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Can SOA save Siebel?
August 3rd, 2005
Can SOA save Siebel?
Posted by Britton Manasco @ 5:49 pm
Categories: General
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Siebel Systems has had a rough year. One lousy earnings announcement after another. One CEO makes the mistake of admitting the company has failed to execute and promptly gets executed. So the board installs one of its own a guy who presided over one of the biggest dotcom disasters (the ill-fated WebVan). Now, the companyis hoping its SOA-inspired Project Nexus will turn everything around and provide the growth boost the company so badly needs.
The company is hoping to accomplish this feat by tapping into what it considers a vast untapped and unconquered market: custom development. It estimates the overall market is 5 times the size of the current packaged CRM market and hopes...
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If AMD is David and Intel is Goliath, What is VIA? Cinderella?
August 3rd, 2005
If AMD is David and Intel is Goliath, What is VIA? Cinderella?
Posted by David Berlind @ 5:28 pm
Categories: General, Personal Technology, Hardware Infrastructure, Security, Mobile, Podcasts, AMD vs. Intel, IT Matters
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How many times have you heard this story? A battle of epic proportions is underway between two titans while no one is paying attention to a third, smaller contender that comes out of nowhere to kick both their butts. Im not saying thats what VIA is going to do in the global battle for processor marketshare. But, based on my conversation with VIAs Chipset Platform Group marketing Manager Keith Kowal, VIA is not a processor company that can so easily be chalked off the way Transmeta buckled earlier this year. The audio version of t...
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A perfect storm for rich Internet apps
August 3rd, 2005
A perfect storm for rich Internet apps
Posted by Dan Farber @ 3:08 pm
Categories: General, Personal Technology, Web Technology
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The latest craze among the search/shopping/mapping/community etc.portals is look-alike personalized pages. Access to news, e-mail, stock quotes, buddies, RSS subscriptions from a single dashboard. The current fashion is the bare bones interface, shorn of any unnecessary graphics and with some basic configuration capabilities. Unadorned simplicity is good, but with broadband speeds and technologies like Flashis the stripped downinterface what users reallyneed or want for their "home" pages? Or, is it just what they are given, and what hashistoricallyworked for Yahoo andGoogle, which were build on basic HTML search interfaces.
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Budget for health information network far lower than expected costs
August 3rd, 2005
Budget for health information network far lower than expected costs
Posted by Richard Koman @ August 3, 2005 @ 2:59 PM
Categories: Government technology, Healthcare
Tags: Cost, Network, Health Care, ZDNet Government
The cost of building the National Health Information Network will run approximately $156 billion over the next five years, according to a paper published recently in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The papers abstract states:
To achieve an NHIN would cost $156 billion in capital investment over 5 years and $48 billion in annual operating costs. Approximately two thirds of the capital costs would be required for acquiring functionalities and one third for interoperability. Ongoing costs would be more evenly divided between functionality and in...
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Four years after hacker broke into 73,000 Defense computers, are systems more secure?
August 3rd, 2005
Four years after hacker broke into 73,000 Defense computers, are systems more secure?
Posted by Richard Koman @ August 3, 2005 @ 2:34 PM
Categories: Network security
Tags: Hacker, Computer, ZDNet Government
Over the course of a year, starting shortly after 9/11, British hacker Gary McKinnon, using the handle Solo, hacked into 96 Defense Dept. computers, effectively shut down the naval weapons center responsible for the Atlantic Fleet, and hacked into some 73,000 government computers. These are the charges the US government leveled in a hearing to extradite McKinnon from the UK to the US for trial. (Heres one news report of the hearing.)
Mark Summers, for the US government, told the court: "During a period from February 2001 to March 2002, the defendant ga...
