Out of the park
San Francisco Giants CTO John Winborn oversees technology that enhances the fans’ experience FOR A GUY WHO started out of college taking tickets at stadium events, helping drive the San Francisco Giants’ IT operations is a dream job. “It’s always…
A searching look
Readers are more than happy to critique the development of a new tip-searching tool I WROTE IN my June 6 column that I’m developing a specialized search engine. It will enable you to find Windows tips at reliable Web sites,…
Deceptive drives
Should solid-state micro drives cause IT concern? LET’S STEP OUTSIDE the enterprise-storage glass house this week and focus on a lighter subject: solid-state microdrives. Lighter subject, indeed. Weighing only about 6 ounces, this tiny device may look like a charm…
Believe it or not
Microsoft’s latest strategies aim to give the vendor something it’s never had: the respect of the enterprise IT market INFOWORLD WAS invited to Redmond a few months ago to talk with Microsoft executives. The execs spoke of chief Steve Ballmer’s…
Sharing the wealth
Opening up data to individuals, groups eased with Extempo WHEN I LIVED in a two-story house, it seemed everything I needed was on the other floor. Many people who use more than one computer recognize that feeling — where is…
Big iron vs. Linux
Looking at the choices your vendors make offers a glimpse of their future, and your future costs RECENTLY, I accompanied one of my colleagues on a trip to visit two companies competing to provide back-end services for InfoWorld. One of…
Software tailored to business needs
A new generation of applications holds the promise of adaptability with a focus on value THE TROUBLE WITH enterprise applications is that they are expensive, inflexible, and no two deployments are the same. None of this comes as a surprise…
Return of Cobol?
A blast from the past: Cobol is transformed into souped-up, multiplatform, and affordable Kobol ONE TOPIC that few people write about these days is Cobol. Aside from the slew of Y2K articles a couple years ago, Cobol has not mustered…
WSOS tunes up services
Web Service Orchestration Server imposes reliability on the naturally unreliable realm of distributed Web services WEB SERVICES AIM to reduce the complexity and cost of business processes automation. But using application components distributed beyond the control of any single IT…
Out of order
The WS-I resorts to term limits dirty tricks to try to stiffle Sun’s voice in the ongoing Web services standards debate THE WEB SERVICES Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is out of order. The technical term is broke, busted, clueless — and…
