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- City scraps Web site plan; will seek new bids
"The City Council was set to vote in March to approve the $704,000 site design contract with Cignex. However, City Manager Marc Ott delayed that vote after a public outcry over the choice of a California vendor instead of an Austin one. City officials said at the time that the RFP had been reviewed by many vendors, including local ones, but that only three companies submitted bids, with Cignex's being the lowest."
- Austin airport traffic down 12% – Austin Business Journal:
"For the month of April alone, passenger traffic dropped 8.5 percent. Southwest's total was up 1 percent while American and Continental were down 11 percent and 8 percent respectively."
- MyEclipse 7.5 M1: Delivering Master Class VisualVM Java Profiler Support and Visual SQL
"initial milestone release of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 7.5. The new release series delivers extensive speed upgrades, incorporates the world's leading VisualVM Java Profiler, Remote Websphere Deployment, a Visual SQL Query Builder, ICEfaces 1.8 support and an upgrade to MyEclipse's Visual Designers."
- Democracy in the Middle East – Zanecorpwiki
Fun listening to whacky Christian radio.
- Auscillate :: Thoughts on Google Wave
Including: "Could Apple’s Mail team please get off of their cans and put some thought into Apple Mail so we could do things like this? I mean, I love being able to send e-mails of travel photos that look like they’ve been thumbtacked to bamboo — but let’s think bigger, here."
- Why invest in open source management apps now? – Network World
- Zenoss Releases New Version of its Enterprise IT Monitoring Product; Guarantees 50% Cost Savings Over Traditional Solutions – Commercial Open Source Application, Systems and Network Monitoring – Zenoss
"The company is backing Zenoss Enterprise implementations with an industry-first guarantee of 50% or more cost savings on licensing, maintenance, and deployment compared to traditional products from HP, IBM, CA, and BMC.* 'Zenoss' customer base continues to grow as HP, IBM, CA and BMC customers say enough is enough,' said Bill Karpovich, co-founder and CEO of Zenoss."
- American ending 'Nerd Bird" nonstops to Silicon Valley | Statesman Business Blog
American is canceling it's direct flight between San Jose and Austin on August 25th onwards.
- Don’t Use Windows Vista And Windows 2008 for Network Monitoring via WMI!
"When it comes to network monitoring via WMI, Windows XP and Windows 2003 are up to 70 times faster than Windows 2008 or Vista." Yow.
- What’s New in Microsoft System Center Essentails 2010? « Advisec Blog
"New features [are]: * Virtualization – Full manageability of virtual machines. You will also be able to to a P2V directly from the console * Better targeting of software * Grouping of tasks * Client and servers are now managed separately, this will give you the option have different patch option/configuration."
- The Madstop » RESTful Puppet and You
New Puppet gets RESTful.
- CA Acquires Cassatt Technology « Data Center Knowledge
- Interop 2009
Booth report from Interop.
- Adventures in Open Source » Blog Archive » Karma
- Tim Anderson’s ITWriting – Tech writing blog » Local SQL support in Safari vs Google Gears: what is happening?
Browser database fragmentation!
- Podcast: An Analyst’s View of Analyst Relations – Carter Lusher of SageCircle | Delusions of Adequacy
- Microsoft .Net RIA Services: Not until 2010 | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
- The Architecture Issue – Data Center Overload – NYTimes.com
Holy crap, long piece on the cloud. The framing from page one looks nice, also some hints of cyberspace. Will have to finish reashing later.
- Podcast: Gary Barnett on An Analyst View of Analyst Relations | Delusions of Adequacy
Another nice interview about hi-tech analyst relations: "I sat down with Gary Barnett of the Bathwick Group to discuss the state of Analyst relations. Gary confirmed some things that I believe to be true such as the relationship is key to working with analysts. Further, he confirms that analysts have great value to the sales cycle and that it is in the best interest of A/R to use them as a best practice."
- The Future of Collaborative Networks
"As a result the industry has seen a bevy of enterprise social software suite vendors returning to the 1990s with product development that is driven by feature checklists…. 'Social profiles: check. Friending: check. Blogs: check. Tagging: check….' This approach to software development does not work. The resulting application suites are monolithic, inflexible, not extensible, expensive to scale and are invariably difficult, if not impossible, to integrate with other enterprise technologies. This class of software forces business users to adopt the myopic social visions imagined by the developers, which are nearly identical to their corresponding consumer web implementations. In short, social software is not solving business problems."
- Symantec vows huge push into SaaS market
"Salem predicted SaaS, in which Symantec will have new offerings, could comprise '15% of total revenues in the next five years.'"
- New Novell tool to link Linux management to Microsoft System Center
"Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, is designed to extend across seven SUSE Linux Enterprise OS services the monitoring capabilities within Operations Manager 2007 R2. Users will be able to monitor both Linux and Windows environments from one console." To ship June 19th, 2009.
- SAP in SaaS U-turn
"On-demand is the next stage in applications development, the next stage in technology — and I think it is important to hear SAP say that the future of the company is tied to successfully develop and market on-demand. SAP believes in on-demand and so does the SAP board." Yeah, that is a big reversal.
- IT automation: the seven roads to management middleware
Interesting laying out of what (private) cloud does/requires of your IT infrastructure: 'You can call it a “Cloud operating system”, an “adaptive infrastructure framework” or simply “IT management middleware” (my vote) as you prefer. It’s the software that underpins the automation engine of your Cloud. You can’t have a Cloud without an automation engine, unless you live in a country where IT admins run really fast, never push the wrong button, never plug a cable in the wrong port, can interpret blinking lights at a rate of 9,600 bauds and are very cheap.'
- In the Cloud, No One Fights House to House
"With all due respect to Sun’s ability get to market early, Network.com had little to offer an individual technologist. Because it was focused on batch operations that could be easily outsourced rather than general workloads, its applicability to my needs was questionable. This belief was further validated in the specialized nature of the customers of the service I spoke with: oil and gas exploration, fluid hydrodynamics research, digital animation rendering and so on. The typical customer case study from Network.com was as impressive as it was exceptional. Sun’s Grid was an early, impressive achievement, but one targeted to as narrow an audience, in my view, as its E10K machines – but without the similar margins."
- tecosystems » How Long Until the Battle of the Enterprise Marketplaces?
The case for the Enterprise AppStore.
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