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Fed move to IPv6 heats up
August 3rd, 2005
Fed move to IPv6 heats up
Posted by Richard Koman @ August 3, 2005 @ 2:13 PM
Categories: Government technology
Tags: ZDNet Government
The federal government will complete the transition to Internet Protocol v6 by June 2008. In a memo (PDF) released yesterday, Karen Evans, the head of the Office of Management and Budgets office of e-government and IT, unveiled a timeframe for completing the transition.
By November 15, agencies must conduct an inventory of Internet-aware routers, switches and firewalls.
Conduct a cost and risk analysis of making the switch and report findings to OMB by June 2006.
Starting in February 2006, agencies will start making the transition, with progress judged by the Enterprise Architecture Assessment Framework
Transition to be ...
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Vonage has major service outage
August 3rd, 2005
Vonage has major service outage
Posted by Russell Shaw @ 12:48 pm
Categories: General, News, Vonage
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Vonage got hit by a major service outage today.
The first signs of a massive Vonage serviceaccess issue started popping up on posts to the independently operated Vonage VoIP Forum. Ive long used the Forum to gauge the sentiments of Vonage users- and to monitor service and equipment issues.
Apparently, Forum Member rickster was the first to notice a problem.In starting theIs all of Vonage completely down? thread, Rickster wrote: "There are no service announcements, but I cant connect to either www.vonage.com or the member site. I have a dial tone, but cannot make any calls."
The thread soon started to fill up with lots of "me-too" posts. And then the b...
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Jonathan Schwartz at OSCON
August 3rd, 2005
Jonathan Schwartz at OSCON
Posted by Phil Windley @ 12:09 pm
Categories: General, Open Source, OSCON
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Nat Torkington interviewed Sun President Jonathan Schwartz at OSCON this morning. Nat didnt pull many punches, but Jonathan held his own. One of the issues that a lot of people worry about is open source and Java. Jonathan pointed out that there are over 20 million downloads of Java a month. Java is already free and it,s already open source. The argument is over licenses.
Jonathan also talked about Solaris, recently open sourced. Now that Solaris is open, Sun has removed politics from the discussion. Its no longer about a philosophy. Now the discussion can be about which product is better. Jonathan was careful to point out that Solaris ought to be comp...
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Open source ratings and the law of unintended consequences
August 3rd, 2005
Open source ratings and the law of unintended consequences
Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 12:08 pm
Categories: General, Enterprise Policy, Strategy, Infrastructure, Distributions
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One of the OSCON sessions Ill most regret missing happens on Thursday, when Tony Wasserman of Carnegie-Mellon (right) and Murugan Pal of Spikesource announce the Business Readiness Rating system.
The idea is to create objective criteria that users can follow in publishable ratings of the 100,000 open source projects out there. It would operate a bit like Zagats does for restaurants, using a lot of people whove eaten the stuff rather than a few highly-trained reviewers.
This is really overdue, but I cant help worrying about the Law of Unintended Consequences:
Could this me...
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AMD power usage trumps Intel -- but does anyone care?
August 3rd, 2005
AMD power usage trumps Intel but does anyone care?
Posted by Joel Hruska @ 11:12 am
Categories: Hardware Infrastructure
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I absolutely agree with David Berlind regarding the importance of low-power servers. [How a chill-pill for your server room improves your bottom line] What I dont understand, however, (and havent for quite a long time) is why the power consumption issue is getting attention now that Intel is talking about its next-gen low-power offerings.
Check the actual CPU power consumption figures at Lost Circuits (measured directly off the CPU) or system-level consumption numbers from Tech Report and we see the same trend.
Intel Xeon, Pentium 4, and Pentium D cores consume far more power at idle (if C&Q is enabled on AMD) and at load, regar...
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Great Blog to read
August 3rd, 2005
Great Blog to read
Posted by Richard Stiennon @ 11:01 am
Categories: Trade Shows
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Here is one I am adding to my must-read list. From David Cowan at Bessemer Ventures.
The most recent post reveals Davids impressions from DefCon and the CiscoGate fiasco.
Make sure to look at Davids presentation.
Richard Stiennon is an industry consultant. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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