Active intermediaries and Rob, the accountant
Web services can empower more people to be designers My wife, who runs a small business, recently confessed to her accountant that she is overwhelmed with bookkeeping chores. She asked me pointedly, “Isn’t this Web services stuff you keep yammering…
Dell launches its smallest desktop PC yet
DELL COMPUTER LAUNCHED Monday what it says is its smallest desktop computer yet. The OptiPlex SX260 is 50 percent smaller by volume than the company’s current OptiPlex machines and comes with an LCD (liquid crystal display) monitor. The machines, which…
The glory that is Greece
Like the Parthenon that speaks to us from the past, IT infrastructure should stand the test of time MANAGEMENTSPEAK: We view CICS as an asset. TRANSLATION: We wish the darn thing would disappear! — Longtime IS Survivalist Ze’ev Atlas quotes…
Carry your state
Standard techniques for contingency planning don’t map well to service-oriented communications CONCEPTS SUCH AS BPM (business process management), federated computing, and Web services would not exist were it not for reliable, low-latency networks. Such service-oriented architectures entail calling out to…
McData’s SAN serve
Switch’s flexibility may mark a turing point: Giving customers what they want FOLLOWING THE evolution of storage technology is like watching a tennis match. Action shifts suddenly from one side of the court to the other, forcing you to continually…
Sneakwrap abounds
Readers say restrictive license agreements have been showing up in some odd places for a long time OK, SO I’M a little slow. While I already realized that sneakwrap tactics have spread well beyond the software industry, reader responses to…
Thin-client redux
Research in Motion is putting its BES foot forward to secure a spot atop the wireless-server heap JIM BALSILLIE, chairman and CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), is a man in motion, even when sitting still. He’s intense and driven.…
DMCA horror show
Scarier than ghosts and ghouls, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a nightmare for Red Hat WELL, IT’S THAT time of year again when horrifying things terrorize people in their dreams. Ghoulish tales fill the air. And grown people peek…
Tastes better than Tang
NASA’s vulnerability reduction program turns up some encouraging numbers THERE ARE TIMES when it’s possible to look at the sorry state of computer security and wonder if this really is as good as it gets. But this isn’t one of…
Innovation is not over — it’s evolving
The market pushes innovators to create products for complex environments CONSIDER THE MESSAGES we’ve been digesting during the past few months. Layoffs continue to ease the Silicon Valley freeway commute, enterprise IT spending remains lackluster, and in the stock market,…
