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- OpenDocument comes to Microsoft Word and Excel
"After the intense interest in OOXML vs ODF during last year’s ISO document standardisation wars, I’m surprised that the inclusion of OpenDocument support in the newly-released Office 2007 SP2 has attracted so little attention. Well, not really surprised. The general public doesn’t care much about document formats as such, just that the documents they send and receive open OK. The anti-OOXML fervour was about exploiting a chink in the armour of Microsoft’s de facto near-monopoly in Office suites." He goes onto say it seems to work well.
- [#FB-19053] Flex Builder on Linux – Adobe Bug System
"Seriously bad move in my opinion if this effort gets canceled. Quite simply if I can't use FB on Linux, I won't be using FB. Maybe I'm one of a handful of people for whom this is the case, but given that (from what I can tell) IntelliJ's Flex functionality is supported on Linux."
- How the OAuth Security Battle Was Won, Open Web Style – ReadWriteWeb
The post open-source world, Round Corner Cool Kid Bay Area edition. "Hammer-Lahav says that more companies need to empower more employees to step up and take leadership in this kind of situation."
- When the Sun goes down – what happens to the OpenJDK?
Be sure to read the thread: see what "the community" is worrying about.
- New IBM Appliance Delivers Enterprise Cloud Services – Yahoo! Finance
"* IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance — a new hardware appliance that provides access to software virtual images and patterns that can be used as is or easily customized, and then securely deployed, managed and maintained in a private cloud; * IBM WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition — a version of IBM WebSphere Application Server software optimized to run in a virtualized hardware server environments such as VMware, and comes preloaded in WebSphere Cloudburst."
- IBM Service Management and Cloud Computing
"A cross IBM solution which provides the operational support systems necessary to help enterprise data centers achieve cloud-level efficiencies." Man, where'd that come from?
- Microsoft targets Windows, Linux management
"With Operations Manager 2007 R2, Microsoft wants to deliver integration among Unix, Linux and the Microsoft System Center management software. Microsoft is bridging the gap between its tools and non-Windows platforms on the back of the WS-Management protocol it developed and OpenPegasus, an open-source implementation of the Distributed Management Task Force's Common Information Model and Web-based Enterprise Management standards. Both WS-Management and OpenPegasus are used to discover physical and virtual systems on a network and monitor and manage them."
- Microsoft gives server app virtualization sneak peek
"The idea is to create images of both the application and the operating system that are stored in an online library. The images can be deployed separately and combined during installation ensuring that the OS image is the correct configuration for the application. The model also allows different versions of server applications to run on the same box."
- Solaris 11 due mid-2010
- Microsoft's TomTom patents posted for patent review
- Microsoft aligning management, clouds
- Microsoft unveils its first online management service – Network World
Desktop management uses Windows Update network to do IT Management as SaaS from Microsofot: "The initial version will provide desktop management capabilities that are focused on software updates, protection from spyware and malware, monitoring, group policy and configuration management, asset management, update management and remote assistance. Microsoft plans to update the service on a regular cycle." Due out in 2010.
- Those who forget history
"We seem to have forgotten tech sectors mercilessly churn their leaders every few years."
- Innovation is Dead, Software Margins are Dead, Woe is Us « SmoothSpan Blog
"Liquidity ain’t what it used to be post-SOX, but it just hasn’t been that long since Google and it’s peers were created to declare the game is over. Or rather, please declare game over, because that provides the necessary closure to get the next game started."
- On Location « The Adventures of LuAnn “The Canned Ham”
"Larry & Sid’s RV is in the background here. I wandered over during a happy hour and Larry was drinking straight vodka (a cup full) with sliced strawberries in it. All natural!" Ah, sounds like someone finally figured out the DrunkAndRetired.com end-game.
- Oracle's cloudy announcements
"Larry Ellison will indeed make a cloudy announcement around about 8.30am ET 12th May. Why then? That’s about the time Leo Apotheker, co-CEO at SAP will be keynoting SAPPHIRE attendees and perhaps sharing the timeframe when SAP’s cloud offering, Business ByDesign might be put back on the release map. Or not."
- SmutOnRails
Every tech-community has it's porn moment: when they rediscover that it turns out there is a line.
- A Welcoming Community?
"The thing that really caught my attention is the response from RoR community. It is really clear to me the RoR is a very unwelcoming community. You either fit the mold of the leaders or you are on the outside."
- SolarWinds Prices IPO – between $85.5M to $103.5M
- Laptops of the World
[American education is like everything else in the US: it's a battle between people without money, and the cheap-bastards (here, the taxpayers) who don't want to pay for anything)]: “I’m not a fan of spending $62 million on one school,” Temple’s Ketelhut says. “There’s an equity issue. It’s one thing if it’s a pilot and if it works we’ll do it elsewhere. But is there money to do it elsewhere?” Even Tony Franklin admits that given the budget constraints of inner-city education, “a one-to-one laptop program in every school in the district is not realistic.” [Compare that sentiment to the Norwegian one:]…“There is the general feeling that we just have to do this, that we have to make this technology available to everybody.” [Dueling civilizations in decline!]
- OpenNMS User Conference Recordings from NETHINKS GmbH
Whao, nelly! Complete recordings and slides from "[t]he first OpenNMS User Conference was held in Frankfurt/Main, 14th March 2009." Nice!
- ITDatabase nears public launch
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