People Over Process

• IT security and management on collision course
  Difficulties in keeping anti-virus and other security utils up-to-date driving need for configuration management.
  (tags: antivirus itmanagement configurationmgmt)
• Adobe adapting to hosted SW model | InfoWorld | News | 2007-10-18 | By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service
  Ahh, look at ‘em bein’ coy about competing with Google. It’s like Google saying they’re not competing with Microsoft Office. Overall, I nice interview for the “Adobe does, and will do more, SaaS” file.
  (tags: saas hosted adobe redmonkclients google office buzzword kuler)
• CA opens product development center in India
  All your legacy software maintenance are belong to us.
  (tags: ca itmanagement outsourcing offshoring india)
• Is the standard EULA doomed? Adobe plans to move key apps online
  “Adobe plans to eventually move all of its market-leading desktop applications online [in about 10 years!], Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen said last week.”
  (tags: saas adobe hosted redmonkclients)
• Web 2.0 Summit: Amazon Gives Update On Web Services
  S3 numbers: 10 billion objects. Peak transactions/second: 27,601. If your 99.99% SLA isn’t met, you get credit back.
  (tags: s3 amazon saas storage ec2 web2.0summit numbers sla)
• BMC Veteran, Jay Gardner, Appointed to Phurnace Software Board of Directors
  (tags: bmc phurnace j2ee java ide austin JayGardner)
• Python v Ruby Celebrity Deathmatch
  (tags: dynamiclanguages ruby python opensource apis)
• Could, should Adobe follow in salesforce.com’s platform as a service (PaaS) shoes?
  Berlind goes after the Platform as a Service (PaaS…pass…hmmm…does that one work?) angle on Adobe and SaaS. Providing a runtime — Flex, AIR, etc., no doubt — in the sky as Sun did NOT do with Java, making room for LAMP, Rails, and friends.
  (tags: adobe redmonkclients hosted saas paas platform)

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