Joy BlakeJoy's InfoWorld WatchSCO backing down- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Straight out of my skull Last month, the SCO Groups (the company that's trying to intimidate the Linux community with legal threats) announced that it was going to launch a Web site to counter Groklaw. Groklaw, as you may or may not remember, is the site that has been dissecting all of SCO's legal arguments. Well, it looks like the SCO site might never be. According to this article, "it's still up for debate whether the Web site will ever go up," according to a SCO flack. Said flack claimed...http://swnesbitt.blogspot.com/2004/11/sco-backing-down.html Sun Services CTO talks up Next Generation Data Center- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Sadagopan's weblog Hal Stern, vice president,Distinguished Engineer,and CTO for Sun Services, in this interview with InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill discusses Suns "Next Generation Data Center" concept and to talk about subjects such as security, utility computing, and how the company stacks up its services efforts against IBM Global Services. Excerpts: On "Next Generation Data Center": - The first is that I think its largely going to be defined by virtualization of resources. So...http://123suds.blogspot.com/2004/11/sun-services-cto-talks-up-next.html Things I Would Like to See in del.icio.us- (Found July 5, 2008 ) tecosystems I've written before about del.icio.us as an important asset in my research tools arsenal (see here, here, or here), but I wanted to highlight two things I wish del.icio.us could do now as suggestions for potential design consideration down the road. 1. OEM option for third party applications (both client and server): In truth, this is actually already here, at least in part. The del.icio.us API is exposed, and application extensions like foxylicious have begun to leverage that. But..http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/000250.html Is a Wiki under your radar- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Ted's Radio Weblog Chad Dickerson, columnist of InfoWorld's CTO Connection, asks "Is Wiki under your radar" For those of us in the FoxPro world, we've had the benefit of the FoxForum Wiki for several years, an excellent resource and knowledgebase for all things FoxPro related. For those of you not in the know, you've got to try a wiki! A wiki is an interactive web site where readers can add, edit, modify, comment, attach and build web pages. I've used wikis for knowledgebases, project tracking,.http://radio.weblogs.com/0117767/2004/11/06.html#a1287 Management shakeup at Novell- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Tech Careers InfoWorld reports that Novell vice-chairman Chris Stone is leaving the company to pursue other career opportunities. At Novell, Stone was responsible for engineering, product management and alliances; he also played a key role in the acquisition of vendor SUSE Linux and the company's recent embrace of Linux. Since neither Stone nor Novell offered much in the way of explanation, rumors were already buzzing among Novell users and analysts about what the departure of Stone means for...http://stealthmode.typepad.com/tech_careers/2004/11/management_shak.html Virtualisation and Reality- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Sadagopan's weblog Infoworld has published an excellent article titled, Virtualisation and Reality. We covered the importance of virtualisation in our earlier blog Hal Stern on next generation datacenter saying,"On Next Generation Data Center: - The first is that I think its largely going to be defined by virtualization of resources. So virtualization at the storage level, virtualization at the processor and memory level, and then finally virtualization at the application level". This...http://123suds.blogspot.com/2004/11/virtualisation-and-reality.html IBM dominates list of top supercomputers- (Found July 5, 2008 ) William T Goodall's Weblog With performance almost double that of the Earth Simulator, in Yokohama, Japan, IBM Corp.'s Blue GeneL on Monday was officially ranked first on the Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. IBM built four of the top ten machines on the biannual list, which was set to be announced Monday evening at the SC2004 conference in Pittsburgh.http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/2004/11/09.html#a984 How Do You Use del.icio.us- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends Many of you already know and use del.icio.us, this free social software web service for sharing web bookmarks launched a few months ago by Joshua Schachter. Here is a quick reminder of what del.icio.us is about. It allows you to bookmark a web page you find interesting, to organize these pages by categories, using tags of your choice, and to share your discoveries with other curious minds. But you can do much more. When Jon Udell, currently with InfoWorld,.http://www.primidi.com/2004/11/08.html#a1019 Novell Releases Linux Desktop- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Elmer Masters Well, this is breaking large today with lots of press. Novell has released its Linux Desktop 9 powered by Novell SUSE Linux. It is aimed at the corporate market and it's only $50 per seat plus support, etc. It is only available through Novell resellers, not directly to consumers. For the official Novell particulars see: Product home, Press release, Eval download. For lots of press coverage, reviews, etc, see: vnunet.com, InfoWorld, Slashdot, Newsforge. All this follows...http://www.elmer.teknoids.net/categories/newsFilter/2004/11/08.html#a12849 Trillian 3.0- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Shared Spaces Research & Consulting Cerulean Studios announced some details for the forthcoming Version 3.0 release of Trillian, its multi-network IM client. New features: video and audio chat, enhanced session logging, and "Instant Lookup" (to cross reference terms with Wikipedia entries), among others.http://www.shared-spaces.com/blog/2004/11/shared_spaces_b_5.html |