opera survive?
- If there ever was an industry battle that exemplifies the legendary epic of David vs. Goliath, one that has lasted for years with the scrappy and resourceful David continually unsheathing new and effective weapons, that battle has been between browser maker Opera Software and Microsoft. Through the end of the... more
- Can open source IT be a money pit?
- Last year, Doug Kaye over at IT Conversations recorded an interview with MIT professor and serial entrepreneur Philip Greenspun. Greenspun's most successful venture to date (revenue-wise) was probably ArsDigita -- an open source business that flamed out after he handed the reins over to venture capitalists who, he claims, ran... more
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