Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Enterprise, Technology on Mar 11th, 2008
As a technologist I’ve managed to completely avoid the world of databases; I think it had something to do with a bad reaction to relational algebra in a CS class. However - my employer has made its aspirations clear so I thought I should at least take some interest.
IDC have just released their RDBMS Vendor […]
Posted in Technology, apple on Mar 8th, 2008
I’m still an aspiring iPhone owner - having only bought a second replacement Treo in the last year - I’m not quite ready to shell out more cash right now; and I’m also waiting for TomTom (or a competitor) to port their GPS app. to the iPhone. That’s something I use a lot and I’m […]
Posted in Enterprise, Technology, open source on Mar 5th, 2008
If you work in the IT / software industry and unless you’ve been shipwrecked on a deserted island for the last 5 years you have probably followed the rise of JBoss. I have tracked them very closely as a competitor. Founded in 2001; JBoss proved the commercial Open Source model, disrupted the incumbents in an […]
Posted in Enterprise, Technology on Mar 3rd, 2008
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It’s that time of year when you need to really impress your boss, so when you submit your expense request for JavaOne 2008 - they won’t have to think twice about letting you attend the biggest developer conference on the planet.
The chances of me attending this year are […]
Posted in Technology, apple on Feb 27th, 2008
The chance of me owning an iPhone is increasing all the time; having a broad range of third party apps. would push me over the edge and allow me to dump my Treo (or at least turn it into a dedicated GPS).
Posted in Technology on Feb 27th, 2008
The EU just fined Microsoft $US 1.35bn for failing to comply with a previous anti-trust ruling. IMO - that seems a bit low for a company with oodles of cash (2007 NET income was $US 14bn and equity of over $US 30bn). I just don’t see how this will change Microsoft’s behavior.
Still - Neelie Kroes […]
Posted in Technology on Feb 27th, 2008
As reported on slashdot, TimeWarner / RoadRunner have been redirecting mistyped / non-existent URLs to their own (pretty lame) search page. Why do this ? Well it allows RR to turn all those dead-links and mistyped URLs into advertising revenue at the expense of a poor user-experience. Though, my guess is that any ad revenue […]
Posted in Technology on Feb 27th, 2008
Sun just closed the MySQL acquisition. No word on Oracle / BEA yet.
Posted in Technology on Feb 27th, 2008
Microsoft have finally figured out that Metcalfe’s Law applies to them as much as the next software company - despite their huge footprint. To quote Microsoft’s CEO and CMM (Chief Mad-Monkey) Steve Balmer :
“In a more connected, services-oriented world…one of the greatest value-adds in some sense is what people do on the other end of […]
Posted in Technology, Uncategorized on Feb 27th, 2008
I have FileVault enabled on my MBP thinking it was a responsible way to protect work-related proprietary information from falling into the wrong hands; turns out it’s actually quite easy (for a dedicated hacker) to crack the password / key according the this CNET article. Some pretty interesting ideas about salvaging information from memory. Hopefuly […]