August 8th, 2008
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 up with all of that streaming video? How will Silverlight perform? There was plenty of testing ahead of the Olympics, but the scale will be immense. As Dan noted, it’ll be quite the case study a few months from now.
As for LinuxWorld, there was a collective yawn from folks this year. Why? Linux has gone mainstream, it’s a given that open source is popular in the enterprise and data centers just aren’t as much fun as the smash mouth approach of the software’s earlier days.
And I touch on Google’s opt-out policy now that it has merged the tracking efforts of its network with DoubleClick’s. Yahoo also bolstered its opt-out policy. Will people opt out in droves or proceed as usual?
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