Eclipse blots out the future... for other Java integrated development environments (IDE). In a poll of software developers last December, BZ Research found that 65 percent of the 621 respondents were using the open-source Eclipse IDE for coding in Java.
Microsoft is officially handing its future to Ray Ozzie, who is replacing Bill Gates as the company's chief software architect. Over the next two years, Gates will be giving up his responsibilities to Ozzie and Craig Mundie. But it's Ozzie who gets the role of chief software architect (CSA), the most significant of the jobs Gates is relinquishing.
Unix fans have been on the ropes of late. SGI declared bankruptcy last week. Last month, ongoing financial problems at Sun Microsystems led to an executive shake-up. It's not surprising to see the two, highest-profile, Unix-identified vendors in trouble. Things are not looking that bright for Unix anywhere.
Chief financial officers have too much corporate power. CIOs have too little. This is especially true among global organizations, where a good CIO is a far better asset than a good CFO.
Spammers steal IP addresses ... and threaten the Internet's system of trust among networks. Malware malcontents, especially spammers, are temporarily stealing IP addresses from their rightful domains and using them as their own for as little as five minutes but as long as a day.
A new battle for the desktop is under way. This isn't your old-fashioned Linux or Mac vs. Windows tussle, where arcane issues over operating systems enthrall systems administrators and enthusiasts while boring everyone else to tears. This turf war is about things that matter to end users, which is not necessarily the best news for IT.
Overworked CIOs should refuse to support end users' wireless devices unless the handhelds are for a specific business requirement. And saving hotshot executives a few minutes of their precious time so they can thumb their way through e-mail while waiting in airport security lines isn't a business requirement.
When you and your company's chief security officer sit down to plot the budget for protecting the corporate WANs and LANs, servers and desktops, laptops and other mobile devices, there's a lot to discuss. Should you invest in better firewalls or intrusion-prevention systems? Additional antivirus technologies? Maybe some fancy new endpoint security software?
When Wal-Mart Stores's much-watched, ambitious RFID pilot project kicks off next month in Dallas metro-area stores, don't be surprised when it fails. Save your shock for the slim possibility that it will succeed.
I've been hanging around the rumor-mongering, low-cost disk drive crowd lately, so I started to think that their ATA drives are making tape obsolete. And when the information life-cycle management forces added their whispers about the improved performance and low cost of archiving data to fixed disks, I became a fervent convert to the notion that tape is all but dead.
Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" single-answer option is an apt metaphor for the appeal of business intelligence systems. When you can get the one and only right answer to a query, you do feel extraordinarily lucky because, in truth, there is seldom one correct response to any BI question.
With Oblicore Guarantee ESP, shipping today, IT managers can get extra insurance that their organizations are complying with the nitty-gritty details of service-level agreements.
Worried about your wireless network these days? Probably not. In 2002-03, you lost sleep over whether your wireless LAN access points were leaking information to warchalkers or competitors. Now security has been improved by more powerful encryption capabilities in the network. Rogue access points are under control. So you think you can put those wireless anxieties on the back burner? Well, swallow some more Pepcid -- it's time to worry again.
Shouldering project management responsibilities isn’t for the average Joe or the faint-hearted. It requires people who have a relentless, or one might even say obsessive-compulsive, attention to detail. They must also be thick-skinned individuals, willing to withstand verbal barbs, insults to their genealogy and possibly some old-fashioned assault and battery from people tired of being prompted for their part of the project.
Toyota scours Hyperion beta before . . . . . . it rolls out the final release late this month.