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Irving Wladawsk... · Vice President of Technical Strategy and Innovation, IBM · Enterprise Applications / society and culture
Last week, the Subcommittee on Technology, Innovation and Competitiveness of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held hearings on high-performance computing. I had the honor to be one of the witnesses that testified before the Subcommittee and its...
Filed at 6:00am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · channels and content / Knowledge Management
If you sidestep the hype and the unbelievable mega numbers (the 30 billion MySpace hits last month) there are signs of the web being used for what five years ago we might have guessed would be its purpose, sidestepping the Hollywood studios and the TV channel commissioning editors.The examples I’m thinking of - The Strand...
Filed at 6:55am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · Knowledge Management / what's new
I looked around in vain for a blogger backlash to the news that Google’s profits keep on going up. Google profits more than doubled in its second quarter, racking up net income of $721m, up from $343m a year earlier. “The opportunities before us really are unlimited at present,” Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, told...
Filed at 7:20am
Annrai OToole · CEO, Cape Clear Software · Data Management
In a recent post , James McGovern posed a few questions about my latest post on the Forrester ESB report. The four main issues that James raises are:
Filed at 8:05am
Bruce Schneier · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · it security
According to The Washington Post : An online banner advertisement that ran on MySpace.com and other sites over the past week used a Windows security flaw to infect more than a million users with spyware when people merely browsed the sites with unpatched versions of Windows.... Clever attack.
Filed at 8:46am
Jeff Jaffe · Chief Technology Officer, Novell · data center / general
Servers and desktopsOn April 3, I launched the Novell CTO blog with an enthusiastic discussion of the rapid technological progress made by the Linux desktop. The desktop is one breakthrough. Beyond that, our SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 launch is about a common code base for desktop and server. The near term market interest remains around...
Filed at 12:35pm
Randy Littleson · CEO, Kinaxis · best practices / Enterprise Applications
There's a series of good articles on supply risk management over at e-Sourcing Forum . The articles define supply chain risk and a series of strategies for identifying and proactively managing risk. There are three articles:
Filed at 12:39pm
Bruce Schneier · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · it security
Nepenthes is a malware-collection tool. It emulates known vulnerabilities, and then downloads malware trying to exploit these vulnerabilities. Seems like a good idea for a research project.
Filed at 3:25pm
Steve Vinoski · Chief Engineer, IONA · dynamic languages / Software Development
It looks like Tim Bray and I currently happen to be in very similar places with respect to Ruby. I too am just starting to use Ruby in real production applications, and like Tim, I too have been ridiculously productive with it over the past few weeks.
Filed at 12:45am
Steve Vinoski · Chief Engineer, IONA · dynamic languages / Software Development
It looks like Tim Bray and I currently happen to be in very similar places with respect to Ruby. I too am just starting to use Ruby in real production applications, and like Tim, I too have been ridiculously productive with it over the past few weeks.
Filed at 12:45am