March 2006 - Posts
The battle over who will assume the mantle of application server development going forward appears to be about ready to heat up as the folks at IBM get ready to put a lot more weight behind the Geronimo open-source project.
Since buying GlueCode, an
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When it comes to data centers, the top of mind issue of the moment is how to keep cool. As processors' speeds have increased, the amount of wattage being thrown off has escalated to the point where we have a full-blown power crisis on our hands.
And
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When it comes making good on its commitments, Microsoft is kind of like a well meaning, slightly inebriated relative who shows up at family functions to promise everyone the moon and the stars. But as most of the relatives know, he doesn’t really mean
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After beating up on the overall state of security for a few weeks, it might be time to take a more half full look at security because there are some positive developments on the horizon.
In general, security does appear to be moving from a reactive to
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You can’t help but wonder if the entire Telecommunications Act was little more than some surreal exercise akin to the plot of Dallas or St. Elsewhere where at the end of the story we come to find it was all a dream.
With the move to buy BellSouth and
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After making several posts on the sorry state of encryption and security in general, it’s always nice to trip over somebody with a different approach.
One of the other reasons that encryption has not been widely adopted as it should be is that very fragmented
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