- Mon Nov 23 1:51 PM PST 2009 The 'wisdom of crowds' loses steam
The gurus said that the community would change the way the industry develops and sells software. The gurus were wrong.
- Wed Nov 18 6:30 AM PST 2009 The case for the open-source Goliath
Open source is doing well. But to thrive, commercial open-source software may need a Goliath or two to provide exits and funding for start-ups.
- Sun Nov 8 10:05 PM PST 2009 Cisco ruffles feathers with new collaboration tools
The networking giant turns up the heat on partner Microsoft as it expands and enhances its suite of collaboration tools.
- Fri Nov 6 1:17 PM PST 2009 What integrated compute stacks mean for storage professionals
EMC and Cisco have Vblocks. HP has Consolidated Infrastructure. Is the world changing for enterprise IT storage professionals?
- Wed Nov 4 9:21 AM PST 2009 IBM helps students put their heads in the cloud
The IBM Cloud Academy, announced at the Educause annual conference, is designed to help educational institutes collaborate via a cloud-based infrastructure.
- Thu Oct 29 7:53 AM PDT 2009 Will EMC's rising tide float all storage boats?
Given the current economy, EMC had a blow-out third quarter. But other storage vendors won't necessarily see good times ahead unless they position and integrate.
- Tue Oct 27 10:27 AM PDT 2009 What Red Hat's investment in EnterpriseDB means
Company invests "significant amount" in open-source database vendor, which says a great deal about its rising awareness of its role in the open-source ecosystem.
- Mon Oct 12 11:45 AM PDT 2009 BOL 1082: Just another outage Monday
First, apologies for the song that will be stuck in your head for at least a week. Blame the chat room. In the news today, the T-Mobile Sidekick outage, the ongoing Facebook outage, the IBM outage that briefly crippled Air New Zealand...
- Thu Oct 8 12:26 PM PDT 2009 In mobile, open source is a winning strategy
To attract new developers to the seemingly moribund Windows Mobile, Microsoft should try an open-source complement strategy similar to that of SharePoint.
- Thu Oct 1 10:23 AM PDT 2009 Hewlett-Packard hires Sun executive
Randy Seidl will lead HP's Enterprise Storage, Servers, and Networking group. In announcing the news, the company also points out Sun's tentative position.




