Technology is fragile. Systems go down all the time because someone forgot to maintain something, or someone deleted a file or a variable that they thought no one was using. In other words with Murphy's Law there are plenty of opportu nities to put all the pieces together again after all hell breaks loose. Just ask the Twitter folk, who are doing the best they can to hold it together. But there's a special place in hell for vendors who delibe rately knock their customers off the air, without warni

Bush or Batman? Who is stealing lines from Whom?

Sybase iAnywhere Announces Wireless Enterprise Lotus Notes and Exchange Email Support for New iPhone 3G

I have been working on TechWave for many months now, with respect to the Breakout Session content and I am really excited that we are nearly a week away from being in Las Vegas again.

A group of folks, led by Wendy Seltzer, Geoff Goodell and Steve Schultze, has filed a comment on the FCC's proposal that it give away some public spectrum to be used for national Internet access, with the r equirement that the provider censor it down to what's safe for a five ...

AOL is making across the board budget cuts on its blogging p roperties, we’r e hearing from multiple sources. The cuts range up to 25% of each properties total budget, which falls mostly on personnel costs - bloggers are simply being told to take a couple of weeks off for now, and there may or may not [...]

I've been following the John and Anne Darwin story on the BBC, a couple who faked the husband's death to collect insurance. The latest article is about what you should and shouldn't do in order to disappear effectivel y. Apparently CCTV cameras are a big liability, so you need to keep out of public areas, eschew bank cards and member ships -- it's best to live somewhere rural and off-grid. It sounds terribly.. .inconveni ent, but I suppose you'd only really want to live as a fugitive in cases of ext

Well, now that I have finally sent out all of the books from the Ajaxian post (I ended up sending out nearly 400), I now have 100 Adobe AS3 RIA Reference Guides to send out. As you can see from the picture, I will be sending these out and only have 100. If you would like [...]

A prototype of the OSGi repository for supporting OSGi bundles in the Java Module System is now available in the OpenJDK Modules project. Looking for feedback and contri bution from the community.

In the Pow erBuilder 11.0 timeframe, Sybase went to a new licensing scheme called SySAM. This post discusses some Power Builder specific details.

An audio podcast in Russian language

Chuck Allison?s interestin g article ?Software: Use At Your Own Risk?, (Better Software Magazine, July/Augus t 2008, p. 9) discusses the risk inherent in software licenses compared to other w arranties, reasons for the lack of quality in software and lists a sample of the code of ethics of the Associ ation of Computer Machinery. Here are some reasons why [...]

With their stock price falling VMWare needs to do something different to start rebuilding their company. The solution, however, is staring them in the face. VMWare just needs to look at the industry it help shape for the soluti on.Leave C ommentRela ted Entrie s:Amazon S3 suffers an 8hr outage; Trust no oneDoes software date? Of course not, and don't let them tell you differ entlyVMWar e worth $1 1BnVMware for the Children10 things I didn't know last weekFedora 5 running under vmware

This blog points to a very nice article about services d escription languages.

In among the sessions at the recent OMG Real-Time Distribute d Object workshop were 2 int eresting CEP papers. The first was by the Naval Surface Warfare Center on their eval uations of CEP techno logies and tools for potential Navy use. Their goal is to replace certain &# 8220;hard coded̶ 1; event processing logic in expensive systems with some more [...]

When analysts talk, people listen. I am proud to say that JackBe is no exception. For example, we recently heard that a recent Forrester survey of 262 US IT decision-m akers revealed ?41% have never heard of mashups?. Based on this, Larry Dignan at ZDNet reco mmended companies like JackBe ?start talking to CIOs and technology decision makers?. To this marketer?s ears, that's all the marching orders I n eed.Coinci dentally, JackBe has had the op portunity to perform a simple survey of our own in

At FOO Camp I met Bruce Wyman, the Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum (He occasional ly blogs on the Mus eum’ s site.). For the past few years at UX Week, w e’ve had museums (first in D.C., now in SF) share with us how they design for experience . Had I met Bruce a few months [...]

We've already got a great lineup of speakers for the Business of Software c onference: Seth Godin Eric Sink Steve Johnson Richard Stallman Paul Kenny Tom Jennings Dharmesh Shah Mike Milinkovic h Jessica Livingston Jason Fried and me! Neil Davidson was looking for a way to bring in a handful of extra inte resting speakers for very brief pres entations just to keep the conference more dynamic and hear from different corners of the world. I had recently read about Pecha Kucha. The speaker gets 6 minut

I recently upgraded to the iPhone 2.0 software, and then finally upgraded my desktop to Leopard after waiting for the &# 8220;best beta evar& #8221; to stabilize. I noticed shortly thereafter that iTunes no longer recognized my iPhone. After a software update, reboot, and moving the iPhone to a different USB port, I still co uldn’ ;t [...]

I am not a big podcast listener but one of the ones I listen to regularly is the IT Management podcast with Redmo nk’s Coté and John M. Willis. Today Zeno ss’ Matt Ray and Tarus Balog from OpenNMS were guests and I thought it was a p articularl y good episode because of the open source angles. He re’s [...]SHARE THIS.addEn try({ title: "Zenoss, OpenNMS and Clouds on the IT Management ", url: "h ttp://soci alizedsoft ware.com/2 008/07/17/ zenoss-ope nnms-and-c louds-on-t he-it-mana gement/" });

What does the Ajax community want from future browsers? How are these different requests p rioritized ? Web developers have done amazing things with Ajax for both Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 applic ations, but what barriers need to be removed to enable the next generation of browser -based inn ovations? The future of Ajax runtime en vironments matters more than [...]

I like the New Yorker's Obama cover. I chuckled. I got the joke. I'm not angry, nor am I offended. It could have been drawn better. Maybe they were in a hurry.

The Intern ational Sybase User Group (ISUG) is excited to announce that their web site has been s ignificant ly updated! ...

To someone in my position, who follows both Microsoft (.NET) news and Apple (Cocoa) news, the comparing and contra sting between MobileMe and Live Mesh as developer platforms is inevita ble. Here's my first stab at a comparison

Gartner, the world?s leading analyst firm, has just published its ?Marke tScope for Web Content Ma nagement? report, one of the most influ ential analyst reports on the Web Content Management market. Out of 17 CMS software providers evaluated, Gartner has given a ?Strong Positive? [...]